The beach was very calm this morning — almost no waves. Kāpiti Island in the background.
I made 30 Minute Easy Dinner Rolls (1/3 recipe) and Mushroom soup for dinner. Left out the cream from the soup and it was still yummy. Quick and easy meal.
Yesterday Deb brought me this wonderful and delicious treat: a yuzu tart (lemon meringue pie) from Origami in Cuba Street.
I’m really enjoying this new-to-me podcast: Subtitle:
A podcast about languages and the people who speak them.
Fascinating episodes.
Just thinking about how my ideal Christmas Day would look — in a campervan or cabin, by water — river, lake or sea — with plenty of supplies and far away from everyone else, sunny, warm, not windy.
No-one wants too much detail on this, but for the last week Sasha’s been having some 💩 problems. I think things are improving. Let’s just say the floor has never been this clean!
Yesterday afternoon. I’m choosing to believe this wasn’t commentary on the lateness of dinner. 😆 🐶
Oooh, pretty clouds. And someone up the road’s getting a good dump of rain.
@help Seems like today I can’t get more than ~30 posts on the Timeline (Safari on web). There’s no Show More button or anything… Is it just me?
Hmmm, had to dig deep in the memory for this. I’m trying Suzume Sparrow Kukicha, roasted green tea:
made entirely from stems of summer harvest leaves.
Not a favourite: the taste makes me think of the used grounds from percolator coffee.
I was already uncomfortable with Karen
as a general term of abuse. Now I learn that Space Karen
refers to Elon Musk, who is behaving badly.
This goes to the ancient tradition of blaming women for men’s behaviour. If Elon is being obnoxious then call him by his own name! 😤
Low sun, dark sky, cabbage trees and flax spears. Ahhh morning.
The Kiwi barbie: Craig from Horowhenua District Council cooks saussies on a BBQ in a trailer, under an umbrella, in the rain, for the opening of the new Waikawa Beach ‘amenity’ block (aka toilets) yesterday.
Interesting! I think I’ve struck this (but ended up just typing in the number): Beware When Pasting Phone Numbers Copied from Contacts - TidBITS:
Contacts on the Mac encloses all phone numbers in two zero-width (and thus invisible) Unicode characters
Sasha tells me it’s breakfast time. 🐶
People go on at length about how to make a cup of coffee, but no-one talks about tea… I was thrilled to discover The Tea Curator, with detailed posts like Six types of loose leaf tea – which will be your favourite?
The newly completed toilet block at Waikawa Beach (replacing a 50- to 60- year old facility) also has fresh new signage — in Te Reo Māori and English as all our local Council’s signs are these days. Very pleasing!
So important! Go and read and act on New Year’s Resolution: Make Information Accessible, for Those Who Survive You:
My opinions here come from working in a field where I routinely see the Kafka-esque admin situations that many survivors deal with, after a death.
CareHQ virtual GP
Note for future me (and other Kiwis):
CareHQ is a virtual GP consultation service that is open 7am–7pm, 7 days a week. You meet with a New Zealand registered expert doctor who is a Fellow of the RNZCGP. You don’t need to enrol with CareHQ - you stay enrolled with your own GP and all notes from your consultation will be sent to them. FMG Clients get a 10% discount
The Yellowhammers are singing a lot these days. This one was singing just by the house. Photo from January this year. 🐦
