The absolute worst election scenario for me is the left lose again with National losing ground and NZF and ACT gaining support and influence.

My proudest parenting moment involved my son at 16 with a sparkler.

Day 97 of the year and my personal trainer and I have hit 1000km walking.

Barenaked Ladies thinking vanilla was the finest of the flavours has me convinced they had never eaten feijoas.

Curia has Greens down during an energy emergency where greener transport solutions would be helpful. Meanwhile, the "(very) Old Man shouts at clouds" party is at an all-time high. Make it make sense.

Not sure my phone camera can do it justice but sky in Palmerston North is gorgeous tonight.

Might watch the cricket...oh no! Might not.

Full moon just above the horizon over the Manawatū river.

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You can't live there, Steve!

“While I will soon appear once more upon the earthly realm, My sole focus during this Second Coming will be various woodworking projects and not the establishment of a messianic kingdom,” said Christ, the Light of the World

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Don't understand why the coalition AS A WHOLE aren't tanking in support. How are ACT and NZF able to maintain support when they are part of this government which has tanked the country? #nzpol

I don't think I've ever seen a government experience this much Finding Out in its first term. It's not just bad decisions plus bad luck, but a very specific kind of decisions where they trade away costs that they could blame on Labour for risks that are squarely blamed on them.

Every sentence brings something new to the madness. Stick it on CEEFAX.

You might like this chart 🤔 ... same NZ real GDP per capita each year (not change) ... average income/output/production per person for country has increased about 2.5 times over the past 65 years ... begs question ... where has the trickle down gone🤔?

This is NZ's real GDP per capita change: that means indexed for inflation. (Source: www.ceicdata.com/en/indicator...).

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Can I get an "INSIDER TRADING!"?

So we thought Mya had a bone stuck in her throat. ($970 later)...she did not. We now have pet insurance.

Strategy? What strategy? Also: hoisted by his own petard.

I swear there's a dog in there somewhere!

Cannot see any way this war ends tbh. $4 a litre in NZ may be a conservative estimate.

Just about hit from behind by a car doing 100+ on Park Road in Palmy. Happened to glance in my mirror at the right time and pulled into the right lane (no oncoming traffic) enough that it didn’t hit me. Bit shaken tbh.

Perhaps instead of this shitty ‘don’t complain too much’ approach, RNZ could focus on why Finns don’t need to complain as much: “Martela said universal healthcare, low corruption, high-quality free education, unemployment benefits and good maternity leave are some of the factors behind the score.”

Took a bit of finding, but I found Panorama on my phone (very much a buried setting)

Germany giving big RATM lyric vibes in response to Trump's request: www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/3...

Aquarius: You will be noticed this week. Noticed by all the people at the park as you lose a wrestling match with an elderly raccoon.

So Trump's war helps Russia. I'm increasingly of the view that he is a Russian asset.

Someone left a corncob on the stop bank a lot of dogs walk on, I'd hate to think it's deliberate.

I must confess, I didn't really know anything about the Straits of Hormuz... ...but then again, I never intended bombing Iran so I guess I didn't have to.

Nice evening for a walk

Geniuses are all around us.

Wednesday morning all photos.

My GPS for distance tracking on my app played up yesterday and the conspiracy theorist in me wants to say it's because of the redeployment of satellites from above our region to the Middle East.

What's he going to do, quit and be replaced by Chris Bishop, a person with considerably less charisma than a sodden paper bag?

When people say National are good at managing "the economy" but trust Labour more on environment, housing, safety, taxes, education, inflation, poverty and health...exactly what part of "the economy" do they think National are good at managing?

Without changing my diet, I've lost 10kg this year, pretty much because we got a Border Collie. 620km walked with her

The weather has gone from too hot for a sweatshirt on Saturday to A SWEATSHIRT IS MANDATORY today

Don't know if you can see the second one properly but, DOUBLE RAINBOW.

This video shows a Border Collie reuniting with it's owner after 2 years. Mine displays more excitement after 2 hours ahaha. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHKw...

By my reading of it NZ are probably through in the World Cup and WI/India is pretty much a knockout game

Apparently it is more polite to say my vision is affected by astigmatism than to say I can't see properly because I have odd shaped balls.

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Without the dots, it looks like polygraph test results from a pathological liar.

What a difference a week makes. Not far off the same place.

great news