Posts by ChrisW
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Not only the inside of jars to be seen from my kitchen sink this morning.
On the riverbank, a few minutes earlier.
Then ‘Ninety’ came along and mucked it up. Poser.
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Capture: Upside Down, Inside Out, in reply to Hebe,
1. Sculpture in Hagley Park.
Never seen that! Where is it?
2. New Brighton pier.
Looks like a Ministry of Works bridge. Profoundly unlovely except at night when it’s lit in colours.Whereas the real twisted (foot) bridge over the Avon looked profoundly sculptural and more meaningfully so than that Hagley pond effort? Does it yet survive?
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… but got distracted by the transformation in the direct low-angle sunlight on my kitchen bench.
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Thanks all for the appreciation of my pickled walnut jar.
I appreciated the photographic ease of converting the ‘seeing’ of it to the captured image in one photo at first attempt. Doesn’t always happen!
Here’s a detail in full-res of the upright/inside-out version, where the meniscus does interesting things.I thought this morning I might try for a more zoomed/macro version for further detail …
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Lunchtime -
pickled walnuts
unseen
as the jar gets down
to a certain level,
inside out.Upside down,
see the aged utility jar
in aged utilitarian eyes
combined become a black saucer,
by mind saucery
a black tulip? -
Dinner preparation - a handful of puha awaits addition to the steaming silverbeet to spice it up a little.
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After spring showers,
my favourite plum carries signs
of its fulsome fecundity. -
Capture: Upside Down, Inside Out, in reply to ChrisW,
Fog managed to obscure all signs of spring this morning
on the riverbank¡
on the riverbank!
but 'Ninety' had no trouble navigating in full colour.‘Ninety’ had no trouble navigating in full colour
yesterday afternoon,signs bold and subtle
above the riverbank,
below the riverbank. -
There was a great gay rainbow over the river this afternoon, way out here in the provinces.
Well, not specifically a gay rainbow, but with its stitched patchwork and all, speaking of diversity and inclusiveness and no greater proportion of bigotry as in the main centres.
Location of the voters is pretty well irrelevant under MMP.
I’m hoping for a Labour caucus invigorated rather than eviscerated by the leader-choosing process. -
Hard News: The GCSB Bill: eleventh-hour arguments, in reply to nzlemming,
You have engaged one of my pet peeves in that letter.
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fulsomeI suggest this pet peeve is undeserving of your care and attention, that you should cut it loose from the pack and let it go feral, or preferably run it off a high cliff.
‘Fulsome’ has substantially returned from its aberrational meanings of recent centuries to its obvious Middle English basis in thoroughly full, commonly with connotations of being a little over-the-top (of full). I’ve scarcely ever seen or heard it as meaning otherwise in modern usage of the last few decades.But I’d agree that Alastair’s construction – “At the very least they were less than fulsome with the truth” – was non-ideal. Having already stated that the Speaker’s staff “lied”, he invites a reading of ‘fulsome’ with those over-the-top or ‘over-full’ connotations, so “less than fulsome with the truth” might still include ‘the full truth and nothing but the truth’.
An insignificant detraction from a fine piece of advocacy journalism
