school uniform costs
someone wasn’t impressed by the cost of uniform garb. it was probably the ‘bucket hat’ what did it. (or possibly the NZ Made Roman Sandal (singular i note, just like the Romans used to do as they hopped down the street)
signs
this is where the sounds come from. there’s a choice of some good ones here.
dangerous bus stop
sometimes you have to use military force to stop a bus
the view from harbour bridge
every morning i’m guaranteed a stunning view of Auckland over the harbour bridge as my bus goes whizzing in to town. here’s a view of the harbour with little tubes of sunlight bursting through a cloud like a collinder. quite fantastic.
white jandal
i was listening to a podcast recently that said that jandals were indicative of a nation’s maturity. As countries become more affluent people start to buy jandals to cover their feet, and as the process continues they eventually move to more sophisticated shoes.
i love how kiwis are cool to stick with jandals so they don’t get above themselves. that seems a nice national characteristic to me.
weird charity shop window
this charity shop looks fantastic but i only ever go past it when i go to wellington early in the morning so i suspect i’ll never go in which is a shame.
yellow and orange
note sure if the difference in colours on these police cars is significant. i’ll make it my business to find out and let you know.
some building or other
i climbed up a huge staircase to get to a road just behind this building only to find the meeting i was heading to was way down the other end of the street which was at the same level as where i started so it was a big fat load of wasted effort
survey mark 15v44
the word on the street. survey mark chapter 15 vs 44 ? here it is
more weird clouds
new zealand does do clouds spectacularly well
a great breakfast
last time i went to Wellington i arrived a couple of hours early for my 9am meeting so i went to the train station and had sausage and bacon and toast and an unspecified hot drink overlooking the train concourse
that was all good until people started arriving on their trains and i was like a window display depicting ‘man eating sausage and bacon and toast with an unspecified hot drink’
church post box
a post box (and two bollards) at a church which looks like the postbox (and not the bollards). would be good to have a teeny weeny post box next to the wooden postbox.