Miraz Jordan

At first I wondered why the street we were walking down in Palmerston North the other day had stencils like this on all the parking spaces.

Then I realised they were all "Georges": Gershwin, Prince George, etc.

Aha: George Street!

Whimsical and clever.

Deb and I watched Fly Me to the Moon at the movie theatre in Palmerston North. 🎥

It was excellent: funny, interesting, lightly romantic, well written, well acted. Recommended.

A relationship develops between the NASA director in charge of the Apollo 11 launch and the marketing specialist brought in to fix NASA's public image and stage a "back-up" fake Moon landing.

With a big high still bringing us cold nights and lovely days, and no wind to speak of, the sea was so calm again this morning. Hardly any waves at all. For the Pacific Wave Appreciation Society. 🌊

New shoes day — Orba Shoes — Women's Ghost Sneaker:

Designed in New Zealand, Orba shoes are handcrafted using the finest, most renewable plant-based materials in the world.

Matched with excellent lacing — Ian's Shoelace Site — they should be excellent.

I'm so naive sometimes. I had no idea individuals would have helipads on their houses. I'm shocked — Auckland residents unite against multimillionaire Anna Mowbray's helipad plan | RNZ News:

If the helipad is approved, it will become the ninth helipad in a residential area of the city. … There has also been opposition to helicopter pads on Waiheke Island, where the number has jumped to 60, and there are at least nine on Aotea/Great Barrier Island.

A friend, Sophie, is currently travelling in Sweden to visit family and then on a week long knitting tour in Scotland and the Shetlands. She seems to be having a lot of fun.

She probably doesn't realise though that she's blogging her trip as she uses what looks to be an excellent service called Polarsteps:

One travel app for all your adventures
Plan, track and relive your trips in a smart and beautiful way.

We Kiwis don't like to toot our own horns much but I wanted to keep this for future memories. For years I worked on behalf of the local community and wrote a monthly newsletter. I stopped doing all that recently. Then Tim emailed:

It is a precious email, a taonga to me. (A treasure)

I came across the weirdest thing on the beach this morning. It was about 2 metres long and to my eye looked like an octopus (or squid maybe) and a shark had got into a fight and drowned together.

In one photo below you can easily see a tentacle wrapped around the fish.

There was another hard frost this morning, so when I visited the beach at dawn the sand was white at the base of the dunes.

There was an intriguing cloud over Kāpiti Island — like a poorly balanced see-saw.

So cool to see tech being used for good — Drones Are Whizzing Lifesaving Supplies Across the 'Last Mile':

By land, it would take about four hours to reach this region of the mountainous country. Instead, the journey took just 18 minutes. A drone dropped a red box, containing a blood product that supports coagulation, with a white paper parachute outside the medical center.

I was meant to have a third intro session with a trainer at the gym this afternoon but I begged off. Yesterday I had a covid jab so my left arm's ever so slightly sore. Today I had routine blood draws in my right arm and I'm not sure gym would be a good follow-on.

Home with a cuppa instead.

Today is poop day. 😆

I've done my bit for the National Bowel Screening programme. It's easy and painless and could save me a lot of anguish.

A friend of a friend had a problem picked up this way, and after some surgery is now fit and well.

Heh, The Brokenwood Mysteries has 'storylines so good' people believe the characters are real | RNZ News:

Police officer and fan of the show Bryan Ward … [said] … Probably one of the great strengths of that show is the storylines are that good, that people actually believe the characters are real.

It's one of those days where one weather system is taking up most of our bit of the globe.