Posts by ChrisW
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Southerly: Coming Up For Air, in reply to Lucy Stewart,
it seems a little...reductive
Nicely done! A fart joke on a higher plane.
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Sorry all to capture the naming food blog thread on such a subject on this pre-Christmas morning, but it did seem pretty well tuckered out, and guinea pig life and death not at all a childish thing to be set aside!
Hmm - tuckered out - could be a nomination for a food blog name.
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Hard News: Name That Food Blog, in reply to Joe Wylie,
Guinea pigs die without thinking what it means, and herein they differ from us, to be sure. The grief and joy they give is surely that of life as such.
Agreed, with thanks to you and Torkel Franzén. Here's the gravestone on the home lawn cemetery for a lovely guinea pig family that had given much joy, after murder most foul by human hands. The flag of sandstone naturally somewhat guinea-pig-shaped, the guinea pig initially drawn in pencil by my grieving then-7-year-old daughter, it remains a memorial 14 years later, helping us in our attempts to negotiate between/around/above life/death boundaries (thanks Islander for that way of putting it, best wishes).
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Capture: Colour is the new black, in reply to Richard Aston,
I blame it on the parents ...
Porphyrio rivalry
And good to hear it, thanks Richard.
He put the chick's body on the grass verge and the "family" gathered around it in a circle , doing a slow dance around the body , dipping their heads towards it , went on for ages
Probably they were trying to work out whose it was, who were the responsible parents! Pukeko families tend to be rather colourful rather than black and vanilla. In the sober words of the 1966 NZ Encyclopedia -
sometimes two or three hens may share a nest, all these females apparently being mated to the one cock.
and I gather subsequent research shows there are often dual cocks and greater complications.
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Southerly: Coming Up For Air, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
*’By the dog dosing strip at Dunsandel’
Song written by Ken AveryPerhaps the Bridal Path will lead there after a few Monteiths?
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Hy Datid, oops, David – so pleased for you and this news.
But don't believe that stuff from Wikipedia is all there is to it – Dunsandel is much more notable for its dog dosing strip.
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Hard News: It was a munted year, in reply to Samuel Scott,
A mounted ridonculous ...
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What I had in mind when I took that photo – an early Waipu tile from the mid 1970s when I was most familiar with Auckland, about the time I left it. The Ferry Building tower lines up with edge of the same building behind, but that was then Air New Zealand’s building in its proud (overly proud?) pre-Erebus era.
The tile photographed 5 Oct 2008 on my parents’ dining table where it has lived since new. But this was the last photo I took at their place before he died suddenly a few days later. So it represents him too, and he loved those old double-ended ferries dating from his youth in the 1920s.
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City Scenes and points in time –
Auckland’s Ferry Building and its Mammonish context, 1 October 2008. Two weeks after the collapse of Lehman Bros, the construction cranes are still busy on borrowed time and money. For many years my Dad travelled every Wednesday by ferry from the Tamaki River to here to work as a volunteer guide at the National Maritime Museum just alongshore on Hobson Wharf. -
Porphyrio rivalry -
Humph - eats like a pig, hogs all the attention - and just look at her! No dress sense and built like the back end of a bus!
