Hilux is the ute of all utes! We had ads about dropping it off cliffs, through waterfalls, everything.

My very silly cat (whose name is Michelle Obama) loves sniffing shoes to calm down.

This reminds me of a tower in Ōtautahi Christchurch. The wooden tower was taken off the church pending earthquake remediation & placed on the ground next to the church, & they just never got around to putting it back. The tower is barely the height or the church 😂

After some recent maintenance, our bells are sounding a lot clearer and even louder, which is also highlighting that perhaps we'd also like some well-struck ringing in future too. I thought we already had a loud tower, but turns out it could always be louder! Might need ear plugs!

I should've done the same 😭

There was probably room for an additional stream and then give everyone longer papers. However, I'm trying this new thing where I stay quiet in the cheap seats and don't offer to organise things and just enjoy being a delegate for a change. Aleisha will be most surprise I know what quiet is!

Meanwhile I'm having to find a way to temper my comments so that I can still find employment after 😂

(thanks to @nzjazzhistory.bsky.social for the peer review)

IMHO they should have one anyway, cos it'd be neat. Plus then somewhere pretty to stick heritage excursion trains, & a wye for turning around in if required (don't think there's any nearby turntables).

Then again, I have a lot of cheap reckons haha

Needs a matching train on t'other side.

Actually, question: from satellite view, the station looks like a triangle - was there ever a chord that connected the third side, allowing northbound trains to head east? i.e. was Frankton ever a complete wye?

Incidentally, IMHO all transport related events/conferences/etc shouldn't require private transport. I shouldn't have to take a plane, train, bus, and still require a taxi to get to things. They also shouldn't cost 10K, but that's a separate issue.