(06-04-2025, 08:11 AM)Roma Wrote: Good morning from the Bay of Islands.  

Cooler this morning with some fog, gone now that the sun is out. Lol KM, I've seen some house flies up here! It must be too breezy/dry where we live for them. It was good to see the country greening up already after the rain as we drove the Waikato. 
  
It was a long trip yesterday,  typically slow through Auckland. Today we'll explore a bit before heading off closer (for the ashes scattering) to where the family lived on the West Coast tomorrow. 

You'll be glad to be out the other side KM. A SIL was happy to get put on a cancellation waiting list for a Waik Hosp appt ... she  didn't realise that was an option.

I agree to let things lie with the landlord Popeye ... don't poke the bear! Won't be long and you can relax in your new home. 

Time to move. Enjoy the day all.

(05-04-2025, 02:27 PM)Lilith7 Wrote: I've read two of those Jan, loved The art of racing in the rain & bought it for a granddaughter's birthday, & have also read We need to talk about Kevin.

We no longer have a local greengrocer. Or butcher. There were both of those & more,including an electrical shop at one time but the mall put paid to them all. There was also years ago, an excellent opshop & secondhand bookshop both sorely missed.

Perhaps Nicola Willis might address the high food prices instead...but I won't hold my breath.

(06-04-2025, 10:03 PM)Jan Wrote:

(05-04-2025, 02:27 PM)Lilith7 Wrote: I've read two of those Jan, loved The art of racing in the rain & bought it for a granddaughter's birthday, & have also read We need to talk about Kevin.

We no longer have a local greengrocer. Or butcher. There were both of those & more,including an electrical shop at one time but the mall put paid to them all. There was also years ago, an excellent opshop & secondhand bookshop both sorely missed.

Perhaps Nicola Willis might address the high food prices instead...but I won't hold my breath.

Lilith anybody who believes Nicola Willis is serious should take a look what happened seven days before her announcement - Duncan Webb objected to a new WW supermarket being fast tracked and guess who ranted and raved about Labour being so shortsighted stopping it being built in a hurry Nicola Willis herself - her hypocrisy is worse than the last lot - she wants to break the duopoly one day but supports fast tracking an additional duopoly owned supermarket .Costco spoke out last week they have run at a loss for two years and arent going ahead with expansion - NZ is the most expensive country they trade in in the world - he said it’s nothing to do with the duopoly - we have the highest fuel tax which makes our transportation costs the highest in the OECD - power costs are high but the cost of supplies to the supermarket are extremely high - one meat processing plant reported 188% increase in profit last year but the supermarkets are blamed for the high cost of meat .Seriously how thick does Nicola think we are they just spent a million dollars trying to get businesses to invest here and now she is going to break up a100 year old kiwi company when all the stats show they are not making excessive profits .The biscuit and Icecream manufacturers are laughing all the way to the bank all their products are smaller but cost more and people don’t complain except to the supermarket staff !

(07-04-2025, 07:18 AM)Oh_hunnihunni Wrote: Body image is a complex thing. And sometimes we operate on the basis of the one in our heads, not the real thing. Relearning to walk taught me that, losing perception in one foot meant I had to really think through a movement that used to be automatic, or fall over. Interesting process, if frustrating.

I get a similar feeling looking in mirrors, lol, and at such times am grateful to be a bit blind. A fuzzy image is so much kinder!