tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4467044113128246688.post6039956017983765082..comments2023-11-04T00:14:27.505+13:00Comments on Four Paws and Whiskers: Christchurch, The Garden City, Spring FeverFi from Four Paws and Whiskershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11217307759511472654noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4467044113128246688.post-61548152125517077322009-09-14T08:08:01.541+12:002009-09-14T08:08:01.541+12:00Thanks Anonymous :) I wondered about the birds tak...Thanks Anonymous :) I wondered about the birds taking the fish - seems to be an issue with goldfish ponds too... but the pond does smell strongly of chlorine! Can't help the weed killers - got to keep the place under some control to show the plants - and it was still as beautiful and peaceful, as ever.Fi from Four Paws and Whiskershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11217307759511472654noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4467044113128246688.post-75713633389050028702009-09-13T21:15:36.816+12:002009-09-13T21:15:36.816+12:00Hi, there is minimal chemical use in the Christchu...Hi, there is minimal chemical use in the Christchurch Botanic Gardens and ponds and waterways do not have any chemical treatment aside from chorine in the children’s paddling pool. The waterways are all natural and unfortunately natural predators, eels, cormorants, (shags), Herons, and ducks attack the fish reducing there populations so please enjoy the spaces provided.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4467044113128246688.post-13829937651926324582009-09-13T08:45:56.038+12:002009-09-13T08:45:56.038+12:00Christchurch in the spring is one of my favourite ...Christchurch in the spring is one of my favourite places!merinzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01950053039147788819noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4467044113128246688.post-83843667170312757352009-09-12T23:33:29.396+12:002009-09-12T23:33:29.396+12:00Happy for you that it's Spring. I love the dif...Happy for you that it's Spring. I love the different seasons, but after a long winter just a bit of colour and sunshine can do you good!<br />Maybe the romantic couple were texting each other? Some lovely photos there. The Winston Churchill one made me LOL. As long as she doesn't light it... ;-)Carolinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09288856854422999687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4467044113128246688.post-17712131482059054932009-09-12T22:11:21.878+12:002009-09-12T22:11:21.878+12:00Its so funny that your talking about spring. Last...Its so funny that your talking about spring. Last night we noticed how dark it was at 8pm. Winter is just round the corner.Eternal Worrierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16286099574417884207noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4467044113128246688.post-76130710279959248352009-09-12T21:14:04.987+12:002009-09-12T21:14:04.987+12:00Beautiful pictures, wish I was well enough to come...Beautiful pictures, wish I was well enough to come visit one day!Joey Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00950833278471728849noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4467044113128246688.post-16355616702570124812009-09-12T16:59:26.826+12:002009-09-12T16:59:26.826+12:00Fi,
Thank you for visiting me, more than once, at...Fi,<br /><br />Thank you for visiting me, more than once, at Halfway To France, and for having listed my blog in your blog roll. That is very high praise, indeed.<br /><br />I like it that you contrasted the different points on your nature walk with various activities being engaged in by the human beings that you encountered along the way--poisoning the environment in the name of making it more beautiful (that's a bit like all those poor women primping their faces with lead-based powder--lord help us all), texting instead of talking or making out, etc.<br /><br />My most recent harangue along these lines was sparked upon arriving in the little, only minorly chemically polluted, old house in France to find that someone had left no fewer that three of those toxic "air fresheners" sprinkled through out the place. S/he was no doubt being "thoughtful" although there could hardly be a more flagrant contradiction in intention and consequences--my nose, eyes, and lungs all recoil in horror upon smelling those things--not due to the fragrance per se, although that is bad enough, but due to the fact that those products are made from chemicals that are poisonous--like your sea slugs--and no one seems to be paying the slightest bit of attention. They have banned smoking almost everywhere (I am not now, nor have I ever been a smoker) but I had a MAN behind me in the hypermarché yesterday buying replacement cartridges of that liquid chemical poison for his "air freshener" holder at home!!!!! <br /><br />Worse yet, I went to the doctor's office two days ago and within a few minutes was able to determine that he had one of the torture tools installed there that uses a battery-powered motor to expel a puff of poison fragrance into the confined space, without renewed oxygen, of his office. Talk about migraines in the making!!!<br /><br />Please forgive the blather about poisons, but your post put me in mind of the latest and most superficially insidious on the market. Before one only had to avoid women in elevators or concert halls who had bathed in Channel #5, now one must avoid one's neighborhood doctor's office. <br /><br />All kevetching aside, I hope that you have a lovely day in New Zealand and thank you again for your comment and your visits Halfway To France.<br /><br />Amitiés,La Framéricainehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09879118710247405871noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4467044113128246688.post-69977535876732236702009-09-12T13:40:56.127+12:002009-09-12T13:40:56.127+12:00Lovely pictures, it's a tragedy that chemicals...Lovely pictures, it's a tragedy that chemicals have to be used to keep things looking 'nice' or in the case of the weed 'feeling' nice! xxxTraceyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14623660322653630759noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4467044113128246688.post-5232354976299308222009-09-12T12:16:09.527+12:002009-09-12T12:16:09.527+12:00wow, i would love to take a walk around the same g...wow, i would love to take a walk around the same garden where flora and fauna abound. the sights and sounds tends to relax you and invigorates the senses, no? that couple busy texting didn't realized what they are missing!! or maybe,(i want to believe this) they were texting their friends to come and enjoy the same scenery as they do.<br />have a good weekend, Fi!<br />xoxoxoxoOdette Bautista Mikolaihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00331932607007676763noreply@blogger.com