Posts by Hebe
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Hijacking penance; playing at Porters. I like the pure joy these three ski-refuseniks found when they gave up the skis and found a hill to roll down.
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Capture: Roamin' Holiday, in reply to Jackie Clark,
I don't find them upsetting; share away , it is good to have the record. I wish it were all still there for my children's sake, but I don't agree with the idea of rebuilding immediately. Most of these old buildings, including the destroyed cathedrals, took decades to build and were aggregations of generations of craftspeople's work and community money. Why do we expect them to be rebuilt within five, 10, or 20 years? I loved the idea of raising a steeple in the Square that was suggested by an American; a real community project. I wonder where it got to.
Bugger I've just hijacked the thread...
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Capture: Roamin' Holiday, in reply to Jackie Clark,
It was. The beauty is still there, just not in the buildings any more.
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Capture: Roamin' Holiday, in reply to JacksonP,
The best was the bottled salmon, caught by the old boy at one of his secret fishing spots and bottled in the kitchen at Rolleston Avenue; it was brought out for visitors on special occasions.
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Capture: Roamin' Holiday, in reply to Gudrun Gisela,
Thank you for the beautiful pic. The lighting is lovely. That bridge and its lake and the Botanic Gardens have special meaning for me: close family lived in the Curator's House for decades and I spent a good part of my first 20 years in the Gardens and the then-magical garden behind the house. The house was the setting for many of my family's high days and holidays with hosts who were great lovers of food, family and entertaining. Formal Christmas dinners in the hot summer evening; the old aunts who loved lolly scrambles
on the lawn out the front on Easter Sunday; the kitchen during the school holidays which always had something good to snack on. I have many of the artifacts from that time, I treasure the hand-written recipe books and the old but perfect secateurs especially. -
Capture: Roamin' Holiday, in reply to Gudrun Gisela,
Nice red bergamot; I'm off to collect a few seedheads.
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Capture: Roamin' Holiday, in reply to Jackie Clark,
Is that a new poster I spy? Welcome Nora
+1 A pitbull perchance?
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Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas, in reply to Caleb D'Anvers,
And does anyone at the council have golf club membership included as part of remuneration package?
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North Korea's former Dear Leader could get a hole-in-one in every game of golf he played; I guess Tony Marryatt is training up.
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Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas, in reply to Joe Wylie,
I watched the live feed on the TV3 website. I much prefer to watch to originals of these things than rely on the interpretation of the the participants or media present. Here is the link
