Hey Kiwis, if you visit EECA’s tyre pressure tool it tells you what the tire pressure should be for your car. Enter your number plate and the recommended tyre pressure is shown.

SCreenshot for my car showing various tire sizes and recommended pressures.

10 minute video: Koko Ibaraki is a world class pole dancer at 50:

pole dancing remains a challenging feat of stamina, flexibility and an incredible amount of strength.

This is an actual sport that demands a phenomenal degree of athleticism. The video tuned up my attitudes!

Keyboard Maestro helps with so much on my Mac. Sometimes I want to have the Clipboard contents in front of me, so I made a macro. I put the clipboard in a variable so a further Copy while viewing the contents wouldn’t upset anything. Here I have the song list from a long video.

The macro puts the clipboard in a variable then displays the variable in a floating window.
The floating window displays a song list while a long video plays.

What a wonderful way to start a Tuesday morning! So energising! 2.25 hours of Barcelona Gipsy balKan Orchestra Live in Apolo 2019 - Sandra Sangiao Last Concert - YouTube. Sandra Sangiao has a beautiful voice.

Screenshot showing Sandra Sangiao on stage singing with musicians playing.

The problem with buying a tray of 30 eggs from the farm gate shop is when you’re trying to manage a single trip from the car to the house with multiple bags, in the rain. Today 3 eggs ‘escaped’. 😒

27 eggs in a tray; 3 empty slots.

I enjoy this series, and just read the final 4 stories: Rachel Prince Cruise Ship Mysteries: Books 1-10. That is one unlucky cruise ship! 😆

Book cover: Rachel Prince Cruise Ship Mysteries: Books 1-10.

Loving this morning’s random listen: Andalusian Spanish Arabic Music: الأنْدَلُس - YouTube.

I glimpsed this juvenile Kōtare, Sacred Kingfisher through the window, managed a couple of shots and then it took off. I love my 100–400 zoom camera lens. 🐦

Kōtare juvenile kingfisher on flax.
Kōtare juvenile kingfisher in flight, with wings flapping down.

It’s been a busy Sunday. Among other things, I cleaned out the old straw and sawdust from the quail run and topped up with a fresh coating. The quail were pretty stressed by the activity, but seem happy now, especially since they got an extra helping of dried mealworms. 🐦

Two small Japanese Quail amongst fresh straw.

I’ve signed up for this 30 minute New Zealand Glassworks Make a Paperweight Workshop for August. Deb did it back in June 2018 as a birthday present but logistics meant I couldn’t take part then. Finally I get to have a turn!

Hands, gloved and ungloved, cupping a red hot glass globe.

Today we saw an Air Force Heritage Flight of New Zealand flypast: the superlative Supermarine Spitfire and three modern Beechcraft T–6C Texan IIs. I thought they were simply flying along the hills then they turned and flew directly overhead.

4 distant propeller planes in formation.
The 4 planes catch glints of light as they turn.
4 planes in a tight diamond formation heading straight for the camera.
The tight formation of 4 planes directly overhead.

Today, for the second time in our lives, we have become mortgage-free. We have no debt and everything that comes in now is ours. 🥳

I changed an account password today. Do you think I was too hasty?

Password change dialog shows it was last changed in 2008.

What an amazing resource. Thank you @scojjac I’m exploring Arabic:

🔖 Language Transfer (languagetransfer.org)

Fantastic audio course that teaches you to think in a language, not just memorize words.…

Read: its.scojjac.com

The upside of ending up in Apple Music was I rediscovered a piece of music I adore: Ramirez: Misa Criolla (5 songs, 21 minutes):

Ariel Ramírez (4 September 1921 – 18 February 2010) was an Argentine composer… considered “a chief exponent of Argentine folk music” …

Utterly bewildered that to share with my family an app I’d just bought on the App Store I had to go to iTunes/Music‼️⁉️ I’ve been using Macs and Apple stuff for how long now — 30+ years and I found that process completely confusing and frustrating. Bought Grocery for shopping. (Corrected from 20+ to 30+.)

Fungi season: I suspect this is a fly agaric (Amanita muscaria). I like to see fungi but never know what they are. Found just across the road from our letterbox today.

Two white fungi with brown mottling and a partially open parasol shape, in grass.

Sharon Murdoch’s excellent cartoon today:

Forty kororā/little blue penguins found dead on a Far North beach.

FORTY (MORE) REASONS TO FIGHT CLIMATE CHANGE. COUNT THEM.

Kiwis love these little penguins that we see around parts of our coast.

Cartoon shows 40 numbered little blue penguins lying dead on a beach.

A few years ago I bought a Korg Nanokey 2 keyboard. I can’t play… Today I finally labelled the keys and began to learn to play Mary Had A Little Lamb! Woohoo! I don’t aim to be a musician, just to learn how to play some stuff. This is my year for Variety. ⚡️

Music keyboard in front of open laptop.

Since I suggested today’s Challenge word (mountain) — I can never remember which mountain is which in the central North Island of Aotearoa New Zealand. This is one of: Ruapehu, Tongariro or Ngauruhoe as seen from the Desert Road. Taken years ago with my Canon EOS 300D.

Snowy mountain in central North Island, Aotearoa New Zealand.