Miraz Jordan

In October 2007 I was lucky to attend a release of 130 juvenile tuatara into Zealandia Sanctuary in Wellington. They had come from Stephens Island. It was an amazing opportunity to get up very close.

survivors of an order of reptiles that thrived in the age of the dinosaurs.

👍 Papa Reo project

will digitise 25 years worth of te reo Māori archives. … create a te reo digital dataset large enough to be used for machine learning to create chat bots, online education, games, transcription of archival material, and real-time captioning in te reo Māori.

I’m really enjoying the TV series All Rise. It’s a courtroom drama that features people with skill and heart delivering justice rather than sentences. The solutions are ingenious and innovative.

As we arrived at the beach today a small flock of half a dozen birds startled. I was very excited — they are the first arrivals this season of the Kuaka, Bar-tailed Godwits, fresh from their 12,000 Km, 8 day flight from the Arctic. So glad I took my Fuji X-t2 and zoom lens! 🐦

Down at the beach this morning we upset a Pied Stilt who was presumably nesting nearby. 🐦

We’re now 3 episodes in on Batwoman and I’m definitely enjoying it.

I liked Batwoman a lot during the first two episodes, but I made the leap to loving Batwoman this week when Kate and Mary and Sophie ended up stuck in Gotham’s most awkward elevator ride.

Me too!

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Today I attended a yoga class at the Wananga o Raukawa in Ōtaki. That’s a Māori institution of learning. I was initially puzzled by the sign for the women’s toilets, then realised it represents a woman performing with long poi. This video shows poi in action.

The lupins are in full bloom — in the dunes and everywhere. Not so good for us hayfeverish types.

Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s sci-fi perfectly matches my tastes. Her novel, The Renegat is absolutely brilliant. She weaves together two timelines and a bunch of excellently drawn characters into a riveting story.

A ship of misfits and screw-ups sent on an impossible mission.

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Today’s garden haul will contribute well to this week’s dinners: celery, carrots, silver beet, parsley, quail eggs, strawberries. The weather still hasn’t been hot and sunny enough, but the celery’s a bit bigger, the strawberries a better colour.