Ahh, photos… Here’s one reason the food at Ha’atafu Resort in Tonga was fabulous: staff caught fresh fish in the morning. We all ate together at a long table at 7 pm. The owners even made me special versions of the food because of my allergy to onion, spring onion and chives.
I had totally misremembered this photo taken in 2012 at Ha’atafu Resort in Tonga. This may be the best solution for avoiding screen glare and device shutdown while reading in the sun. 😀 📚
If travel ever happens again, Ha’atafu Resort is fabulous — a dozen guests, amazing food.
Folks, @cheri’s Kat Voyzey series is one of my favourites and now there’s the Kat Voyzey Flash Sale. The first book is even free!
a coworker is murdered at a Seattle hospital, an unlikely sleuth emerges from the HR department. Kat Voyzey won’t rest until she gets justice
Here are Oshi and Sasha after grooming. Oshi wasn’t being cooperative again. Check out the before. 🐶
With my computer screen full of unwanted horizontal lines, it’s hard to see photos properly. However, if you think this tree is out of focus, it’s not. It’s a NZ native called a Rimu.
rimu has weeping branchlets, but these become long, drooping branches when the tree matures.
Yesterday the Kohitere Forest walk fitted perfectly into my afternoon. Finding the address to start from was super hard: it’s on the left a few metres past the Makahika Outdoor Pursuit Centre at 865 Gladstone Road, Levin. 6.57 Km walk, ~1.75 hours. A mix of pines and native trees.
On today’s agenda: getting a filling in a top left tooth and part one of a crown at top right, at the back. 🦷 $$$$ 🥵 Ugh, visits to the dentist get harder every time.
Near the top of the hill I have a phone signal. Here I turn around whether I reached the top or not. 1 hour back to the car after I’ve had lunch. Not a bad lunch spot.
I want user-centred guides to trails: you want a 1 hour easy walk? Try Walk X. A steep walk needing superfit? Try Walk Q. Don’t have a mountain bike? Here are the bike trails for you…
Probably anyone old enough to remember computer manuals will recall the earliest versions: File menu - New, makes a new doc; Save, saves the doc; Open, opens the doc etc etc. Useless as a manual. My attempts to find bike rides and walks are meeting the same block: About Walk A…
Thanks to all for the affirmations on my Micro.Blog third anniversary. 😊 This is truly a wonderful community and my decision to move my blogging here was indeed the right one. Thanks for reading.
Apparently this is my 3 year anniversary of posting on Micro.Blog. What a good choice that was! Thanks On This Day for the clue. // @cleverdevil
A while back the Council erected (needless and incorrect) speed signs nearby then removed the signs but left the posts. Now some wag has added a smiley face to one and an intriguing clock face to the other. The clock face shows a map of the world and the words “Tick Tock”.
Whew. That 20 minute drive home from the supermarket took me around 4.25 hours thanks to the road being closed. I spent a chunk of the time in the Library after turning back to Levin. After the road opened it took me about 1.25 hours because traffic was all backed up.
After listening to the whole of the latest Core Intuition without getting noticeably closer to home I turned back and am ensconced in the library. The road may be closed for hours yet apparently.
Second time in just a few weeks that my trip home from the supermarket takes hours. 😒 SH1 ŌHAU, MANAWATŪ-WHANGANUI - CRASH - UPDATE... - Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency Central North Island | Facebook:
SCU are now on site to investigate this crash. This investigation will take several hours.
Please continue to delay your travel through the area or expect MAJOR DELAYS, as there is no detour available.
John Gruber’s turn of phrase here really made me laugh — Why Parler Is Likely to Fold:
Always seemed pretty obvious that the minds behind Parler weren’t exactly sharp knives, but it’s looking more and more like they’re on the plastic cutlery end of the spectrum.
Intriguing to find sand sculpting like this on dry sand up the beach rather than by the water.
At first I thought this was an old banana peel discarded on the beach. Then I noticed the teeth! I don’t know what the fish used to be.
