After much fruitless messing about trying to crop photos to a circle in Acorn I checked Help and found: Acorn: Clipping to a Shape Layer. Brilliant. A couple of clicks and it’s done. Test image.
Oh, the New York Times Acrostic for April 1, 2018 was excellent fun and a joy to solve. So clever!
I’m far from a frog expert, but my Internet searches suggest this is a Green and Golden Bell Frog that was in our long grass.
Excellent! Sexual violence prevention programme:
Minister for the prevention of family and sexual violence… said one of the first priorities would be promoting respect and consent in relationships.
The programme would also address “underlying drivers that lead to violence.”
I really enjoyed Cold Deal (Kina McKevie Private Detective Book 1) by Lisa Ambrose. 📚 It kept me reading past bedtime. I hope the next in the series comes soon.
Kina McKevie is back in East London more than a decade after killing her abusive, drug-dealing boyfriend.
Update 03 October 2022: when I first noted this on my blog on 03 October 2021 the author was Lisa Ambrose. Now the book’s at a new URL with Laurence Moore listed as author.
Good grief! USPS won’t carry mail to NZ for a while:
… “unavailability of transportation”.
“refrain from mailing items … until further notice”.
Disrupted USPS services to NZ include … airmail and surface mail.
Glee and Fliss, the Japanese Quail, are now back in their outdoor run. 🐦 They don’t care for change much so were very cautious and fluffed up to start with.
The quail have been living in our garage since mid-July when we went away for two weeks. 🐦 Now the worst of the winter and spring weather is over it’s time for them to go back into their outdoor run. Today I added a transparent roof over the open end and tidied the inside.
Earthquake prone building.
Woohoo! Wowee!
‘Babylon 5’ Reboot in Development at The CW From Original Series Creator J. Michael Straczynski
Source: Variety
Thanks @alexsavin for the news.
It was a chilly morning with a cool wind from the south. Then when I took the dogs to the beach I got the full force of the southerly, and it was bitterly cold! I was so glad of my down jacket. The southerly has brought more snow to the peaks of the Tararuas.
On this day in 2015, 25 September, we were in Morocco, trekking through the desert by camel to stay overnight in a Berber camp. That was an amazing experience.
Noooo! When you finish Full Bodied (A Ruby Steele Mystery—Book 3) by Mia Gold 📚, knowing there’s a Book 4, so you go straight to buy it and see:
This title will be auto-delivered to your Kindle on December 14, 2021.
At 2 am today we put our clocks forward an hour. [Insert all the usual gripes about Daylight Saving.] At least now we really are on the way to summer! I’m a bit stiff and achey after yesterday’s planting efforts. A good day to read a good book…
Somehow Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 1 didn’t really grab me. I’m so glad I stuck with it though as I’m finding Season 2 hilarious.
I specially love the immensely stupid Pakleds. And also the Tamarian cultural references still used by Kayshon.
Micro.Blog Mac app request for @help : If I’m adding a bunch of photos it’d be good if the app could remember my previous selection in the dialog box — I’m often adding several from one folder and have to recall which from the list I’ve already added. See screenshot.
Each year the Horowhenua District Council supplies thousands of spinifex and pīngao plants which volunteers then plant to protect and advance the sand dunes. In 1.5 hours today ~40 volunteers planted 4,000 plants. 🙌🏼
Some drill holes while others tuck in the young plants.
This series keeps me reading well past my going to sleep time! I really enjoyed Extra Dirty (A Ruby Steele Mystery—Book 2) by Mia Gold 📚:
A 40-something female tourist seeks out Ruby, desperate for her help. She was out partying all night with her friend [who now] is missing.
Dog grooming day for Oshi and Sasha 🐶 — before and after.
Today’s dilemma: I have to take the dogs to the groomer very soon. I’m supposed to walk them first. It’s rainy and windy. Take them out and we all get soaked? Or leave it. (I’ll be spending the morning at the Library, hanging out till the dogs are done.)