Kuwait invokes ‘force majeure’, will forfeit some fuel delivery to NZ’s suppliers New Zealand remains in “watch and wait” mode while countries like Kuwait, which provide most of the crude oil feedstock to the Asian refineries we rely on, are damaged, trapped and reducing their prod...

Ah yes. www.thepost.co.nz/business/360...

This could be helpful for people who eat beef but not pork.

And you my find yourself in an office on the ninth floor And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a whole nation And you may find yourself behind a wooden podium, answering a 400th round of questions about your leadership And you may ask yourself, 'Well how did I get here?"

As seen on Twitter.
#nzpol

Apart from being co-ed, I think the students would have been similar to his other schools. Howick is reasonably well-to-do.

We may be spared the smiling happy photo for a while, because there is a non-publication order for the names of the woman and children. Identifying the man would identify them too.

Also Howick College for a year.

That is probably a good idea judging by the flood zone map for Wellington.
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Flood map for those who need it:

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A bit scary. My old place in Welly is on the edge of a blue bit on that map, which could explain why next door was having water seepage issues. Maybe a buried stream?

Victoria's free public transport continues in May with half-price fares to follow Public transport will be free in Victoria for another month, and fares will then be slashed by half until the rest of the year in a bid to curb fuel demand and provide economic relief.

Free public transport extended, then cheaper fares:
#victoria #transport
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Looking very grey here!

And thunder!

Hosing down in Morningside!

Browsing Webb's estate auction is a fun Sunday afternoon activity. I would just like a little more information about some items eg what was the garden like?

Knock knock.

Who’s there?

Hike.

Hike who?

solitary cow
standing atop a mountain
longs for home – Dundee

He’s entitled to it don’t you know.

So they can't even organise their own leadership coup.

Hmm. Auckland Hospital did say to contact them if I couldn’t make my own arrangements so I’m guessing they had a back up plan. This must happen to a number of people.

It's given Stuff an excuse to run a poll on whether Luxon should remain as PM. The results are not encouraging for him.

Are you sure? I had this a while back, and Auckland Hospital insisted that someone came to meet me. Going home alone by taxi or public transport wasn’t acceptable to them.

Out-of-control blaze at one of Australia’s two remaining oil refineries in Geelong Smoke warning for residents south of Viva oil refinery in Corio as Geelong mayor calls fire ‘unprecedented’ A major oil refinery in Geelong, which supplies half of Victoria’s fuel and 10% of the nation’s, exploded into flames on Wednesday night and the blaze was still out of control by first light on Thursday. Fire Rescue Victoria said they responded to an incident at the Mogas (motor gasoline) unit at Viva oil refinery in Corio around 11:15pm Thursday. Continue reading...

Out-of-control blaze at one of Australia’s two remaining oil refineries in Geelong

Allbirds was sold to another company earlier this year, so I think he is no longer involved.

I've seen suggestions that it's a pump and dump scheme
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Another minister visiting the US?

Philosophy, astronomy, a shelf on ancient pottery, Manuals for medicine, foraging, and botany. He wants all the classics, all the modern lit, And three competing textbooks on how governments are knit. Cookbooks, law books, treatises on ethics, A guide to fermentation and a fieldbook on genetics. The brief includes the works on macro‑economics, Sir, I’m one librarian, not a fleet of supersonics. It's for the end of the world as we know it, It's for the end of the world as we know it, It's for the end of the world as we know it, And I read fine

My first thought, followed by some fiddling with word choices

Plenty of time for reading down at the bolt hole

How do you get to do that? It's something I'd love to do.

He's about 30 years old, so perfectly able to retrain for something else.

I don't understand why a 30 year old couldn't change careers - the reasoning about spending all his working life in racing seems badly thought out to me.