September Snaps – Day 19 (Stock exchange)

September 19, 2012

The New Zealand stock exchange is located in the old Odlins Building at the Wellington waterfront. In 2006 two electronic scrolling signs were added to the facades to display stock prices and showcase upcoming city events. In between prices and events listings these scrolling signs often show little messages that highlight how awesome Wellington as […]

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September Snaps – Day 18 (Floods)

September 18, 2012

Before I even started work today, I dropped our dehumidifier off at Meggy’s place. Her house was affected by the floods earlier this week (see photos 3,4,7 & 8). I went back after work – that’s when I took this picture of the industrial blow dryer that is currently drying her carpet.

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September Snaps – Day 17 (Veggie patch)

September 17, 2012

Somehow I enjoy gardening quiete a lot lately. I’m currently working on growing some veggies, including kohlrabi (my absolute favourites!), which are very hard to get in Wellington. What you see here is my main veggie patch. It has some broccoli already growing in it, and a few tiny kohlrabi plants under the plastic cover and […]

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September Snaps – Day 16 (Evil child)

September 16, 2012

Today was quite a domestic day. It had grocery shopping, pantry cleaning, plant caring, soup cooking, laundry washing and nail polishing in it. In oder to celebrate my day as a housewife, here’s a close-up of my compost bucket. It used to be a hot chocolate bucket at work, now it’s being used to carry […]

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September Snaps – Day 15 (More birthday celebrations)

September 16, 2012

We’re still in Kai’s birthday week, so Bex and Nick prepared a special airplane themed birthday afternoon/evening for him. He got: an airplane cake toy planes as presents awesome dinner (not plane themed, cooked by Nick & me) a special ‘Kai’s birthday edition’ of Buzz (with lots of questions around flying, but also with about […]

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September Snaps – Day 14 (Wind)

September 15, 2012

I took today’s photo at lunch time, when I noticed that the wind was so strong that it basically blew water back up a waterfall. Even the seagull didn’t like it and took off when a wall of water hit its face.

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