This post from 11 January 2022 took me by surprise today:
It’s a year since I ordered my M1 MacBook Pro.
I was just thinking yesterday how much I love this Mac. 2 years on and battery life is still phenomenal.
This rather ruffled looking baby bird stumbled across the deck and took refuge in the passionfruit. 🐦
These days when Sasha eats she spreads biscuits all over the floor. 🐶
Just found this printed photo in the archives. When I was a teen back in the late 60’s and early 70s I begged my parents to get us a Miniature Poodle. This was Andre. Of course I was in charge of walks etc. 🐶
Today I tried making Dorset apple traybake and it was delicious. We only had plain flour, not self-raising, the vanilla essence ran out, and we can’t buy Molasses at the moment. Even so, very yummy!
If you’ve never watched this 15 minute speech from 2012 then you should: Julia Gillard misogyny speech in Australian Parliament. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Sometimes it’s an old movie that brings the thought for the day:
Pile up enough tomorrows and you’ll find you’ve collected nothing but a lot of empty yesterdays. I don’t know about you, but I’d like to make today worth remembering.
I enjoyed reading Mountain Town Murder: Jackson Hole Moose’s Bakery Not So Cozy Mystery #1 by Sue Pepper and may well read more of the series. I specially enjoyed the author’s life views on topics such as worker housing, and awareness of different perspectives on life. 📚
I just love timeline adjacencies!
M: The one downside of weekends in a house with many people? Noise. There’s always someone doing something, walking somewhere, closing a door,…
T: Getting ready to watch the Netflix version of All Quiet on the Western Front .
Today’s surprise discovery 📚:
the Southern Cross [constellation] hasn’t always been ours. Thanks to a phenomenon known as precession … it formerly belonged to the northern hemisphere skies …
Source: Southern Nights: the story of New Zealand’s night sky by Naomi Arnold.
Deb and I went to see the most excellent A Man Called Otto. At the same time sad, funny, and heartwarming, the movie was beautifully done. Not a thing out of place, subtle, gradually unfolding and developing. Definitely a must-see. 🎥
Like mother like daughter — Oystercatcher adult and chick. 🐦
Noon was feeding time at Ngā Manu for the Longfin Eels:
The longfin eel is one of the largest eels in the world and it is found only in the rivers and lakes of New Zealand.
I was told these were males, probably about 20 years old. They were certainly keen to get lunch.
This Tuatara at Ngā Manu Reserve kept its back to me.
Tuatara are a rare reptile found only in New Zealand. They are the last survivors of an order of reptiles that thrived in the age of the dinosaurs.
Can't believe how knackered I am after today's outing (and last night's poor sleep)! One photo from today's visit to Ngā Manu Reserve, Waikanae: this green and white gecko — Barking gecko.
Today’s Stoic thought was “memento vivere”: remember to live. I took it to heart, ignored the rain, realised I could have an outing, with Deb home to deal with Sasha and the plumber, and took off to the Ngā Manu Reserve in Waikanae. I even got to drive on the new Expressway.
I learned so much from Dan Bailey's book about the Fuji X series cameras that his new Fujifilm Autofocus Course was an instant buy.
I'll walk you through the entire Fujifilm AF/MF system, show you all the features, settings and controls, teach you how to use them, and I'll even share invaluable shooting tips I've learned in my 26+ years as a pro outdoor action and adventure photographer.
In a clean-up moment I admitted to myself that most of the sciency YouTube videos I was subscribed to via RSS I was no longer really enjoying. Also they may have filled in a few minutes but I wasn’t retaining any of the information. I slashed my list in half.
I love it when this mother and son pair come to graze in the paddock nearby.
There’s a big block of land nearby that almost always has cows in it. Whenever I bike past I get a whiff of cow poop. I actually like that — it’s a good reminder that we live in a rural area. Back in November 2017 these cows were interested to watch me bike past. 🐮
