Friday Night Do you realize this is my 700th published post here on The Wormlips Scrapbook? Why have I done this? I don’t know. So I can look back and remember who I’ve been, I suppose. Certainly it’s not for an extensive readership. However, it’s a mildly engaged readership; to wit, if you’re the third person from now to leave a comment, it will be this blog’s 1000th. If it’s a long, thoughtful and original […]
Read moreMonth: July 2013
Most, Best, Only
I’ve already told you about our visiting New Zealand’s oldest kauri tree, longest swing-bridge, most scenic drive and deepest lake, and about the other superlatives that abound here as numerous as cockroaches in New York City. A few days ago we were in the town with the most cooperatives (in New Zealand or in the region, I don’t remember). It seems you can’t hear about anything without learning also about its supremacy in some category. […]
Read moreLeftovers
Before we hit the road today, we stopped for our usual coffee. Many of the sinks here are far too tiny for their purpose, if indeed their purpose is for washing normal-sized human hands. It may have taken me nearly three weeks, but I’m more comfortable driving now. For one thing, I understand how the roads are laid out and what the symbols mean. A white triangle on the asphalt with its point facing you […]
Read moreRafts of Penguins
Last night’s B&B was very nice—a step up from a hostel—but don’t you think it would be fitting to have more than one bathroom for a houseful of people? Thanks to a gentle prompt from Jill, before we left Dunedin we walked up another superlative, Baldwin Street, the world’s steepest street, or is that the world’s steepest straight street, or the world’s steepest street in the South Island of eastern New Zealand? It’s in the […]
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