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  • Nora Leggs, in reply to Chris Waugh,

    why not carp in tree?

    now we are heading to Suess territory!

    Auckland • Since Dec 2011 • 2700 posts Report Reply

  • Chris Waugh, in reply to Nora Leggs,

    Precisely. My daughter's favourite English-language book is Hop on Pop, and it was the "Three Tree Three fish in a tree. Fish in a tree? How can that be?" that put me on to "carp in tree".

    Wellington • Since Jan 2007 • 2401 posts Report Reply

  • Nora Leggs,

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    Two webs today at Black Rock

    Auckland • Since Dec 2011 • 2700 posts Report Reply

  • Nora Leggs,

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    Convolvulus
    Shining borage
    Fallen borage

    Auckland • Since Dec 2011 • 2700 posts Report Reply

  • Lilith __, in reply to Nora Leggs,

    Shining borage

    You know borage flowers taste like cucumber? Weird.

    Dunedin • Since Jul 2010 • 3895 posts Report Reply

  • Nora Leggs, in reply to Lilith __,

    You know borage flowers taste like cucumber?

    I surely do! One of those amusing little jokes of nature.

    Auckland • Since Dec 2011 • 2700 posts Report Reply

  • Ian Dalziel,

    Cucurbitaceae your appetite...

    ...borage flowers taste like cucumber

    A way of saying, forget-me-not...?

    One of those amusing little jokes of nature.

    Those jokes comfrey with borage...

    Christchurch • Since Dec 2006 • 7953 posts Report Reply

  • Hebe, in reply to Nora Leggs,

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    Shining borage
    Fallen borage

    Borage playing nicely. Here’s beastly borage: horns and prickles. (Working on eliminating that tunnel effect with the macro adapter wotsit. I do like it as a new-to-me effect right now.) Very liking LightZone too; it thinks like me.

    Christchurch • Since May 2011 • 2899 posts Report Reply

  • Nora Leggs, in reply to Hebe,

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    Lovely boraging!

    Spring is - the return of the Cabbage White

    Auckland • Since Dec 2011 • 2700 posts Report Reply

  • Nora Leggs,

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    One of telecom’s little jokes - bless.

    Auckland • Since Dec 2011 • 2700 posts Report Reply

  • Ian Dalziel, in reply to Nora Leggs,

    ration all thought...

    bless

    ate less
    Not a hole food diet then?
    ;- )

    Got any more?
    Could be a deck of cards in it!

    Christchurch • Since Dec 2006 • 7953 posts Report Reply

  • Nora Leggs, in reply to Ian Dalziel,

    Got any more?
    Could be a deck of cards in it!

    Might take quite some time.... : )

    Auckland • Since Dec 2011 • 2700 posts Report Reply

  • Nora Leggs,

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    Enormous flower draws crowds at Wintergarden hothouse today. Tomorrow when it opens, the stench might drive the crowds away.

    Auckland • Since Dec 2011 • 2700 posts Report Reply

  • Ian Dalziel, in reply to Nora Leggs,

    Nasal meat-twerks...

    Tomorrow when it opens, the stench might drive the crowds away.

    From hothouse to charnel house...
    I read the odour permeates an area of 2-3km.
    It gives one a sense of wonder, as in...
    Wonder if that encompasses the hospital, university and Parnell?
    Wonder how long it blooms for?
    Wonder if they'll refund any booked weddings?

    <oh, I am offal...>

    PS: Still, I see a rare site opportunity for Auckland's
    itinerant nosegay vendors.

    Christchurch • Since Dec 2006 • 7953 posts Report Reply

  • Hebe, in reply to Ian Dalziel,

    The Peterborough community people have posted on Facebook that they too have oneof these monsters that flowered most years and were wanting to get rid of i, then read about the Auckland one. I dont think it's the first: about 17 years ago I wrote about one flowering in a garden somewhere down south Canterbury way - Geraldine area? Memory gone, files gone: bugger. Apparently it's an epic stink.

    Christchurch • Since May 2011 • 2899 posts Report Reply

  • Chris Waugh,

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    Morning, all. Just a little early morning experiment.

    Wellington • Since Jan 2007 • 2401 posts Report Reply

  • Chris Waugh, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,

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    This baby showed up last month.

    This one too. Cousins.

    Wellington • Since Jan 2007 • 2401 posts Report Reply

  • Jos,

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    More babies

    Whakatane • Since Jan 2012 • 877 posts Report Reply

  • Nora Leggs, in reply to Jos,

    More babies

    Well done, you! Demanding babies, aren't they?

    Auckland • Since Dec 2011 • 2700 posts Report Reply

  • Nora Leggs, in reply to Ian Dalziel,

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    Wonder if
    Wonder how long
    Wonder if

    Whattalottawondering, sounds like Hebe can answer some of that.

    Went back twice yesterday, the queue was a double loop around the winter garden. By late evening they’d closed it off to any new queuers, trapping the existing queuers inside for us to watch like animals in the zoo. No noticeable smell : (


    Bridal getaway and bridal getaway car from Saturday

    Auckland • Since Dec 2011 • 2700 posts Report Reply

  • Nora Leggs,

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    The queue reflected in the wintergarden pond. Reflected colours much brighter than the winter reflections caught there.

    And while I’m at it, spring reflected in the duck pond.

    Auckland • Since Dec 2011 • 2700 posts Report Reply

  • Ian Dalziel, in reply to Nora Leggs,

    ...spring reflected in the duck pond

    surely, reflections on ponds
    would be - ponderings...
    <ducks>


    I don't have a smartphone camera,
    but if I did these Rubberband Macro Lenses look pretty nifty...
    wonder if they have a pirate-style alice band / eyepatch headbandanalens?

    Christchurch • Since Dec 2006 • 7953 posts Report Reply

  • Nora Leggs,

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    The frill is gone.
    Well, going.

    Determined to check out the pong, i returned today to the Wintergarden. The crowds were much thinner, the pong was stronger on Saturday, the flower has started it’s decline.

    Auckland • Since Dec 2011 • 2700 posts Report Reply

  • Nora Leggs, in reply to Ian Dalziel,

    I don’t have a smartphone camera,
    but if I did these Rubberband Macro Lenses look pretty nifty…

    and what is the advert saying? suitable for dinosaurs?

    Auckland • Since Dec 2011 • 2700 posts Report Reply

  • JacksonP, in reply to Nora Leggs,

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    The crowds were much thinner, the pong was stronger on Saturday, the flower has started it’s decline.

    I still has to wait 30 minutes at lunch time yesterday.

    Seemed it could do with a Gothic b & w treatment.

    Auckland • Since Mar 2011 • 2450 posts Report Reply

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