Saturday, August 8, 2015

Last and the Least

Day 1 House 4 - If the others were a beauty, 11 Richmond Hill Rd is a beast.

I hate being mean, but really this looked and smelt more like a hoarder's abode...


Always encouraging

Paedophile's dream

That in the background, I find out later is what the NZ ARMY used for live military target practise...

This oven is so old... it was the same model as the one our family owned in the 1970's..

I see why the three children left now 

Little ol' Sofie Graf-Russell - She's in the same year as me and after some research I think she now works at a pub in Queenstown and is anorexicly skinny if you're looking for other differences!

Let's go catch some nightmares!

Day 1 House 3 Sumner (okay it's actually the same house as 2 but it's so insane it deserves two posts)


DANGER: LIVE WIRES... Now that's what I call a warm welcome!



Oh the irony. I'll get a dreamcatcher if I ever want to grow a pot plant in my room.

dreamcatcher
ˈdriːmkatʃə(r)/
noun
  1. a small hoop containing a horsehair mesh decorated with feathers and beads, believed by American Indians to give its owner good dreams.



"Whaddyu mean stone? Stop disturbin' my foosball championship game momma!"



"Good Afternoon, uhhm I'm just calling in to ask if the Pink Batts lifetime warranty applies for cases of giant boulders ripping a hole in the roof in the event of an earthquake?"


Time flies when you're enjoying it - These babies are now all in high school/university...

Friday, August 7, 2015

Party Rock Anthem.. No Joke.

Day 1 House 2 Sumner 


I wasn't actually joking - LMFAO you must be proud of that party rock


Party Rock is in the House Tonight - no wait, in the Kitchen Today 

The Ghetto of India

Day 1 House 1 Sumner


face it, this is probably the closest i'll get to a real indian ghetto. reality: Somewhere on Wakefield Ave but i'll still treasure this place as the first discovery Aaron and I made in the suburb of the quake damaged Sumner. Ghetto really means a condemned house filled with junk that no one is legally able to go in a retrieve. India is really this girl called Indy Kraal. She went to St Andrews College, a private college in CHCH and just graduated from physiotherapy at AUT. She is a year older than me and loves competing in triathlons. Funny if I meet her one day at work... 


These pink stickers decorating front doors of million dollar houses in Sumner are usually what people dread. But to our eyes it means we've struck gold! Aaron says when he goes on shopping sprees in peoples condemned houses he doesn't want to know a thing about who they were. But I guess I don't take a thing (apart from all the dust and mould I inhale) so that's why I make it my purpose to find out as much as I can about some random family while I trespass. 


Owner of the house and India's mother is Helen Kraal. She works for Deloitte and her ex-husband Philip Kraal owns an Italian restaurant somewhere in CHCH.


Oh my! Then who is Craig Prior? He is the golf obsessed partner of Helen who works for the Police - note the police dog plush.. Yes golf obsessed as in the garage looked like a golf shop, with myriads of golf bags, golf hats, golf shoes etc. 


I was a tad hungry - but after I realised how everything in the pantry expired in 2011, I lost all my appetite. The only thing that wasn't expired was the Chambord, which Aaron took no surprise..


Such a pity I was covered in dust but the water was cut off in such a flash showerbox.. 


Saad looking Saab.