txted a client to let her know i could do some work at her place next coupla days if it suited. replied they were away till the weekend but gave instructions on how to break in.

i haz covid. eyes watering nose running incessant sneezing. otoh my natural tenor range has dropped to baritone so i'm singing along with barry white in the workshop this avo. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPMo...

de gaulle sent a warship last time, germany might have to do the same. worth a listen: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu3V...

A message from Greenland…

slowly recovering from the effects of my mother's funeral a couple of days ago. a plain casket, her wish. my dad is old school, i could see he was a tad uneasy about ppl writing messages on it in felt tip. he peered inside the hearse, then said to me : william, can you write for me that i loved her

a puppet has no will of it's own. All it's movements are directed by the will of it's manipulator.

family took the car on the ferry from sth island/ te wai to nth island/ te ika for the funeral. went to book a return trip a couple of days ago.....first available, feb 14th. Srsly, it's a state highway. apparently today some places became available, perhaps tourists just abandoning their trip.

m8, you're dreamin

I've just donated US$5 to help this family in Khan Younis. How many of my followers can match that donation? chuffed.org/project/emer...

Snap Action 10.00am Wed 21st Jan Commodore Hotel, 449 Memorial Ave, Ōtautahi National Party MPs are having their annual retreat and we are taking the opportunity to let them know what we think of them and their lack of action regarding Palestine TBC - another action at their fancy dinner #NZPol

mowed the lawns and now snow thinks he f#cken owns it

apparently as a 4 y/o i walked out of a catholic church service, leaving my parents behind, to play outside. they laughed about it at the time. as a 7y/o i staged a sit in at home to protest my forced attendance at the catholic primary school. it worked. I've been exempted from the requiem mass.

on a day when hospice care is in the news my elderly mother who died yesterday afternoon, in her familiar room surrounded by family, and attended by the extraordinary carers at parkwoods, has just been farewelled by the residents and carers with a guard of honour and a waiata. just beautiful

who?

i was holding on to my frail old dad in the fresh breeze at the waikanae cemetery earlier today, checking out if mum would like it here. what about here dad?, asks my sister. next to a recent burial- a farmer?- old totara fence rails as a headstone, a few flowers, grass yet to strike. jim bolger.

the nz house of representatives pecuniary interests register might be worth casting an eye over when it comes time to identify collaborators. www.nzherald.co.nz/business/roc...

The Australian and NZ govts need to grow a spine and make it abundantly clear that a US attack on Greenland would result in the end of all military and intelligence co-operation. No more AUKUS. No more Pine Gap. Cancellation of orders for military hardware from US suppliers. #auspol #nzpol

The perpetrators of the atrocities at Port Arthur and Christchurch and one of the two perpetrators of the Bondi massacre were Australian citizens. It is clear that Australian citizenship does not somehow magically make someone a fit and proper person to hold a gun licence.

i watch a few boat restoration vids but this one is kinda unique. two sheilas, a shed in dunedin, a cool old boat...and a relationship. recommend. www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7Zo...

Dear Winston - I am acting to further the RBNZ's functions under the Reserve Bank Act of NZ Act 2021, ss 10(1)(e)(ii); 10(1)(f)(i) and 10(1)(g) in line with the objective of "protecting and promoting the stability of New Zealand’s financial system". As you're not my Minister ... fuck off. Love, Anna

i'm quite content on my own but sometimes i think polygamy might be ok? like when your out walking and see a rock formation you could ask wife 1 what is that rock. and at night when the stars are out wife 2 could tell you the names. maybe also a tall wife, to reach those things up a little too high

Nice Wilcox book on the left

the bit that i don't get is his decision to throw his lot in with a party that was/is a big part of the problems we have now

had a rabid anti 1080 moment with a local anti vaxxer, covid denialist, ivermectin ingesting, chemtrail conspiracist friend. kinda tragic how ppl who exhibit nearly all the hallmarks of common sense become deranged via fb and the reinforcing circle of like minded individuals.

the nelson refuse recycling centre is so named because it largely refuses to accept recyclables. anyway, i have a almost pristine white lab coat ex a medium sized zoology student if anyone is interested. too good for a landfill ir.

the jewish musicians incarcerated in Terezin staged a requiem mass for their catholic nazi captors. the german camp guards thought it amusing- jews performing music from a catholic religion. their response when mocked: we are doing this because one day you will also have to answer to your god

a classmate at flying school years ago came back from a course in Nelson one day and recounted how he went to the customhouse hotel for a few beers after the course. shadbolt was there, drinking with a group of labourers, fishermen. he told them he was a council worker from auckland:)

i don't usually shop at the bougie supermarket with the big organic range, te reo aisle signs and cool music but the other day there i noticed this young kid standing eyes closed in his own world head keeping time wth the jazz bass over the sound system and i came out feeling better about the world

i'm knocking together a log splitter out of stuff that's been lying around here. the worm drive gearbox is from an ancient otis elevator lift. i went to replace a bearing. the engineers suppliers had never seen or heard of this bearing. went online, found one on e bay- $5000.00 nzd. yep. 5 thousand

when the sound of the tennis ball being hit doesn't sync with the visuals on screen it becomes too unbearable for my brain to cope with and i have to hit the mute.

whose got the good oil on this?

it's not rocket science eh. first thing i think of when i see extensive tattoos: that can't be healthy

see a bridge, post a swing bridge

same as it ever was, same as it ever was and same as it ever will be

momentarily took my eyes off the road on my kawazaki Z1 after being startled by a quail abruptly flying up. lost my line for the corner and crashed into concrete fence posts, and waratahs. 2 hrs in a ditch with multiple compound fractures in left leg. luckily no major artery severed or that'd be it

i can imagine hipkins seething after listening to mandani's speech

my son taught me a neat trick on how to flush these pricks out when in our national parks; wear a keffiyeh.

everybody's laughin at me I don't hear a word they're sayin'

imagine being so naive thinking your $/ valuables are safe in a bank. srsly.

i'm the world's worst gardener but with neighbours like mine it doesn't matter:) Got given some goat milk yesterday as well and was pleasantly surprised- slight astringent taste but otherwise hard to tell apart from dairy.

don't know about you but i'm getting the impression AI is about as flawed as the species of primates that created it

wonder if this easterly gale has dealt to the large willow tree which at last glance was spanning 2 lanes of SH6 at Hira and getting it's lower branches trimmed courtesy of the trucks passing underneath it on a daily basis.

caught up with the tramping group today. turns out the person who fell also had a plb, however it was attached to her pack and was damaged and rendered inoperative in the fall. lesson there.

don't have a watch but can inexplicably guess the time within 15 minutes or less at any random time of day can somehow sense when the bucket catching a leak in the roof needs emptying before it overflows something told me to check my RUC this morning- 3km left to run glad someone is in charge

my 41 y/o work truck has a push button cassette player. i own all the cassettes.

text from son: set off his plb up mt owen, one of the tramping party had a fall, busted ankle. then a call from rescue co ordination in wgtn, telling me a chopper is 25 minutes away. carry a plb folks. the system works.