But I don't have nothing to feed them!

[vilakins]

Just down the road is a garden centre with a small coffee stall, and I went there today to pick up a coffee and a yummy brioche. There are horse paddocks there belonging to the Meadowbank Pony Club (which seems odd--but nice--in a city, however I heard it's land put aside for a future motorway) and a notice on the gate which always bothers me.



Not the usual "Don't feed the horses", but a positive order to feed them nothing! The horses are usually nowhere near the gate though, so it's not that easy. There was actually one wandering down where the land slopes away but he'd disappeared by the time I took this. The light's not that great as there was only about an hour of winter daylight left.

I took another picture too, of an interesting stump in the field.

Comments

[toft]

But what if you didn't bring nothing with you?

[vilakins]

I know! I never do!

[snowgrouse.livejournal.com]

Oooh, that stump could be very interesting if adapted into some sort of sci-fi design of an alien:).

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

It does look a bit like one with a bird of prey on its wrist.

[linda-joyce.livejournal.com]

Not a bird, a warg.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I thought wargs were bigger! A baby one, perhaps.

[linda-joyce.livejournal.com]

yess a baby one,when they grow they devope a lot of muscle and a fancy ruff round the neck in an effort to stop being strangled by a warg strangler.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Those warg stranglers should put their opposable thumbs to better use!

[vjezkova.livejournal.com]

An alien mourning over a fallen one...or so it seems.
Really dramatic!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I thought so too!

[ultrapsychobrat.livejournal.com]

Wonderful natural wonder.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I wonder what happened to it. Lightning or age?

[daiseechain.livejournal.com]

I love signs that haven't quite got it right.

There's one in Schiphol airport on the pay and display parking machines insisting "This is where you will pay!" It always makes me think of some form of automated court system.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

It sounds like a threat!

[kalinda001.livejournal.com]

That looks like a alien/mutant elephant/insect/crocodile type creature. Wouldn't want to meet a real one.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I'm very glad we don't have crocs here. IN fact our fauna is pretty safe.

[crycraven.livejournal.com]

Hey, I've just seen an episode of Farscape where a stupm a bit like that has an important role to play...

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

[sniggers]

[bigdamnxenafan.livejournal.com]

Such a beautiful place! Everything is so green! It reminds me of the place I grew up.

The trunk does look a bit like a fallen alien or perhaps an Ent that met an untimely end.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Where did you grow up?

Everything is very green here in winter, but it can get brown and dried up in summer if there's a draught.

Yes! An Ent is what it reminded me of! There's a carved one in Tokoroa (http://pics.livejournal.com/vilakins/pic/001dzyc4) (a timber town) rather like it which I took a photo of on my last holiday. Well, we thought it was an Ent.

[bigdamnxenafan.livejournal.com]

I grew up in rural Mississippi, not too far from where I live now. My childhood was spent on a farm, the nearest town was 20 miles away and the nearest neighbor over a mile away. My home was surrounded by rolling fields and trees. I still in Mississippi, and granted the town I live in is relatively small. However, I still miss all the wide open green spaces from my childhood.

Love the picture! It does look like an Ent! Ba-rooom!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Auckland is full of trees and I live surrounded by them. The pics are a bit out of date, but this page (http://www.farsight.net.nz/mypics.htm) shows you our house and garden and gives some idea of the area we live in. The trees have got bigger since so you can't see as many houses, that's all.

I don't update that page any more now I have an LJ gallery (http://pics.livejournal.com/vilakins/). Feel free to cruise that if you like. :-) Meg might enjoy the cat and tiger pictures; a friend's autistic daughter loves them and even has some on her bedroom wall.

[bigdamnxenafan.livejournal.com]

I only had a moment to scan the pictures, but they are lovely! I'll have to take more time to go through them when Meg's occupied with other things. As you predicted, she was wild about the cats. She was especially impressed with the white tiger pics. :)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Those little guys were so gorgeous, like big playful kittens! I made the little boy into this icon.

[bigdamnxenafan.livejournal.com]

Awww how adorable! Love that icon. They have such sweet faces for such ferocious felines. :D

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

They were naughty, but that's what tigers are like! As Elvis sang, they play rough. :-D But they were just adorable, and the little girl was so sweet when I was feeding her. We could pick them both up: they were very strong and wriggly; SO CUTE!

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

Next time you're near there, you must bring a bag of nothing to feed the horses.

The stump looks like a dying Ring-Wraith to me, with a long beaked penguin (with a pince-nez) looking around to make sure no one knows he killed it.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I'll have to go down there with absolutely nothing, which is hard as I always seem to have something on me. And will the horses eat it?

Huh! I hadn't really seen the beak. It does look furtive. "Um, I found him looking like this. Really."

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

I've heard of horses that will eat anything, and some horses think nothing is too good for them, which makes it problematic, indeed.

The more I look at it, the more I think the penguin is wearing a butcher's apron and hiding a knife. AHHHH, The Demon Penguin of Meadowbrook!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

The knife's tucked into the apron?

It's Meadowbank. :-) It's only the next block, and according to the census I live in Meadowbank South, but the PO says it's St John's (after the theological college between us).

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

I may have to draw the homicidal penguin, or it will give me nightmares. I'm not quite sure where the knife is.

Ah, Meadowbank- my eyes read what wasn't there on the sign.

The demon penguin of Meadowbank. RUN AWAY

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

He's got a cleaver tucked under his apron. It's not very obvious.

Re: The demon penguin of Meadowbank. RUN AWAY

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

That's where I thought it was, as I could see the handle.

Re: The demon penguin of Meadowbank. RUN AWAY

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

*nods* Don't ever go near that field at night!