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i’m not asking for sympathy.  i’m just saying

and it’s quite lovely seeing the local bush all covered in frostiness

blatant poster badness.  par for the course carter, par for the course (vague reference to this )

look at these great signs.  now look at them again in more detail in order

GST is like VAT – ie a sales tax.  it would be great to go in to the shop and empty all the shelves in to a basket and see if you could really buy everything for $3 plus GST.

and look, you can save the 20 cents (about 10 pence) by buying 2 of everything (excluding other price umbrellas).  but if you’ve already bought everything once, can you buy it again ?

but his is where it gets very exciting.  They are selling SPECIAL $5 items as a test.  not sure whether that’s $5 with or without GST.    But sorry, the $5 items do not apply 3 for $10.

we can do you hair today, but do we want to ?

we can do you hair today, but will we ?

we can do you hair today, but we’re not going to

we can do you hair today, so there.

it’s autumn on this end of the planet which means leaves fall.  and so do retro telephones it seems.  it’s always fun to see what you see on the residential streets of auckland.

at last, a decent kiwi street cleaning device

here’s a nice example of kiwi drivers.  i spotted this bare leg on the car window sill.  as we passed in the bus i noticed it was the driver’s !  that’s the beauty of automatic cars of course.

the same but different

eek, it’s a white tail

there was an art thing in Wellington a few weeks back.  this made for some exciting mannequin window action which changed everyday.  there were more mannequin murders throughout the week and the bodies were removed and drawn round like police investigations etc.  excellent stuff

and this last one seemed to involve planting bottom seeds.  by the end of the week there were loads of bums in there.

we’ve been here exactly 6 months today.  gulp.  and wow.  and excellent all in one.