Hard News: Incoming: Summer
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Ben Austin, in reply to
So Buchan is Doric? Or a variant?
My grandmother and her mother could speak some form of Scots Gaelic, although I suspect the former not so much. Although she was able to teach us numbers and some nursery rhymes. Her mother was apparently fluent and she would have been 2nd or 3rd generation Otago.
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Alfie, in reply to
So Buchan is Doric? Or a variant?
I get the impression that it's a regional variation of Doric, though only a Scots speaker would know for sure. It was certainly incomprehensible to outsiders.
Grandad emigrated to NZ after WWI and ran a pub in Denniston, on the West Coast. So his accent was well-diluted by the time I got to know him.
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Emma Hart, in reply to
Feeling sorry for the caterers and food carts at the cricket – looks like it’ll all be over by the lunch break 108/0 after 8 overs!!!
(and I suspect even Emma didn’t want it over that fast either…)There wasn't even a full 'lunchbreak'. People were walking around hawking 2 for 1 burritos basically as soon as we started batting. No amount of wheedling on our part seemed likely to persuade the teams to play a 20/20 after they were done.
So we headed home instead and had an indoor picnic while playing a board game my 20 year old son won while playing as Caroline Bingley.
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JacksonP, in reply to
Does anyone swim?
Not while we were there. Hard to imagine, in all honesty. There is also the small matter of electrical pylons looming overhead. I for one found the concept of getting in the water a little... fraught.
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The Empire Strikes Back, says the ODT.
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Pukekura Park for the summer solstice.
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Hebe,
Midsummer hailed orange blossom. (Never mind the technical deftness: there is none! I'm on day three of Lightroom so getting picture to page is an achievement.)
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Pier pressure...
Visiting Napier recently I was mightily impressed with their brand new coastal viewing platform (and stormwater outlet cover), the scale is right, the proportions are right and the execution is stylishly simple and uncluttered, the wave form steel pergola is a soothing illusion of light and air.
Thankfully it is not blighted by the inconsiderate fishing fraternity that have rendered Chchch's pier end a foetid eyesore shunned by locals and unimpressive for tourists.
Well done Napier for the foresight and restraint.Though I see many angry letters from locals saying 'why don't we have a pier going out to sea for fishing', etc - man they should be grateful that didn't happen otherwise no one would be able to get to the end and look along the breaking surf.
It has a great location right by the soundshell and town centre.
I also dread to think what the extra cost would be for engineering extra pylons out into the surf and still sunk 15m into bedrock below. -
evening walks up Maungawhau for sunsets and moonrises
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Hebe, in reply to
evening walks up Maungawhau for sunsets and moonrises
Love it.
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People in Dunedin and south might want to keep an eye out for Aurora this evening (or repeatedly search Twitter for Dunedin aurora) as there is a chance of glowing skies between 9pm and 3am.
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Fire in the sky…
…and the sea!The Ourobos of El Nino
prepares to bite its tail…
the great cycle continues.Happy New Year everyone
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Nora Leggs, in reply to
The Ourobos of El Nino
prepares to bite its tail…And the water lily pops up through it's own leaf
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We found out where all of Auckland goes on a rainy New Years day. All packed into the war memorial museum. And the rest in the Wintergarden.
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Happy New Year! May the New Year be an excellent one!
(Dawn at Waihi Beach though cloudy, had enough breaks for the sky to lighten, albeit briefly. By 9am, it was raining, cold & blustery.)
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
...glowing skies between 9pm and 3am.
On the money, sir!
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11568404 -
Hebe, in reply to
We found out where all of Auckland goes on a rainy New Years day. All packed into the war memorial museum. And the rest in the Wintergarden.
Otherworldly through the elastic doors. Neat! Now I want to play with googly-eyed lenses.
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It’s been raining all year!
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Got four beautiful days at Mangawhai, including Fat Freddy's at the Mangawhai Tavern! Then three very stormy days near Matauri Bay - luckily we were able to squash inside a house rather than staying out in the tent. Finally a 6 1/2 hour drive back in dreadful traffic.
In 2012/2013 Xmas/NY we also had a cyclonic experience out on Great Barrier Island in a tent at Harataonga Campground. So that's 50% of the last four Xmas/NY periods with weather that made camping miserable. I think I'm over it for this time of the year, i.e. late Spring.
I'm sure this has been debated before but how about if the school year ran for another 2 weeks right up until just before Xmas and then the school holidays went through to mid-February? This would give families more flexibility to take statutory holidays over Xmas/NY and then plan another week or so holiday between mid-Jan and mid-Feb. You could work it in with Nelson/WN/AK Anniversary days & Waitangi Day. Everyone wouldn't be trying to go away at the exact same time of Boxing Day through to early-Jan and the weather would (likely) be much better.
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I’m glad we were only camping in the backyard, and that we packed up and moved back inside before the weather arrived.
...then these two came rolling in...
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It is pouring in Dubai today as well. One poor guy ran across the road in the heavy rain with such a look of abject terror on his face that i hoped for his sake he never gets to spend new year in NZ.
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Farmer Green, in reply to
Back in the days before "dairy support" , PKE and centre -pivot irrigation, there was a phenomenon known as a "cow cocky's Xmas" .
We've just had one such. -
Ian Dalziel, in reply to
dairy airs...
cow cocky’s Xmas
No need for that kind of language - according to Australia's Northern Territory Member of Parliament...
I especially liked:And, "What a joke! Next a ringer will be called a 'horse mounted Ag worker' and a swaggy will be a 'mobile self-bedding sufficient general purpose worker'. What's this place coming to when you can't call a cow cocky a cow cocky?"
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Sacha, in reply to
Fat Freddy's at the Mangawhai Tavern
cool. how was it?
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