That was a cool little 20 minute film: Little Miss Sumo. It’s worth a watch (Netflix) 🎬:
The premise revolves around the 20-year-old sumo wrestler Hiyori Kon, one of few women practising the sport.
I’m glad these girls get to expand horizons:
When I first came to New Zealand, I didn’t know what sport was …because I’m a girl and wasn’t allowed to play sport [in Pakistan] because I was a girl.
Source: ‘I didn’t know what sport was’ - female refugees discover sport in NZ
Uh oh:
Director-General of Health Ashley Bloomfield has confirmed the country’s first case of the Omicron variant has been found at a MIQ facility in Christchurch.
Hooray for the NZ Invertebrate ID group on Facebook. I now know this insect is a Bush gadfly (Scaptia adrel). It was hanging out on the wall of our garage today. It’s roughly 3 cm long.
I have two Japanese quail. Today, less than 2 Km from our house, I spotted a not-very-often-seen-round-here California Quail. 🐦 Pretty different, eh!
I enjoyed A Mumbai Murder Mystery by Meeti Shroff-Shah. 📚
Some great turns of phrase, insight into a culture I’m not familiar with. So much food I want to taste!
Radhi returns home to Mumbai … gets caught up in the mystery surrounding the death of her best friend’s father.
This was long overdue but today I finally took all the dirty straw out of the quail run and added fresh straw and pine shavings. 🐦 That all created a lot of consternation, as you can see by the slightly open beaks. They should enjoy it once they get over the shock though.
Some publishers use a service that detects which Amazon Store a newsletter reader might want to use and sends me incorrectly to Amazon Australia when I click a link. Keyboard Maestro to the rescue: I copy the title, KM turns it into an Amazon.us link and takes me there. 📚
Love this music!
Dufay is famous for being the first really major Renaissance composer and breaking from the medieval traditions, … his isorhythmic motets are more exciting than average.
Source: Dufay’s Isorhythmic Motets | Azimuth
Thanks to @chrisaldrich for the link.
Oshi, 🐶 aged 15, is arthritic, has a heart murmur and doesn’t see so well. He can now walk ~500 metres max, and still enjoys peeing on everything (male dogs!).
Sasha, 🐶 aged 15, is pretty much blind and almost deaf, arthritic and has weak legs. I have to lift her up and down steps, on and off the bed. Her walks are now limited to ~200 metres max, and that can take 10 or 15 minutes. I hope she enjoys the fresh smells.
Sasha and Oshi turn 15 today! 🎉 They had some extra treats in their breakfast. Here are some silly birthday photos. 😀
Happily noted: Nichelle Nichols played the role of Nyota Uhura on Star Trek: The Original Series. 🖖🏼 Recently,
Astronaut Appearance Specialist Denise Young bestowed on Nichols NASA’s Exceptional Public Achievement Medal for her 40 years of activism in diversifying NASA’s ranks.
Source: Daily Star Trek News
From a couple of days ago: Thrush on a fence post.
I enjoy Anne Shillolo’s Port Alma mysteries very much. Unfortunately, I found Frozen Fear, part of a different series, somewhat annoying. I should know by now I’m not a big fan of romancey stories.
Peekaboo. Cloud over the Tararuas.
At the start of this week we had almost 100 mm rain over 2 or 3 days, with associated flooding around the place. Now there’s another 100 mm forecast over the next 7 days.
The Welcome Swallow, on the other hand, just seemed inscrutable.
This waxeye on the flax spear was a bit grumpy looking.
