final days
this is one for those looking forward to the UK election. it’s been really strange viewing things in a detached way from the other side of the planet (we didn’t register for remote voting in time)
i hope it all goes well !
April 2010
lovely crockery
it’s all about the presentation.
perhaps these signs weren’t actually written by the shop keepers and were actually graffiti feedback from passing shoppers ? twitter has a lot to answer for.
tree maintenance
not sure if this really counts as plants on the move, but i’ll put it in that category anyway.
toilet signs
these signs were bigger than a person. i didn’t like the look of mine much. he seems much to keen.
an equisite mannequin
tremendous example of a mannequin mostly wearing wool products
beware of ferral babies
perhaps worrying.
language selector
spanish and thai on the same frequency (kenneth)
tow away hall users only
they must really dislike the hall users if they are going to tow only their cars away
beer can museum
here’s a fantastic thing. it’s a beer can museum with over 10,000 unique beer cans from around the world.
can there be a more exciting place in the universe ?
i can imagine having that kind of hobby which just sort of gets out of hand
2 dollar hat
i bought this hat off a random little old lady yesterday. she was just wandering around with a bag full of bad hats.
classic town hall signage
classic village hall signage from my locality. they work equally well as a set or individually. all beauties of their genre.
shadow of a statue
(you weren’t allowed to take pictures of the statues themselves)
no comment
there must be a reason why there’s so many nekkid mannequins at the moment – perhaps they are enjoying the late autumn sun before the long wet winter sets in.
one eyed maori carving
where’s your other eye ? a tourist nicked it. that can happen.
painting a street cabinet
there’s a lovely thing in new zealand of painting the street furniture. something you’d never get away with at home. here’s someone invisibly going about his business in a fluorescent jacket and hat
rangitoto
unlike that one in Iceland, our local volcano is rather dormant at the moment
this chap hadn’t just crashed in to a tree.
ANZAC day
Anzac day is a public holiday here which means you get the day off. but only if it falls on a week day. so the bank holiday is effectively ‘lost’.
but it’s still a hugely important day for New Zealanders and Australians and we were proud to go to a service where Esther was involved through her school.
catering seemed to date back to the times of the great wars with giant sponge cakes and sandwiches with their crusts removed
weta bits
weta’s are very strange beasties. here’s one which was dead on a footpath. it’s a tree weta. you can read more about wetas here