You can never have enough...

[JanW]

Wind starting to pick up this morning - but we have had a windy summer - it wasn’t as bad in Norfolk Island as predicted so hopefully the same will happen here - a lot of money was spent yesterday in the supermarket and now people will complain about the empty shelves .The two worst my farmer/sawmiller son had to deal with was an out of control woman shouting at the lady at customer services about the rotten mince she had bought the day before - it still had its Countdown label - she was in the wrong shop and another man telling the young Indian boy in the veggie dept he should go back where he came from - he was born in NZ - because he had bought several $3 watermelons and one was completely white when he cut it open - he is back there today - reckons they should make a reality show a day in the life of a young kiwi working in retail
I grew capsicum for the first time - one plant are beautiful purple - haven’t tried one yet but they look spectacular- they will safe in the pod if the worst does come .
They have discovered in Oz how stupid it has been building on flood plains and we are starting to see the same thing - reclaimed land is very vulnerable now the climate is changing .The husband of the rat killer was a contractor who did subdivision development- he did a big one just south of the city on land that was sea before the earthquake - he was very vocal about the risk of liquefaction- didn’t realise what that was until the CHCH earthquake - no doubt in time he will be proven correct

That liquefaction was nasty stuff; I was going down the street to check if a neighbour on her own was OK & thought we'd had a water main burst on the road, but it was liquefaction.
And it wasn't as bad here as it was elsewhere in the city.
 I thought then that since its built on swamp,  perhaps having canals dug might not be a bad idea - we could take advice from the Dutch, who are experts at such things.

If we all 'went back where we came from' then Africa would be full & the rest of our world, not so much.      We're all immigrants of the descendants of immigrants.



Apparently the cyclone has been downgraded slightly, so hope it won't be as bad as predicted, good luck all those in its path.

As my son handed out the trespass notice to the watermelon man he told him the young man he had abused was born a kiwi to parents who are both medical professionals and the young man is a third year medical student out working to support himself through uni - but it would have gone over the abusers head