05-04-2025, 10:19 AM
Good morning - absolutely beautiful day in the Bay - we need rain but I am certainly not complaining .One good thought I have about my wool cheater is I was going to give her the tossed aside half blanket because it can be pulled apart washed and reused but my sister knits lovely things out of bits of different random colours so at the last minute kept it
I re read books often - two that spring to mind as they are absolute favourites - I know this much is true - Wally Lamb absolutely brilliant writing about twins - one is paranoid schizophrenic- quite a big book
The other is Racing in the Rain - the life of a dog by Garth Stein - the writing is stunning - the story he weaves into the text through the life of a Labrador terrier cross grabs your heart - small book quick read
We need to talk about Kevin is another quick unforgettable read .Love my books
My son is holding his breath with Trump at the moment kiwi timber going into the US market is free from tariffs so long may he concentrate on charging penguins on remote islands and leave our timber exempt.Robie thinks kiwi shoppers may win with prices dropping - I know some people think the supermarkets buy their meat from the farmers but they buy it from the big meat processing plants that have overseas owners so all the best mince etc went to the US and we paid the same price for lower grade - same when they had a glut of lamb it would go in a container overseas and sold cheap - Fonterra the same we pay the export prices and the Apple market - again Supermarkets don’t buy off the orchard they buy from the market .Under the new grocery regulations Robie faces a fine of half a million dollars if he buys direct from a grower - it all has to go through head office - so as you can imagine Nicola Willis has them all shaking their heads they have spent millions setting up a centralised purchasing system to meet the new Grocery Commissioner regulations and to avoid 500k fines and now she is going to seperate them all out again - poor polling panic I think .Have you seen the clip that has emerged of Trump in 1988 being interviewed by Oprah talking about the tariffs way back then - it’s worth a look just to see his hair !
Be careful about mucking around with your rent Popeye without telling them first- you may need them as a reference and property managers are like the Mafia
Fresh fish for lunch - my brother put his Kontiki line out this morning and has caught guarnard so I am looking forward to his arrival - lemon is picked and peeper grinder and a knob of butter is at the ready
I re read books often - two that spring to mind as they are absolute favourites - I know this much is true - Wally Lamb absolutely brilliant writing about twins - one is paranoid schizophrenic- quite a big book
The other is Racing in the Rain - the life of a dog by Garth Stein - the writing is stunning - the story he weaves into the text through the life of a Labrador terrier cross grabs your heart - small book quick read
We need to talk about Kevin is another quick unforgettable read .Love my books
My son is holding his breath with Trump at the moment kiwi timber going into the US market is free from tariffs so long may he concentrate on charging penguins on remote islands and leave our timber exempt.Robie thinks kiwi shoppers may win with prices dropping - I know some people think the supermarkets buy their meat from the farmers but they buy it from the big meat processing plants that have overseas owners so all the best mince etc went to the US and we paid the same price for lower grade - same when they had a glut of lamb it would go in a container overseas and sold cheap - Fonterra the same we pay the export prices and the Apple market - again Supermarkets don’t buy off the orchard they buy from the market .Under the new grocery regulations Robie faces a fine of half a million dollars if he buys direct from a grower - it all has to go through head office - so as you can imagine Nicola Willis has them all shaking their heads they have spent millions setting up a centralised purchasing system to meet the new Grocery Commissioner regulations and to avoid 500k fines and now she is going to seperate them all out again - poor polling panic I think .Have you seen the clip that has emerged of Trump in 1988 being interviewed by Oprah talking about the tariffs way back then - it’s worth a look just to see his hair !
Be careful about mucking around with your rent Popeye without telling them first- you may need them as a reference and property managers are like the Mafia
Fresh fish for lunch - my brother put his Kontiki line out this morning and has caught guarnard so I am looking forward to his arrival - lemon is picked and peeper grinder and a knob of butter is at the ready