quite a difference when you're not paying for the store, the shelves, the shop's landlord..
oh, wait.. they don't actually stock it at Bunnings anyways.
I am old enough to remember 2024 when they were crowing proudly about how many people they made unemployed.
What are the airforce up to?
Money is just a value in a database at your bank(s)....
I like humans, mostly
Pack up and move back to waikaremoana where houses are still 30k
Do you do anything with the fur? It spins pretty nice. Takes some washing to remove the smell of death.
Probably I need to leave wellington
Sometimes I think about moving to Australia. Then I remember there's nothing in my New Zealand vege garden that can kill me with one bite.
Pretty standard in nz gov to decide what kind of report conclusion you want, and then pick your authors based on that.
Whoever wrote that covd inquiry report was on a different planet during the pandemic.
Caught a tarakihi for dinner
Asked the fish monger to throw it to me.
Sadness from Wellington. We had it so good for so long. Now we are barely 25% electric.
Not sure what this is code for
I kinda wanna see what happens if petrol was restricted to essential use only. The change in our environment.
The lack of cars, their smell and noise, was the best part of lock down.
Civilians being bomb, school children killed, genocide ongoing... But nz seemingly only concerned at the price of petrol.
I can do Monday to Saturday without changing a thing
Can't see it happening.
If Luxon wants to 'build the future' he must reverse his R&D cuts newsroom.co.nz/2026/03/06/i...
Geeees. A fancy cellphone used to be $1k. Now it's $3Β½k.
Peanut slab ice cream was good
Thank you. Served with freshly harvested bean and cor and new potatoes. Was just right.
He was a fuckinf monster and maybe more people can finally see it.
I'm thinking I use butter or olive oil? Garlic?
And red wine jus.
Don't want to screw it up. We don't get steak in this house.
A bit of that. But also the clueless who forgot how to think decades ago. The world changed and they don't like it.
I'll sow some oats and rye and barley...
I have a years supply of tomatoes (sauce, paste, soap etc) and of onions and garlic.
Probably enough beans for a year in the freezer
I do no have a winter supply of potatoes. But maybe that's okay. I still have last years wheat and rye and barley.
Finally sown the winter wheat. We shall feast on sour dough next year.
The "America hates Muslims" war would be more accurate. I suspect they won't stop at and Iran.
All while they also round up people in their own nation.
Fuuuuuuuuck.
I am watching all of stargate and it's lovely this world before cellphones.