Posts by Hebe

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  • Capture: Upside Down, Inside Out, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,

    Fascinating stuff for me anyhow.

    Me too. Nuffing like a good long spy on nature. I’m into the garden right now (when I should be trying to earn). We’re reclaiming about 180 sq m from the deadbeat chickens, trampoline, unused kayaks and ivy plague. Amazing the wildlife in a suburban patch. This is going to be our intensive-ish food-growing area, with puppies only allowed in when supervised.

    Daisy is proving a natural-born digger, which is a little disturbing. Yesterday I could hear the pups ruffing and growling down there. We have an old door with safety glass and a 20cm deep frame sitting on top of a slightly raised bed which I am using as a protected area for growing rocket. I left the old cat door hole open thinking some air and moisture wouldn’t hurt. There were two puppies: streaking around under the glass, slinking around as low and as fast as they could playing “chase the sister”. The pop, out of the cat door hole and off. I fell about laughing – until I found the remainders of the rocket. So fortifications are essential.

    Christchurch • Since May 2011 • 2899 posts Report

  • Capture: Upside Down, Inside Out, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,

    My, what big um, arms, you have.

    Christchurch • Since May 2011 • 2899 posts Report

  • Capture: Upside Down, Inside Out, in reply to Nora Leggs,

    Good egg. Why are they there? Art? Creative meter boxes?

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  • Capture: Upside Down, Inside Out, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,

    Home AND hearth: life is good.

    Christchurch • Since May 2011 • 2899 posts Report

  • Hard News: Friday Music: Bright pastel…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,

    Man, they are getting hammered up there in Seddon
    poor buggers, my heart goes out to them…

    ++++1 I feel sick in the heart: it’s an indescribable form of mindfuck for Marlborough people, Nelson and Wellington people. I hurt for them, for me, for my family and friends. Beloved and I had planned to be at the Chch poetry night but it is important for us tonight to be with the ones we love.

    @ChrisW: Posting that pome at 2.31pm: awful symmetry. Greg promises not to do it again.

    Christchurch • Since May 2011 • 2899 posts Report

  • Hard News: Friday Music: Bright pastel…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,

    Also folks don’t forget the Free Poetry day event tonight in Chchch.

    Here's a new pome from my beloved that he has put out in honour of the day. He's planning "A Hundred Days of Poetude", starting today, because some peoples like Jeffrey Paparoa and me have finally convinced him to start publishing again after near 40 years.

    Drums roll, for this is a significant-to-a-few moment:

    PACIFIC SKILLS

    Takes a certain
    shifty skill
    this sanguine
    seaside shuffle
    down by wave
    line
    inconstant as
    the tides
    themselves.

    Took but 50
    or so
    Pacific summers
    to get the hang
    of safely shoed
    strolls
    hard by the
    tide.

    Some of my fellow
    skinny sand kicked
    pals from muscle beach
    shame have gone
    to bone/
    I've got sons strewn
    around and loves
    galore/
    while others I know
    have real
    j.o.b.s.
    Doing ,like
    work
    and stuff.

    Me -
    I've always loved
    that Greek
    philosopher

    dude
    living in a barrel
    that global
    warlord
    Alexander
    offered anything
    he wanted
    in the world
    who told the
    Lord of the world
    “Yeah, move
    you're
    blocking
    my sun.”

    I don't get
    house calls
    from Gods
    or their reverse
    in fact here
    by the beach the offers
    get rarer
    by the wrinkle.

    But like a
    Pacific Prospero/
    all undone
    by time
    and tide
    I still hold that
    shifty skill/
    the high priest
    of the seventh wave
    I can dance
    the tideline
    but keep
    my feet
    dry!
    …..............................................................
    Greg Jackson / Te Wai Pounamu

    Christchurch • Since May 2011 • 2899 posts Report

  • Hard News: Fluency, ease of manner - and…, in reply to Richard Love,

    What JC could have done was a pre-recorded interview with both Key and somebody opposed to the bill

    I heard (a radio report) that Key's people contacted Campbell at 4pm to say the PM would do the show that evening,.

    Christchurch • Since May 2011 • 2899 posts Report

  • Notes & Queries: Confessions Of A Sleepwalker,

    Thank you for your insights: fascinating and chilling.

    Christchurch • Since May 2011 • 2899 posts Report

  • Hard News: Fluency, ease of manner - and…, in reply to Graham Dunster,

    One good thing is that it will be even more unbelievable when Key goes back to the forgetful doofus routine

    Yes; It has been difficult to watch such contrived fluffing of his lines recently without wondering why the PM had become such easy meat all of a sudden.

    Christchurch • Since May 2011 • 2899 posts Report

  • Hard News: Fluency, ease of manner - and…,

    And the winner on the night was Mark Textor.

    Christchurch • Since May 2011 • 2899 posts Report

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