No jab for me today. The nurse concluded I'd had the Whooping Cough booster last time I had a jab for something else, although my records weren't clear. It seems they group jabs these days: tetanus and whatever and whatever.
The plus: no side effects to suffer from while we're away at the weekend.
About to get my free Boostrix shot:
Boostrix vaccine boosts immunity against diphtheria, tetanus and whooping cough.
It was undiagnosed but I suffered from Whooping Cough from March to May 2011. It was debilitating for months.
I found an interesting old blog post. I'll put it up here soon.
For heaven's sake! I wasn't sure if the book I was thinking of buying was NZ$2.49 or US$2.49 (NZ$4.21) but at that price it doesn't matter. On clicking Buy I had to log in, only to be greeted with a 100% price hike to NZ$8.11 and this message:
The price for this Kindle book is different for your country/region and is displayed below.
Bah! No buy!
Got a bit caught up this morning playing with Artimator - Free AI Artwork Generator. Didn't exactly give me what I wanted after several tries, but I liked this rather joyous image of two women dancing and wanted to share.
The biggest problem with the recipe for Mini Gingerbread Loaf for Two is that the loaf is so quickly used up. Yesterday I got smart and doubled up. Photo from January 2022 because yesterday's loaves are gone now. 😆
Yay, Candice Renoir S07 is back on Acorn. I love this show. 📺
I naively thought those huge optical telescopes pointed a big mirror at the sky and then took photos.
I guess they do, but it's everything between plan to point and getting images that's absolutely astounding. Tom Scott explains in a 30 minute video: The largest telescope that will ever be built*.
The abundance of satellites is causing the overall brightness of the sky to increase all around the globe. Some researchers have estimated that, on average, our darkest night skies, located in the most remote regions of the world, are 10% brighter than they were a half century ago, and the problem is only getting worse.
Thanks Prof. Sam Lawler for the link.
4 am and it’s cuppa tea time. We’ve both given up sleeping as gales roar around and shake the house. 💨💨
We still have gales, very high tides and swells. This gull was having a hard time flying when I visited the track where vehicles enter the beach. In the video, at about 13 seconds, you can see it was blown backwards. 🐦
The brown sea / river water is likely from churned up sand.
Voting in our national elections opened today. I took my voter card (not required but helpful) and visited a church in Ōtaki set up for advance voting.
Tick, tick and done!
Now we just wait till Election Day on Saturday 14 October 2023 to see who's going to mess up the country for the next 3 years.
A big high tide and a cold wind today at the river mouth. Here was a bit of a surge coming in, though smaller than the previous one a few minutes before.
Still the whitebaiters were out braving the cold.
The big pile of driftwood is supposed to protect the bank of the river.
Changing Gears by L A Wright held my interest. 📚
When Jen embarks on a scenic cycling tour in France, she never expects to have her life upended by Abi, a captivating Scottish travel writer with a magnetic personality.
A fair few annoying typos. And, as the author seems to love the word askance
, she should learn what it means and how to use it …
Southerly gales in the last few days brought a good layer of snow to the Tararua peaks.
I really liked the patterns the tide left around this piece of driftwood.
In spite of chilly weather, a cold wind, a high tide and a big swell the folks fishing for whitebait today were undaunted.
Thanks to spring I'm starting to see a few chaffinches around. Not the best shot, but there's time yet …
I was fairly interested in buying a S9 Apple Watch, but fell at the last hurdle — I don't care for the colours. I want one the same gorgeous blue as my S7. Meanwhile, after 2 years, the battery's not quite so good as it was when new: maximum battery capacity 85%.
I loved this excellent book by an author whose previous books I've also really enjoyed. A Calculated Risk by Cari Hunter kept me reading. 📚
Jo has to risk her career to save a woman’s life, and a bad night gets worse when the trauma surgeon turns out to be Isla Munro, Jo’s only real love, who walked out on her 15 years ago and never came back.
Woohoo: macOS Sonoma 14.0.
