Nearby are 2 lakes. Sometimes there’s deafening croaking. I believe it’s the introduced Southern Bell frog.
The sound’s loudest at the eastern edge, where a small pohutukawa tree is in bloom — spot red blossoms in centre of the photo. Also a cabbage tree is in bloom.
When it comes to professionals, paid to write, and editors, paid to edit, I get picky and persnickety about the details of writing. How on earth can anything be “surrounded on one side”? Newspaper article text:
Police emergency tape surrounded one side of the property.
I was excited to try out Icro for Mac — the feature list has things like saving your reading position and boy, I want that so much! Unfortunately the font is so tiny I just can’t read it. The screenshot shows Icro on the left and Manton’s Micro.Blog client on the right. @icro 😢
They dig holes and burrows, dig up plants, eat new shoots. But these mainly baby rabbits are boinging all over the grass, being far too cute. Most are brown, but there’s an adult black rabbit who is perhaps the descendant of an escaped pet. 🐇
Forget Guy Fawkes; here’s something we could be remembering in New Zealand every 05 November: 5 November is 138 years since 1600 armed troops invaded Parihaka village.
All part of the British campaign to dispossess Māori of their lands.
I’m getting a few things done around the place — slowly. Today I planted the Granny Smith apple tree, and emptied one compost frame into the garden beside it. I also managed to buy a bottle of hydrogen peroxide Pour n Go water tank treatment and added it to the water tank.
I often post photos taken from our house. Here’s one taken of our house from the street. It’s the more distant, white-coloured and slightly elevated house. It’s actually about 200 metres from where I was standing to take the photo.
mbnov 05-Nov-19: street
Mother or villain? How Māori women offenders are portrayed in news reporting
Pākehā women are portrayed as harmless fraudsters and drug addicts, Māori women are depicted as dangerous killers, kidnappers and thieves. None of which is reflected in real-life conviction rates.
Guy Fawkes' backyard fireworks: Will they stay or will they go?
Fireworks went on sale on Saturday and Fire and Emergency spokesman Mike Shaw said crews had attended more than 40 related incidents since then.
I vote for banning them from sale to the public.
This season of the Flash has taken a disconcerting turn with the whole notion of The Flash having to die to save the world. In Ep 604 he comes up with the line that “’I’ll always be with you, even after I’m gone”. 🤷🏽
My quest to buy chemicals to treat our drinking water tank was unsuccessful — they just sold out (or whatever). I’ll try elsewhere tomorrow. Meanwhile I bought some water for making green tea and it tastes much better!
For days I’ve been troubleshooting why our shower stinks like a toilet when we run hot water. There could be many reasons. But, today I noticed the kitchen water also stinks, which probably means our rainwater tank has a problem. 😒 Off to get chemicals…
mbnov 04-Nov-19: mean
Folks with school-age kids will definitely want to show them this 7 minute video: In Your Face Explosive Chemistry!!.
Watch the scientist light her hand on fire, breathe fire, make a ‘volcano’ and create fog, while explaining the chemistry behind it.
After creating numerous files named ‘kupu-xxx.txt’ I had BBEdit run through the folder to remove the ‘jxzq’ and a couple of new lines from each file in bulk. Then this command renamed each file with the contents of the first line: for i in *; do mv “$i” “$(head -1 “$i”)"; done .
I have a .txt file ~6,000 lines long and wanted to split it into separate files. Each section begins with ‘jxzq’. After endless Man reading and web searching I managed csplit -f ‘kupu-’ FILENAME /jxzq/ ‘{540}' in Terminal. That sort of worked, but only 100 files at a time.
In autumn we dug up a small lime tree that had never thrived and put it in a pot. We also bought a Granny Smith apple and a dwarf nectarine tree. All spent winter in the tunnel house and have been outside for a month or more. Today we planted the lime and nectarine at last.
Seafood isn’t something I fancy, but some love it. At the beach today a vehicle came along and stopped by the water’s edge. A couple carried a heavy drum to the water, emptied it, rinsed it, then loaded it and drove off. They’d tipped out a load of Kina shells. mbnov 03-Nov-19
A couple of months ago we bought a young dwarf nectarine tree. It lived in the tunnelhouse over winter but needs to be planted. I’ve marked out a spot, but that’ll be tomorrow’s job. Meanwhile, we were surprised to find it’s already fruiting.
Mark: mbnov 02-Nov-19
As always, @cheri has incisive words of wisdom:
Did I move my story forward today?
Did I have fun doing it?
Her advice is for writing, but would obviously apply to any endeavour.
This is the kind of thing I could set up Keyboard Maestro to ask me each day.
How Sleep Cleans Toxins From the Brain
During non-REM sleep, neurons start to synchronize, turning on and off at the same time. …That meant less blood would flow to the brain … cerebrospinal fluid would then rush in, filling in the space left behind.
Most of us need more sleep.