Snowman Kumura

Connings Pop Up, Archilles Avenue

Yuzu

We like the idea of having yuzu, but wonder how long before they fruit. Most probably in their first year? But there is that old Japanese saying, "Three years for peaches and chestnuts, eight for persimmons. The Big Fool yuzu needs 18 years."

We came home without it this time. 
Mitre10 Mega Nelson.

Ben's Victory Lap

Although we got promptly refunded for the unneeded garden stakes, we spent the money on one more plant, a purple/pink Gazania, a plant new to us. 
Mitre10 Mega Nelson 
 

Parking Neighbour the Next Day

Back at the Garden Centre the next day, we parked next to this manly car, because we had to return some garden stakes. We solved a problem Ben's way instead of mine, which turned out to be, ahem, a better way, and we didn't need the stakes. 

Blinded

Well, poke me in the eye, why don't you! I bet some of these are the same-stuff-in-different-wrappers. I usually stick to the least specialized, but this week I wanted the tomato fertiliserl juice because many flowers respond well besides toms.

The powder/granule fertilizers have their own aisles.
Mitre10 Mega Nelson.

Revenge of the Occasional Gardener

This is what happens when blackbirds dig up oh-so-many seedlings I planted, in spite of strategically positioned obstacles. Some of these have been dug up since, and then covered, and dug up, and.. it's never ending!
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Parking Neighbour

The cutest, quietest parking neighbour.

Mitre10 Mega Nelson. 

Stuff of Nightmere

This is the best pic of around a dozen I tried; the sun was so strong I couldn't get rid of the reflection of the street, but this is an enormous soft/stuffed toy of a... spider! Seriously, would you consider giving this to a child? Or even an adult you like??
PaperPlus, Queen Street, Richmond.

We're Good, but Thanks.

Nice sign. 
Queen Street, Richmond. 
 

Slippery

It took me a while. A lady laughed with me when she saw I slowly/finally got it. 
Richmond Mall. 
 

Fringe/Bangs

At a hair dresser's, Queen Street, Richmond.
 

Richmond Decoration

Some lovely and inexpensive decoration on/around the footpath in Richmond. I wish we had many more of these all over. 

Queen Street, Richmond

Richmond is 20 minutes down the road, and we used to go to the kitchen shop, the model train/dollhouse shop and the mall every so often, but the first two closed, and we've seldom been back the last 20? years.

We took the bus a fortnight ago because Ben wanted to go to a food court, which we don't have in Nelson. Richmond Hall is undergoing refurbishment and the food court is being redone right now, but we found many delightful, family-owned ethnic eateries up and down Queen Street. We settled on Iskandar at Sultans, where I fell in love with beetroot humus. And yes, we asked the chef his ingredients. 

More Hospital Decal

Hospital Eye Clinic has a new home; no longer a dark corner at the end of the hallway, but in a new building. But when one is given eyedrops to have the pupils enlarged, the waiting area in the old dark hallway feels like a much better option. Anyhoo... best bird decals of all hospital decal I've seen so far. 

Nelson Hospital Eye Clinic