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A vivid rainbow caused by Kate afternoon sunshine on a plume of water falling into an artificial grass field hockey pitch. In the background is a very steep hill covered in scrubby green vegetation, and some blue sky beyond is visible.&10;
Late afternoon, and Bββs hockey game is about to begin; teams warming up out of range of the pitch sprinklers.
02.08.2025 03:53 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
At the top of the Col du Kilmister there were no cheering crowds, just a howling wind.
27.07.2025 04:25 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
A bike trail extends into the distance around some scrubby hills
The trail winds across green pastured hills above a highway
An american style covered bridge - but made of steel. In the distance, through the bridge, another bridge is visible. There is a yellow bike positiond in front of the closest bridge.
A timber boardwalk curves over a lake.
clutha gold extension: https://ebb.gath.nz/2025/02/18/clutha-gold-extension.html
18.02.2025 04:00 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
An activity card from the Gentler Streak app. It shows a trail through grass and some sunset illuminated hills in the background. &10;&10;13.06km Outdoor Cycle
Blurry photo taken while riding of a rabbit running across a bike trail.
Quick ride after dinner.
Lots of rabbits, but also some of that lovely golden evening light.
A rΔtΔ in full red flower against a blue sky. In the foreground is a mamaku (possibly) tree fern.
A mountain covered in rΔtΔ trees. There is a horizontal band that is flowering red.
The rΔtΔ forests of South Westland are in full summmer plumage, a red band moving higher up the mountain as the weeks pass.
21.01.2025 01:49 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Then it heard something in the pΕhutukawa and silently flew off to investigate.
I wished I had my phone on me.
The dog meanwhile just kept snuffling about looking for the right spot, and eventually found it.
It looked at me a couple times (eyes pink in my headlight) and just chilled for a bit.
It was so spookily quiet. I did my best impression of a ruru call, which prompted another, perhaps very sceptical, look.
Nighttime wildlife encounter: on the back lawn in the dark just now there was a soft wingbeat and a ruru (small NZ native owl) landed on our clothesline a metre or two away from me, seemingly to check out the dog doing her pre-bed time necessary thing.
06.01.2025 09:26 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
They come from Yuzu Keycaps, where you design your own set and it is printed (dye sub on cherry profile) and sent to you. High quality printing! Very cool.
yuzukeycaps.com
A purple metal 75% keyboard with some specially printed keycaps in the shape and general colours of the WΔ KΔinga flag: red and blue triangles occupying the upper left and right corners with a black triangle in the middle. The triangles are separated by white.
The keycaps finally arrived, and they look exactly as I expected (which is to say, I'm still not sure about them).
Should certainly be an office conversation piece at least.
To be fair they are that as well! Itβs not the rabbitβs fault some dumbass immigrant ancestors of mine brought them to these islands. π
15.11.2024 09:25 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Rabbits are a bit of a pest here. They eat the grass to the ground and trigger erosion, and then also cause population peaks in predator animals like ferrets and stoats that go on to eat our native birds. By late summer I usually count up to 150 on the same route.
14.11.2024 17:48 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Crikey itβs so noisy in here. <retreats back to the small town of masto>
16.05.2024 06:01 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Only mild FOMO; for now happy in small island waters swimming with pachyderms.
Iβll see if *this* site presents anything newβ¦ or anything that I may have lost by abandoning Twitter in 2016.
