Weekend social 21/08/2015

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1. shorts 1

   21 August 2015 at 3:05 pm

   for those in Glen Eden

   Reading Revolution

   Shared reading 11am Glen Eden library meeting room & there will be biscuits!

   and for the young or young at heart

   Join us each Saturday 1pm Glen Eden Library, we’re reading HarryPotter aloud.
   • Draco T Bastard 1.1

     21 August 2015 at 4:16 pm

     Join us each Saturday 1pm Glen Eden Library, we’re reading HarryPotter aloud.

     *Runs rapidly in other direction*
   • adam 1.2

     21 August 2015 at 9:57 pm

     I’m liking the new cafe over the road from library.

     Good coffee and a second hand book shop – who could ask for anything more.
2. John Shears 2

   21 August 2015 at 3:08 pm

   Sad that the Notornis were killed by Deerstalkers??? strange choice of hunter IMLTHO , however.

   Perhaps they could be taught a lesson by being made to survive on Pukeko for say a month.
   This recipe I was given to me many years ago.
   find a rock the same weight as the Puk. put both in a pot cover with water simmer for several hours until the rock is edible,
   throw away the Puk and eat the rock.
   • weka 2.1

     21 August 2015 at 4:06 pm

     http://m.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11500322

     I’m guessing underfunding of DOC leading to more reliance on volunteers and inadequate supervision.
3. r0b 3

   21 August 2015 at 3:29 pm

   Spring is in the air! Any tips on pruning grape vines?
   • weka 3.1

     21 August 2015 at 4:03 pm

     ask an experienced local when they do theirs. There’s a time when it’s too late because the sap is running hard and the plant bleeds too much.
   • Enough is Enough 3.2

     21 August 2015 at 4:04 pm

     Chainsaw
   • Draco T Bastard 3.3

     21 August 2015 at 4:19 pm

     How And When To Prune A Grapevine
   • freedom 3.4

     21 August 2015 at 4:21 pm

     use sharp secateurs and remember where your fingertips are when trimming spurs 🙂

     this page has some plainly laid out basics – note it is from California so seasons are different
     but vines are vines and short of separating the vine from the root, it is pretty difficult to go too far wrong
     https://winemakermag.com/571-pruning-tips-backyard-vines
   • r0b 3.5

     21 August 2015 at 5:08 pm

     Thanks folks, will follow up (all except the chainsaw – who doesn’t like grapes???)
4. McFlock 4

   21 August 2015 at 3:41 pm

   Friends of mine started a once-a-month dinner club last year. Next sitting coming up this weekend. I can’t decide whether this means I’m getting old.

   On the plus side, most of us still don’t have actual dining tables (knees and coffee tables the norm). but that might just mean that we’re all still getting old, it’s just that most of us are still poor as fuck lol.
   • r0b 4.1

     21 August 2015 at 5:11 pm

     We had a weekly rotating dinner with folk from our first antenatal class that ran for years and years. Good times (long ago).
5. greywarshark 5

   21 August 2015 at 9:28 pm

   I’ve a book about life in poor London in Edwardian times. On rents and evictions.

   We knew one family of ten (father, mother and eight children) who lived in a tenement.
   Like ours, it consisted of two bedrooms and a kitchen. The children were noisy and quarrelsome and the father spent most of his time in the pub, but the mother was a clean, hardworking woman, who tried desperately hard to make ends meet. She fell behind with the rent and was served with an eviction order.

   The parents searched desperately for another place to live but could find nothing. Finally they went out for the whole day to search for a place, leaving the children at home. While they were out the eviction order was carried out. The children and the entire contents of the home were all dumped into the street and the tenement was locked up. In the evening the parents returned, having found an even smaller tenement in which to live….They were lucky, for at least they had found somewhere else to live. Had they not, they would have ended up like so many others, in the workhouse.
   (My Part of the River by Grace Foakes)
6. Tautoko Mangō Mata 6

   22 August 2015 at 7:46 pm

   I have just finished viewing the great Country Calendar programme on the Guyton’s Food Forest and Heritage apples. It was inspiring to see how the project snowballed to draw in the community.

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