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Capture: Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand, in reply to Leigh Russell,
TUI dominates air and tree space- waua! do they get rid of intruders! (I’ve watched ’em get rid of the naybore’s cat- just a nesting couple- I stood by with the .22, ready & willing to kill but they hassled the thing off-)
DoC trapped it a month later.
Okarito is not a place you have cats. -
Capture: Wellington? Well, I Would., in reply to Ethan Tucker,
O! Cool! Love fireworks! (Never saw one in Wtgn/Poneke while I resided…mind you, I wouldnt’ve been up, either end of the day-)
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Capture: Wellington? Well, I Would., in reply to Ethan Tucker,
And they end like?
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I lived on The Terrace in a road-noisy flat while training as a tv producer-director...it nearly killed me - but produced a couple of good/nasty short stories...
Get up at GAHK! to walk to the station to get the train to Avalon -live in that weird
just-opened place for the next 10 hours/learn fascinating stuff/meet fascinating people & turds who looked like humans/eat FOUL food/come back to flat/crash into uneasy sleep.I dont remember Wellington with any pleasure at all-EXCEPT for the people...death has taken a lot of my friends but they still illuminate my life (and my mother still has a picture on her livingroom wall of self & Spiral collective taken - much later, in Wellington...)
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Capture: Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand, in reply to Hebe,
All the talk of the tree fuschia reminds me of its brilliant purple-blue berries, and dianella nigra, or turutu, which has the most stunning bright blue berries (very poisonous so I didn’t grow while the children were young).
I know turutu - the lovely berries fall off you so much as brush past.. they are not
poisonous as far as I know (we certainly werent warned about them as kids- but we werent told they were edible either,) and I cant find any mention of them in Murdoch-
ka mihi - n/n Islander -
Capture: Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand, in reply to Hebe,
Dont you love’em? All the happenings? Enjoy!n/n Islander
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Capture: Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand, in reply to Leigh Russell,
I have a half-rebushed place which – because I’ve got birds around – and no cats-I have a lot of species nesting here. One year, I’d cut off branches of the big lacewood, which got a bit smacked around in the felling. A rirerire used some of the inner bark – the lace – to line her cup-nest.Because I love both grey-warblers AND
pipiwharauroa,I’ve been tempted to do that again – a last gift from me to the birds of Big O- -
Capture: Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand, in reply to Lilith __,
It is * exceedingly tough* and always manipulatable – as kids, in the bush, (where there wasnt flax, we used it as string.You strip some of the bark off, and use the under bark.)
Olds at Moeraki made kete & potae from it – it was a kind of South Island thing- -
Capture: Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand, in reply to Lilith __,
Well..thankyou! From childhood, grew up with what seems to be a myth (kotukutuku the only deciduous etc/etc...) I certainly know that both lacebark & ribbonwood (tree) were used as plaiting/woven material...
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Capture: Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand, in reply to Lilith __,
I am getting confused - no ribbonwoods/lacebarks et al drop their leaves on the Coast. The *only* one that does is kotukutuku/fuschia (and during winter, you will see its reddish-brown branches everywhere - but no leaves on it.)
Incidentally, it's one native tree you shouldnt bother to try & make a fire with...