01-09-2024, 10:36 AM
Good morning from a sunny HB - stormy night kept thinking I should get up last night and take photos of the lightening over the sea - just waiting for my chauffeur to pick me up - my dog watch holiday finishes this morning - not sure if it is a good idea one of my brothers DIL has organised to pick the returning travellers up from the airport and bring them to a big family brunch - have a feeling after a very long flight they probably want to come home but will take their little staffi with me so she doesn’t have to wait any longer for her master .I could very easily live out here on the beach but if the Esk valley floods again I would be completely cut off and at my age that would be dumb .i learned something new from the lovely old bloke living next door -there are 2 different sparrow varieties- never knew that until he pointed out the little solid brown ones with a different beak - they even make a different noise
I couldn’t live without YouTube and all the other benefits from having my internet connected to my TV - I don’t have a flash TV I have an apple stick which cost about $80 which turned my very ordinary cheap TV into a smart TV - I stream a lot so I pay about $55 a month unlimited - I don’t rely on TV1 for news there is so much out there in the big wide world .The American election is fascinating for sure - exports into China have dropped again so it is even more important Trump does not get in
Kiwimade a local CHB farmer brought a very old cherry and an apricot tree into my sons mill some tine ago that had come down during Gabrielle - they featured in all the home stead photos from way back -the farmer came in last week with a beautiful cherry wood cuff link box and a apricot jewellery box for his wife -the apricot is stunning it has an apricot hue - no doubt MrK would appreciate the workmanship
The supermarket is celebrating they have had not one single gang member threaten anybody in the shop for the entire month - the gang bringing carloads of teenagers to steal have stopped as the police have charged a gang member with inciting crime by bringing a car load of kids - Robie had been reporting this for four years but under previous police ministers no action was taken even begging the local MP Stuart Nash by some of the mothers of the teenagers was ignored - the charges the police have laid should result in the vehicle being seized .It’s great not having to worry anymore about Robie or one of his staff getting attacked -
I couldn’t live without YouTube and all the other benefits from having my internet connected to my TV - I don’t have a flash TV I have an apple stick which cost about $80 which turned my very ordinary cheap TV into a smart TV - I stream a lot so I pay about $55 a month unlimited - I don’t rely on TV1 for news there is so much out there in the big wide world .The American election is fascinating for sure - exports into China have dropped again so it is even more important Trump does not get in
Kiwimade a local CHB farmer brought a very old cherry and an apricot tree into my sons mill some tine ago that had come down during Gabrielle - they featured in all the home stead photos from way back -the farmer came in last week with a beautiful cherry wood cuff link box and a apricot jewellery box for his wife -the apricot is stunning it has an apricot hue - no doubt MrK would appreciate the workmanship
The supermarket is celebrating they have had not one single gang member threaten anybody in the shop for the entire month - the gang bringing carloads of teenagers to steal have stopped as the police have charged a gang member with inciting crime by bringing a car load of kids - Robie had been reporting this for four years but under previous police ministers no action was taken even begging the local MP Stuart Nash by some of the mothers of the teenagers was ignored - the charges the police have laid should result in the vehicle being seized .It’s great not having to worry anymore about Robie or one of his staff getting attacked -