A few small shakes overnight, 2 very close and shallow 〰️:
- Sun Mar 20 2022 8:28 PM: 15 km south-east of Seddon; M4.5; Depth: 10 km.
- Sun Mar 20 2022 11:50 PM: 10 km west of Levin; M3.2; Depth: 5 km.
- Mon Mar 21 2022 12:08 AM: 10 km west of Levin; M2.6; Depth: 5 km.
I was never really very fond of gulls, but I’m coming to quite like the ones at Waikawa Beach. Tarapunga, Red-billed gull. 🐦
I really enjoyed The Girl Who Killed You (The Shee McQueen Mystery Thriller Series Book 3) by Amy Vansant 📚:
Shee quickly tracks [a missing] boy to a Bahamian island playground … The job seems such a breeze, she hires her daughter to infiltrate the age-restricted compound.
Waikawa Beach at 9 am on a cool, clear, sunny, still morning. Paradise.
After completely draining the batteries on my original Airpods and case as a problem solving step (I hope), today I thought it’d be good to run my M1 MacBook Pro battery right down for a change. Takes a while…
Sasha getting back to basics. 🐶
Some kind of spacecraft launching gantry? No. Pouring concrete at the new subdivision, starting an hour+ before sunrise at 6 am! Photo at 7 am, just before sunrise. I’m not super happy about this pre-dawn activity.
This is now my official preferred scrambled egg dish: Soft Scrambled Japanese Tamago Rice Bowl. Totally yum!
The garden shop down the road has had Cabbage Trees on sale for a while now. I’ve already planted 14 in various spots but today I bought another 7 and planted them by the gate where we had a pile of mulch we’ve used up.
In the next-door-paddock-but-one the farmer grows corn or maize. Today was harvesting day. One machine harvested the maize and blew it through a chute into a trailer, then the tractor would take away the full container and replace it with an empty one.
Another really good read in the Goodbye series: Goodbye Lake Street by Anne Shillolo 📚:
Police and a secret group of citizen investigators are locked in a battle for child safety, and Detective Constable Holly Towns finds herself trapped between the two.
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!
