OK. A] Add a video to Micro.Blog: click the upload button, write text, Post. 👍
B] Add a video to a static blog via Publii: log in to YouTube, upload video, click a load of settings, struggle to get the embed code, add embed code to the correct editor type, publish. 🥴
The public toilets at Waikawa Beach were built around 50 or 60 years ago. They’re now in a state of decay. Today builders started demolishing the men’s side. The women’s side will become two accessible unisex toilets, a family room and a store room. Here the roof comes off.
This morning on the beach I was lucky enough to get a decent shot of this Tuturiwhatu, Banded dotterel 🐦:
Length: 20 cm; Weight: 60 g
A small compact brown and white plover with a short black bill, relatively long dark legs and large round dark eyes.
Someone recently was asking about women podcasters (unless I imagined that…). Here are two that are utterly superb:
- The Happiness Lab Podcast with Dr. Laurie Santos - Pushkin Industries
- A Podcast of One’s Own with Julia Gillard (former Australian Prime Minister).
Two photos from a couple of days ago of a Kawau, Pied Shag at the beach. 🐦
Length: 65 - 85 cm; Weight: 1.3 - 2.1 kg; A large, relatively slim …shag … white face, black feet, blue eye-rings, yellow facial skin. Black back, nape and upperwings … white throat, breast and belly.
This new channel was an instant subscribe: MinuteFood:
MinuteFood serves up the science of what we cook, eat, and drink - all with the goal of unlocking ultimate deliciousness. MinuteFood is created by Kate Yoshida, Arcadi Garcia & Alexander Vidal.
Many thanks to all those who worked so hard to bring us Micro Camp, and to all the presenters and those who joined in the chats etc. It was excellent!
Proof that space and time are the same thing. 😆 Referring to the Micro camp online sessions I said I like the space between them. What I meant was the time between them. QED.
On 03 March 2022 we had turf laid at the rental property we own. It must be watered daily. That water comes from a roughly 9,000 litre rainwater tank that also feeds the toilet in the house. Otherwise the house uses a metered town water supply.
A week on and the underground tank under the front lawn ran dry! It’s been hot and dry, with not even a skerrick of rain to help refill the tank or water the grass.
The town supply is supposed to refill the tank when the level drops too low, but what we didn’t know was the refill is a trickle that carries about as much water as a badly leaking kitchen tap! The plumber we consulted advised it could take a few days before there was enough water to flush the toilet.
All of that information was painstakingly unearthed as it wasn’t available in the original house purchase documents (we knew the tank existed and that it supplied the toilet, but that was all).
Today our local water supply guy, Reggie, who lives at Waikawa Beach, came with 10,000 litres in his tanker and filled the tank for us. It took about 8,500 litres. I wonder if that’ll last more than a week?
I couldn’t even see how to access the tank under its concrete inspection cover. Reggie had me lever a claw hammer under one of two pins until the edge of the lid was high enough for him to get his fingers under it and lift it out. Thank goodness he knew how things like that work!
We are due for a little rain this week. I hope it’s enough to water the grass enough and also to top up the tank.
This turf is turning out to be very expensive, with the cost of laying it and then our daily trips to hand water the tiny area not covered by the two sprinklers on a timer, and now 9,000 litres of water delivered.
About 5 Km away is an organic Blueberry Farm that also has olive trees and makes award winning olive oil. This morning I stopped there and bought oil, and also a wonderful blueberry icecream. Didn’t think of a photo till I’d eaten more than half the icecream. 😆
A new favourite photo: a Kuaka Godwit at the edge of the sea today. 🐦
A View to Die For by Cheri Baker 📚:
When a wealthy painter is murdered at the luxurious Londonian hotel, Paul and his new partner Andrew Kim take on the case.
Another excellent story from @Cheri, with wit and humour and even the occasional Kiwi! This was a re-read for me. 👍
Me: I wonder if I can Base64 encode text somehow on my Mac?
Keyboard Maestro: I got you with one click: manual:Filters [Keyboard Maestro Wiki].
Of course!
Sasha was groomed yesterday. Here she is eating dinner. 😀 🐶
I avoid driving my car because a] CO2 and b] petrol costs. Today I put 2/3 of a tank in: ~40 litres for almost NZ$120. The price is hovering round $3 per litre and is likely to keep rising. For 1 litre ($3) I could instead have bought 3/4 of a cup of green tea at a cafe nearby. 😒
I’d love to see this as a movie! Great article! How Death Positive Women Kickstarted a Civil War:
By October [1846 in Portugal], two governments had been deposed and the country was neck-deep in a civil war.
And all because an old woman had chosen a terrible time to die.
I think I’ll be watching this. It looks fun. Apollo 10 1/2 📺
Before I could plant these 3 cabbage trees I spent a couple of hours over several days digging out lupins, gorse and blackberry, weedeating, gathering mulch and tires. Finally today I spent about 45 minutes in the heat actually planting. 4 more to go!
Sometime I want to bike along this trail myself. Really interesting article today: Lake Dunstan Trail: 55,000 more riders than expected in first year.
In … January, 12,068 people passed the trail counter – almost as many [as] they’d [expected for] the entire year of 2028.
