Miraz Jordan

Who knew Kiwis had so many guns?! Obviously, quite a few have more than 1.

Police said 2143 people handed in 3275 firearms, and 7827 parts and accessories since the first collection event in Christchurch a week ago.

Pleased to see so many being handed in.

My cat Ares is 17.5 now and fading. He’s lost some or all of his sight or gone a bit doolally recently, losing his way and bumping into things. He’s lost weight and a challenge is to get him to eat. He only licks at wet food. Today’s supermarket selection aims to tempt him. 🐈

We thought one of ‘our’ black swans from the lake had been killed — a neighbour saw a dead swan on the beach and one of ‘our’ pair was missing. I now suspect she was just being a diligent mum. Today we have a pair of adults and 5 little grey cygnets.

In March 2017 we bought a plastic tunnel house. It’s about 8 square metres and is working well for us. Now in mid-winter we’re starting to think about what to plant this coming year. My first job though was to clean the plastic. Half way through and you can see the difference!

Ugh:

the size of the global dairy herd hasn’t changed much over the years. But every year for the past 15 years 21,803 dairy farmers close down. … roughly 50 dairy farmers with 50 cows each are being replaced by 1 farm with 2500 cows.

Via Happy Milk newsletter

I thought I spotted a dog emerging from the dunes. But No! It was the first seal pup of the season. I scrambled to leash the dogs and get the camera out, but the pup took its time. I hadn’t known they went all the way up to the dunes.

NZ and the Moon Landing 🇳🇿🚀:

NZ had to wait a bit longer … to see the moon landing in 1969.

We didn’t have a direct satellite link … so a pilot from the RNZAF flew to Sydney… picked up the tapes and then NZers were able to see the footage about 4.5 hours later.

The Waikawa Beach Ratepayers Association website runs on self-hosted WordPress. Folks can sign up to receive new posts by email. The trouble is, I’m gradually adding historical info such as Minutes of meetings in 1974. To selectively stop emails I finally found instructions.

Usually the Eastern Rosellas turn up and then fly away before I can get to my camera. Today I got lucky.

a brightly coloured, broad-tailed parakeet native to south-eastern Australia. It was introduced to New Zealand in the early 1900s.

Length: 30 cm. Weight: 90 - 120 g

Go on: give us a treat. Pleeeease. 🐶

Ares is being a good boy too. 🐈