Posts by Joe Wylie
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Capture: Better Food Photography, in reply to Hebe,
Do they taste strawberry-ish?
Apart from the colour they're just like their red alpine counterparts. A bit of low-maintenance happiness among the pansies and aquilegias.
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Capture: Better Food Photography, in reply to David Hood,
Flying Spaghetti Monster bread
Respect.
Tiny white alpine strawbs. Ambrosial. Like the ugnis, thanks to Gudrun Gisela for the plants.
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Capture: Better Food Photography, in reply to JacksonP,
Since we're doing fruits of distinction. Always loved these. I gather some don't.
Wonderful things. The jam sells for top dollar, more than blueberry in Australia.
First fruit from ugni/ugniberry/Chilean guava/NZ cranberry
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Capture: Two Tripods, One Night, in reply to Lilith __,
There are at least half a dozen of these in the garden
Phoenix palms. Got to be. While 'at least half a dozen' just sort of happened to be there outdoor cycads would be wonderful, not in Christchurch.
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Capture: Two Tripods, One Night, in reply to Lilith __,
Geoff's probably forgotten knows more about plants than I'll ever know, but I'd have guessed phoenix palm except for the height. So without a more revealing pic I'm taking my cue from Sophie - cycas revoluta.
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That lingering image of armed police boarding a school bus is a hard one to shake. From all the information we have there was no need for it to have happened. It's disturbing that we seem to find that an acceptable trade-off for pre-empting a bunch of incipient 'dickheads'.
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Capture: Roamin' Holiday, in reply to Steve Barnes,
Såsom i en spegel
Ah yes! And for those may have missed this "classic", De Düva.
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Hard News: Reputation and remuneration, in reply to Steve Barnes,
Hey, I could do that. Gizza Job!
It only pays half the daily rate that Shipley trousers on the CERA review panel.
Doctor Smith (it's so Lost in Space) has an apparently smiley-friendly Facebook page, but the wet work is carried out by a functionary who's given to phrases like "Oho, so you're of the left-wing persuasion!"
A request to meet over a cup of tea results in instant unfriending. -
Former Nelson Mayor and Smith appointee Kerry Marshall on the job "observing" the antics of Chch City Council. Time for a gentle tap on the shoulder.
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Hard News: Time to move on, in reply to Russell Brown,
He sounded off after some of the young activists spilled the beans to him
Bradbury's tendency to snap into self-aggrandising headless chicken mode was treated as news in itself, by people who really should have known better.
