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. 🐦
28 October 2018 I planted lemon thyme by the dog yard. Today, 15 December 2022, it looks and smells fabulous! A bit of watering and weeding from time to time, but otherwise benign neglect. 😀
I’m 26% of the way through The Cardiff Killings (DI Jemima Huxley Crime Thriller Book 1) by Gaynor Torrance but have decided to read no further. I have no points where I can relate to a person desperate to have kids and who cuts herself to relieve unbearable stress.… 📚
It’s barely 9 am and the Levin clock tower tells me it’s already 26C (79F). It’s gonna be a hot one today.
Hmmm, I think one Kołaczki at the front maybe looks like the ones the real cook made. Some ‘squares’ were too small so I didn’t even try to fold them over. A bit odd — kind of like shortbread with jam.
Sasha winning at Hunt The Anchovy on her 16th birthday. 🐶
Listening to Kismet (1967). I hadn’t realised there were quite so many famous songs in this one show. I first heard “Stranger in Paradise” when I was a kid. 🎶
One of the fantastic features of MarsEdit is easily finding and fixing old posts. When I checked my On This Day page today a few photos from 2018 had gone missing. The solution was to change http
to https
. So easy in MarsEdit. Fixed a few other bits and bobs in there too.
Not off to a good start cooking Kołaczki — ignored the timer for a moment to finish an email reply and burnt the pot with apricot filling. 😒
Sasha, aged 15 years 364 days, snoozing. 🥰 🐶
This is the kind of conversation I love on Micro.Blog.
