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Pineapplelump @pineapplelump.bsky.social · 2d

Sneeboer

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Pineapplelump @pineapplelump.bsky.social · 2d

Well, I seed the spade, I saw the rake, then I shovelled off with my hoe.

Pineapplelump @pineapplelump.bsky.social · 2d

The spade is my favourite of the many gardening items I’ve gathered over the years. My partner sourced it from Holland and gave it to me as a gift - it had a 100-year warranty (now about 90 years to go)!

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Pineapplelump @pineapplelump.bsky.social · 2d

Garden tools back from holidays.

A line up of shovel, spade, hoe, rake and pick.

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Pineapplelump @pineapplelump.bsky.social · 3d

Take the trades entrance to Lyttelton supermarket and you can’t miss it - the yellow submarine!

Vibrant Beatles sub painted on a car park concrete wall.

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Pineapplelump @pineapplelump.bsky.social · 3d

I’ve often wondered why churches, with all their property don’t do this. I asked a priest in my parents’ community a couple of years ago and he said, “Yes, but how do you ensure people don’t come in and steal the food?”

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Pineapplelump @pineapplelump.bsky.social · 4d

On another walkabout and I notice someone in Devonport is growing sunflowers already. I am impressed.

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Pineapplelump @pineapplelump.bsky.social · 4d

Chocolate seanuts

Jen Longshaw @jenlongshaw.bsky.social · 4d

Change one letter, ruin a candy

Brunchie

NinjaKittyELF 忍者キティ🥷🐈‍⬛🎄 @ninjakitty.bsky.social · 4d

Change one letter, ruin a candy

Bummie Bears

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Pineapplelump @pineapplelump.bsky.social · 4d

It’s good to know you know I have the resilience and ingenuity to escape my kidnappers by my own efforts.

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Pineapplelump @pineapplelump.bsky.social · 4d

Devonport village offers a salutary lesson about letting your fig tree get too big. This one comes with a plaque attesting it’s considerably older than any human alive on the planet today.

Giant fig tree with branches that have grown down to become roots. Green park bench in foreground.

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Pineapplelump @pineapplelump.bsky.social · 5d

Logs and circuses - Te Whanganui a Tara.

Aerial shot of Wellington city and harbour, focusing on the circular stadium (“cake tin”) and wharf piled with logs for export.

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Pineapplelump @pineapplelump.bsky.social · 7d

Lack of clear instructions is the kid’s fault. He sold Mogwai without permission from the old man.

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Pineapplelump @pineapplelump.bsky.social · 8d

Beautiful

Pineapplelump @pineapplelump.bsky.social · 10d

Almost at Wellington airport. If you have a spare couple of hours it’s an entrancing walk from Thorndon. Proceeds saved on the bus fare will go towards chocolate.

Planes on the tarmac through a barbed wire boundary fence.

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Pineapplelump @pineapplelump.bsky.social · 10d

Have a cup cake, then drink, eat and play at the Turbo Bar, Kilbirnie.

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Pineapplelump @pineapplelump.bsky.social · 10d

Mt Vic Hataitai side on a calm, sunny day

View through trees to velodrome and Miramar hills beyond

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Pineapplelump @pineapplelump.bsky.social · 10d

Doors of Mt Vic

Old wooden full size yellow double door with red brick surround and cap - obscuring a courtyard beyond.

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Pineapplelump @pineapplelump.bsky.social · 10d

Alleyways of Thorndon

Concrete steps lead up to an ivy covered house in the Catholic district

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Pineapplelump @pineapplelump.bsky.social · 10d

Everyone’s telling me it’s time to go home …

Pineapplelump @pineapplelump.bsky.social · 13d

Could be - if the economy remains subdued it might require him to find a sacrificial lamb like Bolger did to win re-election in the 90s.

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Pineapplelump @pineapplelump.bsky.social · 14d

It’s a stormy day in Te Wanganui a Tara. Flagpoles are straining, people are getting blown over and flights are being cancelled and diverted. I just saw the wrapping on Turnbull House rip away and the hole’s already getting bigger. But the ferries are still sailing!

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Pineapplelump @pineapplelump.bsky.social · 15d

I’ve joined a new trapping group working on the Port Hills. Maybe I’ll be able to stop the weasel who crossed my path a few weeks ago.

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Pineapplelump @pineapplelump.bsky.social · 18d

I’ve been working my way through the different Desperate Housewives shows. I think I like the Beverley Hills one the best.

Foxy @foxylustygrover.bsky.social · 19d

Upon reflection and having listened to it another hundred times I have decided I don't like Africa by Toto much, in fact I don't like it at all!

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Pineapplelump @pineapplelump.bsky.social · 18d

In my last neighbourhood, we’d regularly lose the delivery service for several months, it would start again then stop.

In my new patch, some people write a local newsletter and deliver it every month. Maybe 300-400 households. Maybe that’s the future.

Pineapplelump @pineapplelump.bsky.social · 22d

I’ve learned the meaning of the place name, Rongotai. Apparently it means the sound you can hear when motorbikes and mopeds are prohibited.

English translation of Rongotai painted over a pedestrian walkway. The sound of the sea - with the word sea covered by a sign banning the use of motorbikes and mopeds.

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