Posts by Islander
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Cracker: Bloggers: Pr*cks, Ars*holes,…, in reply to Damian Christie,
’ve been on many a work overseas Jolly.
I spent over 15 years (1983-1998) doing that kind of stuff – and greatly appreciated
the opportunities, experiences, and sheer ‘getting to know some of our world’ – especially when my mother was accommodated with me (publishers et al quickly realised that I was a dismal failure as a socialiser/gladhander…and that Mary is absolutely ambassador-level superb at that job) BUT – everytime I travelled overseas, I came back with a chest infection. Which could take months to clear up. So- I didnt renew my passport in 1998, and have rarely travelled out of the south since then…
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Capture: Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
Spring blossoms - complete with hovering monarch! Regeneration & continuance indeed...
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Capture: Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand, in reply to Leigh Russell,
Oh, those Port Hills! I think they must be part of the psyche of those of us who were born there
I was born & brought up in North Beach but never saw the Port Hills until I was 6...
or realised what lightbulbs were, come to that.
Exrtreme short-sightedness makes for a life of fascinating discoveries, especially as a kid- -
Capture: Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand, in reply to Hebe,
And Zulu left me equally awestruck with its epic vastness somewhere around the same time.
That film made such an inpression on me! Especially the Zulu impis. Especially
their song acknowledgement to fellow warriors...which is a slight but happy distraction from both the Odeon and the surrounding conversation. Suffice it to say that the West Coast isnt reknowned for geological stability, and that, after living here for 42 years and having experienced a range (and large number) of quakes, I am aware of the very real
hazards - which include tsunami... It is a permanant awareness, never truly absent, no matter how happy the occaision, or pleasant the day- -
Capture: Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand, in reply to Jos,
<q>Here’s a pukeko romp, the noise was amazing!
*They were majorly mating
BUT -ever heard a pair of paradise sheldrake males fighting? And the ducks having a go at each other to the side? Waua!I'll m iss Big O-
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Capture: Wellington? Well, I Would., in reply to ChrisW,
Thanks Chris again-my mother, who was just 25 when her father died (a lovely lovely
man-whom I just remember as big warm cuddley and brown hugger) understands my love of the station but associates it with her father’s coffin-
I only knew him until I was 5…) -
Capture: Wellington? Well, I Would., in reply to ChrisW,
And, thanks Chris!
I've got this as desktop now - should I pay/&/or/acknowledge someone? -
Capture: Wellington? Well, I Would., in reply to JacksonP,
Fantastic ChrisW. That totally lives up to the hype
and also to Lilith-
the Dunedin railway station is part of my earliest childhood memories (e.g when my grand-dad was dying, the colours & visions (aside from the sounds - I've always loved steam trains) distracted me from the surrounding adult grief.))
And I've lived in Dunedin for a couple of substantial periods of times, love the place, love the station & railways, and deeply deeply resent the running down
of the system & adjuncts by fukking fukking Nats (o, and mindless Lab party rogerdouglasgnomes...) -
Capture: Wellington? Well, I Would., in reply to Chris Waugh,
As for grand, I’ll give Wellington a pass mark for effort, but Dunedin wins hands down.
Tautoko. That place is a definite national treasure.
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Capture: Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand, in reply to ChrisW,
The little island Maukiuekie – off Matuatiki kaik’ bay at Moeraki – is the only known place in ANZ where four species of shags share the same nesting ground. They also
share it with the Royal Australian spoonbill – one of 3 places they are known to nest
in ANZ. (One of the other places this self-introduced species nests in is up the Waitangitaona arm, adjacent to the Okarito lagoon, where it shares the nesting area with little shags – and the kotuku-)