new year’s day
it’s taken me a while to get round to posting these, but this is what we did on new year’s day !
handle like eggs
especially if they are eggs i suspect
monitor
these are like the opposite of street cameras. shame they aren’t plugged in.
own brand naming
peanut tasty (snickers)
biscuit crunch (twix)
or coconut exotica (bounty) anyone ?
a plate full of goodness
here’s some items leant to our recent visitors which they returned to me on a plate. the mobile phones (in case you were wondering) are called charlie and arnold. good friends.
takahe
this is a nearly extinct bird. doing some bothering
cruise ships
part of my morning walk to work from the bus stop in town involves walking past parked up cruise ships. it was nice to see Queen Elizabeth yesterday morning making her first visit to auckland
here a couple of others i’ve seen over the last few weeks
there have been loads. so here are a couple.
i liked the smoke from this one. very old school.
live better electrically
these stickers were on the door in a family holiday home we stayed at recently.
they pointed to a time when electricity was new
and dentists enjoyed puns
and when computer games were something you had to go to the arcades for
these electricity stickers are particularly good and perhaps say more about the progress of electricity rollout in new zealand to rural areas at the time than anything else. but still excellent vintage stuff
who would have thought a door would be such a time capsule
pancake day
ok, so we’re only 13 hours ahead of uk time here, but we thought we’d fast forwards a few weeks to pancake day. jane’s parents have been staying with us for the last 4 weeks and are heading home tomorrow evening so it seemed like a good idea
only one ended up on the floor. i didn’t eat any (egg allergy) but did have a go at throwing !
sufjan stevens
we went to see sufjan stevens last week. excellent trip in to space rock oblivion
it was our daughter’s first proper concert too. what a way to start a life of concert going
you can listen to his latest album here