John Lennon sang about it, and now Auckland Council are living it.
Life, happening, while you're busy making other plans.
The life - four tiny black swan fluffballs - have upset plans to install a sculpture in a suburban Auckland park. But they might be the cutest project delay in the city this year.
• The donated sculpture Genoa was to be installed in a suburban Auckland park last month. • During preparations four black swan eggs were discovered and the project was put on hold. • The eggs have hatched and four cygnets (young black swan) have been spotted exploring their new surroundings.
John Lennonsang about it, and now Auckland Council are living it.
Life, happening, while you're busy making other plans.
The life - four tiny black swan fluffballs - have upset plans to install a sculpture in a suburban Auckland park. But they might be the cutest project delay in the city this year.
Council arts and culture advisor David Hebenton said the quartet were the young of a black swan who had nested on a small island in a pond in a Stonefields park.
The nesting swan with it's cygnets. Photo / Brett Phibbs
The council had planned to install Peter Nicholls' sculpture Genoa on the island, after it was gifted to the council by the late Dr Rodney Wilson.
Black swan are known to nest in the area from July until January, so plans were in place to get the sculpture installed before nesting season.
Landscapers were sent to the island to prepare the site, foundations were to follow and eventually the sculpture was going to be taken across by dingy, Hebenton said.
