Thursday, March 19, 2009

kiwiana .......




Kiwiana ..... all the kitsch and classic icons of our past ,....
it's amazing how comforting it is to find fish and chips wrapped in newspaper in a 50s tearooms style restaurant ....






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i have excellent memories while flatting, of moving all our furniture outdoors on to the lawn on the weekend having the indoors outdoors ...including massively heavy deco lounges ,lamps, tables and dinosaur garden sculptures...

yesterday after lurking around in the art galleries, i found a new favourite bar reminiscent of that .... scruffy old couches out
in the alleyway ...a huge firewall ... good cloudy bay NZ wine







and a guy walking the tightrope between the buildings in the alley above us...



doesn't get much better than this .........in my opinion ..... :D
ahhhhh lovely !!!

18 comments:

Apol said...

i am loving that detail photo of the couch. and yummy to the fish and chips!

Nathalie said...

I definitely need to go to NZ...

karuski said...

It sure looks like a cosy place! Love your photos, too!

-minna

Mitsy / ArtMind said...

I'm glad it's breakfast time here so I don't crave fish and chips at the moment! :D Looks yummy though!
Glad you're having a blast too! :)

Jane_Bo said...

Nice places and good photos! Especially I liked the man walking on the roap.

ingermaaike said...

No place like home Dorothy!

matchstickgirl said...

wait a minute you are dorothy and i am scarecrow dorothy !!!!

sheeesh

PA said...

mmmmm fish n chips ....in newspaper...with booze.....in the sun...doesn't get any better :)

Kreativlink said...

Ohh... I want to be there. Now!

matchstickgirl said...

yerrrrp ... what can i say Pam and Renate ...come on over ...



:D

X by Leina Neima said...

...now I want to fly there even more :)

kraplap said...

wow groovy !

StaroftheEast said...

NZ seems a wonderful country with the wild nature. And this seems to be such an inspiring and artistical city!

Sigmosaics said...

very cool to read this and see the photo's Frances!

The absolute best part for me was seeing the tomato sauce 'bottle' .. we had one at home too (Mum probably still has it LOL) .. sweet!

You'll have to give me details on the location in Chch .. looks like my kind of cafe XoX

jealousydesign said...

looks like a wonderful place!

creationsbyeve said...

cool!!!I love the photos!!

lune_blanc said...

Looks like such a fun inspiring place, and haven't had fish & chip in AGES!! I'm craving for it now lol
Love the music score on the building wall :)

.girl ferment. said...

great finds.
must have been interesting reading the papers also

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