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November 2010

len brown super mayor

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here’s len brown.  he’s the mayor of the recently formed auckland super city

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which means he has super power.  he tried to fire a beam of christmas spirit at me using his super city super powers

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he asked me how i thought his display of power went.  he tried to influence my decision but i was getting mixed messages.

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sometimes your face can give away your true thoughts whilst you body language is trying to convey something different.

farmer’s santa parade

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the farmer’s santa christmas parade is an annual event which happen every year at christmas and features a santa.  farmer’s is the name of a shop (a bit like john lewis for you brits).

santa isn’t actually a farmer.  although he might be.

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it was a great rag bag mix up of everything kiwi and christmas

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and kezia and i sat for an hour and a half in the blistering sun enjoying the procession as it trundled past

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and now by the medium of photos you can enjoy it too

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(it’s behind you)

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my giant poney

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there were lots of ‘fairies’ sprinkled in between the different floats to keep the crowds amused.  it looked like they’d only just found their way back after a rather chaotic halloween party

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anyway, if you want to see a few more of the photos have a look here:

wee man

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this is for warren who is a regular reader of funkypancake and who i go for occasional health giving walks.  it was his birthday yesterday and we saw this little man whilst out walking last week.  so here it is.

i recognise this from a board game of some sort but can’t remember what it is.  drop me an email if you know !

the british aisles

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here’s the british products aisle from our local supermarket

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it’s what they think we crave

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but we’ve not really bothered to get anything from here as not only it is real expensive, but it’s stuff we don’t really want

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but interesting to see what we might have been missing.

imposing building

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we don’t get many of these big buildings in auckland they do in christchurch, and there’s a few less of them there having been shaked down a bit.

bins

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michael jackson

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perhaps this is a t-shirt of a michael jackson impersonator who doesn’t really look like michael jackson ?