That’s fantastic exercise, very much NOT pointless, and if It’s what you can manage pretty consistently, it is very much the “right” amount. There is no point aiming for the generic “ideal” amount of exercise if a) it’s never going to happen or b) doing it will break you for the foreseeable future.

I loved art history and I refer to what I learned in high school and uni all the damn time. Devastating.

That is deeply distressing. I refer to my high school and uni art history all the time.

Once heard a shop assistant refer to a shirt as being “vegan silk” to a woman shopping. Her partner, not missing a beat asked “so, polyester?”

I did! Not this year as I had a lot going on in my life. Sadly I’m in Welly, so will miss out, but thanks for thinking of me!

Nope. I was deeply disturbed when Steve Irwin did it for tv in the 90s and in my mid-40s, now a diver, it still horrifies me. Many sea creatures are naturally curious and there are plenty of amazing shots and special interactions to get without harassment.

The -12 is net favourability not a drop in favourability - they didn’t report on whether that was up, down or stable, only that Seymour’s -12 was a drop of 8 😁

How do we lobby that committee? I wrote my submission last night and I’m not ok with being told this retrospectively.

10.25-10.50. There was an earlier bout, and then we sat and waited for two hours with nothing except that cloud of green, and then it took off quite suddenly.

South coast of Wellington NZ looking south across Cook Strait (this is aurora australis, southern lights. Aurora are unusual for us here, though much more common in the South Island.