A Kiwi baritone (Julian Van Mellaerts) singing words written by a Kiwi poet (Bill Manhire) set to music by a Kiwi composer (Gareth Farr), on the subject of...The Kiwi.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RK0-QRPugIE&pp=0gcJCWgCo7VqN5tD
#JukeboxFridayNight #birds #kiwi
Jesus: I am going to die and then return to life three days later.¹
Disciples: dunno what that means; not gonna ask²
Jesus: (dies)³
Disciples: inconceivable!
Three days later...⁴
Some female disciples⁵: He's returned to life!⁶
Male disciples: as if⁷
Jesus: hi⁸
Male disciples: aaaaaaaaaa⁹
And yet this muddled and doubtful rabble changed the world and outlasted empires. There's hope for us yet.
¹ Matthew 20:17-19
² Mark 9:32
³ Mark 15:37
⁴ Luke 23:54–24:1
⁵ Luke 24:10
⁶ Luke 24:22-23
⁷ Luke 24:11
⁸ John 20:19
⁹ Luke 24:37
#bible #doubt #Jesus #resurrection
"Have you seen the river?"
"No."
"It lies at the bottom of the garden. Except during the winter months, when – they tell me – the garden lies at the bottom of the river."
from Doctor Sally by P. G. Wodehouse
#Wodehouse #winter #garden
Here's another Lost In Time shawl, with one fewer repeat than the previous one, and only two of the four colours.
#crochet
Rejoice with me, for I have at last learned how to cable!
For some reason, the C2B (leftmost) was the hardest to get to work - as you can probably see. (You can probably also see the point about 2/3 of the way up where @TMakarios Looked At It. I had thought his Look only worked on computers and suchlike tech, but apparently not.)
I used the cable needle for the two middle cables (3st each) and went needlefree for the two 2st cables.
#knitting
Note to self: next time you make a multi-coloured piece which involves about seventy loose ends, sew them in as you go!
#crochet
"What do you think is probably the happiest moment in one's whole life? I think it's the moment when one is walking in one's garden, perhaps picking a few dead flowers, and then suddenly one thinks: My husband lives in that house - and he loves me."
Virginia Woolf
#love #happiness #marriage #VirginiaWoolf
NZ is one of the wool-producingest countries in the world, and yet the 4ply section of my LYS is stuffed with yarns made in China, Italy, Turkey, and Unspecified - including most of what was identified as NZ wool. A lot just displayed an NZ company address and left everything else to implication.
Even the yarn named NEW ZEALAND MERINO admitted to being 30% Australian merino (different animal welfare standards in Aus). I could only find one 4ply yarn identified as made in NZ from NZ wool.
It just seems so ridiculous to ship our wool overseas to be turned into yarn and shipped right back again. In an emissions-conscious world, how has this become the new normal?
#yarn #NewZealand #wool #emissions
Locard's Exchange Principle in action.
The criminal brought moisture to the scene of the crime; and left with Diamine Syrah on three of her little pink toebeans.
#FountainPen #ink #cat #forensics #EveryContactLeavesATrace
It took me quite a while to realize, in the small hours of this morning, that the yelling I could hear sounded strange not because I was dreaming it, but because someone somewhere in the neighbourhood was broadcasting their expletive-laden argument with the assistance of a karaoke machine.
In other news, I could do with a nap.
#SrslyWut
There are remarkable parallels between Pride and Prejudice and Edward Gibbon Wakefield.
Jane Austen started writing P&P in 1796, the year Wakefield was born.
The villainous Wickham plots to elope to Gretna Green with the 15 year old heiress Georgiana Darcy.
The villainous Wakefield eloped to Gretna Green with the 15 year old heiress Ellen Turner.
Wickham hopes to get his hands on Miss Darcy's £30,000.
Wakefield would have got £30,000 through his first wife Eliza Pattle, had she survived to her 21st birthday.
Unlike Eliza and Georgiana (and Lydia Bennet), Ellen's consent was obtained unwillingly and by deception. Wakefield claimed that only by marrying him could she save her father from (completely fictional) financial ruin. The marriage was subsequently dissolved by a special act of Parliament.
Readers speculate as to what various characters' futures might have held after the end of the book. Might Wickham's have included both prison and Parliament, as it did for Wakefield?
#PrideAndPrejudice #EdwardGibbonWakefield #ShrigleyAbduction #JaneAusten #history
"The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either—but right through every human heart—and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained."
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#GoodVsEvil #Solzhenitsyn #hope
Reading a book about the Home Front in WWII*, I spotted an ad for a product I used as a child in the '90s.
By then, the rollers were slightly concave in the middle from decades of laundry passing through. Did the job, though.
*Bombers & Mash by Raynes Minns
#nostalgia #OldTechnology
I recently learned that one can put moss in a blender with some yoghurt, paint the resulting gloop on to a surface, and - provided it stays damp - the moss will just get back to mossing like nothing happened. Even metal isn't as metal as that.
#moss #mosstodon #MetalAs
"The Bentan dead lie in the sea,
the Selwan in the earth.
The Intikans are buried close
beneath their tree of birth.
The Kriu and the Tankilan
are rock-tombed when they die.
But Three Men rise on wings of fire
to star-home in the sky."
https://deborah.makarios.nz/amiant-soul/
#poetry #books #fantasy #AmiantSoul
Yesterday I got a covid booster. Today you get a corvid booster (photo by Sardaka, CC BY-SA 3.0).
#CovidIsNotOver #birds #corvids
"Come to me, all of you who are tired and feel overloaded, and I’ll help you relax. You can take on my workload and learn from me, because I’m gentle and humble, and your souls will be able to relax, because my workload is easy, and the load I’ll leave on your shoulders is light."
Jesus
quoted in Matthew 11:28-30
from the Open English Translation - Readers' Version, CC BY-SA 4.0
https://openenglishtranslation.bible/
#rest #Bible #OET #CreativeCommons #Jesus #tired #NoAI
