Posts by Hebe
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Capture: EQNZ Remembrance, in reply to Gudrun Gisela,
Wonder how the old fountain with the coloured lights at night fared. I loved that light show as a child.
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Capture: EQNZ Remembrance, in reply to Gudrun Gisela,
Is that Victoria Park or Victoria Square -- the willow?
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Capture: EQNZ Remembrance, in reply to Joe Wylie,
Godley sleeps (at the council depot March 24 last year).
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Capture: EQNZ Remembrance, in reply to Gudrun Gisela,
You're so good at this! Beautiful.
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Hard News: Friday is for all the things, in reply to Sacha,
I learned every single breath and stomp of Abba in the suburbs of Christchurch as a teenager. It came in useful a decade later when I was required to sing along at Patches and other cultural epicentres :-)
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Hard News: Friday is for all the things, in reply to 3410,
That's good. Sounds like some of the Gram Parsons-Emmylou Harris songs.
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Hard News: It's In the Kete!, in reply to Joe Wylie,
Got converted to tigerella after trying them for first time last year. Golf-ball sized with around 1.5 times the flavour intensity of top supermarket cherry toms, BIG plants with heavily-laden trusses.
Last year I bought organic tigerellas grown at the BHU by a second-year student, and I was smitten. Those ones were up to small tennis ball size though. They taste of proper tomato to me: full-bodied, intense and full of sun. I love the deep-red flesh colour and the orange tiger stripes too.
They, the oxhearts and other plants were swaps this year with another BHU student. Lots of people were growing tomatoes at the BHU this summer, and I wonder how they have gone with the dreaded psyllid infestations.
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Hard News: It's In the Kete!, in reply to Joe Wylie,
A few of this year's Oxhearts.
Hey your tomatoes have ripened! Our oxhearts and tigerellas are ripening slowly, an unknown orange one has produced a few, and the limonella(?) yellow has put out a couple,. Otherwise most of the tomatoes, and there are heaps on about half a dozen different heritage types, are still brilliant green. We need heat in that sun in the next few weeks.
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Ok, so I haven't got a link to a video or picture or anything, but I will ask you to use your imagining to conjure up an ordinary, but somehow special thing today...In the Cashel Street container mall, in a courtyard area off to one side, sunny and warm because it was out of the biting north-easterly. Billy Vallance and Jon Hooker brewing up a quietly good set while me and beloved had a quick flat white under the tree from the caravan and others chomped through lunch souvlaki and sushi. So good just to be; in that place at that time. A snapshot hour I will carry with me.
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Offal in the kete; yuk. Fergus Henderson's Nose To Tail Eating is the modern bible on food like that. A stomach-turning read, but interesting, for those of us who cannot forget mad cow disease.
