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October 10, 2026

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Wriggly Tin

October 06, 2026

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October 05, 2026

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Colours of Kaiuma Bay.

October 04, 2026

Dog Gratitude Inspiration Rocks

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October 03, 2026

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October 02, 2026

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Inedible

Step-nephew's wife asked for a strawberry hat for their child. Why do people want to wear stuff that looks like food? Work in progress. One of my fellow Pilates apprentices grows flowers. She gave me a gorgeous bunch of rununculus and freesias - gorgeous scent - on one of my trips to Nelson. They are nearly two weeks in the vase now. How good is that? Pumpkin colours. It's nearly Halloween season in cultures that make a thing of it these days - All Hallows Evening. It is followed by All Saints and on the third evening (because trinity seems to be a theme in Christian spirituality), All Souls. I was reminded of this early today while cutting up my second last pumpkin of our last Autumn Bright orange. Sweet. Luscious. Easily my favorite cooked vegetable. I snack on cooked pumpkin. Strange woman. I have frozen some to deal with pumpkin-snack-withdrawal season (known to the rest of the world as 'summer'). Chilled mashed pumpkin.... Roofing contracto...

Wriggly Tin

JayCee, blogger on Isle of Man, asked in her comment on my last post whether that wriggly tin was the final layer on the roof. People in UK and Europe are accustomed to roofs being tiled. In case you didn't see my reply, and were, yourself, wondering about our corrugated iron roof here is my reply: "The wriggly tin* is indeed the roof. The wall cladding is also wriggly tin - same colour. Corrugated iron is a traditional colonial building material out here and this (scoria) the closest colour I could get to old railway goods-sheds. The paint for railway goods-sheds must have fallen off a lot of trucks in the past because tin barns across the countryside bear fading evidence of the colour." This one locally is on the interestingly named "Dog Point Road". Here's my actual inspiration for my choice of colour: Cottage at Stavely (Mid-Canterbury) ...and more examples of its use (new and old) this one is a relocatable cottage built in Christchurch barn beside State...

Bottom Up

From yesterday's comments I see that our house construction methods are a novelty in some other parts of the world. Designing a house here comes with options. From the bottom up - the foundations - one could choose a number of options from piles, poles, concrete slab, to rib-raft (and stuff in between). Our house is on a rib-raft; a design developed/ improved and more widely adopted after the 2011 earthquake in Christchurch. It's 400mm (about 16 inches) of polystyrene and reinforcing steel (sitting on 700mm of compacted hard-fill) and encased in concrete. We also have pipework in there for underfloor heating. On top of that rib-raft wooden frames go up for the walls. They are from 90mm to 140mm thick depending on how much insulation you want. Ours are 90mm. Wooden roof trusses span the tops of the walls. We might have gone for an open raftered ceiling but the engineering involved for our design made the cost prohibitive (and the rooms would have been more difficult to ...

Nature Friday

Sunshine changes things. I fell out of love with Blogger for a while. Deep breath in. I missed the interaction, the windows on other worlds Life here seems to have become very small. All focus is on the house build. Today some of the house roof is going on. The seasons have turned a corner. Orion appears in our night sky again - above our sunrise horizon just before the sky lights up. As we advance on this turn around the sun, Orion will start each night higher in the sky than on the previous until his final appearance on our sunset horizon heralds the onset of another Winter. Walking back from the jetty last week we were assailed by a strong scent. I traced it to a flowering acacia

Colours of Kaiuma Bay.

One of my lovely Pilates students is a potter. I used the term ceramicist. She calls herself a potter. Today she gifted me three beautiful bowls with glaze of her own potion chemistry. (Potters know glazes are 5% chemistry and 95% magic spells. Both components are well guarded secrets.) The colours were designed to compliment our house colour - scoria. The glaze hand painted on the base displays the reds she intended. The dipped surfaces are purple and wine. Both are stunning. Colours of Kaiuma Bay. Rocks in my (temporary) crazy paved path twixt caravan and cabin whispered up to me...."look here, colour us, earth and minerals, ..." Thyme on the corner of the cabin garden took up the descant "look here, pinks and plants..." Californian poppies screamed in the sunlight..."look here, contrast, dance, glow and shine...." Bronwyn Jones - Potter - Kaiuma Bay and Nelson. Scully - building site supervisor - Kaiuma Bay.

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Life In New Zealand

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