Quiet

 


Photo taken in the middle of Winter on a cold morning down one of the little side streets in town. There is apparently a good Asian restaurant down here on the right that we keep meaning to try and where the bicycles are is a bike shop. I'm actually surprised that there are still public phone boxes as most people have cellphones.

We have had the most wild weather I think I've seen in literally years. Much of the South Island of New Zealand has been wopped with a bad storm to the point where everyone's electricity went off for a few hours, trees were down, there were road slips and roads into different areas were closed. We are all good now but it's been a wild event. The town had no water supply for a day due to a bolt of lightning hitting one of the reservoir pumps but thankfully many people like myself have tank water (ours is 36,000 ltrs) and the council and some local businesses were offering temporary water supply from other sources. As usual the locals were going on and on over social media blaming the council for an uncontrollable weather event.

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Comments

Fun60 said…
It is unusually to see a working phone box know. Ours are used for many other things such as housing defibrillators or book swaps.
25 October 2025 at 17:04
Jan K. alias Afanja said…
In our country, too, phone booths have almost all disappeared from the streets. If one is still standing, it's usually been put to another use.
25 October 2025 at 22:12
local alien said…
I've been reading about your weather. The winds were incredible.
We still have a couple of phone boxes. Empty inside
25 October 2025 at 23:57
Tom said…
...Amy, you so often show QUIET street scenes.
26 October 2025 at 02:08
Jim said…
We enjoyed your NZ pictures. We visited in December 2012 and were seeing things that we do not have. It was a cruise, from Auckland and down the east coast, then over to Tasmania.
Here is my post for letter Q. Tom missed me this time.
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https://jimmiehov.blogspot.com/2025/10/letter-q.html?m=1
26 October 2025 at 02:41
Amypie71 said…
Yes the reason why is in my previous post.
26 October 2025 at 05:38
Margaret Birding For Pleasure said…
Amy Certainly is a QUIET street seen Have a lovely week ahead
26 October 2025 at 13:34
James said…
It's been awhile since I ate at an Asian restaurant. Sounds good right now 😊
27 October 2025 at 11:46
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