My almost-18, ailing boy Ares, sat on my lap for maybe an hour today, then suddenly had a huge seizure (first ever). 🐈 He frothed, panted and yowled. I rushed him to the vet who checked him over, and now he’s home and in bed, doing just fine. He’s down to 4.3Kg now though. 🙀
Ohhh, I made a big mistake. 🤢 I want some lines in a ToDo list in BBEdit to sort by prefixing a special character. The manual:
sort lines of text in Unicode collation order
☛ an incomprehensible rabbit hole. I ended up typing all characters and sorting to see what to use.
This 46 min video made me realise I’ve seen signers at conferences translating speech to sign, but I’ve never seen them translate sign to speech. I’ve never seen a presentation by a deaf person!
Lingthusiasm 36: Researching signed languages in real-world contexts with Lynn Hou
A Study in Honor - a great read!
I really enjoyed reading A Study in Honor: A Novel (The Janet Watson Chronicles) by Claire O’Dell. I loved this book. Right from the sample, I just kept reading. The story was fresh, evocative and interesting. I find this extrapolation from recent and current events in the US to be very believable. Thoroughly recommended! There was no doubt at all that I’d buy the next in the series. 📚
From debut author Claire O’Dell comes a fresh, clever, and timely reimagination of Sherlock Holmes, featuring Watson and Holmes as you’ve never seen them before
Dr. Janet Watson knows firsthand the horrifying cost of a divided nation. While she was treating broken soldiers on the battlefields of the New Civil War, a sniper’s bullet shattered her arm and ended her career. Honorably discharged and struggling with the semifunctional mechanical arm that replaced the limb she lost, she returns to the nation’s capital, a bleak, edgy city in the throes of a fraught presidential election. Homeless, jobless, and still heartbroken over a bad breakup with her girlfriend, Watson is uncertain of the future when she meets Sara Holmes, a mysterious yet playfully challenging covert agent who offers the doctor a place to stay.
Watson’s readjustment to civilian life is complicated by the infuriating antics of her strange new roommate. But the tensions between them dissolve when Watson discovers that soldiers from the New Civil War have begun dying one by one—and that the deaths may be the tip of something far more dangerous, involving the pharmaceutical industry and even the looming election. Joining forces, Watson and Holmes embark on a thrilling investigation to solve the mystery—and secure justice for these fallen soldiers.
Instant quiz: does my sub to Bear Pro expire in February or September? Please folks, if you’re responsible for ‘writing’ dates, don’t do them in that format. Month names are good…
I haven’t seen any porcupine fish on our beach for a while. This is quite a little one. A gull was having a good go at it.
Those golden sand, sun drenched beaches up north are all very well, but I’ve missed our beach. 🐶
Other peoples cats must sit still for photos… Ares doesn’t. iPhone 7 takes a while to focus etc. 🐈 Today Ares is inside on a chair. The last photo shows his discoloured eye with wide open iris doesn’t respond to light, so presumably is blind. He gets stuck in corners these days.
We really enjoyed Gentleman Jack:
Set in 1832 in Yorkshire, it … is based on the collected diaries of Anne Lister (1791-1840), … documenting a lifetime of lesbian relationships.
This 8-hour series was also thoroughly thought provoking.
Today is Saturday 21 September 2019 and the quail have produced the first egg of the season. 🐦🥚 We have 12 hours and 02 minutes of sun today. Last year we also had the first eggs on this day. Clever girls!
Queenstown has a horrendous housing cost / shortage problem. Workers can’t afford to live there.
He was even aware of hotels closing entire wings because they did not have the staff needed to operate them, Mr Buckley said.
Hmmm, what could they do to help with worker housing?
As we drove north from Whangārei last weekend we saw numerous seemingly wild turkeys beside the road. Near Te Kao this crew on the grass verge were having quite a barney with a gang in the middle of the road.
Link: the hilarious 2019 Comedy Wildlife finalist photos. Some guaranteed laughs here. Click an image to view large then use arrow keys (Mac) to scroll through. See also previous years entries.
Deb has an errand in Kelburn in Wellington so dogs and I came too. I forgot how terrible parking is. We ended up at Beach Babylon in Oriental Bay for a green tea and chocolate cake.
hapū and iwi who encountered Europeans were often willing and able participants in the trade that quickly developed. … Māori women were often used to keep Pākehā in the community.
Pimping, prostitution, perhaps rape, sound so innocent when worded thus. #sexism
Puhoi is just north of Auckland. Bohemians arrived in 1863 and ‘settled’ the ‘waste land’ that in reality belonged to Māori (as did everything in New Zealand before Europeans arrived and grabbed it). That phrase ‘first settlers’ sounds so normal, but Māori were there first.
The map below may not be 100% accurate, but shows the ~2,300Km Deb and I travelled in the last week. From Waikawa Beach to Putaruru, Whangārei, Cape Reinga (via Pukenui), Whangārei, Coromandel, Drury (Auckland) and back to Waikawa Beach. Loved the trip! Deb skipped the CR bit.
Up in Helena Bay, north of Whangārei, is an amazing art gallery and cafe. While visiting I spotted these gorgeous deejo pocket knives. The problem is I don’t need another pocket knife. Also, the one review I read, gave it only three stars. Still want one though…
In Tirau, near Cambridge, they make the most of corrugated iron. Not the best angle on the first photo unfortunately. It’s a sheep.
Cambridge, where we stopped for breakfast, is the horse breeding capital of NZ. The plaques in the footpath makes that clear. Plenty of money in these parts.
