When you see bright green nail polish on someone’s toes, you assume it’ll be a young girl ... but NO .... the bright green nail polish WE saw today was on a “metro male” and he had bright green jandals to match!
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| Places to explore! |
Only in Auckland!
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| The fountain |
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| High Street |
You see all SORTS of strange sights when you’re sitting at a Craft Fair in the centre of the city of Auckland. Emma and I had the best of vantage points! Our seats in the corner of the room overlooked High Street and we had a bird’s eye view of the passing pedestrian parade ... and more!
If the woman emptying stock out of the boot of a car this morning had been young and pretty, she’d have stopped the traffic. She was anything but though and was definitely wearing the WRONG sort of dress for the task she was performing. It was short and floaty .... and the WIND was blowing.
We were chuckling as we watched the her dress get buffeted up time and time again by the wind as she bent into the boot of the car. We both knew it was only a matter of time before the wind blew the dress over her head completely.
It didn’t take long and we nearly wet ourselves laughing when it happened. She was wearing bright floral knickers!! Thank goodness it wasn’t a g-string!
The lack of foot traffic through the market was more than made up for by the abundance of eye candy and interesting fashions on High Street. The footwear I espied went from the sublime to the ridiculous, from the highly fashionable to the purely functional. There was every colour of the rainbow and more .... stiletto heels, wedges, boots, jandals, trainers ... you name it, we spotted it!
It’s been an interesting two days .... enlightening even. We’ve seen children playing in the fountain, homeless men washing in it, tourists photographing it and passers-by washing their shoes in it. Goodness knows what else happens in and around it during the nocturnal hours.
Maybe we don’t WANT to know!
I need to come back to the city on a gorgeous sunny day and photograph some of the buildings and arcades. They are so inviting .... cobbled pathways leading between interesting looking boutiques and charming coffee shops. I did take some photos but the weather hasn’t been co-operative..
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| The city, still shrouded in clouds and mist on our way home this afternoon |
My hound has missed me this week. She’s used to me not being here on a Monday and a Wednesday but doesn’t expect me to not be here on Tuesdays too! I get the warmest of welcomes when I walk through the front door!
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| Flowering Pohutakawa Trees |
One more market this week ... the twilight one at Albany on Sunday ... and then I’m finished for the year. Cyclone Evan’s heading in our direction though and I’m not sure if I want to do an outdoors market if we have gale force winds. The gazebo’s already shown me it has a mind of it’s own when the winds blowing furiously and I don’t really want to grapple with it again .... certainly not with one hand still being dysfunctional!
I just had a thought! If the world ends on Friday 21st there’ll be NO twilight market for the cyclone to disrupt!! Ha!!
