Ditto. The team (what's left of them) has just finished a half hour of various online quizzes, and the sun is shining outside. 🌞

My ideal is a bed cover made entirely of possum skin. My god that would be luxury (and waaay too spendy to buy).

Auckland friends had visited several times and never saw the mountain, and finally said we were all liars with a good marketing campaign. 😄

What I love about this poster is how hard it plays with sexist sci-fi tropes. (Leia never had a split-skirt sexy-time outfit and Luke never had ripped-shirt abs, but this was the expected imagery of the time.)

That 'Think about it' has to be the worst movie tagline. (I know it's part of the next line but it still flattens the vibe.)

I hate that feature in cars. Too much anxiety from driving old cars that weren't entirely reliable in my youth.

Tomorrow, New Plymouth's council meets to debate whether to remove the concrete 'tim-tams' along a stretch of urban state highway that has five schools on it. Pertinent point: many of the new councillors were elected on a platform that promised to rip them out.

I wonder what the other NZME directors think of this? Do they back Grenon in targeting another media company? And if they don't, will they want to distance NZME from his actions by saying so publicly?

We don't say 'coward' often enough. Big men with big guns targeting the softest possible targets: families having fun, people deep in prayer, concert-goers - just those (as you say) going about their day without an inkling that they're being targeted.

(I'm working off my own experiences here, not actual data.)

What fascinated you then is likely to be an enjoyable sector for you to work in as an adult.

Another way to look at it is to think back to what you enjoyed doing when you were seven. That's an age when there's enough independence to, for instance, grab a book to read or take your bike over jumps or harangue your mum to take you to the airport to watch the planes land.

Well done you! Looks like the personal cost was worth the effort, though - the trip looks absolutely gorgeous.

When I was shopping to replace my 1970s sofa and chairs, I couldn't find replacements that would fit into my small living room (1960s bungalows) - they were all either overlong and overstuffed or small, cheap, uncomfortable options.

Finally decided to just reupholster my existing furniture.

...dragged my sleep-deprived brain through an afternoon at work, having only taken the morning off.

The following year, I took the entire day off after seeing TTT at midnight.

The midnight screening of the Fellowship of the Ring. One hour in (Frodo waking at Weathertop), the images suddenly flipped upside-down - the second reel had been connected incorrectly. We were sent home about 2am with two free passes, I was back at 9am to finally watch the film, and somehow...

One of the reason I love where I live is that it can't flood (much) or get hit by tsunami waves, short of an apocalypse.

I also got it and I'm in NZ, which is very much not Australia.