NZ Forestry

• The "European Settlers" found many a thing grew well over here. One that has been to EnZeds advantage is the tree Pinus Radiata. It reaches maturity in about 30 years in the centre of our North Island.
  
  
  
• It is due to the "Volcanic Soil". Layer after layer deposited by the Volcanoes around this part. No molten lava. Our Volcanoes chuck out volcanic ash and rocks, stones and ash, and very liquid mud.

• So............the photo is from within a forestry plantation. Some land clear after harvesting, native brush and ferns growing there, and trees in the background. And a sample of the land around the Western Bay of Plenty in New Zealand.

• Volcanic lands in NZ mean you're forever going up and down, and up and down, and up and down (Tauranga and Auckland).

Where as in Wellington you are only ever going up Up UP, or DOWN Down down

I Choose Wellington!!!

...

Living on top of a major, often active earthquake fault line and all -

Guess is all about what you grow up with!

No snakes, poisonous spiders*, scorpions, before Humans = no indigenous mammals of any sort besides some harmless wee bats, that went "eeep" at a high frequency.

( well, just the Katipo which habitates sand dunes -and I don't)

A Bit Chilly

We're in the middle of another long blast straight from the Antarctic. Has been going on since last weekend and not due to stop yet.

So I give you the words from my all-time favourite Garfield cartoon. It starts with pic of him from the knees up:

I LOVE SCRAMBLED EGGS

... ESPECIALLY ON CHILLY MORNINGS ...

WHEN MY FEET GET COLD.

!!!

Likenesses Continued.....

Dear Mum with her Brothers, Roy on the left and Frank on the right.

Now these dear Uncles are Twin Brothers.

Try growing up with identical twin Uncles - it was years before I could tell them apart.

Uncle Frank would have looked more relaxed if the dear man wasn't also keeping an eye out for his dear wife, my lovely Aunty Rae. Our Rae has had a very rotten time with dastardly Sciatica for a long while now.

Uncle Roy was very recently returned from yachting related travels to South Korea. A Country he described as being "interesting"!!!

The family likenesses here start at the nose. When dear Mum visited the Relies in Northern Ireland in recent times I thought I would see something similar about their eyes - nope, the noses won!!

Family and Family Likenesses

On the right, dear Dad (alarmed at being caught in a photo), on the left his dear brother, Phil.

And in the middle, their dear cousin, Sue.

Dad and Phil outside with Mum over on the left

Going round from the top left:

Mickle, Mum, Phil, Dad*, Phil's daughter's Beth and Amanda, and sister Liz in front of me

And don't attempt to look for hair colour likenesses between the sisters/cousins - its all augmented!!!

-

The two brothers - aren't their ways of standing and expressing themselves so alike.

-

*Sadly Dad and Phil's middle brother, David, died when in his mid fifties. He was not only my uncle but also my God Father. Sue's brother, David, died in his twenties. I never knew him but, my goodness, he had the family resemblance too.

Party Prep

Pete carves the roasted chook .....

while Mum works the sandwich assembly line ....

and Dad has to remove his electrical gear before he turns on the Beer Fridge!

To keep you going while I sneeze and cough ......

"Nude man hit by bus

By STACEY WOOD - The Dominion Post
10/06/2009

A naked man has been hit by a bus in the Mt Victoria bus tunnel in Wellington.

Inspector Paul Jermy said the man was walking or running through the tunnel about 4:45pm when he was struck.

The man was being taken to Wellington Hospital with serious injuries, an ambulance spokesman said. The exact nature of his injuries was unknown but they were not believed to be life-threatening, police said.

"He seems to have been able to express his dissatisfaction at being hit," Mr Jermy said......." "

Purrball settled at last

All is getting back to normal - Zebedee is purrrrrrumbling away to himself on our bed.