Handle9: Having a stash arrive from NZ including toffee pops and onion soup. I probably won't eat them together 🤣.

Together or separate, sounds like a balanced diet. 👍

msukiwi:

 

Rain, especially when you have water restrictions.

 

Yep - except that in Northland and Auckland the rain forecasts over the past couple of months have come to nothing meaningful.

eracode:

Yep - except that in Northland and Auckland the rain forecasts over the past couple of months have come to nothing meaningful.

When MightyApe refunds you, no questions asked and didn't ask to even send the failed HDMI cable back.

allan: Despite growing up in Taranaki, it took a road trip back there today to make me realise that the naming convention for roads that intersect with the highway and end up with an Upper Someroad and a Lower Someroad on each side of SH3, suddenly swap once you are within cooee of Mt Taranaki.

It seems that normally Lower Someroad is used for roads on the seaward side of SH3 and Upper for the inland side. Not so once Mt Taranaki is in sight - then it becomes Upper for the side nearest the mountain and lower for other side. Confusing much?

Of course some roads cheat and use Someroad West and Someroad East. Really takes the fun out of it... 😀

I just think it's weird that all the roads are called Someroad....really unimaginative

/s

allan:
It seems that normally Lower Someroad is used for roads on the seaward side of SH3 and Upper for the inland side. Not so once Mt Taranaki is in sight - then it becomes Upper for the side nearest the mountain and lower for other side. Confusing much?

Ummm... surely "upper" means higher elevation? Given that Mt Taranaki's footprint is nearly circular, and that it's 3/4 girt by sea, "inland" and "nearest the mountain" and "upper" are the same thing?

For the section between Hawera and Inglewood,  the land generally slopes down from Mt Taranaki toward the east. So in this area "upper" is also "nearest the mountain" as opposed to "inland". If that's confusing, I suggest you drive via Opunake, in which case the naming will be consistent with your world view.

Got our annual house insurance review letter thing. Its dropping by $25pm. Yay.

Course I can guarantee that next month we'll get our annual life insurance review letter thing and you can bet it'll go up by at least twice as much.

frankv:

it's 3/4 girt by sea

Yo-Yo Ma playing the first notes of Star Trek before Amazing Grace at President Joe Biden's inauguration: https://www.instagram.com/p/CKSpQ7bgb0B/ 

The explanation here.

This super cute rock....

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9162441/What-muppet-Geologist-finds-rock-looks-like-Sesame-Streets-Cookie-Monster.html

Still not watching, listening to or reading the news and loving it.

World has not ended, heaps more time to read or do constructive things and much better mental wellbeing.