I've been watching the NZ TV show Far North based on true events of drug smuggling.
If this were a fiction it'd never get to screen as it's just too ridiculous 📺 :
the show is mostly based on a true story … much of the action plays out exactly as it did in real life. … “The reality of what was happening and what they were doing to get these drugs, and the way the real life Ed told me the story, I was like ‘this was so unbelievable’.”
In re-reading Dana Stabenow's Kate Shugak novels I delayed Hunter's Moon (Kate Shugak Novels Book 9) because I knew it had a couple of momentous plot points.
Maybe Midnight Come Again (A Kate Shugak Investigation Book 10) which I actually first read a few weeks ago will be easier. 📚
Yesterday and today I planted 3 Tītoki trees and 3 Manuka. I'm hoping that the tītoki will, in time, attract the kererū who seem to have moved into the area.
Hard work though — I'm out of practice at planting stuff.
New Zealand [has] a 2 month summer and a 2 month winter… the other 8 months are a long drawn out spring and autumn … at least from a weather point of view. … we’re in a “Goldilocks” belt of weather that isn’t too cold in winter and doesn’t get extremely hot in summer.
Abandoned at 35% — with its omniscient narrator and sordid sex-based crimes there was far too much time spent within very nasty events. Dark Game (Detective Kelly Porter Book 1) by Rachel Lynch. This was not the right book for me. 📚
A shame, as it's the first of 11 books.
This series by Lynne McEwan has caught hold of me. In The Girls in the Glen (Detective Shona Oliver Book 3) I had my suspicions about the ultimate bad guy from around half way through the book.
A satisfying and well-told story. 📚
Heh heh. Housebroken S01E08 at approx 7 minutes in. The Hamster(?) is reading a magazine article:
It says you died.
What?!
I live in a third Grade classroom most of the year, RIP stands for "really is dead". The 'p' is silent.
The second book was as gripping as the first — Dead Man Deep (Detective Shona Oliver Book 2) by Lynne McEwan. 📚
Interesting fact about Beaufort's Dyke, a real-life natural trench between Scotland and Ireland and a key plot point: well over a million tons of munitions have been dumped there
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In August 2022 I spotted a Kererū at Waikawa Beach for the first time. This year there are two! I only managed a photo of one. 🐦
There are still very few birds around on the beach: a white-faced heron, some black-backed gulls, a pied stilt or two and a handful of oystercatchers. I could hear a skylark.
It was a very low tide and there were islands of driftwood 'mulch'. And this luminous orange shell.
Haven't been for a dawn beach walk for a while, so that's this morning's first planned item. I wonder if a few more birds may be around?
I'm also really enjoying HouseBroken, an American adult animated sitcom, where a poodle runs therapy sessions:
from the perspective of the animals, each one having various issues that usually stem from their owners, the show details the various adventures they go on to deal with their problems.
I'm enjoying watching Season 1 of the Australian crime drama Mystery Road.
Detective Jay Swan [is] assigned to investigate the mysterious disappearance of two young farmhands on an outback cattle station, one a local Indigenous football hero and the other a white backpacker.
A compelling read — I stayed up late for this one. In Dark Water (Detective Shona Oliver Book 1) by Lynne McEwan. Now to buy the next in series. 📚
The author manages to convey the sound of a southwest Scots accent with minimal gestures in the text.
Our
Kāhu | Hawk keeps thwarting my attempts to take a good photo. Yesterday that included flying off just as I was waiting for it to turn around to face the camera.
One of the great features of the NetNewsWire RSS reader is you can use your own stylesheet for how to display articles.
I recently realised that when I catch up on the Micro.Blog Timeline I constantly have to scroll down, just a bit, to see photos. I fixed that by putting the article body first.
Hmm, I thought, as I looked down from the lounge window. That bull looks bigger than usual. … And shouldn't he be behind the flax?
Yes, yes, he should. Luckily when I yelled sufficiently he pushed his way back through the fence to the paddock he was supposed to be in.
Rural life…
This was a complicated book, and I still haven't figured out what to say about it — Deaths of Jocasta by J.M. Redmann. 📚
It was a tangled book of emotions, sex, poison pen letters, anti-abortion protestors, vicious murders, all while lead character PI Micky undertakes major life changes. Hmmm.
A few months ago I set the Desktop Picture on my MacBook Pro to pull from my Favourites in Photos and then to change the picture randomly every 5 minutes.
That created the problem of wanting to see the picture hidden behind my active window. Keyboard Maestro took care of that.
