In this life, I’m a woman.

In my next life, I’d like to come back as a bear. When you’re a bear, you get to hibernate. You do nothing but sleep for six months. I could deal with that.

Before you hibernate, you’re supposed to eat yourself stupid. I could deal with that too.

When you’re a girl bear, you birth your children (who are the size of walnuts) while you’re sleeping and wake to partially grown, cute, cuddly cubs. I could definitely deal with that.

If you’re mama bear, everyone knows you mean business. You swat anyone who bothers your cubs. If your cubs get out of line, you swat them too. I could deal with that.

If you’re a bear, your mate EXPECTS you to wake up growling. He EXPECTS that you will have hairy legs and excess body fat.
Yup, gonna be a bear!

~  Author Unknown  ~

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/1274019...tamination

Now it's golden syrup and treacle.
Before that it was the brown sugar.

I will probably die of leaded coffee.

Each day we are getting lower Covid numbers
I think this is a false positive because people are on holiday and not even thinking about getting tested
perhaps after the break we may see the figures go back up again, not that I want them to and I hope that its just about done and dusted, just dont let Omicron into the country, we dont want to start all over again.

Which poster do you think will get drunk on New Years Eve and why?

(Hint it wont be me)

Emma Thompson plays a Brit leader in this mini series, it showed last year with absolutely no publicity & is on again tonight at 9.30 on Choice. Set a little in the future in the UK, well worth seeing.

https://variety.com/2019/tv/reviews/year...203243714/


https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...-right-now

We have a new kitten (he's 7 weeks old), and I'm trying to decide whats best to feed him, within our budget.
So far he's been eating the Chef kitten food pouches and he likes that just fine.  But I think the pouches work out expensive and I dont like how much non-recyclable waste they produce.
I've looked in all our local supermarkets and no one stocks the Chef kitten food in a can any more, or the Whiskers kitten food in a can either. It seems its pouches or nothing.  The cans worked out much cheaper and the can could be recycled.  I've asked the companies if the disappearance of these ranges is just due to supply issues or if its permanent but no one has replied.
So that leaves the even more expensive 'posh' brands, however they dont seem to have any thing in kitten formula either.
Is feeding a kitten the 'adult' Chef really that bad?  I'm sure I used to years ago, before separate kitten formula was an option.  At what age can they start eating the adult food?   I do want whats best for our wee man but need to be practical about balancing it with our budget and the environment too.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/bo...r-has-died

I read The Bone People many years ago, and I found it very thought provoking

RIP to a wonderful NZ writer.

       

I inherited this lidded vessel from someone who had inherited it from a collector great-uncle.   It is in poor condition so probably not saleable,  ut I would love to know what it is.   

Height is about 27 cm, the hole in the lid is about 4cm.   The most likely use for it I can think of is as a receptacle for food scraps,  but that doesn't entirely work.   Nor does it seem like a chamberpot.

was a bit of a wimp, but watching him throw a right royal tantie in Don't Look Up  (Netflix) is a treat.

In this game , each move should contain a word which
-Contains exactly 6 letters,
-Contains at least one of the letters in the previous word , and
-Starts with the next letter of the alphabet . When the last post contains a word, starting with Z, the next one should start with A.

Let us start.


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