remember when we first got our wringer machine. But I also recall that mum still used the old copper boiler for sheets and towels. The sheets would then go into the concrete tubs filled with cold water and some Bluo?? bags, to whiten them!!
My mum used to be an oven and fridge cleaning fanatic. On the stove she used something called Atamax that you painted on with a brush and it was very strong- burnt your hands and if you got it on aluminium it made a mark you couldnt get off.
Remember Chemico, not sure if it is still available but it was pink gritty sort of cleaners in a round pot, also sandsoap, a greyish block, used to use it when scrubbing the door step, doubt many doorsteps get scrubbed these days.
the mincer and the bean slicer which you fastened on the table! I still have a flat tip on my index finger from putting it in the miner when I was 4 "to see what would happen".
remember xmas puddings with the threepences wrapped in tin foil. What about pressure cookers, still remember the whoosh when the vent went up. Cloth nappies, almost a thing of the past now although my eledest daughter used them
wasn't the toothpaste in tins called Dentifrice? I thought it tasted horrible.What about that powder you sprinkled in your hair if you didn't want to wash it? Little peice of sunlight soap in a shaker thingy instead of dishwash liquid?
Crafts and homemade gifts were a big thing in our house. Knitting cardigans or jerseys, crocheting or tatting doiles and dresser sets, or edged initialed hankies and flannels, tapestries as gifts were common amongst the relatives.
As a kid in the UK I can remember these disgusting green tiles on the kitchen walls. No carpet in the bedrooms. Toilet paper like greaseproof. Huge earthenware hot water bottles. I had the most beautiful really old musical box
cuckoo clock and granfather clocks. Used to visit houses with those tall clock with the big chains. we had a chiming clock on the mantle piece. Photos were also next to it. Mum said never put a mirrot above the fire place - for obvious reasons . we had a sitting room for all those visitors and a living room for us monkeys to play around in. 3 bedrooms. single beds with wire wove and kapoc mattresses!! Mum used to make our beds bringing in the coal from the yard, cooking on
coal range - using the boiler outside to wash, dressing chickens
I remember our house had a coal range and mum used that as well as a gas oven. She'd have soups, casseroles or rice puddings on the go all the time. There was an airing rack above it and our socks and undies would be aired out there. I also remember the big old wooden radios, such a lovely deep tone they had.
Your curly hair comment reminded me of how mum would tie my hair in 'rags' at night so that I had these gorgeous ringlets the next day. My hair was dark, fine and straight, but now when I look back at photos it seems always curly
And I loved the enamel jug full of hot cocoa being kept lovely and warm for we kids when we got in from school on a winter's afternoon. That and the freshly baked Golden Syrup biscuits cooked in the oven on the coal range! Yumm
Yes to come home wet and cold from school and warm up in front of the coal range.And yes hot soup at the ready.hot scones and pikelets. We always had the big black erns on the pot belly at school filled with cocoa for our lunch.all had our own mugs and as I likes the little lumps of powdered mild that settled on the top ,I was allowed up first ,and the teacher would skim them off and put them in my mug
in our kitchen (where we had pretty much all our meals unless we had company) there was the most comfortable couch piled high with pillows, the arms were wooden & scarred from years of kids kicking against them. It was just the best place to cuddle up when you weren't feeling well. Or, sitting on the little seats beside the coal range. Great isn't it when you can remember what was on the mantlepiece 50 years ago but can't remember what you did yesterday.
Poultice?? Not sure of the spelling here, but did anyone's mum apply a poultice to your back or chest when you were ill? I can barely recall that now, but have a fleeting memory of really hating it. Probably because it was always related to being sick.
Growing up in wellington in a house in Roseneath (mega money now) we had two bedrooms, lounge and sitting/dining room. The lounge was mainly kept for best while the sitting room had an oak table and chaiurs with drop out seats and a roll arm couch which was used as a horse (sitting on the arms) and was great. We had a gas fire with those funny sort of white plaster for want of a better word grills. Front door opened into hall and had a glass window in the top which let in the light, we used to try to jump the dust in the air that the light rays threw up. Had a big collection of china horses sitting on the window ledge, used to love arranging them and playing with them. Remember parents used to have folk around to play canasta. All a long time ago now.
Who used to get Vicks ointment rubbed on their chest when you had a cold, had to drink, Lanes Emulsion, Milk of Magnesia, Syrip of Figs, Malt etc etc, no wonder I am so healthy today LOL
My nanas
pet remedies were Friars Balsam in a jug of hot water which you inhaled with a towel over your head, lemon barley water in a big jug beside the bed, and one really strange one I remember mum trying on us when we had a cold was tucking us into bed with garlic in our socks. Cant recall if that one worked. I was in bed for nearly 3 months with congestion of the lungs when I was small and to keep me amused mum got some small day old chicks and I used to have them on the bed on a tall sided tray. Not for to long because they grew fairly quickly.
Reminds me of the coloured day old chicks they used to have at Easter time. They would inject the egg with dye and hatch out all these pretty coloured chicks. Boy!! They wouldn't be allowed to do that now.
remember the home baking Mum made. I use to like the ginger biscuits, what a lovely smell, melting moments, Lousie cake with homemade jam, hokey pokey....
always having at least five or six different home made cakes and biscuits in the tins at all times.Or more. Now Your lucky if there is two.Dont cook like I used to,or bottle fruit make pickle and jam.
If I bake these days I either eat it (bad for the figure, wot figure?!) or give it away. Like you I did jams, pickles blah, blah. But, at Christmas, my puds and cakes are in demand from the family
we got married and lived in a small one bedroom flat 4pd per week, we had all secondhand furniture with the exception of a formica table and chairs that we paid off. None of the expensive electrical gadgetry that is a must now. We progressed to a new 2 bedroom house and added another bedroom when we could afford it, if I recall it was a state advances mortgage, house cost $7,000 and section $1,300. A treat each shopping day was a pkt of mellowpuffs which when we were first married cost 1/3 how times have changed.
We married in 1958 48years ago tomorrow we bought a new bedroom suit,dining table and chairs (yes formica) And twin beds ,all new ,Then added as we could afford them. We bought our first TV set in 1968 Black and white with lots of snow.We were sharemilking so didnt have to buy a house.Bought our first herd of cows three years later paying them off and our first tractor.second hand Massey Fergason and other tools to go fifty fifty in 1961
We bought our house in 1970 for $9750. It was tiny, 11 yrs old, a PTY (Putaruru Timber Yards) one, if anyone remembers those. Three years later we built on two rooms at the back (one upstairs) and that cost us $5000 for the shell, and my husband did all the lining himself to save costs. I did some of the plastering in between looking after kids
In my bedroom I had two wirewove beds with wooden headboards and candlewick bedspreads and old eiderdowns mum had covered several times over the years. An old oak dressingtable with a mirror,a bedside table/bookcase Dad had made from an old kitchen table, a freestanding wardrobe and a fireplace with the fancy brass beading surround There was a carpet square made from off cuts so it was multi-striped. The light was on a long cord which was tied to my headboard.The tongue in grove wooden ceiling was miles away. I would lie in bed counting all the knots in the wood. We had a huge old couch in the kitchen, a coal range and table. The scullery had the sink and safe and we had a huge pantry with shelves to the ceiling full of preserves etc. We used our lounge but only part of it unless we had visitors. The setee and chairs were on castors so we could rearrange the furniture.
The lounge was the only room with wall to wall carpet. It had a huge mantle piece with a magnificant mirror mounted above. We had few treasures on the mantle piece that I can remember. Those things were in a china cabinet . The alcove by the chimney was lined with shelves and they werefull of books and magazines etc. We also had a huge old radio in other corner by the chimney until it was replaced by the TV years later.
We started married life with a personality made bed and an old table and drawers.Old mats and wood stove and copper.Now I still have some of my MIL's beautiful old furniture
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Tuesday, May 30, 2006
Snippet 20
Does anyone remember the way all rubber bands were saved .. or was it just my mum that used to place them around the light switches.. you know those big round brass ? ones.. there'd usually be a good couple of inches worth of rubber bands on a switch..lol She also did the sheets thing and the flour bag linings for the boys shorts.. and one year mum made my sister and I patchwork dresses. Then she made patchwork quilts for our beds.. basically rows of squares backed by whatever fabric was on hand and with a thin blanket in the middle for warmth.. we used to have fun remembering where each square came from..lol
My MIL still saves every bit of string, every plastic bag and anything else you can name..lol She uses butter wrappers to line cake tins too
then you got cakes with coloured printing on the bottoms from the paper..lol My old nana used to keep the cakes of soap in the hot water cupboard as she said that if the soap was dried out more then it lasted longer.. just thought about Solvol as I was typing about the soap..lol
I can remember my father entering a competition to come up with a slogan for Solvol lol, but he didn't win. A neighbour used to make new cakes of soap out of the old leftovers. She never used them, just bought more soap so that she had leftovers to use. Can anyone remember the first time you used shampoo? We bought a one-wash sachet each from Woolworths a couple of years after the war. It was the first time I had heard of it, and felt so special.
we used lux flakes for washing clothes and lux soap for baths
We had the copper & mangle & then progressed to the wringer washing machine but can't remember the Lux flakes. Think it was the yellow bar soap & the scrubbing board thingie & for whites the blue bag.
My nana (& I helped) used to clean the old country Schools windows with a bucket of warm water & newspaper.. boy.. didnt they come up clean.. and all that recycling.. do you think it was a sort of 'had to' situation ??? because some people lived in the country & only went to town say once a month.. the 'Big Day Out'..lol.. & yes.. mum used to 'turn' the sheets.. and my sisters & I wore the hand-me-downs.. we only had a couple of pairs of shoes each..ok.. maybe 3.. one for school. one for best & one for casual..and if we were lucky ??? we shared a pair of gummies..lol
used to hang around the IGA store as a kid.. I used to re-pack the cooking stuff into 1 lb bags.. things like raisins, sultanas and peanuts etc.. lots of other stuff too of course. I think just about everything came in bulk in those days. I never got paid though unless it was in the way of a few lollies or something like that. .. it was just something to do. The shopkeeper also did the mailrun and would sometimes take 1 or more of the local kids along for the ride including me .. I cant imagine that being allowed these days though.
Ooooooo.. I remember the mail run sometimes that was the only way I got out to nana's farm..lol
My Mother would clean my white sock, in a pan on the stove with persil till they were white on a cold moring would have the stove door open to heat the kitchen
have a story about a wringer washing machine too. I was about 4 and decided one day to help mum do the washing.. picked a hanky out of the water and proceeded to run it through the wringer.. oops !! didnt know that I was supposed to let the hanky go.. ouch big time !! my arm went through the rollers almost up to my elbow.. I still have a ridge that runs halfway up my arm.. the flesh was squashed flat and never did fill out again..
I remember when I was a kid we lived over the road from the sea, and there was an old Dutch man Charlie who grew tobacco. He use to have a dinghy and he'd take his net out and set it and then when it was time to bring it in, us kids would go and give him a hand to bring the fish in.
Born in UK, emigrated here in '67; I was evacuated from Birmingham to Nottingham at the beginning of the war - they didn't lock their doors either, the milkman came with his can right into the kitchen and scooped the milk out into your jug. Weekly bath, Sunlight soap, rationing, air raids, remember them all.
I remember my young brothers going to the back door of the butcher's shop in Aro St and being given free saveloys. I remember them walking to Oriental Bay and being too tired to walk home so one of the boat owners gave them some work to do to earn their bus fare. I remember ice-blocks before they had commercial ones. There was a little local shop near us in London, and the owner made them in little cylinders and they were just like frozen lolly juice where you could suck all the flavour out, and you'd have to come back in a couple of hours if they weren't ready. Happy days.
My MIL still saves every bit of string, every plastic bag and anything else you can name..lol She uses butter wrappers to line cake tins too
then you got cakes with coloured printing on the bottoms from the paper..lol My old nana used to keep the cakes of soap in the hot water cupboard as she said that if the soap was dried out more then it lasted longer.. just thought about Solvol as I was typing about the soap..lol
I can remember my father entering a competition to come up with a slogan for Solvol lol, but he didn't win. A neighbour used to make new cakes of soap out of the old leftovers. She never used them, just bought more soap so that she had leftovers to use. Can anyone remember the first time you used shampoo? We bought a one-wash sachet each from Woolworths a couple of years after the war. It was the first time I had heard of it, and felt so special.
we used lux flakes for washing clothes and lux soap for baths
We had the copper & mangle & then progressed to the wringer washing machine but can't remember the Lux flakes. Think it was the yellow bar soap & the scrubbing board thingie & for whites the blue bag.
My nana (& I helped) used to clean the old country Schools windows with a bucket of warm water & newspaper.. boy.. didnt they come up clean.. and all that recycling.. do you think it was a sort of 'had to' situation ??? because some people lived in the country & only went to town say once a month.. the 'Big Day Out'..lol.. & yes.. mum used to 'turn' the sheets.. and my sisters & I wore the hand-me-downs.. we only had a couple of pairs of shoes each..ok.. maybe 3.. one for school. one for best & one for casual..and if we were lucky ??? we shared a pair of gummies..lol
used to hang around the IGA store as a kid.. I used to re-pack the cooking stuff into 1 lb bags.. things like raisins, sultanas and peanuts etc.. lots of other stuff too of course. I think just about everything came in bulk in those days. I never got paid though unless it was in the way of a few lollies or something like that. .. it was just something to do. The shopkeeper also did the mailrun and would sometimes take 1 or more of the local kids along for the ride including me .. I cant imagine that being allowed these days though.
Ooooooo.. I remember the mail run sometimes that was the only way I got out to nana's farm..lol
My Mother would clean my white sock, in a pan on the stove with persil till they were white on a cold moring would have the stove door open to heat the kitchen
have a story about a wringer washing machine too. I was about 4 and decided one day to help mum do the washing.. picked a hanky out of the water and proceeded to run it through the wringer.. oops !! didnt know that I was supposed to let the hanky go.. ouch big time !! my arm went through the rollers almost up to my elbow.. I still have a ridge that runs halfway up my arm.. the flesh was squashed flat and never did fill out again..
I remember when I was a kid we lived over the road from the sea, and there was an old Dutch man Charlie who grew tobacco. He use to have a dinghy and he'd take his net out and set it and then when it was time to bring it in, us kids would go and give him a hand to bring the fish in.
Born in UK, emigrated here in '67; I was evacuated from Birmingham to Nottingham at the beginning of the war - they didn't lock their doors either, the milkman came with his can right into the kitchen and scooped the milk out into your jug. Weekly bath, Sunlight soap, rationing, air raids, remember them all.
I remember my young brothers going to the back door of the butcher's shop in Aro St and being given free saveloys. I remember them walking to Oriental Bay and being too tired to walk home so one of the boat owners gave them some work to do to earn their bus fare. I remember ice-blocks before they had commercial ones. There was a little local shop near us in London, and the owner made them in little cylinders and they were just like frozen lolly juice where you could suck all the flavour out, and you'd have to come back in a couple of hours if they weren't ready. Happy days.
Snippet 19
Do you remember some of the rituals you went through as a child, never used to tread on a crack, remember the ditto, stand on a crack and marry a rat, and tinker tailor soldier sailor, sure there were lots more.
& peacock feathers..I remember the 'tread on a crack' one.. Walking under ladders. (never worries me)..But boy.. you try sticking a brolly up inside around me.. even in a shop
superstitions: breaking a mirror 7 years bad luck. Peacock feathers, wattle, that white flower stuff that grows on trees in a vine (sorry best I can do can't think of the name - I really have been away from NZ too long) were NEVER allowed in our house. Also if a fan tail flew in that was a big drama
Another thing that springs to mind are some of the ecconomies that our parents and grandparents practise. My grandmother used to recycle her bed sheets by turning sided to middle, used to hate the seam down the centre but guess she got several years more use out of them that way. Always wore an apron. Flour bags washed and made into pillowcases and all sorts of things, string was always saved. Sugar bags made into oven cloths. Dripping from the meat saved into a tin. Wrapping paper carefully folded and saved for use again. Socks darned also new cuffs knitted onto jerseys. How many would bother these days.
our sheets were split too and the seam ran across the middle and once thin were cut up and the "good" bits used for pillowcases!
hand me downs Do families still do that? I didn't have sisters but got all the cousins ones.They were much older so the clothes were out of fashion if we had such a thing then
My older sisters wore flour bag pants as did most of the kids back then.Yes I made sugar bag oven clothes and our sheets were split too. used to turn the shirt collars to. I dont do that any more.Loved darning socks.My elder sister 82 had to darn a sock for a competition a couple of weeks back. So many of the young ones didnt know how to darn.
Hand me downs, what a laugh my older sister got new clothes obviously, then my next sister got her hand me downs, and when I came along years later I got new clothes. Middle sister has always moaned that she was the only one not to have new clothes hahaha.
agree having a strict upbringing, learning manners, values, respect for others and to be thankful for what you have hasn't done us ANY HARM. AS an "old school" ex Primary Teacher though I do admit to not having a lot of patience with those who lack such characteristics and self discipline.
& peacock feathers..I remember the 'tread on a crack' one.. Walking under ladders. (never worries me)..But boy.. you try sticking a brolly up inside around me.. even in a shop
superstitions: breaking a mirror 7 years bad luck. Peacock feathers, wattle, that white flower stuff that grows on trees in a vine (sorry best I can do can't think of the name - I really have been away from NZ too long) were NEVER allowed in our house. Also if a fan tail flew in that was a big drama
Another thing that springs to mind are some of the ecconomies that our parents and grandparents practise. My grandmother used to recycle her bed sheets by turning sided to middle, used to hate the seam down the centre but guess she got several years more use out of them that way. Always wore an apron. Flour bags washed and made into pillowcases and all sorts of things, string was always saved. Sugar bags made into oven cloths. Dripping from the meat saved into a tin. Wrapping paper carefully folded and saved for use again. Socks darned also new cuffs knitted onto jerseys. How many would bother these days.
our sheets were split too and the seam ran across the middle and once thin were cut up and the "good" bits used for pillowcases!
hand me downs Do families still do that? I didn't have sisters but got all the cousins ones.They were much older so the clothes were out of fashion if we had such a thing then
My older sisters wore flour bag pants as did most of the kids back then.Yes I made sugar bag oven clothes and our sheets were split too. used to turn the shirt collars to. I dont do that any more.Loved darning socks.My elder sister 82 had to darn a sock for a competition a couple of weeks back. So many of the young ones didnt know how to darn.
Hand me downs, what a laugh my older sister got new clothes obviously, then my next sister got her hand me downs, and when I came along years later I got new clothes. Middle sister has always moaned that she was the only one not to have new clothes hahaha.
agree having a strict upbringing, learning manners, values, respect for others and to be thankful for what you have hasn't done us ANY HARM. AS an "old school" ex Primary Teacher though I do admit to not having a lot of patience with those who lack such characteristics and self discipline.
Sunday, May 28, 2006
Roses For You
Parnell Festival of Roses
11-12 November 2006 Noon - 5pm daily Parnell Rose Gardens, Gladstone Road, Parnell
FREE SUMMER EVENT
Auckland's much-loved Parnell Festival of Roses saw an abundance of people flock to Parnell to enjoy the many festivities on offer last year.
The festival attracted over 16,000 people over the two days.
The festival was held around a number of Parnell venues - Sir Dove-Myer Robinson Park (Parnell Rose Gardens), Parnell Road, Selwyn Library and Parnell Community Centre.
The Parnell Rose Gardens were buzzing over the weekend with New Zealand craft stalls, art exhibitions, music, strolling performers and an appearance by kids' favourite, Fairy Claire.
The roses were in full bloom, and visitors to the Bell Roses display got a first look at the "Parnell Heritage" rose, Parnell's very own rose celebrating the suburb's rich history (see photo on the right of the screen). The rose was named by historian Rendell McIntosh, whose suggestion won the 'Nameless Rose' competition held by Auckland City in August.
Pet Rocks - the fad in the 70s
Pet Rock
By Patrick Mondout
Before there were Koosh balls, before there were Cabbage Patch Kids, there were Pet Rocks. Perhaps the most endearing (if not enduring) fad of the Super70s, this gem of an idea was the brainchild of an advertising executive from California named Gary Dahl. Not content with traditional pets, which he considered too messy, costly, and misbehaved, he had taken on a clean, cheap and well-behaved rock as his pet. When told of his choice of pets, his friends first thought was that he was stoned. However, they soon agreed it was a good idea and Dahl spent a few weeks preparing a Pet Rock Training Manual. Topics included: "How to make your Pet Rock roll-over and play dead" and "How to house-train your Pet Rock." Little did he know that fame and fortune was just a stone's-throw away.
Dahl packaged the rock with his manual in a cardboard box designed to look like a pet carrying case and began selling them at $3.95 each. He introduced them at a gift show in San Francisco in August of '75 and, as an ad executive, was savvy enough to create a press release which he sent out, complete with his picture, to virtually every major media outlet. In October Newsweek carried an article on the fad and dozens of local newspapers picked up the story. Soon even staid Neiman Marcus was carrying them. Dahl's personal 15 minutes of fame culminated with an appearance on Johnny Carson's The Tonight Show http://www.super70s.com/Super70s/Culture/Fads/Pet_Rocks.asp
Saturday, May 27, 2006
Subway
Serving fresh food fast to kiwis since the first store in Auckland, the hunger for mouthwatering sandwiches has spread nationwide and we’re the No. 1 chain here. As a fast growing global market, kiwis have caught on to the pleasure of made for you sandwiches using fresh baked bread and our range of fillings.
With more than 25,000 locations in 83 countries, the SUBWAY® brand is the world’s largest submarine sandwich franchise, and has become a leader in the international development of the quick service restaurant industry.
SUBWAY® restaurants first ventured outside North America when the first location opened in the small Middle Eastern island nation of Bahrain in December of 1984. Since then, the SUBWAY® concept has gone around the world, with restaurants opening from Argentina to Zambia.
Wherever SUBWAY® restaurants are located, the core menu stays relatively the same — with the exception of some cultural and religious variations. World travelers can expect the same high quality of ingredients regardless of what nation they are visiting. You can enjoy a footlong Turkey Breast Sub, with your choice of a variety of vegetables and condiments served on bread baked right in the restaurant in Jamaica, then travel to New Zealand and get the same footlong Turkey Breast Sub!
Yves Saint Laurent
SAINT LAURENT, YVES [Saint Laurent, Yves] , 1936-, French fashion designer, b. Algeria as Yves Henri Donat Mathieu-Saint-Laurent. He established houses of couture and boutiques in Paris and New York. He was the foremost assistant to Christian Dior and became his successor as head of the House of Dior at the age of 21. His early collections were noted for their extreme, maverick quality. He opened his own Paris house in 1961, featuring the "chic beatnik" look; knitted turtlenecks; thigh-length boots; and short jackets. He revolutionized the fashion world by creating trousers and broad-shouldered suits that were images of power for women. His later designs include sophisticated tweed suits, the Mondrian dress, pleated skirts, updated peasant costumes, tuxedos for women, and heavy costume jewelry. His focus on an androgynous look was extremely influential in the fashion of the 1970s. He also designed for the Ballets de Roland Petit. By the mid-1970s, at the height of his success, his design empire included sweaters, neckties, eyeglass cases, linens, children's clothes, and fragrances. Gucci acquired his ready-to-wear and cosmetics divisions in 2000. Saint Laurent announced his retirement in 2002.
Prince Philip - 1950s photo on a plate
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Earl of Merioneth and Baron Greenwich, was born Prince of Greece and Denmark in Corfu on 10 June 1921.He was born the only son of Prince Andrew of Greece. His paternal family is of Danish descent - Prince Andrew was the grandson of King Christian IX of Denmark. His mother was Princess Alice of Battenberg, the eldest child of Prince Louis of Battenberg and sister of Earl Mountbatten of Burma. Prince Louis became a naturalised British subject in 1868, joined the Royal Navy and rose to become an Admiral of the Fleet and First Sea Lord in 1914. During the First World War Prince Louis changed the family name to Mountbatten and was created Marquess of Milford Haven. Prince Philip adopted the family name of Mountbatten when he became a naturalised British subject and renounced his Royal title in 1947.
Prince Louis married one of Queen Victoria's granddaughters. Thus, The Queen and Prince Philip both have Queen Victoria as a great-great-grandmother. They are also related through his father's side. His paternal grandfather, King George I of Greece, was Queen Alexandra's brother
Friday, May 26, 2006
Cuisine Market
Fresh food markets
Aotea Square MarketsAotea Square, Auckland City Ph: 09-309 2677 extn 8054 (Gene Jouval)Open: Fridays and SaturdaysParticularly worth noting at this market is the organic fruit and vegetable stall, a mussel stall, some Indian foods, baked potato and coffee and cakes and home-made pickles and jams. Also a wide variety of other eclectic market stalls.
Cuisine Market (unrelated to Cuisine Publications)106 Customs St West, Auckland City Ph: 09-358 3444Open daily until 6pmRapidly growing in popularity, this market is housed in the old city market buildings, is well set up, capably run, and with emphasis on the best of Auckland’s food. Stalls here include Asian goods, a butchery, good bread, wine, delicatessen, organic fruit and vegetables, game, meat, coffee, spices and a café, with more planned to open.
Otara MarketCarpark behind Otara Shopping Centre, South AucklandOpen Saturdays from 6amA colourful market that serves South Auckland’s Polynesian population well. Plenty of fresh vegetables, fruit, seafood and much more, as well as all the usual flea market stalls.
Takapuna MarketCarpark on corner of Lake Rd and Anzac St, TakapunaOpen Sundays from 6am to 12 noon An enormous, sprawling market that attracts up to 30,000 visitors on busy days. Early birds get the best bargains but there’s plenty of fun and action all morning.
Aotea Square MarketsAotea Square, Auckland City Ph: 09-309 2677 extn 8054 (Gene Jouval)Open: Fridays and SaturdaysParticularly worth noting at this market is the organic fruit and vegetable stall, a mussel stall, some Indian foods, baked potato and coffee and cakes and home-made pickles and jams. Also a wide variety of other eclectic market stalls.
Cuisine Market (unrelated to Cuisine Publications)106 Customs St West, Auckland City Ph: 09-358 3444Open daily until 6pmRapidly growing in popularity, this market is housed in the old city market buildings, is well set up, capably run, and with emphasis on the best of Auckland’s food. Stalls here include Asian goods, a butchery, good bread, wine, delicatessen, organic fruit and vegetables, game, meat, coffee, spices and a café, with more planned to open.
Otara MarketCarpark behind Otara Shopping Centre, South AucklandOpen Saturdays from 6amA colourful market that serves South Auckland’s Polynesian population well. Plenty of fresh vegetables, fruit, seafood and much more, as well as all the usual flea market stalls.
Takapuna MarketCarpark on corner of Lake Rd and Anzac St, TakapunaOpen Sundays from 6am to 12 noon An enormous, sprawling market that attracts up to 30,000 visitors on busy days. Early birds get the best bargains but there’s plenty of fun and action all morning.
Speciality Foodshops
Jack Lum & Co 3 Clonbern Rd, RemueraPh: 09-520 1563The source for top quality, perfectly presented fruit and vegetables fresh from the markets and direct from growers. The high turnover and wide range of produce make this the top shop for absolutely fresh veges.
Japan Mart 75 Anzac Ave, Auckland CityPh: 09-377 2226This store is filled with every imaginable Japanese ingredient that this cuisine requires – everything from wasabi to chopsticks. The Japanese community shops here so it is well recommended.
Kapiti Cheeses 136-142 Fanshawe St, Auckland CityPh: 09-377 2473This is the place to go if you want cheese that is cut to your requirements. Kapiti imports cheese from around the world, so there’s lots of variety, and the full range of Kapiti cheeses.
KC Loo 436 Mt Eden Rd, Mt Eden Ph: 09-630 7117An old family vegetable store in Mt Eden that continues to offer a great selection of fresh fruit and veges.
Khyber Food and Spices528-530 Sandringham Rd, SandringhamPh: 09-815 2307Shivani and Kuldip Arora have assembled a superb array of specialist foods from the Middle East, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. A stunning array of fresh flatbreads, homemade sweets, pickles, preserves, spices and dry goods, including a wide choice of sacks of basmati and jasmine rice, are crammed into the store.
Le Broc64 Gladstone Rd, ParnellPh: 09-379 3118This is a veritable treasure trove of fine food. The primary line is fresh fruit and vegetables, but owner John Taylor is a real food lover and has gone to infinite lengths to cram his shelves and walk-in fridge with hundreds of gourmet items, including fresh pasta, cheeses, smoked and fresh fish, ice-cream, cakes, deli items, and much, much more.
the Meatkeeper392 Remuera Rd, RemueraPh: 09-520 2639One of the finer butchers in Auckland, The Meatkeeper stocks fresh white veal, duck, game and other specialty lines often not found in supermarkets.
Mt Eden Village Fish Shop438 Mt Eden Rd, Mt EdenPh: 09-630 9003www.mtedenvillagefishshop.co.nz/The smoked fish is highly recommended by many a connoisseur of this method of preparing fish. There’s a good selection of fresh as well.
Rembrandt’s Pâtisserie/Chocolaterie371 Remuera Rd, RemueraPh: 09-520 2900Peter Rood comes from a family of more than 30 bakers and has specialised in fine chocolate work. His truffles and chocolates are divine, and he also bakes some stunning pâtisseries. Easter and Christmas baking is always worth checking out here.
Japan Mart 75 Anzac Ave, Auckland CityPh: 09-377 2226This store is filled with every imaginable Japanese ingredient that this cuisine requires – everything from wasabi to chopsticks. The Japanese community shops here so it is well recommended.
Kapiti Cheeses 136-142 Fanshawe St, Auckland CityPh: 09-377 2473This is the place to go if you want cheese that is cut to your requirements. Kapiti imports cheese from around the world, so there’s lots of variety, and the full range of Kapiti cheeses.
KC Loo 436 Mt Eden Rd, Mt Eden Ph: 09-630 7117An old family vegetable store in Mt Eden that continues to offer a great selection of fresh fruit and veges.
Khyber Food and Spices528-530 Sandringham Rd, SandringhamPh: 09-815 2307Shivani and Kuldip Arora have assembled a superb array of specialist foods from the Middle East, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. A stunning array of fresh flatbreads, homemade sweets, pickles, preserves, spices and dry goods, including a wide choice of sacks of basmati and jasmine rice, are crammed into the store.
Le Broc64 Gladstone Rd, ParnellPh: 09-379 3118This is a veritable treasure trove of fine food. The primary line is fresh fruit and vegetables, but owner John Taylor is a real food lover and has gone to infinite lengths to cram his shelves and walk-in fridge with hundreds of gourmet items, including fresh pasta, cheeses, smoked and fresh fish, ice-cream, cakes, deli items, and much, much more.
the Meatkeeper392 Remuera Rd, RemueraPh: 09-520 2639One of the finer butchers in Auckland, The Meatkeeper stocks fresh white veal, duck, game and other specialty lines often not found in supermarkets.
Mt Eden Village Fish Shop438 Mt Eden Rd, Mt EdenPh: 09-630 9003www.mtedenvillagefishshop.co.nz/The smoked fish is highly recommended by many a connoisseur of this method of preparing fish. There’s a good selection of fresh as well.
Rembrandt’s Pâtisserie/Chocolaterie371 Remuera Rd, RemueraPh: 09-520 2900Peter Rood comes from a family of more than 30 bakers and has specialised in fine chocolate work. His truffles and chocolates are divine, and he also bakes some stunning pâtisseries. Easter and Christmas baking is always worth checking out here.
Three ladies in a row - The flea market table
Some ones memories for sale -
Avondale Sunday MarketAvondale Racecourse, Ash St, Avondale Ph: 09-818 4931 Open Sunday mornings This is a large market that caters to many of the ethnic communities that live in West Auckland. Early birds can catch a choice of fresh produce from the Islands, Asian herbs and vegetables.
the sights you see at a flea market.
Avondale Market Second-hand goods stalls, produce and new items. Avondale Racecourse every Sunday, 6am - midday
Snippet 18
Hey do you remember the old hay bales that were tied with string & came in blocks. Used to feed out the hay from a sleigh pulled by an old draught horse. We spent hours in the hay shed making huts out of the hay. Do kids do that these days?
Hay bales yes we used to make tunnels through the bales in the hay barn. I got stuck one time and panicked - sort of claustrophobic sometimes since. love the smell of the hay even today though. Better than silage
Had a haystack in a paddock next to our house (not ours) My brother and I decided to make a hut.we were around 7 - 9 years old. took all day to get it right I remember. But took dad 3 - 4 hours to restack it and 2 days for pain pain to go from our butts after mum finished with us.
remember the hay bales I had a horse and me and my friends use to go to a paddock owned by a friend where they had them and we'd practice jumping. I also remember picking beautiful mushrooms from the paddocks where we grazed our horses, not like the ones we get these days, these had taste! I alway regretted feeding my horse chaff and oats cos he'd get so hyper, he'd chase me round the chook houses in the paddock!!
The first car that I remember my parents having, in the '50's was an old Riley - green with a running board. My boyfriend taught me to drive in his Hillman Minx - my mum said that it was the sign of true love!
Hay Bales.. Yesssssss,, Out on my grandparents farm they had a big shed.. we used to build hits/tunnells etc in them.. Looooove the smell of the hay..lol.. & yes enaid.. it was me that asked about what we are grateful for.. another thing I miss is a big vegie garden.. when I was married.. we had a hugeeee one.. always grew to much stuff.. but ohhhhhh.. what a blessing it was to escape out there and get my hands dirty..lol..
My grandkids still play in the hay!! I have a photo to download, but don't know how to do it, so maybe I'd best not!! But yes, they love the farm life (we have only 20acres, a hobby farm).
And what do I have to be grateful for? So much really. We grew up poor, but had food on the table and clothes on our bodies, so were happy. My younger sister said she was aware of being poor, but I have to say I was not!!! Each of our family has done well for themselves, through hard work and gritted teeth through some thin patches.
I am grateful for my upbringing and the values installed. We too were not well off but I learned it was the little things and gestures that counted
My parents were sooo strict, but installed wonderful values in us. I have tried not to be quite so strict with my own, as I found it quite stifling. I wanted them to grow up with a little more independence than I did. The same values however, have been passed onto my children.
Re manners My grandmother was a stickler for never sitting on the bed, never putting your elbos on the table, always writing and thanking someone if you received a gift.
My parents were the same and I can remember laboriously writing thank-you letters after birthdays and Christmas to grandparents and aunts and uncles. My kids will still make a point of thanking people for gifts. As you say some manners are a thing of the past.
Ladies BEFORE Gentlemen. Opening doors for them too. Men walking on the traffic side of a lady on the footpath. Never asking for a second helping. Leaving just a little on your plate to indicate you had dined well. Knife and fork together.
Hats Not many people wear hats these days. It must be about 15 years ago that I last saw a gentleman 'doff' his hat.
Hay bales yes we used to make tunnels through the bales in the hay barn. I got stuck one time and panicked - sort of claustrophobic sometimes since. love the smell of the hay even today though. Better than silage
Had a haystack in a paddock next to our house (not ours) My brother and I decided to make a hut.we were around 7 - 9 years old. took all day to get it right I remember. But took dad 3 - 4 hours to restack it and 2 days for pain pain to go from our butts after mum finished with us.
remember the hay bales I had a horse and me and my friends use to go to a paddock owned by a friend where they had them and we'd practice jumping. I also remember picking beautiful mushrooms from the paddocks where we grazed our horses, not like the ones we get these days, these had taste! I alway regretted feeding my horse chaff and oats cos he'd get so hyper, he'd chase me round the chook houses in the paddock!!
The first car that I remember my parents having, in the '50's was an old Riley - green with a running board. My boyfriend taught me to drive in his Hillman Minx - my mum said that it was the sign of true love!
Hay Bales.. Yesssssss,, Out on my grandparents farm they had a big shed.. we used to build hits/tunnells etc in them.. Looooove the smell of the hay..lol.. & yes enaid.. it was me that asked about what we are grateful for.. another thing I miss is a big vegie garden.. when I was married.. we had a hugeeee one.. always grew to much stuff.. but ohhhhhh.. what a blessing it was to escape out there and get my hands dirty..lol..
My grandkids still play in the hay!! I have a photo to download, but don't know how to do it, so maybe I'd best not!! But yes, they love the farm life (we have only 20acres, a hobby farm).
And what do I have to be grateful for? So much really. We grew up poor, but had food on the table and clothes on our bodies, so were happy. My younger sister said she was aware of being poor, but I have to say I was not!!! Each of our family has done well for themselves, through hard work and gritted teeth through some thin patches.
I am grateful for my upbringing and the values installed. We too were not well off but I learned it was the little things and gestures that counted
My parents were sooo strict, but installed wonderful values in us. I have tried not to be quite so strict with my own, as I found it quite stifling. I wanted them to grow up with a little more independence than I did. The same values however, have been passed onto my children.
Re manners My grandmother was a stickler for never sitting on the bed, never putting your elbos on the table, always writing and thanking someone if you received a gift.
My parents were the same and I can remember laboriously writing thank-you letters after birthdays and Christmas to grandparents and aunts and uncles. My kids will still make a point of thanking people for gifts. As you say some manners are a thing of the past.
Ladies BEFORE Gentlemen. Opening doors for them too. Men walking on the traffic side of a lady on the footpath. Never asking for a second helping. Leaving just a little on your plate to indicate you had dined well. Knife and fork together.
Hats Not many people wear hats these days. It must be about 15 years ago that I last saw a gentleman 'doff' his hat.
Thursday, May 25, 2006
Karangahape Road Auckland
1890s George Court opens his department store on K’rd .1893 The Carpenters Arms Hotel, Grey St by Edward Mahoney [ demolished in the 1970s for Mayoral Drive.]1897 The Naval & Family Hotel is constructed on the site of The Family Hotel which had burnt down
Tuesday, May 23, 2006
Snippet 17
We were always fishing when we were kids. We'd collect some pipis on the beach and get heaps of sprats and piper for the cat. Only thing was, the friend who owned the jetty, her cat would come down and take the damn things off without us being able to get the hook off first!! Don't now how many times she had to take him to the vet, and that was a long drive!
we had whitebait from a friend who got it in Mokoia - my Mum was so happy.. used to get them by the bucket, not by the egg cup like today! whitebait fritters. Mum also used to cook us lovely paua..
My dad was called up for world war 2 and was at Trentham training when it finished. I was in NZ army for 9 years and was in Singapore when Vietnam came to a halt so we both just missed out. Who remembers their 1st car or memories of their parents cars. 1st one I can remember my dad having was a baby Austin in 1952-3 My 1st one was a Austin A30, early 50's model.
My parents never had a car so the first one I remember having a ride in was my uncle's black Hillman around 1951. I was the first in my family to learn to drive and then bought my own Morris Minor in 1961. It was the first of the new side valve models (1953) and I loved that car. I taught a couple of my flatmates to drive too. You had to thump it on the side to get the indicator to go out, the rubber knob on the gear column gave off if you weren't careful....it actually happened to one of the flatmates while she was doing her test and she said to the inspector "Oh that happens all the time" and she passed!...
One of my cousins and her husband won Lotto many years ago, the prize would look very small now but was big in its day. How many of you remember the cars you have had over the years. I learnt to drive at age 15 and the first car I had was a 1947 Morris Minor, it went and went and went. Had a lot of fun with that car. It finally died at the MOT testing station, husband had to drive it and slam on the brakes for testing and the suspension gave way and collapsed onto the ground. Very red faced exit.
Just remembered a camping trip we made to New Plymouth in it one easter, stayed at a camping grpound, remember all the beer bottles lined up round the tent next to us. On the way home, heavily laden we were coming down a steep hill and noticed smoke pouring out behind us, had the tent tied on the back and it was resting partly on the exhaust pipe and had caught fire. Hade to make a very hurried stop.
Remember ca6mping at Mt Maunganui as a child and riding on the donkeys on the beach.
Oh me too!!! I have a photo of me on the donkies, lead by my dad. And you could hire lilo-type things to swim with. As well as our holidays we did live at the Mount for nearly 3 years, before returning to Hamilton. I still love the place and return often.
do you remember the trampolines they used have up by the bottom of the Mount? They were built into the ground. By the hotpools which we also frequented!! I remember being there one day and this guy was bouncing so high he went out away from the tramp and landed in a sitting position on the fence, breaking it, but not hurting himself. I was only a little girl, but to this day I can quite clearly remember my mother, in absolute, uncontrollable hysterics.
And what about the wharf...Dad used to take us down there all the time, before the days when it was all fenced off. We would be taken on tours of visiting boats. I remember going over a Russian boat, and the captain and another crew member came to our house for dinner.
used to go regularly for the day over the summer from Waikato. Dad would milk cows early and away we would go with our fresh made pikelets and scones and sandwiches. Surf side till lunch then Pilot Bay over lunch time then back to surf for a swim or two before going home to milk in afternoon. There were boards or tyres to hire in the surf and canoes on the Pilot Bay side
I remember going to the "seaside" on day trips from London. We wore woollen bathing costumes (before the shirred elastic ones) and sat on deck chairs. My parents were fully clothed and Dad wore his sandals over his socks, and knotted the corners of his handkerchief for protection on his head. Nobody ever got burned or tanned anyway. Once we arrived in Wellington we used to go to Raumati to stay in a bach belonging to friends.
That sounds like a typical English seaside scene Brish. My dad used to knot a hanky when he sat out in the sun.
23-5-06
we had whitebait from a friend who got it in Mokoia - my Mum was so happy.. used to get them by the bucket, not by the egg cup like today! whitebait fritters. Mum also used to cook us lovely paua..
My dad was called up for world war 2 and was at Trentham training when it finished. I was in NZ army for 9 years and was in Singapore when Vietnam came to a halt so we both just missed out. Who remembers their 1st car or memories of their parents cars. 1st one I can remember my dad having was a baby Austin in 1952-3 My 1st one was a Austin A30, early 50's model.
My parents never had a car so the first one I remember having a ride in was my uncle's black Hillman around 1951. I was the first in my family to learn to drive and then bought my own Morris Minor in 1961. It was the first of the new side valve models (1953) and I loved that car. I taught a couple of my flatmates to drive too. You had to thump it on the side to get the indicator to go out, the rubber knob on the gear column gave off if you weren't careful....it actually happened to one of the flatmates while she was doing her test and she said to the inspector "Oh that happens all the time" and she passed!...
One of my cousins and her husband won Lotto many years ago, the prize would look very small now but was big in its day. How many of you remember the cars you have had over the years. I learnt to drive at age 15 and the first car I had was a 1947 Morris Minor, it went and went and went. Had a lot of fun with that car. It finally died at the MOT testing station, husband had to drive it and slam on the brakes for testing and the suspension gave way and collapsed onto the ground. Very red faced exit.
Just remembered a camping trip we made to New Plymouth in it one easter, stayed at a camping grpound, remember all the beer bottles lined up round the tent next to us. On the way home, heavily laden we were coming down a steep hill and noticed smoke pouring out behind us, had the tent tied on the back and it was resting partly on the exhaust pipe and had caught fire. Hade to make a very hurried stop.
Remember ca6mping at Mt Maunganui as a child and riding on the donkeys on the beach.
Oh me too!!! I have a photo of me on the donkies, lead by my dad. And you could hire lilo-type things to swim with. As well as our holidays we did live at the Mount for nearly 3 years, before returning to Hamilton. I still love the place and return often.
do you remember the trampolines they used have up by the bottom of the Mount? They were built into the ground. By the hotpools which we also frequented!! I remember being there one day and this guy was bouncing so high he went out away from the tramp and landed in a sitting position on the fence, breaking it, but not hurting himself. I was only a little girl, but to this day I can quite clearly remember my mother, in absolute, uncontrollable hysterics.
And what about the wharf...Dad used to take us down there all the time, before the days when it was all fenced off. We would be taken on tours of visiting boats. I remember going over a Russian boat, and the captain and another crew member came to our house for dinner.
used to go regularly for the day over the summer from Waikato. Dad would milk cows early and away we would go with our fresh made pikelets and scones and sandwiches. Surf side till lunch then Pilot Bay over lunch time then back to surf for a swim or two before going home to milk in afternoon. There were boards or tyres to hire in the surf and canoes on the Pilot Bay side
I remember going to the "seaside" on day trips from London. We wore woollen bathing costumes (before the shirred elastic ones) and sat on deck chairs. My parents were fully clothed and Dad wore his sandals over his socks, and knotted the corners of his handkerchief for protection on his head. Nobody ever got burned or tanned anyway. Once we arrived in Wellington we used to go to Raumati to stay in a bach belonging to friends.
That sounds like a typical English seaside scene Brish. My dad used to knot a hanky when he sat out in the sun.
23-5-06
Snippet 16
How did most of you do for pocket money, my sister and I got about 2/6 per week and to raise extra funds we used to try all sorts of odd jobs, at one stage we lived at the beach and collected lupin seed which we took and sold to one of the stock and station agents in town. Used to like visiting the wreck of the Hyderabad at Waitarere Beach, now scarely visible in the 50's it was great to play on.
My aunt would occasionally give us sixpence, then when we were at college, we got probably 2/6d. Then we worked at Woolworths on Friday nights, until I left school at 15, and as someone mentioned earlier got paid £275 per annum with school cert in the Govt. In those days we didn't get taxed until we were 16.
our first section cost $1300 and the house about $7000 in 1967, used to get family benefit then as well, lump sum for first year when first child was born, I bought bonus bonds with the cheque and still have these
Hopalong Cassidys horse was called Topper.. we had no movies when I was a kid , well no movie theatre as such but every now and again we'd get to see a cowboys and itchybums movie at the local hall.. the best ones were the Ma and Pa Kettle ones though.. how I'd love to see one of those again.. although I suspect we'd find them pretty silly nowadays..lol
I think the 1st movie I ever went to see at the old picture theatre was OLD YELLER, oh I cried when he had to be shot, I remember lots of Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis movies, and of course The Sound of Music,
Remember when we went to the movies and had to stand for the National Anthem, when did that stop. Also shorts before the main feature
Remember when movies on Sunday had to be preceeded by half an hour of religion? I only know that because our church youth group had to go and sing to a less than appreciative audience lol. I think the first movie I saw was Debbie Reynolds in Tammy.
remember seeing Old Yeller.. a song came out not lobg after that about a boy & his dog.. cant remember the name of that tho.. when I was small.. mum called me Sherylee.. that came from a film in Ozzie.. about a little girl that ran away from home
I remember standing for God save the Queen too. Our closest picture theatre (not movies in those days) was at the Whenuapai Air Force base. I use to go with my mates as my dad had retired from the airforce by then, we use to get a bus that use to take us there and back to Hobsonville
Does anyone remember going to see the Queen when she visited not long after the coronation. I remember standing in a huge crowd in wellington trying to get a glimpse. Some of the kids had viewing tubes you could look into (like mini periscopes) and I thought they were very cool. Remember the new British High Commissioner being here as a child when his father was Gov. General. Doesnt seem long ago
remember the Queen's visit in 1953. It was our first year in NZ so we were surprised at how FEW people turned out to see her lol, and they were all standing on the Queen's side of the street. My sister and I stood on the Duke's side and got a special wave and that never happened in London! We also went to Athletic Park with all the schoolchildren lined up to see her as she drove around the ground. Then of course while she was here we had the Tangiwai disaster. It was our first NZ Christmas and my father was on duty at the Railway Station when they brought the bodies back by train to Wellington.
My aunt would occasionally give us sixpence, then when we were at college, we got probably 2/6d. Then we worked at Woolworths on Friday nights, until I left school at 15, and as someone mentioned earlier got paid £275 per annum with school cert in the Govt. In those days we didn't get taxed until we were 16.
our first section cost $1300 and the house about $7000 in 1967, used to get family benefit then as well, lump sum for first year when first child was born, I bought bonus bonds with the cheque and still have these
Hopalong Cassidys horse was called Topper.. we had no movies when I was a kid , well no movie theatre as such but every now and again we'd get to see a cowboys and itchybums movie at the local hall.. the best ones were the Ma and Pa Kettle ones though.. how I'd love to see one of those again.. although I suspect we'd find them pretty silly nowadays..lol
I think the 1st movie I ever went to see at the old picture theatre was OLD YELLER, oh I cried when he had to be shot, I remember lots of Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis movies, and of course The Sound of Music,
Remember when we went to the movies and had to stand for the National Anthem, when did that stop. Also shorts before the main feature
Remember when movies on Sunday had to be preceeded by half an hour of religion? I only know that because our church youth group had to go and sing to a less than appreciative audience lol. I think the first movie I saw was Debbie Reynolds in Tammy.
remember seeing Old Yeller.. a song came out not lobg after that about a boy & his dog.. cant remember the name of that tho.. when I was small.. mum called me Sherylee.. that came from a film in Ozzie.. about a little girl that ran away from home
I remember standing for God save the Queen too. Our closest picture theatre (not movies in those days) was at the Whenuapai Air Force base. I use to go with my mates as my dad had retired from the airforce by then, we use to get a bus that use to take us there and back to Hobsonville
Does anyone remember going to see the Queen when she visited not long after the coronation. I remember standing in a huge crowd in wellington trying to get a glimpse. Some of the kids had viewing tubes you could look into (like mini periscopes) and I thought they were very cool. Remember the new British High Commissioner being here as a child when his father was Gov. General. Doesnt seem long ago
remember the Queen's visit in 1953. It was our first year in NZ so we were surprised at how FEW people turned out to see her lol, and they were all standing on the Queen's side of the street. My sister and I stood on the Duke's side and got a special wave and that never happened in London! We also went to Athletic Park with all the schoolchildren lined up to see her as she drove around the ground. Then of course while she was here we had the Tangiwai disaster. It was our first NZ Christmas and my father was on duty at the Railway Station when they brought the bodies back by train to Wellington.
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We had a few acres of land when I was in my teens and had a number of muscovy ducks which ran loose and multiplied rapidly. When we drove up the hill to our house they used to flap down the road to meet the car. My mother got fed up and bagged some up and sold them to some folk in the next rural block. They must have been homing ducks because they all flew about half a mile home again. We also had a banty rooster who crowed incessently, one day she got fed up and slipped him a couple of nembutal tablets thinking that would painleslly finish him off, he took off under the house and we didnt see him for about 3 days whereupon he reappeared, must have had a nice long sleep.
girls dont get a glory box together now -every one that came wanted to see your glory box..The times I unpacked it and packed it up again.Was a big thrill back then Mine was also a light pine..Darkened it later to match bedroom furniture..Still have it in my bed room..We all got I from Mum and Dad when we turned 18.
Remember When ?? Mum used to cut chicken, slice eggs and spread mayo on the same cutting board with the same knife and no bleach, but we didn't get food poisoning. My Mum used to defrost mince-meat on the kitchen sink AND I used to eat a bite raw sometimes, too. Our school sandwiches were wrapped in wax paper, in a brown paper bag, not in icepack coolers, but I can't remember anybody getting e.coli. Almost all of us would have rather gone swimming in the lake instead of a pristine pool (talk about boring), no beach closures then; --The term cell phone would have conjured up a phone in a jail cell, and a pager was the school PA system; --We all played sport, and also did PE... and risked permanent injury with a pair of Dunlop runners (only worn in the gym or the sports ground)instead of having cross-training athletic shoes with air cushion soles and built-in light reflectors.. I can't recall any injuries but they must have happened, because they tell us how much safer we are now;
There were not many fat kids; --Speaking of school, we all said prayers and sang the National Anthem and got free school milk for strong bones and teeth, and staying in detention after school caught all sorts of negative attention. We must have had horribly damaged psyches; -- What an archaic health system we had then. Remember school nurses? Ours wore a hat and everything, and she could even give you an aspirin for a headache or fever; --I thought that I was supposed to accomplish something before I was allowed to be proud of myself.
Someone mentioned a chimney sweep and that got me thinking about how we had no money when we were kids in London, but we still had all these people who came to the house. It was inconceivable not to have all the relevant callers. We had the coalman who deposited the coal through the hole by the front door, straight into the cellar, the window cleaner who came regularly and chatted away as he worked, the chimney sweep, the Assurance man collecting his dues, the milkman of course, the postie twice a day (through a slot in the front door)....have I left anyone out? Oh yes, the laundryman who collected and delivered. Was it the same in urban NZ back then?
girls dont get a glory box together now -every one that came wanted to see your glory box..The times I unpacked it and packed it up again.Was a big thrill back then Mine was also a light pine..Darkened it later to match bedroom furniture..Still have it in my bed room..We all got I from Mum and Dad when we turned 18.
Remember When ?? Mum used to cut chicken, slice eggs and spread mayo on the same cutting board with the same knife and no bleach, but we didn't get food poisoning. My Mum used to defrost mince-meat on the kitchen sink AND I used to eat a bite raw sometimes, too. Our school sandwiches were wrapped in wax paper, in a brown paper bag, not in icepack coolers, but I can't remember anybody getting e.coli. Almost all of us would have rather gone swimming in the lake instead of a pristine pool (talk about boring), no beach closures then; --The term cell phone would have conjured up a phone in a jail cell, and a pager was the school PA system; --We all played sport, and also did PE... and risked permanent injury with a pair of Dunlop runners (only worn in the gym or the sports ground)instead of having cross-training athletic shoes with air cushion soles and built-in light reflectors.. I can't recall any injuries but they must have happened, because they tell us how much safer we are now;
There were not many fat kids; --Speaking of school, we all said prayers and sang the National Anthem and got free school milk for strong bones and teeth, and staying in detention after school caught all sorts of negative attention. We must have had horribly damaged psyches; -- What an archaic health system we had then. Remember school nurses? Ours wore a hat and everything, and she could even give you an aspirin for a headache or fever; --I thought that I was supposed to accomplish something before I was allowed to be proud of myself.
Someone mentioned a chimney sweep and that got me thinking about how we had no money when we were kids in London, but we still had all these people who came to the house. It was inconceivable not to have all the relevant callers. We had the coalman who deposited the coal through the hole by the front door, straight into the cellar, the window cleaner who came regularly and chatted away as he worked, the chimney sweep, the Assurance man collecting his dues, the milkman of course, the postie twice a day (through a slot in the front door)....have I left anyone out? Oh yes, the laundryman who collected and delivered. Was it the same in urban NZ back then?
Sunday, May 21, 2006
UYM FreeTime
NEIL IEREMIA CEO/Artistic Director, Black Grace Dance CompanyNeil studied contemporary dance at the Auckland Performing Arts School and in 1991, the final year of his diploma, was invited to join the Douglas Wright Dance Company, performing in Gloria, A Far Cry, Forever, How on Earth and Buried Venus. In the years to follow Neil worked with many other choreographers and in 1995 he founded Black Grace. As well as choreographing all of the Company’s full-length works and creating the concepts behind New Works and Urban Youth Movement, Neil has received numerous choreographic commissions for other Arts Organisations including the Royal New Zealand Ballet and the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. He is the current Black Grace Ping Pong champion.
Dial telephone
Only 127 years ago New Zealand's rural pioneering community was getting its first glimpse of a device which would cause its users to respond more rapidly to its shrill beckoning than to a knock at the door. Mrs Sheehy of Roxburgh started our love affair in 1877, as the first kiwi to have a conversation on a private line using the new-fangled talking telegraph. No-one thought to keep a record of what she said.
New Zealand's first phone office opened in Port Chalmers in 1879. The first exchange in Christchurch in 1881 had 30 subscribers. Auckland followed suit with 10 subscribers
Within a decade the first private automatic branch exchanges (PABX) appeared. In 1930 all the main centres had been connected and callers could pay a toll to call between cities and towns. It was official the telephone was here to stay. People were talking, not just across the back fence, but to friends, relatives and businesses across towns and cities. The news of the world was more readily available. Gossip travelled at light speed
Plants in a Kete
Kete" (Maori word for 'basket' - is made from flax...the Maori have created kete for a long long time. (The above Kete are not made by the people below)
Kia ora! Flax Works is run by Sandra and Michelle:
"We are a mother and daughter team of Maori descent . Our tribal links are Ngapuhi and Tainui. We are flax and fibre weavers who continue a traditional craft handed down from our ancestors.
It is a treasure that is valued and each piece is symbolic and embodied with spiritual and cultural values.
A gift to give as it has been given to us". http://www.aotearoa.co.nz/flaxworks/
Pasifika Art 2006
Pasifika
"To develop, promote and celebrate the diversity and unity that is Pasifika".
Kia ora! Talofa Lava! Malo e lelei! Ni sa bula vinaka! Kia orana! Fakalofa lahi atu! Kam na Mauri! Taloha Ni! Greetings and welcome to the Pasifika Festival homepage, an exciting celebration of art, culture and lifestyle in the South Pacific.
Pasifika Festival occurs every year in March, when it is the South Pacific's largest Pacific Islands community event. Browse through our pages and see for yourself why the Pacific is the home of innovative art and cultural expression
U2 - March 2006 in Auckland
9th March 2006 It is with great regret that The Next Adventure and Michael Coppel announce the postponement of the final ten dates of U2's Vertigo '06 tour.This action is unavoidable due to the illness of an immediate family member of one of the band.The affected dates are listed below.'Any fan of U2 will realise that this decision has not been taken lightly', said TNA President Arthur Fogel. 'We will announce further details as soon as we have them.'
It is believed the band's shock decision to postpone the Australian, New Zealand and Japanese leg of their tour was due to U2's guitarist, the Edge, having a seriously ill child.
"I can't really get into details why," Bono told Enough Rope presenter Andrew Denton.
"There was a lot of distress and angst and (the) good news is... I can announce we are coming back, looks like November and that's a great relief for me."
Domino's Pizzas
Domino’s Pizza announces new cheese deal with Fonterra
Fonterra will be the sole supplier of cheese to Domino's Pizza in Australia and New Zealandunder a new A$30 million per annum long term agreement for an initial term of five years,announced today.
The recent milk supply challenges in Australia had prompted Domino’s Pizza to look for a cheese maker who could maintain supply.
Domino’s Pizza CEO Don Meij said Fonterra was chosen because of its ability to deliver the quantity and quality of cheese at competitive prices, needed to serve Domino’s Pizza’s customers.
Saturday, May 20, 2006
Who else had a radio like this?
In February 1957 an experimental television licence was issued to the Bell Radio and Television Corporation of Auckland, and by early 1958 it had extended its transmissions to include test patterns, live camera studies, and extracts from motion picture films. These transmissions, which were given for a period of one and a half hours on three nights of the week, were available to an estimated 100 set-holders.
clowns swallowing ping-pong balls
With mouth wide open , like one of those clowns you feed ping - pong balls at sideshows .
Birthday parties
The places that now offer parents ready-planned and catered birthday parties for their children were not in existence in this period. The more fortunate children had parties, but they were usually held at home.
Janes memories "My mother used to make an effort to give us enjoyable birthday parties. The fashion was to have a programme. My mother was a very good organiser. She baked all the food herself and wrote out a programme of activities. There was a variety of games, both active and passive. There were competitions, a little like a school exam. We played the memory game where we were shown for a short time a tray full of small objects and then had to try to remember as many as possible of the things on it. Then we had to see how many words we could make out of the letters in a word, Marmite for instance. We used to have to think of the names of flowers as answers to puzzles, or to put together the pieces of a picture, like a jigsaw puzzle. We were blindfolded to pin the tail on the donkey. There were always prizes.
"The party foods included bread and butter with hundreds and thousands on it, fruit salad, jellies and cream, pikelets, meringues and other little cakes, and a birthday cake with candles."
http://www.nzine.co.nz/features/guinz1925-50_part21.html
Janes memories "My mother used to make an effort to give us enjoyable birthday parties. The fashion was to have a programme. My mother was a very good organiser. She baked all the food herself and wrote out a programme of activities. There was a variety of games, both active and passive. There were competitions, a little like a school exam. We played the memory game where we were shown for a short time a tray full of small objects and then had to try to remember as many as possible of the things on it. Then we had to see how many words we could make out of the letters in a word, Marmite for instance. We used to have to think of the names of flowers as answers to puzzles, or to put together the pieces of a picture, like a jigsaw puzzle. We were blindfolded to pin the tail on the donkey. There were always prizes.
"The party foods included bread and butter with hundreds and thousands on it, fruit salad, jellies and cream, pikelets, meringues and other little cakes, and a birthday cake with candles."
http://www.nzine.co.nz/features/guinz1925-50_part21.html
Growing Up in the 50s
Toys and games In entertainment as in the home sexist roles prevailed and meant that there was a clear division between the games of boys and girls.
For boys playing in the sand-pit occupied hours when they were young, using packing cases to build boats and forts. Peter liked to use the crowbar as a gun to make the packing case into a gun boat - a practice very unpopular with his father who considered it too dangerous. Boys and girls spent countless hours playing on trikes scooters.
Boys with a mechanical interest especially enjoyed train sets, miniature steam engines and building with meccano
Girls' games often related to their future roles as wives and mothers. Most girls loved playing with dolls - baby dolls, little girl dolls, Topsy dolls, and Kewpie dolls - but not Barbie dolls in this era. Some had dolls' houses with miniature furniture. Some had china teasets and entertained their dolls to afternoon tea.
Girls' games often related to their future roles as wives and mothers. Most girls loved playing with dolls - baby dolls, little girl dolls, Topsy dolls, and Kewpie dolls - but not Barbie dolls in this era. Some had dolls' houses with miniature furniture. Some had china teasets and entertained their dolls to afternoon tea.
Dolls' clothes were made by adults and by girls interested in sewing. Even during the Depression this was a popular activity as they could be made from scraps of leftover fabric or wool. Girls dressed the dolls and put them in prams, beds or cradles which were often handed down from one generation to the next. They washed the clothes and as fabrics of the time needed ironing some girls even had their own Mrs Potts iron.
Soft toys, often made at home, and Teddy bears were favourites right through the century.
.. skipping, hop scotch, and 'swinging deliriously' on a single high bar at school. There were no Jungle Gyms.
Card games, like Snap, Crib, Five Hundred and patience, and board games, like Ludo, Draughts, Snakes and Ladders and Solitaire were popular with both boys and girls.
ReadingPopular children's books included annuals, yearly bound books of stories, such as the Rupert Annuals or Chums Annuals. Comics Like Little Dot, Chums and Tiger Tim were available and though to today's readers they would seem very innocent and dull they were frowned on by many parents as encouraging laziness about reading. The stories of Pooh Bear, Milly Molly Mandy, Anne of Green Gables, Pollyanna and Biggles, Richmal Crompton's William books, and Arthur Ransome's stories about "messing about in boats" were very popular, as well as earlier favourites like Peter Pan, Little Women, Wind in the Willows and Treasure Island.
For boys playing in the sand-pit occupied hours when they were young, using packing cases to build boats and forts. Peter liked to use the crowbar as a gun to make the packing case into a gun boat - a practice very unpopular with his father who considered it too dangerous. Boys and girls spent countless hours playing on trikes scooters.
Boys with a mechanical interest especially enjoyed train sets, miniature steam engines and building with meccano
Girls' games often related to their future roles as wives and mothers. Most girls loved playing with dolls - baby dolls, little girl dolls, Topsy dolls, and Kewpie dolls - but not Barbie dolls in this era. Some had dolls' houses with miniature furniture. Some had china teasets and entertained their dolls to afternoon tea.
Girls' games often related to their future roles as wives and mothers. Most girls loved playing with dolls - baby dolls, little girl dolls, Topsy dolls, and Kewpie dolls - but not Barbie dolls in this era. Some had dolls' houses with miniature furniture. Some had china teasets and entertained their dolls to afternoon tea.
Dolls' clothes were made by adults and by girls interested in sewing. Even during the Depression this was a popular activity as they could be made from scraps of leftover fabric or wool. Girls dressed the dolls and put them in prams, beds or cradles which were often handed down from one generation to the next. They washed the clothes and as fabrics of the time needed ironing some girls even had their own Mrs Potts iron.
Soft toys, often made at home, and Teddy bears were favourites right through the century.
.. skipping, hop scotch, and 'swinging deliriously' on a single high bar at school. There were no Jungle Gyms.
Card games, like Snap, Crib, Five Hundred and patience, and board games, like Ludo, Draughts, Snakes and Ladders and Solitaire were popular with both boys and girls.
ReadingPopular children's books included annuals, yearly bound books of stories, such as the Rupert Annuals or Chums Annuals. Comics Like Little Dot, Chums and Tiger Tim were available and though to today's readers they would seem very innocent and dull they were frowned on by many parents as encouraging laziness about reading. The stories of Pooh Bear, Milly Molly Mandy, Anne of Green Gables, Pollyanna and Biggles, Richmal Crompton's William books, and Arthur Ransome's stories about "messing about in boats" were very popular, as well as earlier favourites like Peter Pan, Little Women, Wind in the Willows and Treasure Island.
Kitchen
The battle of the sexes – played out in the kitchen
by Jesma Magill 'Our Homes Today' Editorial Co-ordinator
The kitchen, more than any other room in the house, reflects the changes that have taken place in society. Around 100 years ago – if you were lucky enough to have money – the kitchen was a place you could avoid. Someone else did all the cooking for you, and all you had to do was dress up for dinner and act all posh.Then followed two world wars, and the Second World War, especially, ushered in many changes in society. One of the more significant ones, for its impact on the family, was women going into paid employment to take the place of the men who were fighting on the battlefields.When the war was over, and the men came home, not all the women wanted to go back home to work, and through the late 1940s, ’50s and ’60s, took a more active role in society.The 1960s ushered in feminism, but women still mostly occupied the kitchen. But in the decades leading up to the new millennium, gradual and significant changes have been taking place in the home, the microcosm of society at large.
Thinking back to some of my earliest memories of home; they were about sitting around the kitchen table, sharing a meal with family and friends. The food was the primary nourishment – the thing that brought people together – and bringing people together is what it’s all about.
by Jesma Magill 'Our Homes Today' Editorial Co-ordinator
The kitchen, more than any other room in the house, reflects the changes that have taken place in society. Around 100 years ago – if you were lucky enough to have money – the kitchen was a place you could avoid. Someone else did all the cooking for you, and all you had to do was dress up for dinner and act all posh.Then followed two world wars, and the Second World War, especially, ushered in many changes in society. One of the more significant ones, for its impact on the family, was women going into paid employment to take the place of the men who were fighting on the battlefields.When the war was over, and the men came home, not all the women wanted to go back home to work, and through the late 1940s, ’50s and ’60s, took a more active role in society.The 1960s ushered in feminism, but women still mostly occupied the kitchen. But in the decades leading up to the new millennium, gradual and significant changes have been taking place in the home, the microcosm of society at large.
Thinking back to some of my earliest memories of home; they were about sitting around the kitchen table, sharing a meal with family and friends. The food was the primary nourishment – the thing that brought people together – and bringing people together is what it’s all about.
Jellie Babies
When Jelly Babies were launched in 1918 to celebrate the end of World War I, Bassett's called them "Peace Babies". Shortage of raw materials stopped production during the Second World War, but was resumed in 1953 when the sweets became known as Jelly Babies.
Each Bassett's Jelly Baby has an individual colour and name: Brilliant, Bubbles, Baby Bonny, Bigheart and Bumper.
More than a billion Bassett's Jelly Babies are made every year.
Each Bassett's Jelly Baby has an individual colour and name: Brilliant, Bubbles, Baby Bonny, Bigheart and Bumper.
More than a billion Bassett's Jelly Babies are made every year.
Liquorice Allsorts
Liquorice Allsorts, was literally discovered by accident in 1899 when a salesman knocked over his tray of samples. Today Liquorice Allsorts have more than a 70 per cent share of their market, and are the number one sweet brand in local newsagents
Bassett's Liquorice Allsorts were created by accident in 1899, when Charlie Thompson, a salesman for Bassett's visited a wholesaler with a sample of liquorice and cream paste specialities - chips, rocks, Buttons, nuggets, plugs and twists. Each item was offered to the wholesaler and in turn was refused. The salesman clumsily gathered his samples boxes together, knocking them over and spilling the colourful sweets on the counter. The wholesaler saw more attraction in the 'mixed' sweets and placed an order. The salesman named them Liquorice Allsorts.
Dawn at the Chancery
The leading light in Auckland’s central city fashion district, Chancery is a fascinating, eclectic mix of world-leading fashion, beauty, cuisine, giftware and vibrant al fresco cafes.
This is international shopping normally only expected in established fashion capitals like Paris, Milan and New York.
Drive directly into Chancery’s secure underground carpark. Step into Chancery’s sunny, cobblestone plaza and be absorbed by the international showcase of designer style, classic fashion boutiques and alfresco cafes.Chancery. All the best things in life in one place.
Frank Casey
Pinstripe Suit"Go ahead make my night"Make a statement in this 3 button pinstripe suit dress it up or down with your choice of shirt and tie.Casablanca Suit"Here's looking at you kid"Looking for something a little different this 3 button white suit will give you the edge.
Vermont Suit"Laid back and totally cool"A stylish four button single breasted formal suit with satin, reverse peak lapels.
Boston Suit"This ain't no Tea party"Sophisticated two-button single breasted jacket, featuring a distinctive satin border around the collar.
Morning Tea
Morning Tea
Thursdays 30 March, 20 April, 11 May, 18 May 2006 Along Queen Street and K' Road
You could be in for a pleasant surprise on one of these mornings! People will be popping up unexpectedly to offer morning tea to office workers in different locations on Queen Street and K' Road.
Morning Tea builds on an old tradition of taking a break in a busy schedule to meet up with workmates or friends. This activity will engage visitors to the CBD in an opportunity to briefly meet other CBD dwellers over a cup of tea and a scone offering a friendly exchange amongst the busy schedule of people on their way to work.
Thursdays 30 March, 20 April, 11 May, 18 May 2006 Along Queen Street and K' Road
You could be in for a pleasant surprise on one of these mornings! People will be popping up unexpectedly to offer morning tea to office workers in different locations on Queen Street and K' Road.
Morning Tea builds on an old tradition of taking a break in a busy schedule to meet up with workmates or friends. This activity will engage visitors to the CBD in an opportunity to briefly meet other CBD dwellers over a cup of tea and a scone offering a friendly exchange amongst the busy schedule of people on their way to work.
Proverbial Auckland May 2006
Proverbial Auckland
From 28 March 2006Located on pavements across Auckland cityCurated by Fleur Palmer
Wondering why there are proverbs written on pavements across Auckland? It's one of the first Living Room happenings - an artistic installation called Proverbial Auckland.
Proverbial Auckland builds on the success of Poetry on the Pavement last year. It consists of a series of proverbs (political, challenging, beautiful, humorous, or entertaining) drawn from many different cultures such as Maori, Pacific, Asian, English and European.
Certain sites around the CBD have been matched to the proverbs, according to their significance. Each proverb is written in its original text with an English translation.
This installation will offer visitors to the CBD an opportunity to take a moment and reflect on the proverbs as they are making their way to or from work, going shopping or spending a night out on the town.
From 28 March 2006Located on pavements across Auckland cityCurated by Fleur Palmer
Wondering why there are proverbs written on pavements across Auckland? It's one of the first Living Room happenings - an artistic installation called Proverbial Auckland.
Proverbial Auckland builds on the success of Poetry on the Pavement last year. It consists of a series of proverbs (political, challenging, beautiful, humorous, or entertaining) drawn from many different cultures such as Maori, Pacific, Asian, English and European.
Certain sites around the CBD have been matched to the proverbs, according to their significance. Each proverb is written in its original text with an English translation.
This installation will offer visitors to the CBD an opportunity to take a moment and reflect on the proverbs as they are making their way to or from work, going shopping or spending a night out on the town.
Proverbial Auckland
Living Room events
Proverbs
The following proverbs can be found on the pavement along K' Road and Queen Street in the stated locations.
First the man takes a drink. Then the drink takes a drink. Then the drink takes the man.
Japanese proverb
Location - Thirsty Dog Bar (corner Howe Street and K' Road)
The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.
American proverb
Location - Pleasure Chest (466 K' Road)
Experience is a comb that nature gives us when we are bald.
Chinese proverb
Location - Barbers Shop (459 K' Road)
You can't wake someone who is pretending to be asleep.
Navajo proverb
Location - bus stop on bridge
Autumn steals summer like a thief.
English proverb
Location - bus stop on K' Road bridge
Ang hindi marunong lumingon sa pinanaggaligan ay hindi makakarating sa paronoonan.
A person who does not remember where he comes from will never reach his destination.
Philippine proverb
Location - bus stop on K' Road bridge
Where love fails we espy all faults.
English proverb
Location - bus stop on K' Road bridge
Quand le vi nets tire, il faut le boire.
Once the wine is drawn it must be drunk.
French proverb
Location - Seven Bar (Corner Day Street and K' Road)
Property will not earn life, but life will earn property.
Turkish proverb (on health being more important than wealth).
Location - Doctor (353 K' Road)
Sex is an emotion in motion.
Quotation by Mae West (1893-1980).
Location - Strip club (335 K' Road)
Those who lose dreaming are lost.
Aboriginal proverb
Location - Art Space (corner East and K' Road)
Hano wanekera nkwihumioore.
When you spread it in the sun, it becomes dry.
African proverb (on sharing problems)
Location - African Hair Braiding (290 K' Road)
If you are not a fish, how can you tell if the fish are happy?
Chinese proverb (on experience)
Location - Regent Fisheries (284 K' Road)
What you can do today do not leave for tomorrow.
Croatian proverb
Location - bus stop south side K' Road between Upper Queen Street and Mercury Lane
Vision without an action is a day dream; action without vision is a nightmare.
Japanese proverb
Location - bus stop south side K' Road between Upper Queen Street and Mercury Lane
Setajam-tajam pisau, masih lebih tajam lidah.
No matter how sharp a knife gets, a tongue is even sharper.
Indonesian proverb
Location - Vodafone
A penny saved is a penny earned.
English proverb
Location - Instant Finance
If you have no shame then do whatever you want.
Arabic proverb
Location - Illicit HQ (206 K' Road)
If you lie down with dogs, you'll wake up with fleas.
Proverb (source unknown)
Location - curved seats south side K' Road between Upper Queen Street and Mercury Lane
What the wind brings, the wind will take away.
Persian proverb
Location - 3rd Eye K' Road near St Kevin's Arcade
The reverse side also has a reverse side.
Japanese proverb
Location - St Pierre's Sushi Bar (176 K' Road)
Be the change you wish to see in the world.
Quotation by Ghandi (1869-1948)
Location - Shingaar Gold Jewellers
A book is a garden carried in the pocket.
Chinese proverb
Location - Whitcoulls
Men ken kaien mit fremde tsein.
You can't chew with someone else's teeth.
Yiddish proverb
Location - Gianni Dental surgery (106 K' Road)
Beginning is easy: continuing is hard.
Japanese proverb (on permanence and change)
Location - pedestrian crossing (corner K' Road and Queen Street)
Tout vient à point à qui sait attendre.
All things come to those who wait.
French proverb
Location - pedestrian crossing (corner K' Road and Queen Street)
Taten statt Worte! Or Taten sagen mehr als Worte.
Actions speak louder than words.
German proverb
Location - pedestrian crossing (corner K' Road and Queen Street)
He tini nga whetu e ngaro I te kapua iti.
Many stars cannot be concealed by a small cloud.
Maori proverb
Location - Baptist Tabermacle
De boas intenções està o Inferno cheio.
The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Portuguese proverb
Location - The Church of the Latter Day Saints
Where there are no tigers a wildcat is very self-important.
Korean proverb
Location - Battu Mae Korean
Affinity is a mysterious thing, but it is spicy.
Japanese proverb
Location - Shochku Japanese (460 Queen Street)
The wages of sin are high (and the hours aren't bad either).
Proverb (source unknown)
Location - The White House (371 Queen Street)
After every darkness is light.
Afghanistani proverb
Location - Salvation Army (369 Queen Street)
You will hate a beautiful song if you sing it often.
Korean proverb
Location - Real Groovy
Ars longa vita brevis.
Art is long, life is short.
Latin proverb
Location - Wallace Arts Trust (305 Queen Street)
The grass is always greener on the other side.
Danish proverb
Location - island for pedestrians on crossing corner Wakefield and Queen Street
Worrying is like sitting in a rocking chair. It gives you something to do but it doesn't get you anywhere.
English proverb
Location - Aotea Square
A nation without a language is a nation without a heart.
Welsh proverb
Location - Flight Centre (350 Queen Street)
I can protect myself from my enemies; may God protect me from my friends!
Italian proverb
All the keys in the land do not hang from one girdle.
Scottish Gaelic proverb
Location - bus stop outside the Civic
Ask me what is the greatest thing in the world, I will reply: It is people, it is people, it is people!
Maori proverb
Location - corner Wellesley and Queen Streets
The fault was committed in the bush, but it is now talked about on the highway.
Samoan proverb
Location - corner Wellesley and Queen Streets
There will always be bumps in the smoothest road.
French proverb
Location - corner Wellesley and Queen Streets.
You can't ride in all directions at one time.
Yiddish proverb
Location - corner Wellesley and Queen Streets
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they will never sit in.
Greek proverb
Location - Bank (222 Queen Street)
A closed mind is like a closed book: just a block of wood.
Chinese proverb
Location - Dymocks Bookshop
It's easy to undress the naked.
Russian proverb
Location - Body Shop (225 Queen Street)
All that glitters is not gold.
Latin proverb
Location - Pascoe's (209 Queen Street)
Don't judge a man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.
Indian proverb
Location - Hannah's (200 Queen Street)
S/he sees everyone with one eye.
Armenian proverb
Location - OPSM (185 Queen Street)
A fair exchange is no robbery.
Scottish proverb
Location - Money Exchange (Queen Street)
Help me, so that I can help you, so that we can climb the mountain together.
Greek proverb
Location - Kathmandu (151 Queen Street)
The tui sings, the kaka chatters, the pigeon coos.
Maori proverb (on diversity)
Location - pedestrian crossing Wyndham and Queen Streets
Only one's behaviour makes one a guttersnipe.
Tongan proverb
Location - pedestrian crossing Wyndham and Queen Streets
Stinginess demeans the value of man.
Arabic proverb
Location - in front of ANZ and National Bank (corner Vulcan Lane and Queen Street)
A wise man does not urinate towards the wind.
Latin proverb
Location - bus stop between Vulcan Lane and Fort Street
After dinner sit a while, after supper walk a mile.
English proverb
Location - Andrea Biani Shoes (116 Queen Street)
As the wallet grows so do the needs.
Yiddish proverb
Location - BNZ (175 Queen Street)
If there's no bread, cakes will do.
Spanish proverb
Location - Pandora (75 Queen Street)
An elders advise is like gooseberries; at first sour then sweet.
Malayalan proverb
Location - Lower Queen Street bus stop
Virtue is like a rich stone, it's best plain set.
Quotation by Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
Location - Michael Hill (46 Queen Street)
If you stash, you may have something to withdraw.
Filipino proverb
Location - National Bank (45 Queen Street)
Avoid the company of a liar. And if you can't avoid him, don't believe him.
Arabic proverb
Location - pedestrian crossing (Queen Street and Customs Street)
We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love.. and then we return home.
Aboriginal proverb
Location - pedestrian crossing (Queen Street and Customs Street)
It is a big river indeed that cannot be crossed.
Maori proverb (if difficulties are made light of, they will disappear)
Location - pedestrian crossing (Queen Street and Customs Street)
One beetle recognises another.
Irish proverb (meaning like sees like)
Location - pedestrian crossing (Queen Street and Customs Street)
Proverbs
The following proverbs can be found on the pavement along K' Road and Queen Street in the stated locations.
First the man takes a drink. Then the drink takes a drink. Then the drink takes the man.
Japanese proverb
Location - Thirsty Dog Bar (corner Howe Street and K' Road)
The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.
American proverb
Location - Pleasure Chest (466 K' Road)
Experience is a comb that nature gives us when we are bald.
Chinese proverb
Location - Barbers Shop (459 K' Road)
You can't wake someone who is pretending to be asleep.
Navajo proverb
Location - bus stop on bridge
Autumn steals summer like a thief.
English proverb
Location - bus stop on K' Road bridge
Ang hindi marunong lumingon sa pinanaggaligan ay hindi makakarating sa paronoonan.
A person who does not remember where he comes from will never reach his destination.
Philippine proverb
Location - bus stop on K' Road bridge
Where love fails we espy all faults.
English proverb
Location - bus stop on K' Road bridge
Quand le vi nets tire, il faut le boire.
Once the wine is drawn it must be drunk.
French proverb
Location - Seven Bar (Corner Day Street and K' Road)
Property will not earn life, but life will earn property.
Turkish proverb (on health being more important than wealth).
Location - Doctor (353 K' Road)
Sex is an emotion in motion.
Quotation by Mae West (1893-1980).
Location - Strip club (335 K' Road)
Those who lose dreaming are lost.
Aboriginal proverb
Location - Art Space (corner East and K' Road)
Hano wanekera nkwihumioore.
When you spread it in the sun, it becomes dry.
African proverb (on sharing problems)
Location - African Hair Braiding (290 K' Road)
If you are not a fish, how can you tell if the fish are happy?
Chinese proverb (on experience)
Location - Regent Fisheries (284 K' Road)
What you can do today do not leave for tomorrow.
Croatian proverb
Location - bus stop south side K' Road between Upper Queen Street and Mercury Lane
Vision without an action is a day dream; action without vision is a nightmare.
Japanese proverb
Location - bus stop south side K' Road between Upper Queen Street and Mercury Lane
Setajam-tajam pisau, masih lebih tajam lidah.
No matter how sharp a knife gets, a tongue is even sharper.
Indonesian proverb
Location - Vodafone
A penny saved is a penny earned.
English proverb
Location - Instant Finance
If you have no shame then do whatever you want.
Arabic proverb
Location - Illicit HQ (206 K' Road)
If you lie down with dogs, you'll wake up with fleas.
Proverb (source unknown)
Location - curved seats south side K' Road between Upper Queen Street and Mercury Lane
What the wind brings, the wind will take away.
Persian proverb
Location - 3rd Eye K' Road near St Kevin's Arcade
The reverse side also has a reverse side.
Japanese proverb
Location - St Pierre's Sushi Bar (176 K' Road)
Be the change you wish to see in the world.
Quotation by Ghandi (1869-1948)
Location - Shingaar Gold Jewellers
A book is a garden carried in the pocket.
Chinese proverb
Location - Whitcoulls
Men ken kaien mit fremde tsein.
You can't chew with someone else's teeth.
Yiddish proverb
Location - Gianni Dental surgery (106 K' Road)
Beginning is easy: continuing is hard.
Japanese proverb (on permanence and change)
Location - pedestrian crossing (corner K' Road and Queen Street)
Tout vient à point à qui sait attendre.
All things come to those who wait.
French proverb
Location - pedestrian crossing (corner K' Road and Queen Street)
Taten statt Worte! Or Taten sagen mehr als Worte.
Actions speak louder than words.
German proverb
Location - pedestrian crossing (corner K' Road and Queen Street)
He tini nga whetu e ngaro I te kapua iti.
Many stars cannot be concealed by a small cloud.
Maori proverb
Location - Baptist Tabermacle
De boas intenções està o Inferno cheio.
The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Portuguese proverb
Location - The Church of the Latter Day Saints
Where there are no tigers a wildcat is very self-important.
Korean proverb
Location - Battu Mae Korean
Affinity is a mysterious thing, but it is spicy.
Japanese proverb
Location - Shochku Japanese (460 Queen Street)
The wages of sin are high (and the hours aren't bad either).
Proverb (source unknown)
Location - The White House (371 Queen Street)
After every darkness is light.
Afghanistani proverb
Location - Salvation Army (369 Queen Street)
You will hate a beautiful song if you sing it often.
Korean proverb
Location - Real Groovy
Ars longa vita brevis.
Art is long, life is short.
Latin proverb
Location - Wallace Arts Trust (305 Queen Street)
The grass is always greener on the other side.
Danish proverb
Location - island for pedestrians on crossing corner Wakefield and Queen Street
Worrying is like sitting in a rocking chair. It gives you something to do but it doesn't get you anywhere.
English proverb
Location - Aotea Square
A nation without a language is a nation without a heart.
Welsh proverb
Location - Flight Centre (350 Queen Street)
I can protect myself from my enemies; may God protect me from my friends!
Italian proverb
All the keys in the land do not hang from one girdle.
Scottish Gaelic proverb
Location - bus stop outside the Civic
Ask me what is the greatest thing in the world, I will reply: It is people, it is people, it is people!
Maori proverb
Location - corner Wellesley and Queen Streets
The fault was committed in the bush, but it is now talked about on the highway.
Samoan proverb
Location - corner Wellesley and Queen Streets
There will always be bumps in the smoothest road.
French proverb
Location - corner Wellesley and Queen Streets.
You can't ride in all directions at one time.
Yiddish proverb
Location - corner Wellesley and Queen Streets
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they will never sit in.
Greek proverb
Location - Bank (222 Queen Street)
A closed mind is like a closed book: just a block of wood.
Chinese proverb
Location - Dymocks Bookshop
It's easy to undress the naked.
Russian proverb
Location - Body Shop (225 Queen Street)
All that glitters is not gold.
Latin proverb
Location - Pascoe's (209 Queen Street)
Don't judge a man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.
Indian proverb
Location - Hannah's (200 Queen Street)
S/he sees everyone with one eye.
Armenian proverb
Location - OPSM (185 Queen Street)
A fair exchange is no robbery.
Scottish proverb
Location - Money Exchange (Queen Street)
Help me, so that I can help you, so that we can climb the mountain together.
Greek proverb
Location - Kathmandu (151 Queen Street)
The tui sings, the kaka chatters, the pigeon coos.
Maori proverb (on diversity)
Location - pedestrian crossing Wyndham and Queen Streets
Only one's behaviour makes one a guttersnipe.
Tongan proverb
Location - pedestrian crossing Wyndham and Queen Streets
Stinginess demeans the value of man.
Arabic proverb
Location - in front of ANZ and National Bank (corner Vulcan Lane and Queen Street)
A wise man does not urinate towards the wind.
Latin proverb
Location - bus stop between Vulcan Lane and Fort Street
After dinner sit a while, after supper walk a mile.
English proverb
Location - Andrea Biani Shoes (116 Queen Street)
As the wallet grows so do the needs.
Yiddish proverb
Location - BNZ (175 Queen Street)
If there's no bread, cakes will do.
Spanish proverb
Location - Pandora (75 Queen Street)
An elders advise is like gooseberries; at first sour then sweet.
Malayalan proverb
Location - Lower Queen Street bus stop
Virtue is like a rich stone, it's best plain set.
Quotation by Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
Location - Michael Hill (46 Queen Street)
If you stash, you may have something to withdraw.
Filipino proverb
Location - National Bank (45 Queen Street)
Avoid the company of a liar. And if you can't avoid him, don't believe him.
Arabic proverb
Location - pedestrian crossing (Queen Street and Customs Street)
We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love.. and then we return home.
Aboriginal proverb
Location - pedestrian crossing (Queen Street and Customs Street)
It is a big river indeed that cannot be crossed.
Maori proverb (if difficulties are made light of, they will disappear)
Location - pedestrian crossing (Queen Street and Customs Street)
One beetle recognises another.
Irish proverb (meaning like sees like)
Location - pedestrian crossing (Queen Street and Customs Street)
Multicultumedia
Multicultimedia
19 May - 1 June 2006Farmers Queen StreetCurated by Jin Hong
Although all human eyes are different in terms of colour and shape, our perception of Auckland is similar. Multicultimedia is a visual display that shows Auckland's unique and diverse identity, and reflects on how Aucklanders can live in multicultural harmony.
It will be displayed in the window of Farmers Queen Street and comes in two parts:
a visual documentary of people from different cultures singing Pokarekare Ana
a visual documentary of a day in the life of the CBD showing Auckland's cultural diversity. About the artist - Jin K. M. Hong
Jin Hong has been working at Auckland University of Technology (AUT) as a multimedia producer since 2000. His role in AUT involves the creation of media and provision of solutions for staff who seek to enrich delivery of their material by using multimedia.
He has created many DVD, multimedia and television projects with various lecturers and he recently completed his short film, 'Listen and Repeat' in HD format which will be shown at international film festivals this year.
He is currently working on a short film, Golden Horse, and a feature film, White Magnolia. Golden Horse will be shot in June 2006 and will be completed in August 2006. White Magnolia will be shot in the near future.
Jin is interested in cultural aspects of societies and political agendas, which form part of collective human behaviours. His films mainly focus on these elements of society and human relationships.
19 May - 1 June 2006Farmers Queen StreetCurated by Jin Hong
Although all human eyes are different in terms of colour and shape, our perception of Auckland is similar. Multicultimedia is a visual display that shows Auckland's unique and diverse identity, and reflects on how Aucklanders can live in multicultural harmony.
It will be displayed in the window of Farmers Queen Street and comes in two parts:
a visual documentary of people from different cultures singing Pokarekare Ana
a visual documentary of a day in the life of the CBD showing Auckland's cultural diversity. About the artist - Jin K. M. Hong
Jin Hong has been working at Auckland University of Technology (AUT) as a multimedia producer since 2000. His role in AUT involves the creation of media and provision of solutions for staff who seek to enrich delivery of their material by using multimedia.
He has created many DVD, multimedia and television projects with various lecturers and he recently completed his short film, 'Listen and Repeat' in HD format which will be shown at international film festivals this year.
He is currently working on a short film, Golden Horse, and a feature film, White Magnolia. Golden Horse will be shot in June 2006 and will be completed in August 2006. White Magnolia will be shot in the near future.
Jin is interested in cultural aspects of societies and political agendas, which form part of collective human behaviours. His films mainly focus on these elements of society and human relationships.
Friday, May 19, 2006
Bollywood in Eltham
Bollywood comes to town
In the 1960s and '70s, Taranaki's Indian community would descend on the Eltham Town Hall to watch Bollywood movies.
Former Opunake resident Christine Nana was among them.
"We'd all get really dressed up - me in a new dress that my mother had tailor-made and my brothers in shirts and flares."
She says her mum and dad, Shantaben and KeshaBhai Nana, weren't impressed by the fashions of the day, especially their sons' long hair. "Many a heated word was said about the length of hair in my home," she says.
The Nana clan, who owned a fruit shop in Opunake, would trundle to Eltham in "my dad's flash Humber Hawk" car.
Outside the hall on Stanners Street the Indian families would wait in cold southerly winds for the projectionist to arrive. "The ladies would be in colourful saris and jewels, though many donned a cardy (cardigan) to ward off the wind," Christine says.
The men were less grand in European-style suits. "My brothers, who were in their teens, would be strutting about hoping to catch a glad eye or two,"
But they would always have their little sister tagging along with them. "I don't think they were too impressed by this," she says.
"After fellowship and showing off our nice clothes, we'd all descend upon the town hall to be entertained by the latest film. Sometimes the films were classic love stories with the songs, music and overacting - these I found the most boring. The best ones were those that told a story from the Mahabarata or the Ramayana (both Hindu epics). These always had special effects (and still the songs and music), which I found fascinating and appealed to my sense of fantasy as a child."
Christine, born in 1965, was just a babe bundled up in her father's overcoat when she began going to Eltham for Bollywood weekends. "They happened fairly regularly - every few months I think - and virtually the whole of the Taranaki Gujarati community would descend upon Eltham. I can't remember how many, but enough to fill Eltham Town Hall. I don't know what the locals made of us."
http://www.pukeariki.com/en/stories/entertainmentandleisure/eltownhall.asp
In the 1960s and '70s, Taranaki's Indian community would descend on the Eltham Town Hall to watch Bollywood movies.
Former Opunake resident Christine Nana was among them.
"We'd all get really dressed up - me in a new dress that my mother had tailor-made and my brothers in shirts and flares."
She says her mum and dad, Shantaben and KeshaBhai Nana, weren't impressed by the fashions of the day, especially their sons' long hair. "Many a heated word was said about the length of hair in my home," she says.
The Nana clan, who owned a fruit shop in Opunake, would trundle to Eltham in "my dad's flash Humber Hawk" car.
Outside the hall on Stanners Street the Indian families would wait in cold southerly winds for the projectionist to arrive. "The ladies would be in colourful saris and jewels, though many donned a cardy (cardigan) to ward off the wind," Christine says.
The men were less grand in European-style suits. "My brothers, who were in their teens, would be strutting about hoping to catch a glad eye or two,"
But they would always have their little sister tagging along with them. "I don't think they were too impressed by this," she says.
"After fellowship and showing off our nice clothes, we'd all descend upon the town hall to be entertained by the latest film. Sometimes the films were classic love stories with the songs, music and overacting - these I found the most boring. The best ones were those that told a story from the Mahabarata or the Ramayana (both Hindu epics). These always had special effects (and still the songs and music), which I found fascinating and appealed to my sense of fantasy as a child."
Christine, born in 1965, was just a babe bundled up in her father's overcoat when she began going to Eltham for Bollywood weekends. "They happened fairly regularly - every few months I think - and virtually the whole of the Taranaki Gujarati community would descend upon Eltham. I can't remember how many, but enough to fill Eltham Town Hall. I don't know what the locals made of us."
http://www.pukeariki.com/en/stories/entertainmentandleisure/eltownhall.asp
The Be Bops
The Talented Be Bops
One night in 1956, Colin King ran a talent quest at Waitara's Theatre Royale. Taylor was part of a new band which didn't even have a catchy name.
The compere christened them The Be Bops, after the song they'd planned to sing - Gene Vincent's Be-Bop-A-Lula.
The Be Bops won, playing music no one had ever heard before, and for the next ten years would play to appreciative audiences throughout the province.
Taylor tells the story: 'In the mid-fifties, recordings would be made in the States or England, come out to Australia by ship, and if they sold fairly well there, then a master record would be shipped over to New Zealand, or pressed in Australia and sent here, so there was usually a six to eight week gap.
'We used to sit around the table at Stratford on a Saturday night and listen to 2UE in Sydney which played the top twenty. We'd hear a particular tune and think 'that sounds all right!'
'So the next night, we'd sit around the table again and we'd all scribble down the words. I'd do the chords. Then we'd go into the lounge and play the tune over and over
http://www.pukeariki.com/en/stories/entertainmentandleisure/bandman.asp
One night in 1956, Colin King ran a talent quest at Waitara's Theatre Royale. Taylor was part of a new band which didn't even have a catchy name.
The compere christened them The Be Bops, after the song they'd planned to sing - Gene Vincent's Be-Bop-A-Lula.
The Be Bops won, playing music no one had ever heard before, and for the next ten years would play to appreciative audiences throughout the province.
Taylor tells the story: 'In the mid-fifties, recordings would be made in the States or England, come out to Australia by ship, and if they sold fairly well there, then a master record would be shipped over to New Zealand, or pressed in Australia and sent here, so there was usually a six to eight week gap.
'We used to sit around the table at Stratford on a Saturday night and listen to 2UE in Sydney which played the top twenty. We'd hear a particular tune and think 'that sounds all right!'
'So the next night, we'd sit around the table again and we'd all scribble down the words. I'd do the chords. Then we'd go into the lounge and play the tune over and over
http://www.pukeariki.com/en/stories/entertainmentandleisure/bandman.asp
Thursday, May 18, 2006
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