Interesting: Risk of Death For Female Patients Is Much Higher if Surgeon Is a Man, Study Reveals. It’d be interesting to know data for cross-cultural and other groupings too.
Sometimes I try reading romance, but it’s unsatisfying like when hot chocolate is all froth… When Love Wins by Sherryl Hancock. 📚
Tyler has been openly gay, Shenin always dated men … the government’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell [sets] a path that could endanger both careers
This photo from February 2020 turns out the be the only one I have of a Goldfinch. 😒 Poor little mite flew into our window and was stunned. 🐦 Need to look out for one to take photos of.
So pleased with my new zoom lens. Juvenile Starling on a flax spear; rabbit on the grass.
Hey @g see how you get on with this Applescript you asked for. Copy the contents into Script Editor and see if it works for what you want. I bet others could do a way better job, but it’s a start. There are also probably much better ways to achieve this, eg with Keyboard Maestro.
I chose dawn today to bike round the village. Slightly chilly but perfect conditions, with no wind. The river was super low, despite it being 2 hours before low tide. The river is more usually about where the bolts attach that diagonal crossbeam on the footbridge.
Enjoyed, in spite of numerous typos: Unknown Victim (Gina Santoro Mysteries Book 1) by Kay Hadashi. 📚
Rookie Police Officer Gina Santoro … makes a career change … Now working in landscape management, she finds … a dead body on her front porch.
Hawai’i a bonus.
Last night I met that rare and elusive beast, 8 hours good sleep. 😴 It’s life-changing! 💪🏼
Tonight we visited our weekender neighbours. Amy, the vet assistant, brought Doodlebug, the rescue guinea pig to the beach for a holiday. I got a “wheek”. 😀 // @jean
Oh my! ❤️🔥Katharine Hepburn as a boy in 1935’s Sylvia Scarlett 🎥:
as she chops off her hair she declares, “I won’t be a girl. I won’t be weak, and I won’t be silly. I’ll be a boy, and rough, and hard. I won’t care what I do! Don’t worry, I’m ready for anything!”
Some folks are so desperate to get their vehicles onto the beach they’ll even drive through a high tide.
Well, today I achieved variety, with breakfast anyway. Someone accidentally switched the locations of ground chilli and cinnamon in the pantry and I didn’t look closely. Chilli on porridge is … interesting. 😆
This morning we’re heading out to a Waikanae Estuary Bird Tour. It’s only a 40 minute drive south.
Mik will show you where to find roosting shags, the oyster-catches, scaup, dabchicks, herons, banded dotterels, terns and many other species that may be on display.
I wasn’t entirely sure about Close to Her (Detective Sarah Burke mystery and suspense Book 1) by Elizabeth Gunn at first. Then I loved it and am ready to read more. 📚
Today I kayaked 2 Km upriver. It was sunny and peaceful. After watching some ‘how to paddle’ videos I think my paddling technique has improved a little. Never gone so far before. Tired now! 🛶
I’m learning a heap of useful info from the free videos from The Cornell Lab Bird Academy. Here’s one example: Inside Birding: Size & Shape.
If you want to learn more about birds this is great stuff! 🐦
I have a huge job ahead of me over the next unknown amount of time. I’ve been very poor at labelling the photos in my Apple Photos.app collection. I’ve now set up a Smart Album, just for last year to start with, and will work away on it a few images at a time. 📷
With temps in the high 20sC we took the for us unusual step of going down to the beach for a “swim”. For me that means jumping over waves. Our beach is so shallow we waded out maybe 30 metres or more and were still only thigh deep. Pretty splendid really.
It was a perfect sunset last night. I found I could even see the Makara Wind Farm (via binoculars) some 100 Km away. In the third photo most of the land on the horizon is the South Island or islands in Cook Strait.
