This very long read is riveting and thought-provoking: Deliverance From 27,000 Feet.
5 Sherpas surrounded the frozen corpse. They swung axes at the body’s edges, trying to pry it from its icy tomb. They knocked chunks of snow from the body … pieces skittered down the mountain.
Yesterday Waikawa Beach was under a Beach and Marine Threat Warning, while parts of the northeast of Aotearoa New Zealand were under a Tsunami Warning.
Still, this Tsunami Alert sign popped up at the main entrance to the beach.
I’ve signed up for a free crossword puzzle creating class as mentioned at Puzzle 25: Animal Crackers. Not until April, but should be interesting.
At the start of Fortune Funhouse (Miss Fortune Mysteries Book 19) by Jana DeLeon I thought some plot tropes were wearing thin. However, this proved another enjoyable read with a tricky solution. 📚
a man is murdered in the funhouse and Emmaline LeBlanc is knocked unconscious
My neighbour Jan took this photo of Sasha and Oshi. 🐶
This map from RadioNZ shows better where the three quakes have been. We only felt the first, but there are tsunami and coastal inundation warnings for almost the whole country from the later two.
Shaky times: the first earthquake around 0230 today was offshore New Zealand. Since then though have been two more huge earthquakes much further away but still in our region, by the Kermadecs. There are tsunami warnings along northern and eastern coasts. Map
That far away shake certainly woke us all up! It started with long light shaking then wound up to long strong shaking. In the morning I need to check the cupboards in case things fell over. Nearly got out of bed for it!
A power cut last week led our Belling 60cm Freestanding Double Oven to misbehave: clock blinked, hob worked, top oven worked. The bottom oven though wouldn’t do anything. Troubleshooting section of the manual led us to an electrician … who came out and set the clock time. 😫
Cool: symptoms of ‘the UK variant’ of Covid-19 in several languages, including Mandarin, Hindi, Punjabi as well as Māori, Sāmoan and Tongan.
Last night we drove to Feilding with friends for dinner at Amayjen. It was our friend Jan’s birthday. Food was great, service was great. It was a fun evening. Almost no other diners there though.
Grooming day for Sasha and Oshi (and, not shown, me). Oshi refused to look at the camera, but Sasha’s a very obliging girl. 🐶
Swedish Breakfast
As we continue our weekly International Breakfast series … last week it was Mexican Huevos Rancheros and this week Swedish Rye Crispbread with eggs and fish roe, which we supplemented with cream cheese, tomatoes, cucumber and ham (and ate at lunchtime). This is fun.
It’s annoying to come home from a brief walk and find I have to brush piripiri out of Sasha’s coat. Nasty little things, these burrs. 🐶 At least she only had a few (that I’ve found).
Today I attended a line dancing class for the first time and learned:
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I have no sense of rhythm
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I can count to 1
It was fun though. I’m the one in the middle and somehow I was actually doing the same step as everyone else at the same time!
Finished reading Secrets on the Fens by Joy Ellis, one of my favourite authors. Another excellent read! 📚
the bodies of two young people are discovered … in the woods … It appears to be a lovers’ suicide pact … Until Detective Nikki Galena and DS Joseph Easter look more closely.
It’s the last day of meteorological summer and blimmin hot. My temperature gauge that I don’t trust says 27C. A neighbour’s (1 Km away) says 22C. I think it’s between the two. So glad to have some proper hot weather at last, though parts of NZ have hit 39C at times this summer.
For the last day of the photo challenge I thought I’d look up one of the first digital photos I took — with a Fujifilm DX-5. From November 1997 my Blue Burmese cat Minhla. 🐈
The farmer seems to be seeding the paddocks next door — perhaps with grass as he usually keeps dry stock (beef) on there. This year too he mowed those paddocks for hay / silage for the first time.
