Jo Fountain

They do, obviously! 🙂 My two (also a black cat and a tabby) do the same.... or play chase across the bed at 2am before rumbling off down the hall

Lovely! and good luck! May the presence of AI be minimal (unless you allow that kind of thing, in which case it won't be the time-waster it's becoming for me)

The colour of the waters of Whakaraupō Lyttelton Harbour. That colour changes, but they are all lovely. Sometimes D'Urville Island, sometimes Manu Bay, sometimes Rārangi [if we are going with the Dulux paint colours 🙂 ] www.dulux.co.nz/colour/greens/

In NZ it basically means 'not cheddar'! Thinking of the wonderful array of cheeses I had in Burgundy. Last year Ella and I had a cheese Advent calendar and it was excellent

Yep! The border collie/bearded collie of my childhood learnt the same thing.

My current tabby cat has also learnt the word 'walk'!

No food restrictions or things I can't eat. If I were to think about ideal food gifts they would probably be:
1. Interesting cheese (but logistics in shipping/storing perhaps?)
2. Coffee beans/ground coffee from quirky small producers - the stronger the better.
3. Interesting spice mixes.

Signed up again! After the year that's been spreading a little joy seems more needed than ever

Tabby cat looking happy and a bit smug wrapped in the arms of one of her slaves... a teenage girl

I live with two cats a dog and a rabbit. The cats are my favourites (found abandoned on the side of a country road aged five weeks), but the dog is very cute. The rabbit is a bit evil. Photo of a happy Maisie and my camera-averse teen

"Woo hoo" says Nicky, "look at us helping increase competition in the supermarket sector"... what exactly did she do?

Also great for Auckland, Waikato potentially... and the rest of us?

I didn't sit through but saw soundbites from it on the news.

TBF there were a number of apologies made to her at the press briefing though

What has Peeni Henare got to say? Would prefer he was speaking for Labour's Māori caucus (or Willow-Jean Prime)

Would prefer Peeni Henare speaking for the Māori Labour caucus than Willie Jackson

A tabby cat sleeps on her back on a pile of pulled weeds, surrounded by long grass (also weeds, yet to be pulled). She looks very relaxed, with her big fat tummy exposed to the world and her back legs akimbo

My feed this morning is so depressing this morning - all our useless government doing dumb stuff, racism, climate change and Trump.

So here is my happy fat cat Maisie, helping me weed the garden.

Yeah after I posted I realised he probably was fell away in the last couple of laps

Older white woman... I'd say 60ish? +/- 10 years :)

And defense! Amazing defense on old tires. Was LL the only one on a 1-stop strategy?

You'll be in good company! Last time I took the train to Featherston the woman sitting opposite me was writing poetry :)

I always find public transport in WLG pretty easy compared with Chch. Very easy to get to airport once you get to Central Rail Station - Airport bus goes from nearby. Goes about every 15/20mins

Also a long held Lincoln tradition! And I'm sure still available ;)

Ha ha - small world! I'm back living in Lincoln now - very different from your dad's day (but the fish and chips shop is still there)

Indeed. I hear alot from them. Having said that, there are quite a few Luxon-style Christians about these days, as seen during Covid - entitled and self-serving antivaxxers (like my sister and BIL)

Ah cool. That's a lot of potatoes! If he ever ate fish & chips during his time here (our only takeaway delicacy except Hillyers Pies) I probably served him :)

Yes, it seems odd for a self-proclaimed devotedly Christian male to not follow one of the basic tenets of his Christ.

Having grown up in Lincoln I can confirm that boiled potatoes (homegrown) with butter was a big part of my upbringing. When was your dad here?

That's a bit cute

He was never labeled a good one by me! Saw him speak early in this term; came across as privileged (part of the Carter family dynasty) and not very knowledgeable of his then-brief (tourism)

the posts of @georgepenney.bsky.social float into my feed like a breath of fresh air on a hot and busy day

Was trying to find information about pass rates and it seems at some point around 1984 they started scaling so at least 50% passed. Found this interesting but depressing piece paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/periodicals/...

This was 1983. We were always told it was scaled so 50% failed. I've read others saying the same thing so always presumed that was true?