Thrilled with this photo from my beach walk today: Kuaka Godwit. 🐦
Our neighbours are sneaky — they had a big party today for their 30th anniversary. None of us knew they were actually getting married! (Not even the caterer.) A great time was had by all.
I really enjoyed this Lingthusiasm podcast episode. Question formats are surprisingly interesting in English and other languages. Who questions the questions?:
In this episode, your hosts Lauren Gawne and Gretchen McCulloch get enthusiastic about questions!
A few months ago we had Bird of the Year, now it’s New Zealand Bug of the Year 2023:
Aotearoa is home to over 20,000 species of insects and spiders
Hmmm, what to vote for…
Hmmm, that quake came in two parts — I just knew it was going to get bigger. About a minute long. All good — just a shake — another day in the life of Aotearoa New Zealand. 〰️
Fri Dec 2 2022 6:07 PM
20 km south-east of Tokoroa
Shaking: Light
Magnitude: 5.4
Depth: 159 km
Huh, I thought (cooking) salt was salt, but it turns out there are different types with different characteristics. Which salt is best for cooking?:
Why are there so many different kinds of salt, and does it really matter which one you use?
Thanks to @gregmoore and @mtt I now have the Recoleta font on my Kindle. 📚
How to Install Custom Fonts on Your Kindle
As I use my Mac and iPhone and websites and apps and whatnot I realise that the more ‘security’ I have to pass through the less I pay attention — yeah, yeah, just give me what I want. I’m a human, not the holder of the secret nuclear launch codes, after all.
I had simply never registered that Z
keyboard command in Photos.app and have spent a lot of time over the months trying to use the slider control to zoom to 100%. If only they’d added the bit of text I’d been wanting to see under a menu: 100%
. User error but Apple didn’t help.
Morning dog. Sasha, only a few days away from her 16th birthday. 🐶
A couple of weeks ago I paid Amazon ~$20 on top of purchase price to ship me a pair of new earbuds. They were defective. Turns out I can’t ship them back because international parcels can’t contain more than 2 batteries. The postal worker also mentioned a cost over $100! 🤬
I have supervisors. A couple of little Warou, Welcome swallow spend the day sitting on the rail by the lounge. Such cuties! 🐦
And for today’s yoga session we have a simple little neck twist with head tuck. 🐦
Weird thing, but Aotearoa New Zealand Law says that beaches are roads. Land Transport Act 1998: In Part 1, the Interpretation, it says: “road includes— (c) a beach.” Weirder: the Law doesn’t actually define ‘beach’. 😆
I’m outta here! 🐦
My old girl Sasha, eating her dinner last night. 🐶
Listening to what I think is a Korimako | Bellbird this morning. 😍
This makes me happy. I’ve now sent out 10 issues of a local monthly community newsletter I write (Buttondown is great for this). My subscriber count is gradually growing. This issue went out to 52 subscribers.
