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bill @wiremu.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

also this one. a classic.

Thea Muldoon, wife of Rob, chatting with a couple of burly blokes.

bill @wiremu.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

lately i've noticed pukeko here hanging around more than than usual. then i disturbed the flighty buggers one morning to discover they've been hammering the tradescantia god bless. the chooks love it as well, hook into for breakfast.

a patch of tradescantia stripped bare by chickens and pukeko.

close up of tradescantia stripped clean of foliage

close up of margin of tradescantia which has been eaten and surviving foliage awaiting the next attack.

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bill @wiremu.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

yeah they're great design in the right place. i've still got hardware for 5 pairs, 10 sashes put away from a 1930's bungalow sunroom which got opened up and replace by sliders.

triple sliding doors, recycled jarrah and oregon timber resawn from old beams, double glazed. view from inside onto patio, farmland in background. Paterangi.

stacked set of sliders fitted to a new opening where there used to be a sunroom with bifold windows.

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bill @wiremu.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

i make a few of these from time to time. the original 1930's designed hardware is still available. i refurbish old stuff also- quality is great. recently found about $800 worth of this hardware at the dump:). paid $40

Kelsey bifold sashes, double glazed. refurbished original hardware. the window sill is incorporated into the kitchen bench at one level= wider bench in small are. opens onto deck for outdoor dining

set of 3 pairs of double glazed sashes looking out to nelson haven and western ranges. recycled original hardware was used

kitchen bifolds showing bench /sill detail. opens out to deck area with table and seating

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bill @wiremu.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

thing is, i like imperfect wall finishes which is why the interior walls in my place are solid plaster, with a limewash finish. it was also intended to act as a passive heat sink/release but that hasn't worked really.

square bay window with solid plaster walls limewashed to give colour.
no architraves needed:)

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bill @wiremu.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

contrast this with helen clark in full regalia with warriors legend ruben wiki. iirc david lange was also a league supporter like many others in his constituency.

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bill @wiremu.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

had to stop every 5 km's, tilt the cab, prime the fuel pump. passed a chic in cargo bike cycling steady. then she passed me with a faint smile at one of my priming stops. the hare, the tortoise. tilting the cab is way more dramatic than lifting the hood eh. i think i may have impressed her

a red truck cab tilted forward . truck is stationary on a rural tar sealed road, there is patch of green grass in the paddock in the background, further back some young pine trees on a steep hillside.

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bill @wiremu.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

john gray, thoughts on humans and other animals, 2002

succinctly: ' the best deceivers are those that deceive themselves'.

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bill @wiremu.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

moar possum pls sez kim

kim the lovely huntaway eagerly grabbing a mouthful of skinned possum hindquarters

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bill @wiremu.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Buck Nin, māori/chinese artist and educator. 1942,1996 this work is titled 'dancing on the flats'

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bill @wiremu.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

got the sister's dog to look after overnight. it's got more toys than my kids ever had growing up. is this normal?

a woolen garment to dress a dog in and a brightly coloured retractable dog lead on top of custom sized blue dog crate

a white dog- i forget what sort- on a black and tan couch with a blue blanket

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bill @wiremu.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

lovely self description by max oetti. ( extracts from The New Photography, Athol McCredie) photo: Rene, Princes St,1979

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bill @wiremu.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

starter on the tractor started playing up, wouldn't turn off. big panic to undo terminals before it cooked. did some investigating..yellow tape was hiding evidence

battery terminal cable in terminal condition

battery terminal earth cable got hotter than the sun at some point

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bill @wiremu.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

loading my son's suv onto a vehicle recovery trailer in motueka the other day, old bloke stops, asks 'what's wrong with it then?' turbo shit itself 'oooh. EXXpensive' yep. that's why he rang dad 'that's what dad's are for:)' so yes you can remove a turbo at home but much f#cking and c#nting

a kia sportage turbo charger freed from captivity after 6 miserable hours of toil

side view of the turbocharger or aka 'snails' as they are known in the trade

the nightmare which is the engine bay of a modern diesel vehicle. it took 6 hours to remove the turbocharger which was located between the exhaust manifold ( rust coloured) and the firewall.

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bill @wiremu.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

like your mate i don't make many, but they seem to come in bunches. the thing i like is that they were a standard set of sizes, so in a villa i might have to make a dozen but only set up my machines once.

double hung sash windows made new to fit 24mm thick double glazing. for a 1910 Villa. recycled oregon timber

sill horn detail on double hung sash to match original 1910 single glazed sash

detail of double hung double glazed sash. new cords, new beads with brush seals, 24mm glazing

double glazed double hung sash fitted, new architraves made to match original.

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bill @wiremu.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

if it's made out of tree wood i can fix it. mileage would be a killer tho;)

very rotten sill, 1920's villa double hung sash bay window

cavity filled- matai timber spliced into original matai sill

square bay 1920's villa, double glazed with purpose built sashes and rebuilt. good as a bought one.

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bill @wiremu.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

single glazed to 24mm double glazed makeover. 52mm profile oregon sashes ( recycled oregon ) to suit dble glazing thickness pine sill replaced with rimu- recycled 4 x 2 ripped in half and glued together 8mm rimu veneer glued to painted jambs and header 105 rimu out of 4 x 2 for the architraves

single glazed window with 2 casement openers and a fixed centre pane in a white room with a blue couch.

same window with recycled rimu sill fitted to match the floor timber. made out of a stick of 4 x 2 cut in half and then glued together to match the grain and give a bit more width.

window with rimu architraves fitted, rimu veneers fitted to jambs and header and original hardware ( casement stays ) fitted to the double glazed replacement sashes. draft seals ( not visible ) also fitted into the perimeter of the opening sash jambs, header and sill. a cozy room now:)

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bill @wiremu.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

go ahead. rain. piss down. i don't care.

3 books, 2 by lea ypi and 1 by ann pettifor freshly picked from the nelson/whakatū public library on a rainy friday morning

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bill @wiremu.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

yep. even better if you can cook on it, and/or it has a wetback. double glazing into straight aluminium can be problematic- there is an inherent design flaw which can paradoxically increase condensation. the pictures are from a new alu/dble glazing window at my parent's old place

condensation running down double glazed aluminium joinery

double glazed panes in a thermally unbroken aluminium frame showing extreme condensation

heavy condensation on a newly installed aluminium framed double glazed window

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bill @wiremu.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

found a wee bit of rot on the job today. usual place, caused by sealant around a fixed window, trapping moisture. never seal around the outside of a fixed wooden window. unless you want to grow mushrooms. here's one i fixed earlier

extensive rot in a wooden window at the intersection of the sill and mullion (vertical bit )

rot in a wooden window sill which had spread to the vertical mullion. caused by caulking/sealant around the exterior perimeter of the fixed window, which traps moisture. what moisture you say? it's sealed!. condensation, stupid. it was a single glazed window.

a repair to the rotten sill. macrocarpa clears fitted and glued in after the rot was cut out

in situ repair to the sill and mullion, macrocarpa timber was spliced and glued into the original timber which was sound and free of rot.

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bill @wiremu.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7sG...

first granddaughter in the driver's seat of grandad's red truck, everyone has big smiles

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bill @wiremu.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

same. learned recently that it's called mixed handedness or cross dominance. this lovely old 1930's bandsaw is a rare left hander, i find it intuitively easy to use as i'm mostly lefthanded when using two hands ( cricket, chopping wood etc) and in this case pushing timber

a jarrah beam getting set up to be sliced on a vintage left handed Smith and Peace, Keighley bandsaw, circa 1930's

stick of jarrah about to go thru the vintage bandsaw. the curvaceous body of the saw is to the right of the throat of the bandsaw, identifying it as a left handed saw. the bandsaw is called barouska

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bill @wiremu.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

i imagine uenuku standing here atop pa te rangi, where this surveyors trig marked the raupatu coordinates. the trig station has snce collapsed, it's function supplanted by digital topography. there was a sign on this trig in english and te reo, warning it is an offence to interfere with this marker

trig station A402 stands atop an old pa site ( tauranga mirumiru) at pa te rangi, ngaroto, waikato.

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bill @wiremu.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

the late friday afternoon ph call you'd rather not get

an ever increasing patch of water coning in from a the door despite recently fitting of two weather seals.
water is also coming in from underneath the seal where the builders have inadequately sealed the door.
( nelson is experiencing very high winds and driving rain atm)

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bill @wiremu.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

average crusaders game attendance- 12500 last 24 of 27 warriors games at mt smart sold out-25000 next two games at mt smart sold out wgtn game last month sold out-34500

Ahad Nabi, son of a man killed by a white supremacist terrorist in christchurch confronts the perpetrator in court wearing a nz warriors jersey

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bill @wiremu.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

did a conversion on a straw bale place a little while back. the single glazed second hand joinery was pretty shit. managed to fit triple units into the existing openings, reconfigured the french doors to sliders. the unist weigh 95kg each. can open them with one finger.

fitting a new sill into an existing opening for a triple glazed sliding door to replace existing old an drafty/rotten single glazed joinery in a straw bale house

interior view of triple glazed sliding door. triple glazing =44mm thick, joinery = 75mm thick, red beech recycled timber laminated onto recycled nth american oregon

exterior view of second hand multi paned single glazed splayed bay window. in poor shape, rotten, drafty, loose leadlites and an a poor choice originally- there are lovely rural views out there:)

previous opening with triple glazed units fitted giving an unobstructed view view to nth. installed into existing straw bale.

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bill @wiremu.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

neighbour came over earlier, joined me on the north facing verandah, in the sun. sat down, asked" you done anything today? i've done nothing. nothing!" (excerpt from Straw Dogs, John Gray)

Nothing is more alien to the present age than idleness.

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bill @wiremu.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

luxon's been working the phones

quite a disturbing shot of a half naked former leader talking on a vintage rotary dial phone

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bill @wiremu.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

this is the rule: you cut it down, you tidy it up as you go.

kānuka logs and branches stacked in a pile on a freshly cut green lawn. a stihl battery chainsaw on the ground.

a pile of kānuka branchlets with leaves on a the lawn. local wakapuaka landmark, maunga- horoi o rangi- is visible in the distance

a couple of recycling containers filled with tinder dry kānuka branches, stihl battery saw in background.

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bill @wiremu.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

with a ruptured pec you can't chop firewood. so i built a log splitter out of shit lying around the yard. gearbox= otis elevator lift winch out of griffins biscuit factory, circa 1930, steel= Crewenna pottery kiln bogie rails, old haybaler parts, motor= 1950's White drum sander ( 3hp)

100y/o worm drive otis elevator winch now driving a log splitter ram made out of an tractor top link. 18rpm

end view of log splitter, roof off an old allis chalmers hay baler, trailer axle and wheels sourced via freecycle. a firewood saw and cradle is on the left of picture, firewood rounds waiting to be split in the background

split firewood stacked between verandah posts, some washing drying on a line strung between posts on a sunny day

side view of splitter showing the long beam ( it will be double acting) , the splitting ram and knife on right above the on off switch, firewood saw in background. the roof is braced with bamboo poles.

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bill @wiremu.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

m8 why are you resting? you haven't done anything. just nibbled grass all day and half the night. that's not work. that's just eating

a rabbit in a relaxed pose on a green lawn

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bill @wiremu.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

they are still the best window design ever made ir.

interior timber bead of a double hung sash showing the black brush strip fitted into a kerf in the bead.
there is also a foot in a roman sandal on the lawn

close up of the timber bead with brush seal fitted snug up to the sash. the light coloured sash timber is Oregon, the black spacer of the double glazing is visible, the double glazing is 24mm thick.

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bill @wiremu.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

trig station, A402, summit of Pa Te Rangi.

An old Trig station erected by surveyors in the confiscated lands ( raupatu) of Waikato on the summit of the pa at Pa Te Rangi, where māori defenders had gathered to repel an attack which never came. A large gnarly windswept pine tree stands behing the trig, clouds above are brooding, ominous. maungatautari is visible in the far distance.

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bill @wiremu.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

a fall of rain at wakapuaka (after hotere)

monochrome painting, ralph hotere, titled ' a fall of rain at mitimiti

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bill @wiremu.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

paul at vtnz nelson reckons my vintage ford trader truck is the most mint example in the country and it flies thru it's cof every time. he did mention last time maybe spray some fisholene on the surface rust - reckons it smells nice too- like fish n chips. so i've just done that. he'll need a hat

the underside of a vintage truck which has just been liberally sprayed with fisholene, an old school nz rust proofing measure. fish oil is dripping off the chassis in places- eg the leaf spring carrier top left.

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bill @wiremu.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

ah yes, the enlightenment. it's a got a bit to answer for, but you can see why it appeals to jones. anybody done any digging into his ancestry? he's close to qualifying for the Ustaše at this point. ( Straw Dogs, John Gray, 2002)

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bill @wiremu.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

mowed the lawns and now snow thinks he f#cken owns it

a large and contented white rooster is lying in a relaxed manner on a freshly cut green lawn. the 1960's vintage green self propelled mower is visible in the background.

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bill @wiremu.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

i got permission from a client to take pics of these extraordinary old photos of her grandfather, Walter Songer and his horse, training in Nelson in advance of his deployment to the boer war. the horses never returned i was told. shot or dispersed.

a horse lies prone on it's side as a soldier with a rifle positions himself crouched, using the horse's body as a rest for his arms as he sights his rifle. he is training prior to joining the boer war from nz

A soldier is crouched behind a horse which he has trained to lie calmly as he uses it's body as both a shield and a steady rest for his rifle.

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bill @wiremu.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

see a bridge, post a swing bridge

the great reefton swing bridge which spans the lazy inangahua river just south of the town. kim, the sweetest huntaway, is patiently waiting for the photographer to get his ass into gear and cross the damn bridge already

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bill @wiremu.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

i'm the world's worst gardener but with neighbours like mine it doesn't matter:) Got given some goat milk yesterday as well and was pleasantly surprised- slight astringent taste but otherwise hard to tell apart from dairy.

a very large cream coloured cauliflower head on a wooden board along with bunches of deep green silverbeet, lighter green rocket and a large purple red onion

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bill @wiremu.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

this pen was in the glove box when i got the truck. it has no nib. it is an adjunct to the cassette player in times of need.

a ball point pen sans nib. it's advertising ' Nearly Honest Brent, Your Local Wool Buyer, 03-447 3838 Omakau'.

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