Posts by Leigh Russell
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Capture: Ans Westra - Ngā Tau ki Muri…, in reply to Chris Waugh,
That looks serene, Chris. An outing with the family?
I have some photos to put up next about the young people...
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It does indeed. I think this video was taken on Saturday The woman who does most of the talking is local Labour MP Clare Curran.
There have been skirmishes up there today, and tonight people are occupying the site. Very cold for them but they say they are fine!
I’m very disappointed with the self-righteous attitude of 2 Degrees who say they have no other choices – an indicator of small, closed minds and selfish thinking. How come we managed until now? They have lost my business as a result.
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Bryan Bruce's "Inside Child Poverty New Zealand" Facebook page is well worth following. If you are interested in lectures given by Prof Robert Wade on the subject of the increasing gap between rich and poor and what has happened to capitalism lecture places and dates are here
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Capture: Ans Westra - Ngā Tau ki Muri…, in reply to Chris Waugh,
Eurgh! regarding the cleaning session !!!
Fingers crossed regarding the application!
Oh, and very nice sky and cloud pic above.
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Capture: Ans Westra - Ngā Tau ki Muri…, in reply to Chris Waugh,
If you mean the beach here do let me know - I would be happy to give a rock pool tour of 'our' bit! :-)
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Capture: Ans Westra - Ngā Tau ki Muri…, in reply to Chris Waugh,
Chris, this is a special photo-pack of good clean beach air with 'clouds that have shape' - for your enjoyment.
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A while back I wrote an article about air pollution prompted by a major forest fire burning out of control not far distant:
In it I quoted a passage I found in a book which described London's Great Smog of 1952 and its devastating effect which caused thousands of deaths.
I'm posting the excerpt here for those of you who may not be able to access my article:
..."Crossing the Common I could see only two yards ahead, and it was strange to move in such a shrunken world... Everything one touched was filmed with grime and I had an impressive Hitler moustache from breathing in all the choky stuff... The fog had closed in again thicker than ever. It seemed to press upon one and was quite difficult to breathe. Street lamps threw only a feeble glimmer in their own immediate neighbourhood and between them was quite a stretch of inky darkness, I had to keep one hand on the wall or I would have lost my way... [In the office at work] I do the dusting and Hoovering every morning... Even though I'd cleaned all outside surfaces my fingers were black by lunchtime and so were everyone else's. The grime had got into every drawer and cupboard."
These abbreviated excerpts appear in the fascinating book "Can any mother help me?" (pages 113-117)
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Capture: Ans Westra - Ngā Tau ki Muri…, in reply to Chris Waugh,
Hi Chris, firstly my apologies for what may have come across as insensitivity to your previous post. I am really sorry that the situation you are in is so bleak.
The parallel in my photo was one of smoke pollution and the sky as seen above the outline of the house, no more.
I’m with Ziggy about the dragonflies, or perhaps I should say, I’m with the dragonflies. The photo is one taken a few centuries ago when I was away camping. What magical creatures they are !
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Capture: Ans Westra - Ngā Tau ki Muri…, in reply to Chris Waugh,
Hi Chris, here is one of mine on a similar theme.
When this smoke cloud mushroomed over the place here I wondered if a plane had crashed. I found out later that it was a burn-off of scrub on a hillside some miles distant. I was outraged to learn that they had used the equivalent of incendiary bombs. It should not have been permitted. Birds, insects and other tiny creatures have no chance of surviving this level of destruction.
I was also frightened for my own sake: seeing footage of this sort of thing on film is a different matter to seeing it appear unexpectedly in the blue sky over your own home. The speed and size of it was ferocious.
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Capture: Upside Down, Inside Out, in reply to Jos,
Be-ooo-tiful !!!
