Our new splashback installed. It’s a colour called Resene Koru to match our feature walls. Tricky with reflections… Really gives the kitchen a lift though and we could never properly clean the wall behind the stove.
I love these little cuties. More waxeyes at the bird feeder.
Get! Scram! Clear off!
This is a ‘before’ of our oven and wall and rangehood. Soon there should be an ‘after’.
Aha: an explanation of the planes: RNZAF carrying out low-flying around Manawatū, Rangitikei & Whanganui | NZDF
tactical flying exercise … a Hercules training activity used by No. 40 Squadron … provides crews with a range of flying training
We live not too far really from a military airfield (60 Km direct). I happened to be taking photos of the birds at the feeder, heard a noise, looked up and these two huge very low flying C130-H Hercules were heading straight for me. They banked behind us and flew off.
Sometimes at the supermarket I see workers with big trolleys assembling customer orders for delivery. This approach is utterly astonishing: How many robots does it take to run a grocery store?
In Ocado’s grocery warehouses, thousands of mechanical boxes move on the Hive.
I think this is my third night in a row of restless and broken sleep. I’ve been having a good run of sleep lately after working on it, so this is annoying. Not sure what’s going on. 😴
Sexual Harassment is a bit of a problem by Sharon Murdoch.
This started well, became a bit suss and then by 66% through was annoying: Last Call (The Janet Black Mystery Series Book 1) by Libby Kirsch 📚
I read to the end just to see the explanations really.
Fascinating: Who’s eating New Zealand?:
New Zealand produces enough food to feed about 40 million people but given our population is just 5 million, who are these people we’re feeding and what are they eating?
Answer: people in other countries.
NZ exports … 95% of its dairy…
Today’s International Breakfast was Drop Scones/Scotch Pancakes. I had problems — I had the griddle too hot (the recipe didn’t specify) and we had to use way more milk. Also used half the sugar. They were OK but could be better next time. We ate them with butter and jam.
Watching line dance tutorials. I can understand why the instructor wants to face the camera, but then I get very confused: I need to move in the opposite direction. I much prefer the tutorials where they turn their back to me. CopperKnob is a great site.
Someone gave me 18 header images for our community website but at 2400x560 instead of the 1200x280 I needed. I copied all images to a new folder then ran this one Terminal command on the folder. A moment later all were correctly resized.
sips -Z 1200 *.jpg
✔️
Rabbit ears.
Hmm, I read The Uniform (Detective Helen Carter Book 1) by Jodie Lawrance. 📚
Set in Edinburgh in the 1970s the relentless grimness makes this a bit hard going: every single page contains dirt, grime, overt sexism, smoking, excessive drinking, poverty, tenements, slums, winter…
Wall decal dots are very cool — I have several in different sizes on the walls. We’re investigating a community art project for summer that would involve these. Today I took one of mine and roughly tested whether it would stick to a variety of surfaces. It did well!
I enjoyed Lowcountry Box Set (A Liz Talbot Mystery) by Susan M Boyer. 📚
I’m not usually into ghosts but this was an inoffensive plot device much like hacking skillz or martial arts expertise. I skipped a few pages of the hetero-romance gory details too.
Set in South Carolina.
The river at Waikawa Beach was pretty high the other day after loads of rain — it had been higher than this photo shows. Then today it was really really low. Maybe because it broke through the sand bar at the mouth it’s able to flow out more easily?
The little silvereyes sure do love the birdfood! 🐦