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Capture: Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand, in reply to Jos,
Loopies Islander?
Tourists, Jos.
I lure them away to my beach umukai & after smoking ’em, then hangi-steam ’em for o- depending on the amount of clothing/cameragear/etcetera- about 7 hours. It’s the bones I gnaw on- all the rest is deliciously succulent-yep, accoutrements & all!
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Capture: Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand, in reply to Jos,
and a white baiter waiting
We're waiting for a wee while yet...off the river...I'll just keep on gnawing loopies...
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Capture: Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand, in reply to Lilith __,
Acidically sour - we used to chew the stems. Dunno what especial taste I thought I was missing then, but I had enough mildly acidically sour in my diet as an adult-
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Capture: Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand, in reply to Lilith __,
<q>I don’t think you can hope for a cure, once cummings is in your head. :-
While e.e.cummings is not my favourite poet of all time, I've found reading Emily Dickinson out loud is a certain cure for his eye/ear-worminess...
Irrelevancy - as a kid I loved the the taste of oxalis. This love has not kept up in adulthood.
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Hard News: The question of Afghanistan…, in reply to Steve Barnes,
<q>mm, two first names eh, that’s “unusual”
There is a Maori author called James George. I dont know whether this one is him...
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Hard News: And so it begins, in reply to Kumara Republic,
The best school thing that ever happened to me – at a state primary school – was when, after minor burglary, including theft of keys, the school headmaster *gave me the keys to the school library.* I was 11.
I handed them back to Fred Price (bless the man!) when i was 18 & had won my first literary prize.
You can be a round peg in a square hole – and have the gaps catered for-
I am not ‘normal’, am on the asperger’s syndrome profile, and have been very berloody lucky- be it so for all others like me-
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Capture: Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand, in reply to Jos,
Ahhhhh!
Saved to desktop (with accreditation!) on my travel-laptop....I sooo love those birds- -
Speaker: Selling the Dream: The Art of…, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
donned my own hat (made in NZ from possum fur!)’ to rapturous applause. I
There was once a tiny local industry in S. Westland making Davy Crockett hats from trapped possums...didnt last long, but did exist.
Curse the anti-fur idiots who killed the ANZ possum fur trade! Yeah, they had a point with farmed fur -0 and certain species of wild fur - but they killed quite a few jobs, good export fund-earning, and an excellent bird&bush-saving conservation initiative.
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Capture: Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
Glory!
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Capture: Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand, in reply to Jos,
Kia ora Jos- excellent photos! As with so many posters in this thread...
Round here, Royal Australian spoonbills nest in the same area & trees as kotuku - they seem to be quite handy in the Waitangi-taona bush...
"The royal spoonbill is here, really a beak with a bird
attached, kotuku-ngutupapa as the naming goes, 'a bare
black face and baleful yellow eyelids'. The little shag is here,
dancing clown attendance.And in August, the others come.The lagoon is on the maps. The others build nests and rear
their chicks from blueish-green eggs, all the while elegant themselves
in dorsal aigrette, nuptial plumage. They are not
many: the survivor chicks are also few."