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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Picture this: B and I driving through central Auckland City through the crowded streets and traffic. Here's me taking photos of the historical and modern buildings when this lady walked directly in front of me, I think she thought I was deliberately taking a photo of her, she just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time...
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Driving around Auckland there are ALOT of roadworks. This one in Queen Street in the central city was outside the "Farmers" shop with a big fence around it, we weren't sure what was going on.
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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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Anyone my generation here in New Zealand and older will recognize the name "Hannah's" in regards to shoe stores. They use to be just about everywhere and were at one point the number 1 place to buy shoes. These days there are so many competitors around selling cheaper types of footwear but in Greymouth there is one store that is usually not that busy, sadly enough. 50% off sounds pretty good to me though...
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These posters are up on the windows of the old health shop in town, they show information about the yearly Wild Foods Festival which happens in Hokitika. This is an event where businesses and people create edible goods out of insects and other stuff such as lollipops.
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This one of a few op shops around town - Vinnie's named after St Vincent de Paul charity shops - many of these shops are around the country in different places.
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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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We are starting to get some darker mornings and shorter nights here as Autumn creeps in. People are now wearing warmer clothing and we have just put the electric blanket back on the bed. Daylight savings has just ended and luckily so far we have plenty of wood in preparation for Winter. B use to work at one of the local sawmills just outside of town and he was allowed to take home all the leftover offcuts which we have some stored in the carport next to the garage and the rest is in an old concrete structure next to the house. Lucky it hasn't been cold enough to start using it.
This weekend is going to be interesting. The north island of New Zealand is about to be hit with a whopping cyclone from the Pacific Islands so if you're up that way (like my family) stay safe.
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Autumn is in full swing here on the West Coast. On one particularly blustery windy day I walked next door from my work to a cafe/bakery to buy myself a coffee, this place is always busy as they make awesome food - lots of buns, cakes, biscuits, filled rolls, hot pies etc. I'm surprised to see so many campers still driving around given the current petrol situation. Apparently a load of diesel has recently arrived into New Zealand but my car uses normal 91/regular but at least it doesn't use much, it's a very economical car.
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Last week on the 18th March it was my 55th birthday. My sister travelled down in her campervan from Northland to spend the week with us, which was lots of fun. I took the week off work so one thing we did was visit our local historical museum named "Shanty Town". It's basically an old gold mining town set up to show how life use to be complete with old buildings such as a church, saloon, grocery store, train rides, gold panning etc. There in the saloon you can pay for photos to be taken by a photographer of you dressed up in old time costume.
On the left is me, the middle is my middle child who is 27 years old and transitioning from girl to boy and on the right is my sister. I think we all look amazing don't you?
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We drove to Hokitika earlier this week to check out the shops and instead of showers and rain which were originally forecast, we had beautiful warm sunny Autumn weather.
Further to my earlier post about petrol prices here, I did end up filling up my car half way so no panicking here.
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