Posts by Joe Wylie
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Capture: Roamin' Holiday, in reply to
The colour of a jacaranda is repulsively Dame Edna to me.
Heh. From the balcony of my old place in North Sydney I remember counting nearly 40 of the buggers during the 'season'. A lot of Australians, the kind that think that Nullarbor's an Aboriginal word, are under the impression that it's a native. It's South American.
Wattles are quintessential Dame Edna for me, what with Wattle Day and all:
Behold the golden wattle
Symbol of our land
You can stick it in a bottle
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Capture: Roamin' Holiday, in reply to
If folk are interested, I could post it here.
You got me.
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Capture: Cats Love Cameras, in reply to
Your gg could do such tricks (turning cats into small children)?
Unfortunately she’d been gone for decades before I arrived in this world, so perhaps it was so commonplace back then that no-one thought to remark on it. As for the suspected were-cat child, she wasn’t as far as I know displaying any feline tendencies when she popped off aged 92 back in 2003.
Hebe:
That Billy of yours does a great Evil Eye. I like that in a cat. -
Swapping props: Great-grandma Isabel Inwood, nee Morgan, with unknown puss & great-aunt Isabel, Sydenham, about 1916.
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Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas, in reply to
More evidence that the CCCouncil’s Share An Idea was never anything more than expensive window-dressing, carried out in bad faith. Bob Parker has had the gall to cite Tony Marryatt’s supposed oversight of that farce as justification for his pay hike.
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Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas, in reply to
Thanks for the heads up Tamsin6. The link seems to have moved in that inimitable Fairfax fashion, so once again, here. Tony Marryatt’s salary increase would appear to be sufficient to purchase around 200 burial plots.
Elsewhere the Council has been attempting to offset their largesse by gouging Canterbury University over discounts for staff study. As the University’s Vice-Chancellor has enjoyed a similar level of remuneration hiking to Marryatt, with no link to how he actually benefits that institution, perhaps they could settle the issue with a jelly-wrestling bout.
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Capture: Roamin' Holiday, in reply to
Bless you volunteers-
+++!
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Capture: Roamin' Holiday, in reply to
Monterey Pop…
Monterey cypress … macrocarpa ... Cypress Hill
More of a Country Joe & the Fish kind of ambience:
Movin' past those pine-cone trees,
Sorry that I had to leave
High above on a twisted road
Ocean movin' down below
I wonder just how far I have to go.BTW Monterey's also the setting for Steinbeck's Cannery Row, though the sardine cannery's an aquarium now.
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Capture: Roamin' Holiday, in reply to
I do like this tree.
Monterey cypress, aka macrocarpa.
Like the other contender for NZ's most widespread exotic tree, it's a vulnerable survivor in its tiny central Californian homeland.