#Auckland suburb

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Piha beach, Auckland suburb, Aotearoa

#Piha beach #Auckland suburb #Aotearoa #piha #beach #Auckland #auckland #new zealand #Avraam Edelberg #Авраам Эдельберг #юрий каретин #юра каретин #yuriy karetin #yura karetin #[email protected] #yura15cbx #serfing #serf board

[aotearoa-yura15cbx]

Piha beach, Auckland suburb, North Island, Aotearoa

Piha beach. This is already the vicinity of Auckland, though the side is towards the Tasman Sea. The wind is such that the sand spreads along the beach like in the desert, revealing some blue deposits, waves, like in Australia, the whole Portuguese fleet is thrown ashore, but it’s for surfers, and Tom Cruise bought a house there to hide from nature from public eye. Пляж Piha. Это уже окрестности Aucklandа, правда та сторона что к Тасманову морю. Ветер такой, что песок стелется по пляжу как в пустыне, открывая какие-то синие отложения, волны, как в Австралии, целый португальский флот выбрасывает на берег, зато само то для серфенгистов, и ещё там купил дом Том Круз чтоб скрываться на природе от глаз общественности.

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#piha #Piha beach #Auckland suburb #beaches #ocean #big waves #nature #wind #sand #new zealand #auckland #photos #yura15cbx #yuriy karetin #aotearoa #[email protected] #north island #yura karetin #photography #Avraam Edelberg #Авраам Эдельберг #юра каретин #юрий каретин #море #океан #пляжи новой зеландии #сёрфинг #волны #ветер #песок

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Piha beach, Auckland suburb, Aotearoa This is already the vicinity of Auckland, though the side is towards the Tasman Sea. The wind is such that the sand spreads along the beach like in the desert, revealing some blue deposits, waves, like in Australia, the whole Portuguese fleet is thrown ashore, but it’s for surfers, and Tom Cruise bought a house there to hide from nature from public eye. Это уже окрестности Aucklandа, правда та сторона что к Тасманову морю. Ветер такой, что песок стелется по пляжу как в пустыне, открывая какие-то синие отложения, волны, как в Австралии, целый португальский флот выбрасывает на берег, зато само то для серфенгистов, и ещё там купил дом Том Круз чтоб скрываться на природе от глаз общественности.

#Piha beach #Auckland suburb #Aotearoa #piha #beach #tasmanian sea #Auckland #new zealand #nature #Tom Cruz #[email protected] #yura karetin #yuriy karetin #yura15cbx #юрий каретин #юра каретин #авраам эдельберг #Avraam Edelberg

[cities-yura15cbx]

Piha beach, Auckland suburb, Aotearoa This is already the vicinity of Auckland, though the side is towards the Tasman Sea. The wind is such that the sand spreads along the beach like in the desert, revealing some blue deposits, waves, like in Australia, the whole Portuguese fleet is thrown ashore, but it’s for surfers, and Tom Cruise bought a house there to hide from nature from public eye.

#Piha beach #Auckland suburb #Aotearoa #piha #Auckland #auckland #new zealand #beach #nature #tasmanian sea #serfing #Avraam Edelberg #[email protected] #yuriy karetin #yura karetin #[email protected] #yura15cbx #Авраам Эдельберг #юрий каретин #юра каретин

[andromedasummer]

the flooding up north is a nightmare. the street i used to live on has turned into a constant torrent of water and the old beach properties like the coastguard building near our old house have collapsed. airports shut because its completely flooded and people have started reporting landslides and missing family members. all of this just came out of nowhere

#as far as everyone knew auckland was just going to get some heavy rain #next thing we know the news is covering the snap evacuations and major suburbs and parts of the city have waist high warer #the bad weather has hit my city now and while im lucky to live out in the hills i worry about flooding in the cbd or nearby flattened areas #i just hope everyone stays safe. theres already been 2 bodies discovered in flooded areas and i dread to think of people #losing more

[yrn-te-ao]

Rules so hard how I have to find a new place to live before December this year, but finding a place that can at the very least fit a desk and double bed in any Auckland central suburb is damn near impossible at this point. What the fuck do I do.

#the reason i specify Auckland central suburb is that my continued access to therapy requires living in this area..

[pepsi-maxwell]

also any of my europe based mutuals fancy heading to iceland and filming the fagradalsfjall eruption so i can live vicariously thru u 🥺👉👈

#wish it wasn't a 24+ hour flight away #we got volcanoes in nz but they're the terrifying kind not the effusive lava miles away from people kind #the auckland volcanic field is basaltic but would also erupt out in the bay or in the middle of a suburb no thank u

[i-am-dulaman]

Why I hate Golf

This is the Takapuna Golf Course in Auckland, New Zealand.

It is in the middle of Auckland's north shore suburbs.

According to their website, they are one of the most popular golf courses in Aotearoa and have an annual visitor count of 60,000 people. They don't clarify if that is individual unique visitors or recounts, but lets be generous and say its unique visitors. 60,000, not bad.

This is Eden Park Stadium (the little square on the right) and oh look there's another golf course on the left there, ignore that one for now.

(the above two images are at the same scale)

Eden park has a capacity of 50,000 people. Ed Sheeran was here earlier this year and sold out the two nights he performed. That's 100,000 people in a weekend all in that little red square. 60,000 in a year no longer seems so great.

60,000 people per year is also only 160 people per day. 160 visitors to a golf course that is 470,000 square meters in area. Now the average property size in Auckland is 500 square meters. So the golf course takes up the area of 940 houses.

940 homes worth of land for 160 people.

And that is Auckland housing sizes. Auckland is horribly designed and very spread out. Let's instead look at Barcelona, considered one of the most well designed cities in the world.

This is Takapuna golf course side by side with Barcelona

(The scale is as close to being equal as I could get them, I don't have ArcGIS data for Barcelona so had to use google maps)

Each red square overlaid on Takapuna Golf Course is exactly 133m in height/width, the same size as each city block in Barcelona, road width included.

There are 23 Barcelona blocks worth of space in Takapuna Golf Course with room to spare. About 640 people live in each Barcelona block, that's 15000 people.

15000 peoples worth of homes and living spaces, sacrificed so 160 people can play golf in a day.

Now this is just one golf course in a big city, what's 15,000 people to a city of 1.6 million, who cares right?

Here is a wider shot of Auckland City.

Those red dots? They're golf courses.

There are 16 golf courses inside the metropolitan area of Auckland City (4 not pictured as Auckland is too spread out to get one clean screenshot). Keep in mind these are not rural golf courses out in the country, these are right beside housing developments and shopping malls. And for the record I could not find a single golf course in the Barcelona metropolitan area, you had to go out into the country before finding one.

So lets multiply that 15,000 people by 16 golf courses?

240,000 people.

With Auckland City's golf courses you could house 240,000 people comfortably with some good urban planning.

That is why I hate golf.

#For the record I'm not 100% against golf I just think if you have the time to play the most boring sport in the world #Then you also have time to drive 30 minutes out into the country side to play it #golf courses water usage is a whole other story but they aren't uniquely wasteful so thats why I havent mentioned that #golf courses in dry areas with water shortages are even worse than a waste of space and it doesnt matter if theyre urban or rural #but for golf courses in a place like auckland theyre water usage is generally fine and its the waste of land use that bothers me so #Auckland #New Zealand #Aotearoa #Golf #Barcelona #Why i hate golf #golf hate

[homomenhommes]

THIS DAY IN GAY HISTORY

based on: The White Crane Institute's 'Gay Wisdom', Gay Birthdays, Gay For Today, Famous GLBT, glbt-Gay Encylopedia, Today in Gay History, Wikipedia, and more … March 23

1653 – In New Haven Colony, six teenage males are sentenced to be flogged for "wickedness in a filthy corrupting way with one another."

1874 – J.C. Leyendecker, German-American commercial artist, born (d.1951); A highly popular American illustrator of Dutch ancestry, Leyendecker was born in Germany and emigrated to the United States at the age of eight in 1882 with his parents, his sister, Augusta, and two brothers, Francis Xavier "Frank" Leyendecker, and Adolph Leyendecker.

Arrow Collar Man

J.C. Leyendecker was one of the most successful and recognizable commercial artists of the 20th century, best known, perhaps as the creator of the sleekly handsome Arrow Collar Man. Almost seven decades after the height of his vogue, the Arrow Collar Man still appeals. Blond, classically handsome, patrician, somewhat aloof, probably a bit of a shit, he is definitely more interested in himself than he is in any of the beautiful women pictured with him. When he first appeared in magazine ads, the Arrow Collar people received carloads of fan letters from adoring women eager to discover the identity of the sexy artist's model. Some proposed marriage. Little did they know that the Arrow Collar Man was the artist's lover, Charles Beach, blond, handsome, patrician, and vain.

1932 Olympic Rowing Champs

Over forty years, Leyendecker illustrated covers for the enormously popular Saturday Evening Post. In total, he produced over 300 illustrations for the magazine. The mainstream image of Santa Claus as a jolly fat man in a red fur- trimmed coat was popularized by Leyendecker, as was the image of the New Year Baby. Also notable is Leyendecker's illustration of the Three Kings, from the Christmas 1900 edition of the Saturday Evening Post and the one above honoring the 1932 Olympic Champions U.S. Rowing Team.

Leyendecker drew propaganda posters during WWI, encouraging people to buy war bonds. But what could be more deliberately homoerotic than his recruiting poster for the U.S. Navy with its semi-naked men and the phallus symbolism of the cannon and the shell, not to mention the line "These men have COME ACROSS."

In 1914 the Leyendecker brothers built an estate in New Rochelle, NY, where they, their sister, and Charles Beach, lived. Leyendecker was the chief influence on, and a friend of Norman Rockwell, who was a pallbearer at Leyendecker's funeral in 1951. Leyendecker was elected to the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame in 1977.

1903 – Frank Sargeson (d.1982) was the pen name of Norris Frank Davey. He is considered one of New Zealand's foremost short story writers. Like Katherine Mansfield, Sargeson helped to put New Zealand literature on the world map.

Born in Hamilton, Sargeson has been credited with introducing New Zealand English into short stories. His technique was to write the story without mentioning the setting. He also used a semi-articulate style which means that the story was written from a naive point of view. Events are simply told but are not explained.

Although Sargeson became known for his literary depiction of the laconic and unsophisticated New Zealand male, his upbringing had in fact been middle-class comfortable. Upon completing his training as a solicitor, he spent two years in the United Kingdom. Sometime in the 1930s, he began living year-round in his parents' holiday cottage in Takapuna, a northern suburb of Auckland. He eventually inherited the property which became for several decades an important gathering place for Auckland's bohemia and literati.

When author Janet Frame was released in 1955 from eight years of voluntary incarceration in New Zealand psychiatric hospitals, Sargeson invited her to stay in a former army hut on his property. He introduced her to other writers and affirmed her literary vocation and encouraged her to adopt good working habits. She lived in the shed for about a year, during which time she wrote her first novel, Owls Do Cry.

During the 1930s and 40s, Sargeson experienced considerable economic hardship, as his literary output earned him very little money. This experience left him permanently sympathetic to the Left. For example, he quietly advocated closer relations between New Zealand and Maoist China.

He was also gay at a time when sodomy was illegal in New Zealand. In 1929, he was arrested on a morals charge in Wellington, but later acquitted. His biographer believes that this trial explains why Sargeson adopted a pen name and never practised the profession for which he had trained.

Sargeson died in Auckland.

1923 – Georgina Somerset (d.2013) was a British dentist and former Royal Navy officer. She was the first openly intersex person in the United Kingdom.

Somerset was born on 23 March 1923 in Purley and christened George Edwin Turtle. Her birth was registered outside of the usual time limit because of confusion as to her sex. Ultimately, the obstetricians decided to assign her male. She was educated at Purley High School for Boys, a grammar school in Croydon and Reigate Grammar School, an all-boys free school. She went on to study dentistry at King's College Hospital, London, and qualified in 1944.

As a newly qualified dentist, Somerset was called up to the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve as the Second World War was coming to an end. She was promoted to temporary surgeon-lieutenant on 27 March 1946 with seniority from 21 September 1945. She left the military in 1948.Upon returning to civilian life, she established a dental practice in Croydon, London. In early 1960, she sold this practice and moved to Hove, East Sussex, where she ran another dental practice until retiring in 1985. Somerset wrote two books: Over The Sex Border published in 1963 and her memoir A Girl Called Georgina published in 1992.

Somerset's father was a Freemason and initiated both his sons into the Craft in 1945. She rose to become Worshipful Master of her Lodge but resigned from the craft in 1953. Having felt female from a young age, Somerset underwent gender confirming surgery in January 1957. She had previously been rejected by the eminent plastic surgeon Sir Harold Gillies, as she had turned up to her appointment in male morning dress. In 1960, after sworn testimony from her doctors, she was given a new birth certificate with her chosen name of Georgina Carol Turtle and her sex as female.

In June 1962, her engagement to Christopher Somerset, distantly related to the Duke of Beaufort, was announced in the Court and Social page of The Daily Telegraph. They married in St Margaret's, Westminster, London, in October 1962. This made her the first known woman to marry in a church after officially changing sex.

Georgina Somerset died on 30 November 2013, aged 90.

1956 – Steven Saylor is an American author of historical novels. He is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, where he studied history and Classics.

Saylor's best-known work is his Roma Sub Rosa series, set in ancient Rome. The novels' hero is a detective named Gordianus the Finder, active during the time of Sulla, Cicero, Julius Caesar, and Cleopatra. Outside this crime novel series, Saylor has also written two epic-length historical novels about the city of Rome, Roma and Empire. His work has been published in 21 languages.

In the early 1980s, following a move to San Francisco, Saylor became an editor at Drummer magazine, a popular gay S/M publication at the time. He explained in a later interview that the erotic fiction he wrote in his twenties emphasized the seriousness with which he undertook the task, stating, "I probably did more actual rewriting on those stories than anything I've done since, because for me, writing erotic fiction is like writing a piece of music, because if one note is wrong, you lose the audience."

Saylor has also written two novels set in Texas. A Twist at the End, featuring O. Henry, is set in Austin in the 1880s and based on real-life serial murders and trials (the case of the so-called Servant Girl Annihilator). Have You Seen Dawn? is a contemporary thriller set in a fictional Texas town, Amethyst, based on Saylor's hometown, Goldthwaite, Texas.

Saylor contributed autobiographical essays to three anthologies of gay writing edited by John Preston, Hometowns, A Member of the Family, and Friends and Lovers, and prior to his novel-writing career he published gay erotic fiction under the pen name Aaron Travis.

Saylor has lived with Richard Solomon since 1976; they registered as domestic partners in San Francisco in 1991 and later dissolved that partnership in order to legally marry in October 2008. The couple split their time between Berkeley, California, and Austin, Texas.

1960 – Terry Sweeney is an American writer, comedian and actor. He started identifying himself as gay as early as the fourth grade. Sweeney is best known for his appearances as a regular cast member of Saturday Night Live (SNL) during that program's 1985-86 season. He was discovered by Lorne Michaels while Sweeney was performing in a New York play, Banned in France in 1983.

Sweeney was SNL's first openly gay cast member; He was "out" prior to being hired as a cast member. His run on the show came at a time when there were few openly gay characters or actors on television. For roughly 27 years, there were no other openly gay cast members on SNL, until Kate McKinnonwas added to the cast in April 2012. However, as of 2012, no other gay males (out or otherwise) besides Terry Sweeney have been cast members on SNL.

During his season on SNL, he became known for his celebrity impersonations, particularly female impersonations of stars like Diana Ross, Patti LaBelle, Joan Collins, Brooke Shields's mother Teri Shields, and Joan Rivers, as well as Ted Kennedy (the only male celebrity he impersonated). His most notable recurring character was a portrayal of then-First Lady Nancy Reagan.

While at SNL, he faced many hardships from both the writers and cast because of his sexuality, especially from Chevy Chase. Sweeney was told by Ron Reagan, who hosted one of that season's episodes, that he was "more like his [Reagan's] mother than she is."

Terry Sweeney's partner is Lanier Laney, a comedy writer who also wrote for SNL in the 1985-1986 season. According to a 2000 magazine article, they met during a sketch called the "Bess Truman Players". Laney and Sweeney were also writing partners for Saturday Night Live during the 1985-1986 season, the movie Shag, and the Sci-Fi Channel cartoon Tripping The Rift.

1962 – Openly gay Marc Cherry is an American writer and producer. He is best known for being the creator of the show Desperate Housewives.

After graduating from high School, Cherry attended California State University, to study theatre and initially considered a career in performance. He decided to move to Hollywood and pursue writing work. His move came at a bad time; the 1988 writer's strike hit as soon as Cherry arrived.

In 1990, he became a writer and producer for the long-running hit sitcom The Golden Girls. He later created Some of My Best Friends a 2001 sitcom that was based in part on the film Kiss Me, Guido.

In 2002, a conversation with his mother inspired him to develop a show about the fractured lives of four upper middle class suburban women. After HBO, FOX, CBS, NBC, Showtime, and Lifetime Television all passed on the show, Cherry got his big break when his agent was arrested and went to jail for embezzlement. His new agents brought the show to ABC, which decided to pick it up. The series, Desperate Housewives, was an immediate ratings smash and generated enormous national (and subsequently, international) debate. Cherry received several lucrative offers from various parties, but chose to sign a long-term deal with Touchstone, since their network had shown faith in Desperate Housewives when no one else would.

He says he added the gay couple to the script to underline the growing "normality" of having gay neighbors.

Desperate Housewives continued to be popular for seven more seasons and Cherry took more of a back seat during its eight and final season.

Cherry has been described as a 'somewhat conservative gay Republican and was the recipient of the Log Cabin Republicans American Visibility Award in 2006. Cherry was described in an article about him in Newsweek as a "somewhat conservative, gay Republican."

1978 – Mario Armando Lavandeira, Jr., better known as Perez Hilton (a play on "Paris Hilton"), is an American blogger and television personality. His blog, Perezhilton.com (formerly PageSixSixSix.com), is known for posts covering gossip items about celebrities. His blog has garnered negative attention for its attitude, its outing of alleged closeted celebrities, and its role in the increasing coverage of celebrities in all forms of media.

On his blog, Hilton is open about his homosexuality and about his desire to "out" those who he claims are closeted gay celebrities. When former 'N Sync member Lance Bass officially came out as gay on July 26, 2006, Hilton received criticism for having been partially responsible in the outing. "It upsets me that people think what I'm doing is a bad thing," Hilton told Access Hollywood. "I don't think it's a bad thing. If you know something to be a fact, why not report it? Why is that still taboo?" On November 2, 2006, another celebrity often questioned by Hilton for remaining closeted, actor Neil Patrick Harris, revealed that he is gay.

Prominent members of the gay community who have criticized Hilton's outing tactics include Arts & Entertainment Editor of The Advocate Corey Scholibo, AfterElton.com editor Michael Jensen, and Damon Romine, spokesperson for the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. Kim Ficera, contributing writer for AfterEllen.com, wrote,

"I have to question the character of a man who attacks others on such deeply personal levels, without provocation and for self-benefit, monetary or otherwise...If he's emotionally incapable of exhibiting even the tiniest bit of compassion for closeted people, if he can't be sensitive to the fact that coming out is a very personal decision and that the process can be difficult for some — especially celebrities — I feel sorry for him. If his juvenile behavior is his shtick, I think it makes him a much more pathetic figure, and one the gay and lesbian community should not support....If we support behavior like Hilton's, we applaud shallowness, arrogance, rage and invasion of privacy, and risk becoming what we despise."

Some of Hilton's fellow gossip bloggers have also objected to his approach. Author, screenwriter, and former friend Japhy Grant has also questioned his motives, writing on Salon.com, "Spreading gossip is just your average pedestrian variety of immorality. Claiming that you're doing it to further civil rights is an outright sham."

When questioned on Midweek Politics about whether reporting on celebrities' sexual orientation incites homophobia by making it news, Hilton indicated that he did not believe so. He said that coming out in Hollywood is not necessarily a bad thing, citing Ellen DeGeneres and Rosie O'Donnell as examples:

"I know there is some controversy about outing people, but I also believe the only way we're gonna have change is with visibility. And if I have to drag some people screaming out of the closet, then I will. I think that lots of celebrities have an archaic fear that being gay will hurt their career but look at Rosie. Look at Ellen."

Some prominent gay rights advocates disagree. GLAAD spokesperson Damon Romine told Salon.com,

"Media speculation about a celebrity's orientation is not something we support. This kind of gossip can lead some people to the decision to come out, as we've seen recently, or it may drive others further into the closet. People are going to become more guarded and secretive and not less, because they don't want to create any opportunities [for anyone to out them]."

Actor Bruce Vilanch said, "What purpose does it serve? These [people like Perez] are professional homosexuals. They are gay people for a living. They have to respect the rights of homosexuals who aren't professional." In an article entitled "Just How Dangerous is Perez Hilton?", AfterElton.com suggested that Hilton's actions put people's careers at risk, because anti-gay bias is still a prominent part of American culture. He continued, "Both as a gay man and a journalist, I question whether the gay community should approve of Hilton's actions.... Being associated with someone who publishes photos of panty-less starlets and scribbles dirty notes...makes us look infantile and ridiculous."

2005 – St. Kitts and Nevis:   The Windjammer Barefoot Cruise ship with 110 gay men is not allowed to dock on the island. Officials stated that they don’t want homosexuality to be part of their culture.

[typellblog]

im convinced people are only saying the walrus to be contrarian im sorry like i get the Point that you think walruses knocking on the door requires you to believe a lot of implausible things that in combination are less plausible than the simple fact of fairies existing at all but the difference is that i can immediately think of explanations for all the issues with the walrus

how did it get here? Someone obviously transported it by boat and dropped it off

why is it knocking on the door? Because it was trained to hit things that look like my doorbell with its flippers

why my house, specifically? Why not?

and all of these while fantastical don't really require me to fundamentally alter my understanding of the world, these are all things that Could happen even if i don't know Why exactly they would

while the fairy is just. not a real thing. fairies aren't real. sorry.

and if they were I have a feeling that the Why of that would be much more difficult to grasp than even the Why of the billionaire walrus-trainer who chose to drop it off in the suburbs of Auckland

[hcnnibal]

nz anon here, i am originally from auckland!! i am gnawing at the bars of my cage thinking about all the different suburbs they could be from and the socioeconomic implications they would have!!!!! how were their childhoods effected by the financial deregulation of 1984!!!! did they ever go to big day out??!! did they have an opinion on the giant dodgy Santa that used to go up outside farmers every year for the Christmas parade!!! SO MANY THOUGHTS!!!👹👹👹👹

this is advanced nz lore, and i am only a nz novice at best

#i spawned them there for 1 plot purpose and 1 purpose only im sorry anon

[pom12art]

Wellington

Since people seem to really like the fanmade map and the mage poster, I decided to draw another map but featuring Wellington, the ex-capital city of this version of New Zealand!! :DD

So here's some information on the region :DD

Wellington:

Since the Rash, Wellington is no longer the capital city of New Zealand as it has become a military settlement. After the collapse of Auckland as well as the majority of the North Island, the NZ army began to build a barrier around the increasingly shrinking region to protect its remaining inhabitants.

Even 100 years after the Rash, people still call it ‘Windy Wellington’ due to the city’s location between the two islands. And it is still used as the gateway to the South Island.

Karori & Makara:

Karori is a suburb located at the western edge of the urban area of Wellington, New Zealand, 4 km from the city center and was once one of New Zealand's most populous suburbs.

After people were forced to leave their homes, some were too stubborn to leave and decided to stay in Karori and Makara instead. The army tried to kick them out at first but eventually gave up. 

Karori has become a small town where members of the army like to hang out, while Makara has been used as farmland for growing vegetables . It is also the home of one of the three mage academies with the other two located in Christchurch and Invercargill.

#artists on tumblr #my art #digitalart #artist on tumblr #digital art #worldbuilding #fanmade #stand still stay silent #sssscomic #ssss #I kinda want to draw a monster next so I have a few ideas.

[aotearoa-yura15cbx]

Piha beach, Auckland suburb, Aotearoa

#Piha beach #Auckland suburb #Aotearoa #piha #new zealand #auckland #photos #yura15cbx #yuriy karetin #[email protected] #aotearoa #north island #yura karetin #photography #Avraam Edelberg #авраам эдельберг #юра каретин #юрий каретин

[mybeingthere]

Joe L’Estrange was born in 1960 in Ōamaru, New Zealand, the birthplace of Janet Frame, but has lived in Dunedin since 1973. She graduated with a Diploma of Fine Arts from Dunedin School of Art in 1980. Her grandparents owned a house in Concord, and she has often painted her local neighbourhoods of Concord, Caversham, and now Corstorphine, where she currently lives high up on a hill.

In 1992, on her thirty-second birthday, L’Estrange won the Adam Portraiture Award with the painting Georgiana, judged by artist Shona McFarlane. With the $10,000 prize money, she bought her first house, by the motorway in Caversham, a working-class Dunedin suburb. Back then, she described herself as a "purely-what-the-eye-sees person, and that’s terribly out of fashion". But realism is never out of fashion, just out of the way, like Caversham. Representational art is timeless.

As an artist, L’Estrange has been described both as an enigma and as Dunedin’s worst-kept best-kept secret. I’m told she hates symbols and is allergic to ‘isms’. Her professional CV includes only a few wayfaring stops outside Dunedin: Balclutha and Whakatāne, Auckland and Wellington. https://www.newsroom.co.nz/readingroom/dunedins-cat-lady

“There are numerous artists who have painted flowers and gardens, but not many who have articulated these with the level of hypnotic intensity, delicacy, spatial complexity and energy that is evidenced in L’Estrange’s paintings.

“Everything L’Estrange paints has a potency about it, even if it’s a tin can. This is intrinsic to the way she paints what she sees and why her art is not like anyone else’s.

[airyairyaucontraire]

There is a suburb of greater Auckland called Manly. I knew that and always thought it was funny, but today I found out that as it’s on the Whangaparaoa Peninsula and has a beach on either side, one side is called Big Manly Beach and the other is Little Manly Beach.

[scotianostra]

On March 9th 1770 Haggis was served on board Captain James Cook’s ship “Endeavour”

I'm never really sure how many posts I will end up doing each day, this is just a bit of a filler as it isn't that big a deal!

There is many a story or legend about the infamous haggis. Some say it is a bird, some say it is an animal that has legs on one side of its body longer or shorter than the other side, so that when it is running around a hill and is frightened, it turns and falls and rolls down the hillside so that people can catch it easier. All of these stories originated in Scotland, but with regards to this Haggis, it is thought it was the first haggis prepared and eaten in New Zealand.

It's said that the New Zealand Haggis actually runs round hills clockwise, as we all know of course, in Scotland it is anti-clockwise, this is because they have quickly adapted to the southern hemisphere, and basically running upside down- what's your answer to that Flat Earthers!

The New Zealand Haggis originated from the original Scottish stock that migrated here in the 1800's. Adapting to a different climate and vegetation, the Haggis flourished well in its new home, but kept many of its ancestral features. However, grazing on N.Z. vegetation has resulted, some say, in a more superior flavoured table beastie.

The Haggis originally bred on the slopes of Mt. Victoria in the suburb of Devonport, Auckland City (an early European settlement), and grazed mainly on local "kikuyu" grass, bracken and the odd bit of tourist litter.

Back to the main subject of the post.

The Endeavour which was anchored off the south side of Stewart Island and the haggis was made to celebrate the birthday of a young Scottish Officer on board the vessel. (Captain James Cook's father was also Scottish).

When you are heating a haggis, take heed of the poem:

“The Haggis is a funny Beast To make it, strong men toil But in cooking, it is delicate NEVER should it boil.

It’ll sit at “sub-boiling” For the best part of a day Until the time arrives at last To carry it on a tray.

So people, please take note and Do not fiddle with the knob I set the dial earlier I’ve heated many, I know my job.

If you turn the dial or poke the beast Thinking you’re one of the testers I’ll use my sword and send you off To meet all your ancestors.“

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