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Lucy Corry's avatar

Weather’s looking ok for Monday Leah, best warn the neighbours!🌞

(Thank you, the labia-sunning was exactly the laugh I needed - and the writing of the rest is beautifully apposite, as per.)

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Harriet's avatar

This was fabulous!!! Thankyou, I love Wellington!! and yes for me cake is always the answer.

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Miramartian's avatar

I loved the bit about sunning your flaps, in fact I loved it all… but you skipped the explanation about the presence of a large rock on your roof. Didn’t the builders finish the job? My own roof will soon be replaced and I’ll keep a beady eye on the builders and the rocks in the garden.🤣

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Dan Keane's avatar

Hey from SMUG-AS-SHITVILLE, as we like to call Greytown! Only lost a dead tree. A nice clean drop, took out a fence and the neighbor's silverbeets. Another joy of a read, Leah. My mother in America gets her NZ weather news from you!

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Leah McFall's avatar

Oh your lovely Mum!

Lord, your fence - thank goodness it was merely silverbeet, NZ’s least fashionable leafy veg

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Zoe Barry's avatar

We are the rugged people who sun our labias in the rain and wind, we need no smug and we wave a careless hand to the sunsets, having experienced them all before and finding them non noteworthy. We are living an elevated existence.

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Leah McFall's avatar

Hahahaha, Zoe!!!! *Faints*

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Deborah Coddington's avatar

Loved this. Loved the photo too - only you could look smashing in a Red Warning storm after heaving a rock off a roof, baking a cake, and chopping wood. What a woman!

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Gary Wayne McCormick's avatar

A great account of a storm. I am very sorry for people who have never lived in Wellington.

How do they measure life ?

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Wendy Varley's avatar

‘Well, the roses needed a drink.’ I rather love stoics who downplay apocalyptic weather! ‘Bit nippy out.’ Etc. Glad you weathered this battering.

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Kathy Fryer's avatar

Good cords. Cords don't stay good for long 👀

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Anna Mahoney's avatar

Love it!

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