#Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand:
In an op shop* book nook a woman (60s?) wearing a blue and white striped pinafore and shiny red mary jane shoes is curled up in a big comfortable looking armchair. Engrossed in a paperback novel.
Turning pages.
Lost in her own world.
A woman (20s?) is pushing a pram holding a VERY BIG BOOK.
But wait!
It's not just a BIG BOOK!
There are little hands holding the BIG BOOK!
And is that a pair of little legs sticking out the bottom?
And is that a DINOSAUR on the back cover?
Ahhh, that explains everything.
A woman (30s?) wearing a bright green and pink dinosaur beanie is standing in line for cinema tickets.
Meanwhile, a tiny human (1?) is standing behind her, completely enraptured.
Eyes wide. Tugging on Dad's hand to share the majesty.
Is it possible... that DINOSAURS live at the movies?!
A barefoot man (50s?) holding a tea cup and saucer is walking out of a white cottage with a bonkers flower garden.
Sipping tea as he turns this way and that to survey the floral mayhem surrounding him.
Yes.
This is satisfactory.
Two men (30s & 40s?) are hard at work in a park, tidying up garden beds, raking up leaves. Trading good natured insults that are getting more creative by the second. Psychedelic rock playing form a small speaker near a thermos and chilly bin* left under a tree.
(Continued below)
George Penney
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2026-08-06 03:17:46 UTC
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