8.
Have never considered this before.

Is this sort of payment covered by insurance, or is it a direct cost to the Council?

Why even use this? Where I come from, electronic bank payments are immediate. Is that not the case everywhere?

Yes, similar vibes, except our culprit was a bit worse for wear and had had time to spread “filth” over nearly every surface throughout the entire building 🫤

We arrived at a bach a few years ago in which a possum had spent perhaps the previous week or two trying to get out after having entered via a chimney.
Messy and smelly start to what was supposed to be a much-needed relaxing holiday.
(Possum survived the episode).

Mildly confusing in AoNZ that “wilding” conifers (or pines) is already a much more established term for essentially the opposite of what re-wilding is about

Bill Withers’ off-key “Lovely Day” 🥴

A great quick-growing option with loads of fruit, while potentially waiting for bigger trees to establish

If you have room, kōwhai and puriri are great native species for kererū.
They eat kōwhai foliage and puriri berries, and the flowers of both plants are attractive to other birds