Pulled my beetroot today - sliced and steaming. So I'll have some nice beetroot for my sammies over Xmas...but not my own tomatoes or cucumer yet. I've got some more seedings underway, so maybe they will be ready when the tomatoes are in full flight. If they do - birds and bugs took half my tomato plants, so I've let the selfsets have their own way...what will I get ?

https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/australia/...-new-cases

2,482 cases, the most daily infections in any Oz state/ territory since covid started. They may look at changing rules about mask wearing.

Morning , Millie an 8yo Jack Russell looks like she is on heat or close to it,

Looking for eligable bachlor with prospects and good manners , in Tauranga .
I have no idea never had a female dog before so all new to me.
Not sure if allowed to post Ph no , but here goes 0800 787 225,cheers

Murray

https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/food-...ffle-slice

I'm not meaning NY resolutions, because we all know what happens to them.

Holidays?
Lifestyle changes?
Travel?
Changing job/career?
Starting a new hobby?
Health and wellbeing changes?
Read more?

I thought I'd start a thread for anyone who wants to add  any  interesting things we come across in books of all kinds.




"Possibly it feels good to these men to be superior to animals, but it does seem that if they were sure of it they would not have to prove it. Often a man who is afraid must constantly demonstrate his courage and, in the case of the hunter, must keep a tangible record of his courage. For ourselves, we have had mounted in a small hardwood plaque one perfect Borrego (big horned mountain sheep) dropping. And where another man can say “There was an animal, but because I am greater than he, he is dead & I am alive, & there is his head to prove it”, we can say, “There was an animal, & for all we know there still is & here is the proof of it. He was very healthy when last we heard of him.”

The log from the sea of Cortez, John Steinbeck.




"The nations of the world that most vigorously foul the planetary nest & those in possession of the most destructive arsenals ought to be governed only by young women with small kids. More than anyone else, such mothers must live in the future, & they also face each day the realities of raw human nature. This gives them a special insight."

Children of god, Mary Doria Russell




"I’ve found the prescription for the powerful men of the world, the ones who sit around peace tables clad in jackets & ties. Put the blue child on the table & make them stay. Make them stay & watch death do its methodical work, watch as it eats away at the child from within. Hand out sandwiches, cigarettes & mineral water & leave them there while the child empties, while he decomposes to the bone .Leave them there for days, for all the days it takes. This is what I’d do."
Margaret Mazzantini, Twice born.



"Religion is not one of my high points. I don’t really subscribe to the stories surrounding each one, because they are just stories, remembered by men. I do feel the Great Spirit in all that is around me, & I am humbled/ I do pray with others if that is what they do. I don’t judge them for that. That is their way I join them. Then I move on. The moon means a lot to me, as does the forest. All things natural speak to me with a rhythm that I feel. It is this that probably makes me a pagan.
There is no evil in the forest or the moon. Or, if there is, I don’t see it.
The Great Spirit, as I like to call her, is in us all & in everything that lives or used to live, in everything that exists or used to exist."
Waging heavy peace, Neil Young



"My Mother didn’t try to stab my Father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that."
Never have your dog stuffed & other things I’ve learned, Alan Alda.



"The movie premiere. After the show, a loudspeaker alerted fans to the departing great – Mr Clark Gable’s car! Miss Marlene Dietrich’s car! Miss Constance Bennett’s car! Miss Shirley Temple’s mother’s car! And on one glorious occasion – Mr. Alfred Hitchcar’s cock!"
David Niven, Bring on the empty horses.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/12/...ll-exists/

... full of Grace - Ryland Grace to be exact, the lead character, whose story has left me disturbed and sad, despite the moments of genius, and hilarity I enjoyed along the way.

So many questions, Andy Weir, so much psychological baggage to add to my already heavy load.

There ought to be a law against such books... but thank heavens there isn't.

I've received two of these today. Content is reasonably convincing but if you hover over the Renew Now button a fake link to a false URL shows. The email return path is also incorrect: inf@transport.govt.nz



NZ Transport Agency advised.

   

to prove a point.

a class of 15 kids in eltham has been compromised by some murderous fuckwit who thinks hes smarter than science.
what kind of world do these social spastics want to live in.?

when children start dying, antivaxxers need to be charged with murder. pure and simple.

So when the virus gets free in any community, it will be children who are among the most vulnerable to catching it, as the Eltham cases have demonstrated.

'Of the 19 active cases in the region on Wednesday, only two were adults. The rest were children under 12, who are not yet eligible to be vaccinated.'

'Unfortunately this is likely the shape of things to come in this latest stage of the pandemic.'

and yet there are still those who refuse to help us protect our children. those who will do our children harm, those who only care about themselves.
people whos politics, misguided judgement and low intelligence that will not change until there are consequences to their actions.
child endangerment, wilful neglect of a minor, reckless indifference to life.
people will run out of patience very quickly when children start dying.
mark my words, the ugliest is yet to come.
they need to be separated from our kids and us. i want nothing to do with them.
complete and utter arseholes to a man, every one of them.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/taranaki-daily-n...e-pandemic