RGB. 🐶
Contrast: tire marks and smooth sand. I’m so glad the tide comes up each day to wash away the infernal tire tracks.
Watched an excellent Australian movie: Top End Wedding:
The film stars Miranda Tapsell as Lauren, a lawyer planning to wed her fiancé in her hometown only to discover her mother has run away.
I loved seeing Tiwi Islands Aboriginal culture portrayed here. 🍿🇦🇺 Amazing scenery.
In 2002 Deb and I visited Vanuatu for a holiday. We travelled to Mount Yasur, an easily accessible active volcano on Tanna Island. As it became dark we could see the eruptions spewing out red hot rocks above us.
🤯 :
‘ard’ is a real suffix in the english language just like ‘ly’ or ‘ify’, … ‘ard’ means ‘too much’ or ‘too easily’
‘mustard’ is something that is ‘too pungent’, … ‘wizard’ is someone who is too wise, ‘coward’ … too easily cowed, and ‘drunkard’ is someone too often drunk
We very rarely get seaweed of any kind on our beach, but today there was a small patch of this plant. Is it perhaps sea lettuce?
Darn, this was from Monday and I’ve forgotten what site I was on. Whenever I have to choose New Zealand from a drop down list I type ‘N’ and that gets me close enough at New Caledonia. This list uses weird sorting so I was still far from home: Bulgaria, New Caledonia, Cambodia…
I like things on my computer to be ‘just so’. Most windows should be tucked up to the top left corner, for example. (Micro.Blog inhabits top right.) I use a Keyboard Maestro macro to make sure my Black Ink crossword puzzles are in the right place and to automatically hide others.
Oshi’s had his duck since he first came to live with us at age 3 months. He ignores it most of the time, but sometimes runs round whimpering while he tries to find a good place to hide it. Sometimes he digs a hole in the sand and buries it, then digs it up again. Nice pillow! 🐶
These interesting fungi were hanging out in the strawberry patch.
Every morning Sasha jumps on the bed for a cuddle. Then she settles down in her favourite spot at the foot. 🐶
It took me a stupid amount of time to find this small photo. My new electric bike isn’t the first one I’ve owned. Back in around 2007 I had this Apollo eLation electric bike. It was an Apollo Altitude XC, 24 Speed Cross Country Mountain Bike with a battery. It was wrong for me.
It’s rare for there to be absolutely no wind. This sand dune reflection is actually from 2017.
That’s what I wanted. Tired at the end of the day but had the urge to go for a little bike ride. eBike FTW. 9.02 km round the local area. Getting the hang of the bike and which way to turn the gear thingummy (I’m used to gear levers, not a twist thing).
I read and very much enjoyed Triana Moore, Space Janitor: The Complete Humorous Sci Fi Mystery Series by Julia Huni. The stories were interesting and fun. The lead character was smart and self-assured, but far from perfect, which made her relatable. Great world building too. 📚
It’s not just me and folks I know: How employers are freezing the over 50s out of the job market:
the “more suitable candidates” line was one older generations … despised. “It is challenging … to get rejected … with the platitude ‘we’ve found someone who’s a better fit’.”
This sight has dominated our local summer. A dreary landscape. Grey skies, drizzly mist. I’m sick of it!
Odd but pleasing dreams: a stunningly iridescent blue butterfly 3 times the size of a Monarch, that I then realised was a bird. A large tan brown fuzzy ‘bird’ that flew to me and curled up against my legs so I realised it was a flying cat. How cool!
Although I did my best to clean our gutter recently it was seeming to overflow when we had any actual rain. I got the professionals in. Martyn came with his gutter vacuum and camera and sorted it out. Various gunk and a dead baby bird were sucked out. All clean now!
I took my new bike for a ride beyond the village on to the ‘open' road. 13 Km all up. I started with an extra loop where I stopped and chatted with neighbours a bit. There were a couple of minor hillocks that usually strain my legs but were no problem with the motor.
