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Hydromet wrote: ↑

Fri May 10, 2024 5:20 am

Quick sitrep: op went well, no pain, some bleeding this afternoon so just had a couple of stitches. More details later when I get my computer.

All the best, Hydromet, had been wondering how things were with you.
Take it easy.

^ Interesting.
Looking at the terrain, looks like the whole lot could be on the march at some point.
Dynamic landscape even if it appears stable during our brief candle...

^ the cows would enjoy their first taste of greens and the chance to kick their heels up a bit. They're outdoors all year round here, unless there are some very specialised enterprises of which I know little. This morning is clear and cold, was -0.8°C earlier but a breeze has sprung up with the sunr...

What nonsense.
Those temperatures are standard winter minimum temps for those regions.
Mt Cook Airport is at 650 metres/2150'.

Our media is pathetic and over-excited, wants us to lurch from one crisis to another.

Rossian wrote: ↑

Thu May 09, 2024 7:05 pm

The venue was the L'Escargot Rouge - our beloved redsnail?

The Ancient Mariner

Oh I see

Rossian wrote: ↑

Thu May 09, 2024 3:09 pm

.....was reddo at the venue too?? Ponder that for a minute.

The Ancient Mariner

I don't think so; 'twas Tuesday when I was there.

Lunch at Coffee Culture, Merivale, Christchurch: An Americano with cream, and a small hot chocolate, $11.20. The former served with what I guess were chocolate-covered coffee-beans, the latter served with a couple of marshmallows. A miniature Spinach & Feta loaf, sliced vertically lengthwise and ser...

Good morning, 3°C and was raining earlier, rain with a Significant Look about it.
Clearly there has been some misunderstanding, I want to go for my walk in a couple of hours, I'm not walking in that.

Today is Ascension Day.

I'm sure when I was at school it was "rooves" :-\ but that seems out of favour these days. Me too, but there's probably been a bit of drift there over time. Another example: when I was doing clever stuff back in the day, I remember registering patents (as in 'pay-tents') but everyone seems to speak...

May 8th = VE Day.

Good morning, blue dome skies as far as I can see, calm, smoke from a chimney is in a horizontal layer about thirty feet up*; my thermometer has been down to -0.7°C but beginning to rise. Frost on house roofs, lawn, etc. I may have mentioned this before but I'm sure when I was at school it was "roov...

Boac wrote: ↑

Mon May 06, 2024 7:29 am

Do you think his prayers were answered?

Did you disturb it as it prayed for prey, pray?

I may well have

This was being shown on a screen at Warbirds Over Wanaka, in the display there by the Air Force Museum:

P-3 Orion - The Story of an Extraordinary Aircraft [13:35]

then saw a green Praying Mantis on them. We gesticulated at each other for a moment - was he the same one that I saw on the roses in April? Is he tired of me disturbing his day? - and I managed to take the vase and all outdoors and shoo him away. Do you think his prayers were answered? I hope so, n...

Lando Norris wins F1 Miami Grand Prix for historic maiden victory

YT: Race Highlights | 2024 Miami Grand Prix [8:07]

Brought some late roses indoors yesterday, placed them in a vase on the hall table, then saw a green Praying Mantis on them. We gesticulated at each other for a moment - was he the same one that I saw on the roses in April? Is he tired of me disturbing his day? - and I managed to take the vase and a...

Good morning, rather a pretty line-up in the northeast at the moment, of Saturn, Mars, the old crescent Moon, and Mercury.
4°C now, expecting fog to arrive and then a clearance again later; up to 11.

Laurent Garnier - The Man With The Red Face [9:08]

Fire and Emergency has been forced back to the drawing board after terminating its contract with Datacom late last year to provide payroll services to its 1800 career firefighters and almost 1000 management and support staff. The emergency responder spent $29 million on the failed project, which wa...

Is it Agave?