I have a rare holiday coming up: 4 days visiting Egmont National Park for some short walks, sightseeing and photos. Guess I’d better pack rain gear. 😒
Sasha, still under the influence of post-surgery opiates. 🐶
I’ve been a little on tenterhooks this morning as Sasha went in for dental surgery. The vet says all’s well. She took out 14 teeth! which leaves Sasha with 10. Dogs start out with 42. Soft food from now on though. Not bad for 15 and a half. 🐶
Hah! Picard S02E09: “We have to super urgently go there and do that. We’ll just stop every couple of minutes and explore our feelings for a while…” (paraphrase)
This is why I can’t donate blood:
perhaps you lived in the UK during the 1980s and 1990s so you’re at risk for passing on bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad cow disease.
Via: Why has the ‘gay blood ban’ still not been lifted in New Zealand?.
It took a rather ridiculous and surprisingly exhausting 2 hours to assemble this garden cart today. Trundles nicely though.
A flock of about 20 cyclists went past while I was walking Sasha this morning. About 20 older people enjoying the fresh air. 🚴🏼
Interesting short video. Ever wondered what happens to milk at the factory?:
In this video, Glen explains what happens to milk at the factory. He takes us through the process and explains what is pasteurisation, homogenisation, standardisation and permeate.
The Tīrairaka, New Zealand fantail is a tricky bird to photograph and I’m still on a quest to get excellent photos. It flitters and flutters and is so fast! 🐦
It may be 3 months since Oshi passed away, but Sasha has finally stepped into his ‘shoes’ with the ‘it’s dinnertime’ sit-in. And it will be dinnertime, in about an hour. Sigh 🐶
I was trying to take photos of the elusive fantails who were flittering just outside the window. What I did get were these European Goldfinches, with their bright scarlet faces. 🐦
I’ve used the wonderful Pastebot for Mac for the longest time but for some reason only today learned how to use sequential paste. 🤷🏼
There’s something about the opening of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds that grabbed me right by my childhood viewings in the 60s of the Original Series. I got all teary! It took me right back to my childhood when the Space Age was new. ST:TOS was full of excitement, hope, tech etc.
In its second year my Granny Smith apple tree produced 7 apples. One fell off early in the season. I ate one recently. These 5 weigh 1 Kg in total. Very pleasing result. The birds ‘showed’ me they were ready to pick. 😆
That was a treat! Deb made a delicious omelette for breakfast. Yum.
This was an enjoyable read: Death on the Danube: A New Year’s Murder in Budapest (Travel Can Be Murder Cozy Mystery Series Book 1) 📚:
Carl, her fellow tour guide, is found floating in the Danube River. Was it murder or accidental death?
This detail intrigues me:
Two officers from the helicopter ran to the scene and took the seven youths into custody before they could get away.
Seven arrested after helicopter police chase
Two officers arresting 7 people seems pretty impressive to me.
Striding. 🐦
Skating! This little New Zealand dotterel turns out to be banded, when I zoom in. They’re very small, fast birds: 25 cm and about 150 grams. Perfect on the beach: dark upper and white below so you think you’re just seeing shells on sand — till it moves. 🐦
I’m surprised I finished reading Murder by the Book (A Beyond the Page Bookstore Mystery 1) by Lauren Elliott. It seemed confused and rushed, had basic logic flaws and the romantic elements were annoying. I’m unlikely to read more in this series. 📚
