Long projectile vomit sick de bucket.

Most of the plumage detail's gone on Bluesky, ditto the eye. Oh well.

I am thort and prayering in your general direction. Also, 8 pm is way too late. The kids should have their teeth brushed, get ready for bed and pick a book to read before lights out.

Your "what I learnt from attending a 17Os party" story will write itself.

"While Peter gave his $975/week 1 bed rental a lick of paint and assessed if he could get pet bonds from families with children, John and Mary queued up with hundreds of other hopeful tenants outside, with printed documentation and YouTube presentations of themselves ready to roll."

Did you mean Kiwi battlers buying rental property to provide housing for other Kiwi battlers? It's a beautiful social enterprise really, battlers battling in the housing market.

Could actually be something like that. If capital gains exceed term deposit interest, and they're maturing next year.

Heh. No, Toyota. The dealer warned me in advance.

Yeah. The only slightly annoying ADAS I've come across was a driver attention camera that wasn't set up to take NZ roundabouts into account. Look for traffic, and it would chime. Think it was the same one that said to sit up while driving.