I dreamed of owning a classic Citroen. This Light 15 tricked out to perfection in our motel car park.

The world is pretty crazy but having a little Robin fossick around your feet very trustingly is a great curative.

Stunning piece by Martin Popplewell. Some things never change.

Seen in a 2nd hand bookstore in Featherston but not purchased.

So is implication these little girls were killed because they might be the daughters of republican guards and that made it ok? Or it’s a way of punishing guards plus spreading terror in civilian population. Israel has form.

Five days in Wellington and I have to say the weather was wildly inconsistent and the traffic was consistently borked.

Went to Kaitoke Waterworks today. Lovely to see so many families camping, picnicking etc but thumbs down to people who didn’t have dogs under good control.

Really nice manaakitanga at Pataka Gallery today. The young woman who greeted us and showed us the various galleries was really welcoming not just going through the motions.

Fred Graham exhibition at Pataka Gallery in Porirua was a highlight today.

Designs from the past, swimming togs, Petone Settlers Museum.

Yesterday v. today. When you travel you have to roll with it.

Started holiday with can’t beat it on a good day day, Zealandia was ace, Petone was ace (Schrodingers Books, la Bella Italia) Now retiring to recover from a 5am start.

Doing Colombo Street crawl this morning and I saw a well dressed man standing over 2 streeties and giving them an earful. Looked like they gave a bit back and he moved on. Certainly wasn’t how you doing, buy yourself a coffee by the looks.

J has been roasting pork on the barbecue and the smell has been driving me crazy as I put out washing. Sorry neighbours but to be fair you have on occasion reversed the flow of tantalising pork smells.

To the UK I say now do Peter Mandelson (and probably some of Boris’s mob).

After all the rain and wind the sun is out and the garden lush. Making pesto, freezing beans.

Applies to NZ as well.

It was a quick fix at the tyre place but picking up a roofing nail in a tyre just added $59 to the weekly blowout budget. Going into hibernation for winter to recoup.

Haha! So many in government are constitutionally incapable of putting money aside for maintenance. They want the photo op project and that’s it. Chuck in the zero rate rise bandwagon in local government which useless people ride to get elected and you have our current disaster.

Went to the dentist and to pick up a repaired printer and the techies gave us a treat. On a wet and traffic crazy morning it brightened things up.

What the hell would 20 vehicles be doing up the Turakina Valley in weather like this?

Luxon always the first to step up in a national crisis #nzpol

Get your buckets out(if they’re not already catching water). A truly sick making moment on Stuff. Country is flooding all over and she’s trilling about eggman grabbing an umbrella. www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

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Posts with minutes of each other... Unaware. Out of touch. Abject failure.

Brilliant cartooning.

Nothing but bad news from across the country both weather and family and friends health situations. Our extended whanau seem to be bottling and making jam to help themselves get through.

Weather watch Christchurch Sunday morning style. J went to Mass at the pro cathedral on Manchester and there was a skimpily clad working girl in the car park across the road. The wind was so cold by the end of Mass she’d retreated around the corner for some shelter.

Love how One News has a big piece talking up Christchurch as well as a piece about the boil water situation. Just a reminder of 3 waters importance.

I so want there to be a Kiwi curling team wearing floppy tartan tam o shanters, Red Bands and carrying hip flasks of whiskey.

Boy the nitpickers and angry ones are out there on FB over the Christchurch East boil water situation. Local MP Reuben Davidson doing good clear calm comms but apparently Chris Lynch is doing it better.🤷‍♂️

Holy heck! Phone just went off with emergency boil water alert!

Don’t know but pretty sure he spied for Israel. Mashup of Israelis, Russian/Ukranian Jewish oligarchs/gangsters doing evil crimes and spreading their evilness around the world facilitated in part by Epstein’s networking with American money and academia. (Jewish and non Jewish, gullible and aware).

This sounds very grounded, schools and others earn extra money, and with batteries it increases community resilience. www.thepress.co.nz/business/360...

Apart from describing more from this absolute cluster fuck Stuff has captioned a picture of workers cleaning up the rocks as “officials cleaning up” Excuse me. It’s poor bloody workers doing this stinky job. Officials sit at desks and tell poor bloody workers to go the shitty job.

Profit innit? Always about making money with the sacred cows.

The kowtowing to Israel is shameful in the light of this but even in 1995 this poor woman had to endure a 2 hour grilling by Mossad! The money/kompromat grip they have on politicians is awful. Her father’s war grave in Gaza was bulldozed by Israel. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Aargh rats in the vege garden! J is firing up traps. We have not had this problem for years. Neighbourhood moggies falling down on the job. 🌱🇳🇿

Why is he so proud to be a carnivore? I always think omnivore is a much more impressive word.

Christchurch, where the reminders to spend more on three waters infrastructure are pumping into the harbour and, tonight, wafting on the breeze. Yes the Bromley smell is travelling again. One day we’ll get the message.

Only in Christchurch. Ballies sale and son in law just scored a good boost to his professional wardrobe. He likes good clothes so it was a good one stop shop.

Taking it to the monster’s place of business! Excellent. More of this.

Waitangi Day working bee. Daughter 1 stacked firewood in the shed and mowed, I trimmed and deadheaded and weeded and himself was building shelves for Daughter 2. Lovely morning for it.

There’s Shakespeare for everything in our crazy world.

Wish more of our dairy farmers were like this www.theguardian.com/scotland-for...

Enjoyed this. Light, witty, well paced and well written who dunnit. Great entertainment and another in the series in the pipeline!

The sky is blue, the wind is keen but Christchurch putting on a show. Lunch at Frances Nation, visit the art gallery, Unutai e! Unutai e! by Anne Noble and Kai Tahu powerful and thought provoking, and finish off by freezing sinuses with an ice cream from Ice Cream Charlie.

Life admin this morning reminds me of privilege.Jan/Feb is full of reminders, free hearing test, see doc for new prescription, annual dental checkup. Doable because I can afford,live in a city,use technology. After a couple of years of constant change I will be seeing the same GP for the third time!