SO i've been working on a new website for the mb to replace https://tmmb.co.nz/, which is nice but needs more info, and it proved difficult to modify...



New Website preview
No SSL at the moment

VERY unfinished - this is basically a get the ball rolling moment effort

Question:
Do we need a subtle background color on it or is everyone ok with white?  i find it a bit stark but that's just me -  we can put a background into the bordered area shown or the whole screen.  If anyone is good with color schemes and has any ideas let me know

Nothing is set in stone, everything is up for debate/suggestions/ alternatives, although rearranging the actual block layout is problematic.

The main image is the monument at the center of New Zealand - supposed to representative of the messageboard as middle of the political spectrum, everyone welcome kind of thing...

• Obviously new name needed...
  
  
• I have nothing in mind for the philosophy element as yet
  
  
• Latest post/threads need to be done
  
  
• A nice fancybox Gallery is being implemented on most images 
  
  
• Descriptions/attributions etc still needed
  
  
• favicon and page titles
  

For the first month. Thank you flybuys. Three hundred of those converted to NW dollars - a nice wee bonus for Christmas. And for one month - cos if it is awful I will cancel before renewal date - I will have a full hand of the leading streaming sites. That ought to offset the cold turkey on the TM boards...

i hate working on machines with mechanical drives now, they are soooo slow...  i find the first thing i do regardless of the problem, is look for signs that its failing, so i can talk owner into a ssd upgrade

Has anyone ordered books from Booktopia recently? Just wondering what the chances are of getting them by Xmas.

Coronavirus: DHBS, funeral homes buy refrigerated containers for COVID-19 bodies


I would NOT like to be unvaccinated if this is an indication of where the powers think it's really heading...

What would your recommendations be for a smartphone, that I can use to text, and for scanning the QR code ??

I don't want or need one for computer use, as I'm happy with my laptop.

Something basic for this old girl.  

Thanks.

Love these 'honest government ads'  

Thnk TM deleted this  option bout 5 years past

https://natlib.govt.nz/blog/posts/lookin...ld-friends

I am too scared to go down to my garage, as I think there might be vermin down there.  A neighbours cat has left a couple of dead ones on my front lawn, a couple of times, and I do suspect that it got them from my garage, although I actually can't be certain.

Can you get some sort of pest control in, to kill them?? I hate them. They terrify me...and yes, I know that they are more scared of me...but I need to get into my garage to start clearing it out, to start getting ready to move on in the next year or so.

I 'spose I could get someone to put some traps down there, but what if they (the mice) get caught, and I go down there and have to see that. I can't bare the thought.

Anyone who has gotten a pest control person in to do this, and is it expensive?

Thanks.

I have 2 - 
1974 - we had Christmas lunch, and dinner, on the back lawn we shared with Peter and Karen, in Christchurch.

1983 -  Christmas lunch at South Kaipara Head, with friends. We drove our cars around the lagoon beach, and up into the trees, where we stayed until the tide went back out.