Tag Archives: humour

Cartoon fun

Here is a funny cartoon for those readers who belong to the “Save the apostrophe society” and who yearn for the days of correct grammar.

A few words on Wednesday

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A case of identity confusion perhaps? But really it is just Jazz enjoying yet another empty box!

Saturday Matinee

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Conifers at Aotea Lagoon offering a puppet show. I see Punch and Judy type characters performing. What do you see happening in these interesting tree branches?

Milk from Bulls

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A family funeral earlier in the week saw us heading to Whanganui, a river city about 180kms north west of our home.
Evidence of autumn still showed itself in the bright sunshine and against the blue sky of the day.

But glimpses of spring also were evident in very early spring blossom and a tiny black lamb. (Sorry no photos from a moving car)
At a major highway junction is the small town of Bulls. It is a great place to stop for refreshments and a comfort stop. It is the one place in New Zealand where you can get milk from bulls.
The local dairy (a small convenience store) has picked up on this quirky notion.

Elsewhere around the town are names of facilities with creative names ending in “bull” such as these:

The Plunket Rooms in Bulls is so typical of such rooms dotted all over New Zealand, especially in rural and small town New Zealand.

We had lunch in the old Bank of New Zealand in Whanganui, refurbished now in keeping with the era in which it was built.

And in keeping with times past this car was at the church where the funeral was held.

Watching eyes

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Earlier in the week I sat in an empty house waiting for a tradesman to come and repair an appliance. The householders had to be at work and this repair was essential The arrival time of the repairer spanned about an hour.

While I waited I took some photos in the garden and watched the light change in a house built with walls made of wood. They are called “Lockwood” homes here and the light certainly plays on and off the walls in a very different manner to the walls here at home.

As I drank my cup of tea I looked more closely at the walls and noticed all these “eyes” watching me….

“You put your left leg in, you put your left leg out”

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Jazz loves his banana box bed currently. It was hot this particular afternoon and Jazz was maximising the “facilities” that his banana box offers. Note to observant readers – Jazz does have a healing pink patch on his left front leg…..the result of a recent abscess from a cat fight!