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We made a break for it while the weather was playing nice. Out of Whangarei, around Busby Head, and north back toward the Bay of Islands. Going back up bought us three things: a change of scenery (badly needed), more anchorages to pick...
Status: When I sat down this evening and opened this document I was surprised to see I hadn’t got any links ready for today’s post. None whatsoever. I’d sorted out the reflective cover for the bay window, which hangs nicely now and is...
So…this was one of the films which I’m not into, but couldn’t necessarily tell you why. Petra von Kant (Margrit Carstensen) is supposed to be a fashion designer living….somewhere in Germany, but we never see her doing any design work;...
Own your own content: POSSE it, they say. Own your content. Publish once, fork it five times. RSS, Mastodon, Bluesky, webmention, pick your parasite. Fix the typo in two minutes. Already too late. Fossils wearing your name. The author’s...
Football match at the kindergarten. Since Suvi is not interested in football at all (I can't blame her), she and her friend were given the role of first aiders – with deployment during the match. (The ref didn't seem that interested...
Man, 3.1/10 on IDMB for this? That's, like, *¼ on the four-star scale, And while I know I'm perhaps overly reluctant to get below two stars unless there's either something so shoddy that it looks amateurish about a movie or it's entirely...
In the past I’ve done several articles on pochade boxes and other painting systems. I’ve tried over time to follow up with update articles as the market changes, but I finally realized the usual post format wasn’t ideal for this. So I’ve...
A heavy sadness when someone utterly brilliant dies. Inman Harvey was the coolest person at Sussex. He looked at things in a different way, and was super influential for me and many others. He carried all this gently, always relaxed,...
Last week Sony announced that from January 2028 they will no longer be producing physical discs for PlayStation games. In some ways this announcement isn't a completely unexpected surprise. Videogame consoles have become increasingly...
Like the New Zealand keeper I've been standing up to the stumps, well above the knee rolls anyway.Thin water, overgrown banks and roasting temps have seen me don the beach shoes and swimmers in the cool water.Rare bankside sortieI even...
An interesting Facebook post from Claire Bowern: I promise I will stop posting about the Dixon book shortly and go back to #chookbook updates, fieldwork book edits and complaints about email, but I was thinking this morning about what...
Farage, Blatant cheat failure, Darkness.
A mysterious problem afflicted our home internet connection. The symptoms were strange: 50%+ packet loss to the outside internet, and anything that relied on a connection was very unreliable, except my desktop computer, which was also...
In 1979, apprentice embalmer Karen Greenlee stole a hearse, the body inside it, and confessed to years of necrophilia in a letter meant to be her suicide note.