Posts by Islander
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Capture: A Foray into Portraiture, in reply to 3410,
We have 'banana slugs' (local name as far as I know) - 6-8cm long, a delicious deep brown colour with a bright yellow stripe, that do the same - coming into the house
without using the doorhandles*- during the cooler wet days.
Regrettably, once inside the house, the temperature being generally much warmer, they dessicate if I'm not home to rescue them...* They can happily squeeze under my kind of doors-
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Hard News: Telling stories about us, in reply to Russell Brown,
Blues for Robin is for sale on Amplifier, as either a download or a CD.
Amplifier has been steadily making available the Ode catalogue -- which includes many records that pretty much disappeared on release. This is a good thing.
Further thanks to you Russell!
Ordering apopo- -
Hard News: Telling stories about us, in reply to Peter Rees,
ANZ-made, based in Dunedin. Excellent doco-
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OnPoint: Peek-a-boo, I can't recall…, in reply to Jolisa,
Loved the ass!
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Hard News: Telling stories about us, in reply to Jos,
Thanks indeed Jos!
I'm working from a family computer but have emailed the site to myself- cheers! -
Capture: A Foray into Portraiture, in reply to 3410,
and Nora Leggs - love the crawlie/slitheries!
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Hard News: Telling stories about us, in reply to Jos,
Kia ora Jos - thanks for this- I'll search- cheers n/n Keri
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Hard News: Telling stories about us, in reply to Jos,
Are we talking Robin Morrison, Jos?
I was lucky enough to share time, and a book project, with him- I'd be delighted to be able to buy this CD - cheers! -
Southerly: Bricks and Mortar, in reply to Lilith __,
aupo pollen? Honeydew
Raupo pollen was often mixed with a ground-up manuka beetle (kekewai in the south) - I've never been able to catch a lot of them. Raupo pollen sans beetle is palatable but not sweet ( we have put down flay cakes of it in a teatowel in our hangi at Big U
Flax flower nectar like snowberries and similar small fiddly foods were kai-tamariki.
Kiekie fruit were cherished - but the birds mainly got those.
The only other sweet food I know of was a mixture of tutu-juice cooked with rehia (a carageen): onviously, it was slightly fraught but it was highly esteemed. -
Southerly: Bricks and Mortar, in reply to Ross Mason,
Yeth!
Thing thorth!