Wanda is particularly shy but she would like us to pass on to you Louis that she thinks you've got the best greyhound nose she's ever seen.

He's devoid of vision, substance and charisma, and has not even a homeopathic hint of leadership ability or competence - he's the first one I can remember who qualifies as a genuine Clayton's PM. Still, he came from a pretty unimpressive Nat gene pool, so no real surprise.

Thanks Paul. For we uninitiated, looking for clues on their websites is like trying to find meaning in tea leaves.

Thanks heaps for that - it is exceptionally helpful. Do these red flags extend in any way as far as the 3 Waipa mayoral candidates? On the face of it (i.e., their websites), they all seem reasonable and credible, but how is one to know?

We just watched the 2013 Danish movie that Dept Q is closely based on. Equally good (and the Danish Karl is less obnoxious) but the Scottish TV series allows much greater depth and the ending is indeed superb. 'Tis a good example of TV no longer being the poor cousin.

And yet, if the govt was forced to apply the same logic to wages (thus paying doctors, nurses, teachers, police etc what they are worth on the export market) they would be clutching at their pearls in outrage.

Hey I have a new used bass too. It is an ex Hoffner guitar that always wanted to be a Hoffner bass like yours.

I can't quite remember them either. Pretty sure they were the same government famous for asking in 2024 for "bipartisan agreement over major infrastructure projects" not long after they trashed many infrastructure projects, both bipartisan and otherwise.

We have 2 kids who relocated to Melbourne because they couldn't afford to live in Wellington, and another, who is about the same age as that 6 million dollar couple, and he works 2.5 jobs and still struggles to pay rent... can't say I'm sympathetic to the real estate difficulties of millionaires

We are watching it too, and in light of the desperate housing crisis, it feels a little tone deaf to me.

We conceded defeat with Connections, mostly due to the cultural component in some answers. I can still remember the collective gnashing of teeth both in our house and the wider social media Britosphere when Wordle had its first US-spelled word ("humor"). Feb 9, 2022. A dark day & my first fail.

Wait - so you have a greyhound that will return WITH the ball? I'd like a refund.

We managed to do it for years with our old greyhound Olive, without her really even noticing (but she had meticulous and predictable toilet habits). Boy dogs? Phew, another matter altogether.

Wow, that must be a bit hard for your partner. Fear of men seems to be marked phenomenon among ex racers here in NZ. We fostered Wanda's brother Artie who was even more hyper-anxious and terrified of all men. Still, by 3 months, we were best mates. It gives me a little more hope for Wanda.

For any other dog, this photo would be unremarkable, but in 6 months of living with me and Deb, this is the first moment Wanda has shown unsolicited affection to me, the "scary" man of the house. I have not moved for 55 minutes, for fear of breaking the spell.

Or Sid from Ice Age and Beaker from the Muppets, if they had had a love child

... the reality of being an old guy with almost none of his own teeth, dubious spatial acuity, a slapstick-era sense of humour, and a snoring habit to boot. We named him after a debonair French friend of ours, but he turned out to be more of a Baldrick than a Cedric.