Posts by Joe Wylie
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Capture: Roamin' Holiday, in reply to
more flowers
Nice :-)
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Capture: Roamin' Holiday, in reply to
I have always liked this one from the 2006 kite and buskers day.
That's a deliciously weird one at full size - Pro Patria Pooh Bear.
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Capture: Roamin' Holiday, in reply to
Sorry Hebe, despite one of my great-grandfathers having watched his ship sail out of Lyttelton Harbour from atop those hills as a runaway 13-year-old cabin boy in 18-sixty-something, I’ve never learned their names. Thanks for piquing my curiosity.
Thank you Jackson. Kind of interesting that one of the most currently active faults lies parallel with the distant shoreline in the pic in the previous post, with the current culprits only a few Ks offshore.
I do know that the animal kites are by the amazing Peter Lynn of Ashburton. Here’s another pic from Ms Goodie’s haul today (can u spot the black & white dog?), plus a bunch more here.
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Capture: Cats Love Cameras, in reply to
...just never had one or any fink.
So, definitely never had one of these then.
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Capture: Roamin' Holiday, in reply to
Why do ‘we’ seem so hellbent on screwing it up?
Compared to those early lords of creation the Cyanobacteria, we're rank amateurs. But it's an ill wind that blows no species any good. as the oxygen we're so keen on was once their toxic waste product.
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Capture: Roamin' Holiday, in reply to
Aaaaaaawwww, thank you!
Now if you don't mind the croaking - and to me it's the perfect aural ambience for a balmy evening - you have some happy times ahead. -
Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas, in reply to
Cosgrove is now a List MP and could've been seconded to occupy that site and keep the flag flying, but no all the earthquake issues have been dumped on Lianne Dalziel ...
Burns was doing effective work in the weeks before the election - for example, it was he who broke the news at the Latimer Square rally last November 19 that Parker had been making his first post-quake visit to Parklands the previous day, at the very time that CERA were announcing its orange zoning, and no-one had bothered to tell him. Naturally Bob and his minders would have been spewing over having been seen to put out misleading assurances, but being loyal team players they sucked it up. We won't get these stories from Nicky Wagner, though you can bet they'll continue to happen.
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Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas, in reply to
Cr Button is shooting the messenger, passing the buck, and now trying to plug a dam burst with a cork.
The Bob 'n Button act in better days:
Sitting down, I was aware there were whisperings from the far end of the council table, where Parker and deputy mayor Cr Ngaire Button sit."Excusez-moi, Mr Media, this meeting is not open," Parker said.
After a few very uncomfortable seconds, council general manager, strategy and planning, Mike Theelen disabused Parker of that notion, saying it was indeed an open meeting.
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Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas, in reply to
At worst guinea pigs are ludicrous, while gerbils are prohibited, presumably because they pose an ecological threat. No hamsters either.