I'm 69 and have never played with? built? Lego. After hearing it mentioned the other day I bought a $50 Lego Technic Surface Space Loader set and am looking forward to experimenting.
First web search: how to open the box without destroying it.
First surprise: no words in the instruction book.
That custom email domain I've had trouble with for the past couple of weeks … I fiddled, deleted, started over, double-checked, waited and finally it works! At last!
Deb and I watched the excellent Australian mini-series True Colours on Netflix. 📺
It explores complex questions of culture and justice: white-man's justice vs black-fella justice.
Also touched on are questions of the relationship of traditional art and culture, men's business
and women's business
.
This page lists Custom Email Domain Availability. Since Aotearoa is included I'm stumped as to why, a week or two on, I can't make it work for a new domain.
I've checked settings, tinkered etc. No joy.
On the beach yesterday. 🐦
Here's a stabilised version of the birds and waves video I shared before.
Many thanks to @sod for the suggestion.
Something I've noticed recently is that my hand holding the camera steady is no longer 100% successful in its task. Sorry for the shakes in this morning's video.
I was thinking about exploring the possibilities of a monopod. But I already have enough to carry …
Waves? What waves? 🐦
Waikawa Beach, Aotearoa, for the Pacific Wave Appreciation Society. 🌊
There was one Ngutupapa | Royal Spoonbill at Kuku Beach this morning. 🐦
Kuku Beach Estuary is a 3.5 Km walk north along the beach, but I drove there by road this morning. A local told me there had been a lot of birds there yesterday, but today there weren't so many. Lots of ducks though. 🐦
Chilly at the beach this dawn. We're now in one of the official Autumns. 🐦
Somehow I started reading Murder at the Willows (Rina Martin Murder Mystery Book 8) by Jane Adams forever ago and then only just came back to it. 📚
The clues soon point to murder. But dear Jean was beloved by the community, who would do such a thing?
I enjoyed the story and the characters are appealing. One more in the series …
Visit to the dental hygienist today, after too long a break. Now all my teeth feel weird …
Now they're all super clean and everything I'm indulging in a jam doughnut as a treat. 😆
Long-tailed bat the weight of a AAA battery believed to be NZ's oldest | RNZ News:
A bat of at least 26 years is officially New Zealand's oldest known long-tailed bat/pekapeka.
Before people arrived in Aotearoa, nearly 1,000 years ago, bats were the only land mammals.
Such a good read! Gone to Darkness (Sydney Rose Parnell Book 4) by Barbara Nickless was perhaps even more intense than the previous three in the series. I hope there will be more books with Sydney. 📚
She's coming into her own as a rookie police detective.
From the Good News files — Aotearoa New Zealand’s first fully electric bus network launches in Palmerston North and Ashhurst.
There's actual rain (and high winds) forecast for today. 🌧️
Through the window. A rather scruffy looking Starling. 🐦
Half a dozen Kōurarini | European goldfinches were outside my bedroom window this morning. 🐦
Not sure I've seen a dozen or more Poaka | Pied Stilt all together at our beach before. 🐦
