Miraz Jordan

Today is house-washing (outside walls) day. So far I've washed the north wall, which is second easiest. Luckily it's a gorgeous sunny and warm day. The hardest, south wall may have to wait for another day as it's very tiring work.

The drone shot below is by a professional photographer we hired. It shows how dry everything is at the moment.

Much as I don't care for the politics of Winston Peters, he can be very quick-witted and funny:

Chlöe Swarbrick, during a question about the government’s new school lunches ending up in landfills “as a result of them being inedible”, produced three of the prepackaged school meals.

As she placed them on her desk, Winston Peters made a point of order:

“Mr Speaker, since when in standing orders is a member allowed to bring their lunch to parliament, let alone having taken it from a schoolchild?”

Via: Echo Chamber: David Seymour is a very naughty boy | The Spinoff:

There was this drone with its tail:

A few seconds earlier the scene looked like this:

Just fishing …

This solar farm and battery storage facility will be only a few minutes drive from our new house. That pleases me. 😁 Ruakākā Solar Farm gains planning consent | Meridian Energy:

With up to 250,000 solar panels, the Ruakākā Solar Farm, south of Whangārei, will be capable of producing up to 200GWh of electricity per year – enough to power around half the homes in Northland.

The solar farm is Stage 2 of Meridian’s Ruakākā Energy Park, which also includes a 100MW battery energy storage system

Whew, we called on Aqua Gold Water Supply 2024 today to add 12,000 litres of drinking water to our tank.

No more immediate worries about forecasts of dry weather.

It's been a while … This morning I pumped up our bike tires and we did a 10 Km bike ride round the streets here.

Siri started an Outdoor Other instead of a Cycling workout for me, but apparently my heart rate was in the range 109–137 even though we were on the flat and not biking very hard.

I made this Greek omelet today when my friend J visited. It was delicious, but I was totally unable to 'roll' it out of the pan. It was more of a 'flop'. 😆

Delicious though.

And I forgot to take a photo …

Yesterday in the supermarket I walked past a stand of Hot Cross Buns. Folks, Easter isn't until mid-April! That's 70 days away!

Good to know — I've just discovered the Frankie Drake Mysteries Wiki. 🔗

I love the way Frankie Drake Mysteries manages to include snippets of Toronto / Canadian history in its episodes.

Oops, carelessly fell asleep while reading out in the midday sun. Maybe only 15 minutes, so fingers crossed no harm done. Siri tells me the current UV reading is 6 …

Things have been so busy I haven't done a dawn beach walk for a while. Rectified this morning. 5.5 Km.

Around high tide, waves driving into the river mouth. For the Pacific Wave Appreciation Society. 🌊

The video looked terrible. Here's another version.

Annie makes a lot of sense, as always — I’m gonna keep making shit and I hope you will too:

every single tiny little unimportant thing we make is one more thing that is not terrible.

Random bit of fun spotted in a parked car at the cafe where I met a good friend for brunch this morning.

The photographer has been and gone and now it's a couple of weeks till the first open home. We can relax for a while, thank goodness.