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@malacologist what’s your reason for having wooden houses.

also I forgot where you said it but yes I’m 24. Sometimes I think it’s 23 or 26. How old are you again? What is time?

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*sprinkles some of Australian politics’ ability to crumble the ruling boss and depose them* Use wisely, and enjoy

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bogusbord replied to your post: bogusbord replied to your post : ...

My province’s entire economy is based on forestry so yes we live in wood houses.. we have a lot of trees

When you say that, it makes sense that everyone has wooden houses. We probably are the odd ones out then.

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I went to Wellington. It was cold and windy...

What are houses made of in Australia..

In the parts that I live in, bricks and concrete mostly. Weatherboard and fibro sheeting as well (so much asbestos). Admittedly weatherboard is a compressed wood but like, very few houses look like wood and are made entirely of wood and would burn like a motherfucker.

Do you live in little wooden houses too, is this just a normal thing

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bogusbord replied to your post: I went to Wellington. It was cold and windy...

Does He know you were practically on his doorstep

I wouldn’t think so. In a sort of can’t-help-myself way I kept an eye on potential strangers in the streets, but I don’t think I saw him either. It’s not as small as I make it out to be, really.

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bogusbord replied to your post: Had my phone interview for this zoo course. They...

Are you gonna be a zoo master… A master of zoos

One day, yes, one day. My journey from Zoo Apprentice is only just beginning.

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Had my phone interview for this zoo course. They are so popular (so popular) that you need to call them. and send a photo and bio. Scrolling through my meagre fb photos and needing to pick a newish one so I wasn’t lying about how overweight I am now...trying not to make my bio sound like a dating ad ‘Hi, I’m 24 and I live in Sydney’ and all that. The first thing they asked was “so how old are you? And where do you live?” Everything is a joke. Haha.

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I went to Wellington. It was cold and windy mostly, and so much like a small town that I realised I will never understand what it is like to live in an actual real life small town. 

Seriously, this is meant to be a city and walking around with people we bumped into basically everyone.

Got a trip a little ways out of town on a train heading to the Hutt. Two people informed me that the Hutt is where the dodgy/trashy girls live.

The terrain was kind of trippy too. I didn’t realise how flat Sydney is. In Wellington everyone lives on a goddamn hill, just scattered hill people. Except the parts with tsunami warnings and near vertical staircases to higher ground? Cause everyone is just waiting for the next earthquake that’ll fuck it all up. 

All the houses are wood, so I was being told the main thing to worry about is fire. Chatting about a friend-of-a-friend whose entire house and contents just burned down a month ago. It burns so quickly that fire fighters are mainly trying to stop it spreading.

There are so many small birds, and with their twittering and the low pollution (low population and winds I suppose) and the lack of brick houses it reminded me of Canberra and visiting my grandma. Then at a party I was talking to a girl who’d moved from near Napier, (being described as a place with sheep and not much else,) and how fantastic and wowed she was living in Wellington. Concepts of what constitutes small towns is a weird weird thing.

It’s very British culturally in many ways, more so than Australia. They even celebrate Guy Fawkes night like...? The fuck you care about the english parliament not being blown up? That’s not your nationalism.

Also there is a bird with balls on it’s neck and that’s great.

Anyway, that’s my thoughts on my brief weekend away in New Zealand.

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I luv my buddies.

I really do.

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extremely.

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Cave adventures (phone quality, so some are somewhat poor)

There is a lot of diversity in shape and texture. I probably took too many photos.

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Little sea monster is so old.

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I think I'm dehydrated but....cat lap...

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Hamish (the great big lump)

Edit: He is chocolate labrador I am petsitting, with two cats (off having fun). 

He is labradorable.

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we all live in a yellow unterseeboot

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we all live in a yellow underseaplaceboat

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Did drowning turn me yellow, or was it from the process of expansion into a u-boat?

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Got into NT 750! With another spoopy "short" story. 

(But I love the image CQ picked, practically perfect, great match in tone. I was thinking it might be awkward and/or boring to find a pic to go with it, but nah, super happy.)

Seriously it's awful though, don't read it.