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.
Only 2.5 minutes in on this 12 minute video and I’ve already learned a really useful tip about longer night exposures. How to capture the night sky with a phone & camera | 3 TIPS for astrophotography beginners
It’s roughly new moon, very little wind, and a 0.3 metre low tide almost 2 hours before this photo. With our gently sloping beach there was a vast expanse of damp sand between the dunes and the water’s edge. Photo looking south at 1x on iPhone 13 Pro Max.
I almost missed seeing this brilliant scarlet sunset.
This is a very thoughtful piece by Anna Rawhiti-Connell in The Spinoff : Aotearoa is different now who reflects on the recent occupation of NZ’s Parliament grounds and the riot when occupiers were cleared out. She also considers the pandemic and the Christchurch earthquake.
Enjoyed Broken Places (A Cass Raines Mystery Book 1) by Tracy Clark 📚:
Cass Raines took a bullet in the line of duty… Now, the Chicago PD has one less African-American woman on the force and Cass is the head of a one-woman private investigation agency.
6 years ago we bought a property we’ve been renting out. The grass at the front was terrible. After a year or two we had it taken out and planted as garden. That led to years of battling weeds. Now we had that ripped out and turf laid. Organising watering is a nightmare though.
The other day I found several jellyfish on the beach, mainly brown and dead looking. This 15 cm specimen was an impressive translucent red. The Wildlife of New Zealand Facebook group confirmed it as a Lion’s Mane.
Some of the (male) illegal occupiers are berating Police for advancing when there are women and children in the protest. Well, a] women can look after themselves! and b] children should be removed by their caregivers in any case.
At long last Police seem to be actually working on clearing the occupiers at NZ’s Parliament: Live: Anti-mandate protest enters 23rd day as police descend on Parliament:
Police are descending on Parliament, with at least 4 large paddy wagons … and a helicopter overhead.
