I quite enjoyed reading What You Don’t See (A Cass Raines Mystery Book 3) by Tracy Clark. 📚
Vonda Allen … Everybody adores her. Except the people who work for her. And the person who’s sending her flowers with death threats. … Cass Raines … isn’t keen on playing babysitter to a celebrity
On the beach this morning was a sizeable flock of Tara | White-fronted Tern. The photo shows about 1/3 of the flock. Nearby was a pair of the much chunkier Taranui | Caspian Tern — I suspect an adult and a youngster. 🐦
I attended the same school as murderer Juliette Hulme (Anne Perry) but over a decade later. My friend Rachel though was in the same class and writes powerfully of the Impact of a murder on an individual schoolgirl, [her]self
and the smallish trauma [that] still affected [her] for years
.
Hmmm, apparently flights from Auckland to Kathmandu take approximately 18 hours…
Whew, it took 8.5 episodes of hogwash and bunkum but finally Picard S03 is at a place where I’m not just waiting for the whole thing to be over. (It’s Trek so I keep watching…) Boomers vs whatever the current Gen are FTW. Still hoping Admiral Janeway will swoop in and save the day.
On my beach walk yesterday I came across this wonderful orange fungus in the dunes. So big!
Today's dinner was Tangy Braised Chickpeas — thanks to @tracydurnell for the link. It was delicious.
I didn’t watch the video but really enjoyed listening to Troy Kingi’s music: Black Sea Golden Ladder – The Visual Album.
Spam has got weird. After a flurry of folks offering me wealth there’s now a stream of messages quoting (I suppose) passages from old texts — many anti-semitic or with other repulsive sentiments, some seemingly just from regular tales.
40 mm rain or so in the last couple of days (25 mm in the last 7 hours) has been enough to bring back the paddock puddle. I expect it won’t last long, but it shows groundwater levels must still be quite high.
Useful — Define Your Own Principles:
Do you have your own rules for life, your set of principles you steadfastly stick to in any situation and can default to when faced with tough choices?
With a clear focus on your guiding principles, you can quickly apply them and make decisions more easily
Not surprising the rain woke me: 13.5 mm per hour is a decent fall!
A couple of days ago when I walked on the beach at dawn these folks were down floundering. Mt Ruapehu in the background.
I keep thinking maybe I can hear thunder — or some loud truck nearby on this public holiday. Given this sky in the southwest, I suspect it’s thunder.
Wow, big day today: I’m really in the money! 🤣
A walk today at Kitchener Park right next to Manfeild Race track near Feilding was accompanied by the roar and whine of racing cars and motorbikes. So loud. Most of the track was a dirt path, a little had interesting trees nearby, a bit was in among some lovely trees, some up to 600 years old.
This set of decals is now on the wardrobe door by my bed. From Top left, clockwise: Me and Sasha, Sasha and Oshi, Olive, Harriette. Centre: Aphra and Ares. 🐈 🐶
I pondered including my original Blue Burmese cats Arakhan (died young), Amrico, and Minhla but for various reasons didn’t.
Our neighbours are taking down some pine trees that are about 30 years old. They’re a bit unstable apparently.
I guess all the birds that use those trees are now looking for new homes…
10 hours of sleep! It’s a miracle!