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#3013874 25-Dec-2022 13:56

I video timed my sister in the UK who has littlies, 5 and 7. It was 7PM on their Xmas eve and those kids were literally jumping up and down with excitement.

Partly to see their rellies online and mostly for Santa, sorry, Jesus.

It's been a while since my little boys jumped for joy like that and it was really cute to see.

Most of the posters in this thread are just like chimpanzees on MDMA, full of feelings of bonhomie, joy, and optimism. Fred99 8/4/21

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#3014774 28-Dec-2022 19:54

Finally getting off the rock. Booked flights to U.K. and thence to Portugal for October next year.

It’ll be 4.5 years since I travelled outside NZ by then!

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#3014785 28-Dec-2022 21:28

Geektastic: Finally getting off the rock. Booked flights to U.K. and thence to Portugal for October next year.

It’ll be 4.5 years since I travelled outside NZ by then!

I got really, really lucky, final trip before was right before the lockdown and first trip after was about a fortnight after they abolished the MIQ lottery. Pure luck in both cases.

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#3015190 29-Dec-2022 21:29

neb:
Geektastic: Finally getting off the rock. Booked flights to U.K. and thence to Portugal for October next year.

It’ll be 4.5 years since I travelled outside NZ by then!

I got really, really lucky, final trip before was right before the lockdown and first trip after was about a fortnight after they abolished the MIQ lottery. Pure luck in both cases.

I was affected both personally and through my company. We had over $200,000 gross of business booked in 2020, all of which was cancelled because our clients weren’t able to come to NZ.

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#3015243 30-Dec-2022 10:17

I have a small home gym that I use regularly. I always take the Sonos Move in there and listen to something loud while I workout. This morning I put on a classical music mix from Spotify.

As I sat down on the rower, Mozart’s piano concerto often known as Elvira Madigan came on. I hadn’t heard it for ages and I just sat there and listened for a while, marvelling at the sophistication and the incredibly moving beauty of it, created by a twenty-something genius in 1785. Gave me a good case of goosebumps.

Sometimes I just sit and think. Other times I just sit.

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#3015449 30-Dec-2022 23:15

After a two-year ban, firecrackers and fireworks can now be sold here again. What is surprising, however, is that although they are sold, almost no pyromaniacs seem to set them off before New Year's Eve. 👍

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#3015455 30-Dec-2022 23:52

Tinkerisk:
After a two-year ban, firecrackers and fireworks can now be sold here again. What is surprising, however, is that although they are sold, almost no pyromaniacs seem to set them off before New Year's Eve. 👍

You've got to mention what sort of fireworks they sell there though, I mean you could ship some of those things off to Ukraine.

The (mostly) responsible use you mention is probably why you can still buy all those things while here you can barely get anything more serious than a sparkler.

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#3015456 31-Dec-2022 00:01

neb: You've got to mention what sort of fireworks they sell there though, I mean you could ship some of those things off to Ukraine.

Do you think they can do anything with my hunting ammunition? After all, it is designed for such a purpose that one should not even ask about the Geneva Conventions.

neb: The (mostly) responsible use you mention is probably why you can still buy all those things while here you can barely get anything more serious than a sparkler.

Well, a red Cal. 4 flare cartridge with a parachute, like the one I fire after the use-by date on New Year's Day, also leaves more than burn marks on the carpet. 😄

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#3015458 31-Dec-2022 00:10

Tinkerisk:
neb: You've got to mention what sort of fireworks they sell there though, I mean you could ship some of those things off to Ukraine.

Do you think they can do anything with my hunting ammunition? After all, it is designed for such a purpose that one should not even ask about the Geneva Conventions.

I'm thinking more the larger Chinaboller, and the ones wrapped in sisal that throw masses of burning fragments around when they detonate, and the ones that burn underwater so you can drop them into ponds and watch the water heave up when they go off, or the (expensive) "batteries" with half a kilo of explosive content, or ...

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#3015464 31-Dec-2022 01:14

neb: … or ...

Oh, I see. 😉

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#3015465 31-Dec-2022 02:21

Tinkerisk:

I'm happy as a snow king to have got from one of the last traditional knife smiths in Solingen an actually still hand-forged bread knife with a blade length of 32 cm and an overall length of 45 cm at a fair price (a short sword?). The standard blade length is usually 23 cm but too short for round loaves of traditional kinds of bread. BTW in Germany there are officially 1,143 known types of bread. It goes by the name of Güde Alpha 1431/32 and comes before New Year's Eve - just in time for the last bread baking of the year in our kitchen. But do not accidently order the Damascus steel variant, which costs 33 times! I guess this is not for buyers of pre-sliced 11cm x 11cm white toast anyway. 😉

And here it is. For comparison, I put our good old, but too short 23cm bread knife next to it.