I've been crossposting here from Dreamwidth, but now, although I'm still reading and commenting here, I'm posting only at Dreamwidth. Same handle.

One of the advantages of working from home is that you can be at your desk five minutes after getting up. But that can also be a drawback. It's too easy, when it's your own business, to throw yourself at the work from dawn till dusk without a break ( Read more... )

Down here in the Southern Hemisphere we've now reached the really annoying end part of winter. The mandarin season has just finished, so now I have to scrape along for fruit until the cherries start just before Christmas and the stone fruit gets going just after that. And I'm so sick of winter vegetables. Because NZ is a big agricultural producer ( Read more... )

The title of this post is what is delightfully written on the cover of the little notebook I use to do daily to-do lists. While I do get more done using a to-do list, it's astonishing just how often my week careers wildly off the rails, leaving the things I thought I was going to do in the dust. Thus far this week I have ( Read more... )

So today I was outside, vacuuming the garden.

Totally normal, right ( Read more... )

It seems like the only time I ever post here is when we have a massive rain event in Auckland. Of course, that's not all that rare. The current atmospheric river is the third major flooding event in Auckland this yearThis is not business as usual. In fact, it's the first major flooding we've had for decades ( Read more... )

It's been a pretty intense couple of days. And we're not out of the woods yet.


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OK, we think we're as ready as we can be for Cyclone Gabrielle ( Read more... )

I'm supposed to be going to the beach today, to an island an hour away on the car ferry, for two weeks. After the record-setting torrential rain and flooding we had last week, and after a summer that's so far been wet far more often than it's been dry, I was hoping that the weather would settle to its customary February reliable sun ( Read more... )

About this time last year, we'd had a very dry winter and summer and my mother, who is prone to worrying about things, said "Suppose climate change means we just never get any more rain ( Read more... )