Posts by Hilary Stace
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Hard News: #BDOMemories, in reply to Grant McDougall,
If I was an elderly person I could take offence at that reasoning.
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My nephew, who has been waiting to get old enough to go to the BDO, will be disappointed at its demise. But something else will emerge, I'm sure. After all such concerts have been taking place for decades, although Woodstock set the standard pretty high. I remember attending Redwood 70 as a young teenager. The Bee Gees had split by then but one of the Gibb brothers was the headline act. Can't recall exactly where it was (somewhere in the Waikato?) but remember the very cold ride back to Wellington on the open deck of a truck.
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Thanks for all these aunt reminiscences. My mother was one of four sisters who were very close, although so different in many ways that they ended up actively supporting four different political parties.Only the youngest, in her mid-80s, is still alive (two died recently, in their 90s). She still skiis and a few years ago was an extra in the Lord of the Rings, in the Queenstown scene which involved running up and down the hills.
Their mother was a bit of a liberal who had driven a car around the UK with her sister and father just before the First World War, in a journey her parents hoped would take her mind off the not-quite-good-enough Waimate lawyer she had her eye on (but she returned and married him). She let her daughters climb trees, ride bikes, go to the movies and generally enjoy themselves, until she died of breast cancer when my mother had just started boarding school. So my aunts stuck together, even though they lived in different parts of the world and eventually NZ. When they got together they were an intelligent elegant group.
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Capture: Cats Love Cameras, in reply to Russell C,
Hey, that's my view (minus cat) only you are a little lower. Do you have a current cat? If so it might be one of the many who come and visit my goldfish.
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To change direction a bit, since it is probably going to be raining for a while, I recommend the Muppet Movie as a nice piece of escapism. It is OK for adults to go to without children. Brett McKenzie as musical director provides a suitable touch of eccentricism.
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Capture: Roamin' Holiday, in reply to Hebe,
Toi toi. Hayfever in a picture.
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Birds of paradise via google picasa this time
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Monarchs about to pupate on the adjoining plant after gobbling all the swan plant leaves.
(Here is a pdf while I work out how to shrink the jpg - and excuse the Latin error as the file should be called pupae)
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Dumb question but how do you reduce the image size? Turning it into a pdf sort of does but then it is not the right type of file.
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Capture: Roamin' Holiday, in reply to JacksonP,
Thanks. Slow, slow broadband connection here in the middle of the Wellington suburbs.
