The final book in a series I've very much enjoyed — Honour Thy Father (Sister Agnes Mysteries Book 3) by Alison Joseph. 📚
Agnes is working in a London prison now, but her mother in France is dying, and taking family secrets with her. Agnes has a lot to think about …
Foxton has a strong Dutch heritage, so when I visited yesterday I ordered Pannenkoeken at the De Molen Cafe. I thought the apple would be cooked inside the pancake rather than lying on top.
The cinnamon sugar was a bit strong, but overall the pancake was delicious.
This morning I drove to Foxton for a stroll beside the estuary.
There weren't a great many birds around today, but I did spot a dozen spoonbills.
Also I saw a whimsically painted shed.
An unusual sight on the beach today: a Karetai hurukoko | Cape petrel, probably exhausted — it didn't move when I came close but managed to get away from a small wave. 🐦
New Zealand status: Native; Conservation status: Naturally Uncommon.
I've started watching The Law According to Lidia Poët on Netflix and it's pretty good:
… loosely based on the life of Lidia Poët, the first modern female lawyer in Italy.
Also:
Lidia Poët (26 August 1855 – 25 February 1949) was the first modern female Italian lawyer. Her disbarment led to a movement to allow women to practice law and hold public office in Italy.
Today I feel so free and energised. I've taken control of this situation with the ex-friends who've been harassing me, recognised my own unique nature, made friends with my rage which is actually there to support me, and have been yelling my frustrations into a voice recording.
I feel joyous!
A reward for 40 minutes weights work at the gym. 🤣
You know how 'they' say you should write out the stuff in your head, making sure to use pen and paper because that's the only 'real' way. Then throw the paper away.
Well, I've discovered a better way.
I record my voice to a file, then transcribe it with Aiko, then read and erase it. Much easier, quicker and more effective. Full voice effects! I can say what I really want to say without the whole written word thing getting in the way. 🌋
I'm feeling very empowered.
Since 07 November 2023 we've had roughly 480mm rain, which has added about 31,000 litres to the water tank.
Nevertheless, the tank that was almost full on that date was approaching empty yesterday, some 37 weeks later, so today the tanker delivered 12,000 litres. 💦💦
A free Mac app idea for some clever coder — I type (or paste) in a bunch of text. Now delete it all with a splendid animation of it going up in flames. 🔥
Later versions could delete it with a huge explosion, fireworks, punchy monster or some other satisfying method. (I'm privately ranty today.)
I find I'm quite taken with Sister Agnes, having just finished Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness (Sister Agnes Mysteries Book 2) by Alison Joseph. 📚
Sister Agnes is less than pleased with her latest assignment. Teaching French in a remote little convent school, out on the windswept Yorkshire moors. Homesick for London, she struggles to fit in from the moment she arrives.
In good news today, Deb and I both went to the gym where I did mainly stretches, along with some lat pulldowns and rowing on the machine.
This afternoon was gorgeous: sunny, still and warm so we both went for a bike ride round the village. 🚴🏼♀️🚴🏼♀️
A skill I have is to make a rule to archive unread emails that I don't want at the moment because I've asked the senders to give me time and space. Another is to block them on Messages.
Sad it has to come to this, but we seem to have moved on from harassment to badgering and gaslighting. Sigh.
Sigh. I will need to write approximately 1 million pages whose sole destiny will be to feed a bonfire before I'm able to craft an acceptable reply to an email I received before dawn today. 🔥
Another in a series I enjoy — Road to Harm (Detective Fran Harman Mysteries Book 6) by Judith Cutler. 📚
Now Fran and Mark are retired they lack the authority and resources of being Police officers. That doesn't stop them investigating successfully though, in spite of attempts to thwart them.
Seems to me the problem is more one of using a single platform. As with farming, monoculture: risky; diversity: resilient. CrowdStrike glitch: What caused the global cyber outage?:
governments and businesses alike have become increasingly dependent on a handful of interconnected technology companies over the past two decades.
Experts say the cyber outage revealed the risks of an increasingly online world.
Hooray for Time Machine. In an idiot move I deleted an Audio Hijack 'Session' instead of a recording.
I found the sessions file at '/Users/miraz/Library/Application\ Support/Audio\ Hijack\ 4/Sessions.plist' and restored an older copy.
Sorted!
Turns out the session was simple …
It was probably someone on Micro.Blog who put me on to the Reasons to be Cheerful news website. It does cheer me every morning, with articles like this — A Vibrant Local Food System Grows in Colorado:
GoFarm is working to make affordable healthy food more accessible while training the next generation of farmers.
Give the site a try.
I enjoyed No Harm, No Foul (Detective Fran Harman Mysteries Book 5) by Judith Cutler. 📚
Fran and the team find themselves overloaded with work as they carry out two separate investigations.
One missing child. Twenty skeletons, walled up in a derelict building.
