I've seen these being advertised for many years. I tried one about a year ago and I felt quite claustrophobic. Have you tried these or do you have one? What do you think about them?
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This week the letter from Tom is "Z" - there are many of these around New Zealand but this one was in Auckland City in an area/Daldy street that use to be mainly grass and fishing wharves. It amazed me to see how much it had changed, there are now apartment blocks everywhere.
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I walked around one of the main streets in Greymouth last week and spotted this lady enjoying the morning sun from the back of one of the businesses. We are having some great sunny late Autumn weather right now that's been going on for the last couple of weeks and just the right amount of rain to keep our water tanks full, of course we are connected to the main town supply too but the tank water has a different and nicer taste in my humble opinion.
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I was leaving my hairdresser's last week and walking down the corridor to the street entrance when I saw one of the nearby businesses was holding a training course. There are always trade jobs available in my town because new houses are regularly being built in new subdivisions, good for young ones or those switching from one industry to another. The local chemist is to the right in this photo, where you can see the hats, they are meant to be moving to another building from what I've heard.
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We love second hand shopping, it's pretty cool when we find brand new items for hugely discounted priced. Hokitika has some great shops for this purpose.
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I was filling up my car with petrol last week and further down the road I saw these 2 men working on replacing a roof on one of the nearby houses. A huge percentage of houses in my town are vintage/retro and Victorian in style. Now that we are in mid Autumn it's probably a good time to do this before Winter comes in June.
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Last weekend we drove out to Cobden (a suburb nearby) as I had heard that one of the window companies there were selling second hand windows. We are in the process of renovating the laundry to be the new bathroom. Currently our bathroom is located in a strange box like area which is very small so we have moved the laundry out the garage and the bathroom will move to where the laundry was.
We ended up buying 2 windows at a very cheap price. The one on the left is going to be the main bathroom window and the one on the right will be the toilet window, both chosen because with the type of glass, you can't see in or out for privacy. The toilet window will be high up.
Today is ANZAC Day (Australia New Zealand Army Corps) and remembered every year for those who have fought in every war but specifically to remember the anniversary of the 1915 Gallipoli landing during WW1. I have relatives and ancestors who have fought in both WW1 and WW2 that we remember and most towns have dawn services and parades. I'm down with a minor head cold this weekend so I won't be going anywhere.
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A few things going on this week....I managed to finally see one of the public health nurses at the hospital for my annual flu vaccination which has helped so much over the last 3 years since I've been getting it. The above photo is only of a small section where I was waiting, the main reception area and lifts/stairs etc are around the corner to the left.
I'm one of those people who doesn't get seriously ill, apart from the odd sinus infection or mild flu. But we are coming into the Winter season in June when hospitals here will be inundated with sick people as seeing a doctor is too expensive in some places. Here on the West Coast we pay a small amount but in some of the larger cities it can be over $50 and not everyone can afford it so I consider myself to be pretty fortunate that I can.
Where I live the local hospital is very modern and only a few years old but in a lot of other places in New Zealand the hospitals are barely run by tight constraints, under funding, under staffed and they sorely need upgrading and renovating as most were built in the 1950s and 1960s.
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These are popular vehicles in New Zealand. We saw these 2 at Fox River last weekend sitting in the carpark. Many tourists will rent these campavans from various companies to travel around in.
I'm pleased to say that this particular weekend was stinking hot and throughout the year we see alot of them travelling but in Summer they increase. Tourists are always nice people who love to chat with the locals.
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| Photo taken of a girl on Orewa Beach last year |
It seems that we have had a great late Summer finally happen. After all the rain and Spring temperatures we now have warmth and sun and heat. I have pumpkins growing in my vege garden along with kale, spinach and various herbs and they are loving it. I'm not looking forward to Winter but with Autumn due in March, we are feeling a definite slight change in the air in the early mornings.
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This was taken a few days after Christmas in town along one of the main streets outside the second hand bookshop, they had a little tree in the window surrounded by different books.
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My daughter R and I dropped off a load of bits and pieces to one of the local op shops last week and on the way back home we got stopped at the main road next to the Greymouth railway station while the Tranz Alpine was passing through. At the moment it seems that the carriages aren't that full but usually over Winter they are full as there is spectacular scenery between here and Christchurch.
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| Photo taken in Auckland City - November 2024 |
I think every person in New Zealand is looking forward to Summer. Last year over Spring it rained just about every day. This year we've had big dumps of rain at least once a week. Roll on warmer weather.
Halloween has come and gone here, we usually don't have trick or treaters as we live just out of town so it was a very quiet night.
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I was going through some old photos earlier this week and found some from a small town in the north island named Waihi (pronounced Why hee). This would've been taken when I stopped here on the way to meet B for the first time just over 10 years ago on our first date and as I was driving down from where I lived, I saw lines of classic cars driving along the main state highway and in this town.
Shortly after this I discovered that one of my ancestors on my father's side had worked at the mine nearby as a mercury miner and unsurprisingly he died at the age of 50. Waihi is one of my favourite historical places.
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Always good to see happy people with their friends having a good chat over coffee and lunch. Seen at the local Mitre 10 coffee shop.
There was a sad bit of local news that's sent this town buzzing lately. Next to our local McDonalds building is there is a vacant building that was until recently home to a number of people living inside in separate apartments. The health department deemed it unsanitary to live in and closed it down but since then there have been local squatters living in it, one of which was found sadly dead outside the building on the ground earlier this week. I had a feeling who it was and I was correct. It has now turned into a homicide investigation with the victim being an elderly man who use to come into my work now and again who was homeless and living in the building. I had heard from someone else that they had helped him go to the local council who then gave him a granny flat to live in but, as with alot of homeless people, he preferred it seems to live on the street. It's like one of those situations in life where no matter how much a person is helped, it's like it's not going to end well no matter what. It's a very sad thing.
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Right next to a motorway in the central city is the Tauranga Mission Cemetery aka Otamataha Pa which is known as the Military Cemetery. There are monuments to the Naval Brigade, the 43rd Monmouth Regiment and a mass Maori grave. This particular monument is for a man named Hori Ngatai who was a chief of the Ngaiterangi Tribe and was part of the battles of Gate Pa during the New Zealand wars.
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All of the above were seen at Whakatane Cemetery about 7 years ago.
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For the last few weeks we've been very lucky on the West Coast to have had lovely sunny Spring weather. Now for the next week or so we have heavy rain forecast. It's been good to see people out and about enjoying the warmth.
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I've seen these being advertised for many years. I tried one about a year ago and I felt quite claustrophobic. Have you tried these or...
