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Portsea Terrace
Lockdown loop #10 Portsea Terrace in Stafford Street. There’s very little information on this heritage listed property, other than it was...
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Side-On Almond Croissants
Twice baked almond croissants. I had to set an alarm for 11.59am yesterday to leap onto the website and do some fast online shopping for...
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Miss Learmonth Dalrymple
Lockdown loop #9 Our loop came past Otago Girls’ High School today. Opening on the 6th February 1871 with 78 pupils, it was the first...
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Tepid Baths
Lockdown loop #8 I headed out for an early morning jog and discovered an interesting little reminder of the Tepid Baths in Moray Place,...
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Moana Pool
Lockdown loop #7 Today was mostly about getting outside on such a summery day. It beamed on us in Queens Drive at the stage of our walk...
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Pitches Store Gingernuts
Our lockdown baking is well underway! Yesterday Jack and I made gingernuts using a recipe from Pitches Store in Ophir. I found the recipe...
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The Dentist
Lockdown loop #6 A very slow jog past a favourite building of mine on George St. Designed by architect Edmund Anscombe in 1909 for new...
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Beautiful Bluestone
Lockdown loop #5 Simple observations…our loop today went past the large bluestone wall of Otago Boys High School. An article in Papers...
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Māori Road
Lockdown loop #4 Māori Road. Built by Māori prisoners from Taranaki, where they were charged with ‘levying war against the Queen’ while...
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Ralph by Tyler
Lockdown loop #3 We weaved around Stafford, Carroll and Maclaggan St this morning and came across Ralph Hotere by Tyler Kennedy Stent....