Posts by Joe Wylie
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Danyl provides a little insight re. Trotter's unrequited boner for Waitakere Man.
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Hard News: Democracy Night, in reply to Tom Semmens,
You play the cars the electorate deals you, don’t you think?
I watch the cars go back and forth
Sometimes south and sometimes north
I watch the cars
I hear them stopping down the street
I hear the sound of stocking feet
I wonder who they’re going to meet
I’m getting drunk inside my house
I see the men inside their shells
They go to prostitutes as well
Who never mind the way they smell
The prostitutes are paid for it
Alright!
I hear you’re gonna try that too
I wouldn’t pay to go to you
I’m getting drunk inside my house againRobyn Hitchcock, I Watch the Cars
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Capture: Colour is the new black, in reply to Lilith __,
Lilith - sorry, addressed you as Hebe in my reply upthread.
Speaking of grapes, the little Niagara vine that went in after September's quake now has tiny grapes. The seem to thrive on punishment. -
Seeing as this is about colour - clowns from today's Santa parade, fresh from the steaming great Nikon of Ms Gudrun Gisela.
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Capture: Colour is the new black, in reply to Lilith __,
Joe: My Mum lost a peach tree and a robinia after the September quake, and I know several other people who had healthy trees suddenly die. I'm guessing there was some invisible damage to their root systems in the earthquake.
Thanks Hebe, that seems to be the consensus from those with proper horticultural knowhow. As for extended flowering seasons, the pansies & violas around here just haven't stopped, even for the snow in July & August.
Anyway, here's Santa in Riccarton Road today.
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Capture: Colour is the new black, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
Plants and dirt are really good therapy.
Also plants don't seem fazed by earth tremors, last summer was great, as this one is shaping up to be. There was the mysterious death of a peach tree and a big old wisteria after the September quake though, for which no-one has a good theory.
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Capture: Colour is the new black, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
I wonder if they are still there?
I wondered that too.
That shot looks like the main hothouse. Like most of the gardens it's open and pretty much unscathed.
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Capture: Colour is the new black, in reply to Karen White,
Crimson rosellas.
They have the most un-parrotlike call, like a little silver bell.
Magical critters, lovely atmospheric shot, you can almost smell the eucalypt. -
Capture: Colour is the new black, in reply to JacksonP,
Just keep it seemly… ;-)
As past attempts to establish the great tit (parus major) in NZ appear to have failed you should be cool.
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Hard News: When A City Falls, in reply to merc,
Ah, who could forget Jerry's new CERA logo jacket.
Has he bequeathed it to Te Papa yet?
Those attending today's CERA orange zone meeting seem to be giving credence to a rumor of Steven Joyce taking over the EQ Minister role.
