New Zealand field trips:Winter 2009

[cohan]

While I'm glad you have found some legwear, t00lie, I think Jean and I will keep looking for some purple wool!

ok, very OT, but this reminds me of a french movie i saw years ago 'the hairdresser's husband', where a mother knits woolen bathing trunks for her young boys!!

[Susan]

The cold must have got to you Dave, or was it the earthquake that set you off!

Susan

[Maggi Young]

Aaargh! knitted bathing suits..... they were a nightmare!   I remember a little navy and white one when I was about three..... yikes!  At least it  was little when it was dry..... got a whole lot bigger when wet.




Susan, any chance we can ask you to contact Lesley in hospital and give her our very best wishes?  

[Paul T]

From me too, Susan. I emailed her the other day before I knew she wasn't well, just to find out whether she was OK or not.  Would like you to pass on best wishes for me if you get the chance.

Thanks so much.

[Susan]

I popped in this afternoon to see Lesley and passed on all of your best wishes.  She had quite a major operation apparently, and just in time. She was supposed to be going home tomorrow, but they are going to do an angiogram tomorrow morning.   While I was there they came along to do an ECG.   Will know more tomorrow afternoon,as I  will call in again when I am in town.

I did not have long with her as she was being press ganged into signing forms for the procedure and then wanted to stick little patches all over her, so I thought it was time to leave - all sounds like scary stuff to me. 

Susan

[Maggi Young]

Susan, good to hear that you have seen Lesley....... sounds very scary, as you say. Tough old bird though, so I'm hopeful of full recovery to her usual self soonest!

Thanks so much for keeping us up to date.

[kiwi]

Beautiful day for a walk up the back! Need some help with Aciphylla identification.
1. Lake Lyndon ice melt
2. Celmisia spectabilis and Aciphylla aurea ?
3. and 4. Carmichaelia monroi.

[cohan]

nice views---great to see what places look like in different seasons..the plants seem very architectural in this area, so they look great active or dormant..

[Ragged Robin]

Lovely photo of Lake Lyndon ice melt and the wild landscape Doug 

[Lesley Cox]

Gradually catching up with way over 1000 posts, even another 300 since I came home and since Roger hogs the Broadband at the weekends, I'm just getting into gear.

The earthquake is old news now but I can report that it was VERY scary on the 4th floor of Dunedin hospital, with several concrete floors above and below. The beds slithered about, the curtains rattled and shook and a few things fell over but nothing worse than that. We were just wondering how the heck we were going to get out when it all stopped. No panic, no damage. Much of the hospital building is relatively new and our lot at least is built on a kind of absorbent pad, for just such occasions. Nice to know it works.

REALLY scary though, are those woollies of Dave's.  Might have to get out my own knitting needles.

[Lesley Cox]

Doug, the All Blacks didn't go too well, did they? What a bunch of amateurs!

But I don't want to say a word against them to you in partcular, as I think you're the man to find a little plant for me, that I had years ago. I know that Parahebe canescens grows at Lake Lyndon but I haven't been there for years. If you find it sometime, would you get a little piece for me please? I can arrange to pick it up somehow, maybe in the summer. It would be the perfect plant for the "Puzzles" thread, a picture of the plant not in flower. (What? where's the plant?)

[kiwi]

Lesley, yes, the rugby was gutting, but next weekend we'll kick ass! As for the Parahebe, I will be on the look out for you. cheers,
Doug.

[David Lyttle]

Hi Lesley,

Good to see that you are back having survived your sojourn in Dunedin Public + the earthquake. The only thing left to bite you is the pig flu. Keep well!

[Paddy Tobin]

Doug,

Many thanks for the photographs. A question: does the carmichaelia do anything? Flower? I have two plants for about ten years and nothing ever seems to happen with them - they just grow very, very slowly, never a flower, no apparent leaves even. Peculiar little thing.


Paddy

[johnw]

A question: does the carmichaelia do anything? Flower? I have two plants for about ten years and nothing ever seems to happen with them - they just grow very, very slowly, never a flower, no apparent leaves even. Peculiar little thing.Paddy

Paddy

I'd be interested to know as well.  My Carmichaelia ensyii from AGCBC93-876 seed had its first and only flower last summer. Now to find the plant which I can't recall seeing ever since.

johnw