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There’s been a few NOTAM’s out regarding Canadian geese flying past Napier and Auckland airport in the last week

Cool series... a reminder to us living our sheltered lives that there is a Big world out there, and quite different!

Well put Rob ..... I had forgotten those quake days until now, but your right ...we got through. We lived in a half mud-filled house with no water and intermitted power for almost a month..... having to fill the toilet tank from a big plastic bin of water ...provided by someone I had never met. I do recall the day power was finally restored and stable ..... until then I had turned the hot water off for fear of cooking the cylinder......but that first HOT shower(12 hours after the announcement) was just bliss ...a simple thing I'll never forget. I also remember trying to get up to Kaiapoi...

The orbit would have been conducted at low level to reduce exposure to SAMs and small arms fire from the no fly zone. Maybe to the former... but as the RAF Tornados showed in Desert Storm, definitely No if avoiding small arms fire. Thanks for this CP, At 0:52 I thought you had posted an airliner accident clip. :o

My Daughter in law is the manager of the CIVIC FAMILY HEALTH CARE in Blenheim and this is her latest post on Facebook This is what you need to know about the coronavirus Take care everyone and don't join the stupid few who think that staying home and not socializing isn't for them, they are the bloody idiots that help to keep the virus spreading. This guy has got it right "Just stay the :swear: at home

I ordered a copy of Sony Vegas a few years ago, online. Foolishly did not look properly, and turns out it shipped from Germany! This was in the early days of public awareness that goods often came into the country without GST etc. Got a call from DHL locally to say the parcel was impounded in Customs, and pay up or else. An email followed, quite aggressive, to say they could only hold the parcel for 48 hours, transfer funds to this account. I paid them, and wondered how Customs managed to get them to do the billing, and also how they managed to virtually equal the purchase price. The parcel...

Mike , I dont have a screengraber that Im aware of .... Marty, I was using the word in a general sense, cos that was quicker than typing 'whatever button you use to get a screenie' :lol: That said, when you are checking differences and changes, updates are prime suspects.Not sure if you get everything via Steam, but they have a File Integrity Check thing which could help. And of course, just to keep things simple, there are reports elsewhere of the latest Win10 update breaking things (again!!) ATB, Mike PS I can do you a deal on toilet rolls - buyer collects :lol: :arrr:

We do get the occasional dragon coming past

...I'll just be happy when it stops bl**dy raining and I can go for some comfy rides on my Motorcycle again. We are in the midst of wild storms; Ciara, Dennis, and Jorge... With all the "wildness" going on, I'm just waiting for Storm; "Judy", (Wizard of Oz), to arrive now. Coronavirus? What has a soft drink got to do with an infestation of Viruses infecting the known Universe (and China) ... :o ...>>> ). ...like I said before... ..just keep away from..."Other People" ...and drink plenty of Corona. Paul... :D ... :D ... :D ...!

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Thanks, big D ...I reckon we will see you :thumbup: :thumbup:

Tragic loss, RIP. Surely the harshest flying environment you can find? Taxing both personnel and equipment to the limit, which you only really establish once you find it. The loss of capability also no help with the ongoing battle of the blazes.

Nothing against them - the Royals do no great harm and a great deal of good...I just wonder who Morgan will attack next, now that he has been deprived of his favourite prey.

Cheers Guys. I've been into all sorts of sports ... skydiving some 20+ years, rock climbing and motorcycling (road and track) when I was younger. Flying, of course, a fews years back around the Waikato and now I'm in ChCh I'm "this close" to completing my PG2 paragliding certificate ... yep, any which way my preferred location is the sky :)

Bit late to the NY party sorry but same to you fullaz and everyone else. My NY seems to get a little quieter each year, I think my 10yr old was up later than me this year :D Despite the lunacy that is the events in the middle east this week I hope the dust settles and people of influence can see sense and think of the rest of us for a change. Fingers crossed we all get to see in 2021 :rockon:

A time when TREES become an ecological nightmare...rather than ecological friends! ...and an explanation for the cause of the problem...>>> Paul.

It's a time to remind ourselves, (if we didn't already know it), that we all stand on an extremely thin skin of boiling hot rice pudding, the contents of which can erupt and devour us, and everything else, at a moment's notice! When one takes a peek through a slice of Planet Earth, it's amazing that the; "Earth" as we call it, exists at all! We are very lucky to be standing on the "ground" which surrounds us all! ...I am forever amazed by it all! Paul.

Having followed the disastrous Wildfires in California every day on the news, Mike.... ...you are getting a basin full of it now! Worrying times! Paul.