Silver lining to the fuel crisis cloud: EV 'fomo' drives sales to their highest level in years amid fuel crisis, dealer says | RNZ News:
Waka Kotahi data shows monthly registrations of full battery EVs last month jumped nearly four-fold from recent levels, from an average of 800 a month in the last two years, to 3100.
Registrations of plug-in hybrid vehicles almost tripled, from a monthly average of 540 to nearly 1600 in March.
I've tuned in to the Live TV for NASA:
NASA’s Artemis II Crew Launches to the Moon
Less than an hour to go now.
Heh, 5.45 am and I'm back from dropping Deb off at the airport (45 minute drive each way) for her regular Zen retreat.
Surprised to see they're pouring concrete at this early hour (in the dark) for the new house on Lot 1.
This was actually a good read, and the Jersey setting was a bonus. The Channel Islands Mystery (The Gull Bay Mysteries Book 1) by Ashley Cain. 📚
April has poured every penny she owns into renovating the rundown beachfront café she inherited from her grandma. …
the missing cake is only the beginning.
As the incidents grow increasingly sinister, April begins to suspect her café is being deliberately targeted. And if she doesn’t find the culprit — and soon — it’s not just her cosy little café that’s at risk.
It’s her life.
The section we bought for our house was Lot 3 in the development. A few weeks ago work began on Lot 1 where the house now has foundations.
Today earthworks have begun on Lot 5.
It was raining when I entered The Anchorage cafe for breakfast after my flu jab, but before long the sun made a welcome appearance.
I enjoyed Velocity Weapon: Book One of The Protectorate by Megan O’Keefe, as recommended by Bookish Alex. 📚
[Gunnery Sergeant Sanda] wakes up 230 years later, on a deserted enemy starship called The Light of Berossus
Lots of twists and turns and shifting allegiances keep the reader on their toes.
Curious thing though: the book clearly reached an end about half way through before cranking up again. This long book should have been two titles.
Something I've recently started doing during my weights sessions at the gym is to move my foot or hand position for each set. This has revealed that small adjustments to position can affect the demands on the muscles.
For example, on the horizontal leg press I've been putting my feet high, middle or low on the vertical axis — one set of each. Now I also position my feet wide, middle or narrow on the horizontal axis. Each position affects my muscles slightly differently.
That's got to build better muscles over time …
A New World. Sounds good in these difficult times.
When I couldn't rewatch The Closer I discovered its spinoff Major Crimes on Neon so decided to rewatch that instead.
What I'd forgotten is that Major Crimes is just all around superb — great scripts, great acting. I'm having the biggest problem not just bingeing all day. Such a fabulous show!
For those who delight in the finest points of punctuation, this 23 minute video gives a lot to chew on — The commas that cost lives.
A particularly fun item: the fellow who wrote a whole book with no punctuation whatever. Reprints addressed his critics concerns : 🤣
at the very end of the book he appended this page: a leaf filled with commas, colons, semi-colons, etc. … Lord Dexter included a small note for the printer …
"The knowing ones … complain of my book the first edition had no stops.
I put in enough here and they may pepper and salt it as they please."
Deb and I had partly booked and planned a trip for after Easter: fly to Christchurch, hire a car, visit the West Coast. Today we cancelled all the bookings.
Between the fuel crisis, rising costs, general political uncertainty, it all just seemed unwise.
We'll do some short trips in our EV instead.
This chin scratch must have gone on for more than a minute before I got tired of waiting and took the photo anyway.
Then, after a bit more scratching it finally stopped. 🐦
The recent rain has filled the Ruakākā River, which looks very brown. It has also filled the ditch behind our place that recent digger work has exposed.
Apparently the Council require the ditch to be covered over for subdivision work to proceed.
After about 180 mm (7 inches) rain in the last 2 days, this morning is warm and misty.
This clue and answer in a recent crossword delighted me! 🤣
I don't follow sports but can at least usually understand the headlines (more or less). This one totally had me stumped: 😆
White Ferns win T20 dead rubber against South Africa
Via RNZ - NZ News, Current Affairs, Audio On Demand.
The answer was here: Dead Rubber.
Interesting. With severe weather forecast for the next 2 or 3 days I received a text from our insurance company (some details removed):
FMG here, just checking in due to the Red weather warning in parts of your region.
Put your safety first.
You can view our disaster info and FAQs at [url]
If you need to make a claim, the fastest way is FMG Connect [url] or call [phone]. Take care.
Here's the map from the news sites. We're in an orange area (wind and rain).
This morning's visitor.
Horses in paddocks beside the racecourse.
