Aotearoa / New Zealand @lemmy.nz Dave @lemmy.nz 2y ago

Aotearoa Daily Kōrero 31/8/2023

Welcome to today’s daily kōrero!

Anyone can make the thread, first in first served. If you are here on a day and there’s no daily thread, feel free to create it!

Anyway, it’s just a chance to talk about your day, what you have planned, what you have done, etc.

So, how’s it going?

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Last day of winter! We made it! I'm extremely confident there'll only be good weather from here on in (especially in Wellington).
- NZ is a bit weird in that we declare that our seasons are required to follow the months.
  
  Normal people do it around the solstices and equinoxes so really the last day of winter should be 22 September. But we don't let the seasons tell us what to do.
- Like Dave said, last day of meteorological winter!
  
  I fall for it every year and think "September is here time to start planting!" But there's always a few cold snaps and frosts left to come
  
  In the far north where I am it feels like winter has been over for a while though apparently it has been a colder August than usual for NZ. Definitely some anticyclonic gloom hanging around.
  
  I have a 12m unheated tunnel house for tropical dwarf papaya and they made it ok over winter.
  
  I'm thinking of getting one of those little mini greenhouses...
- Did a little bit of driving in between errands yesterday, and the car was showing it went upto 18degrees yesterday in Auckland! That's the warmest I can remember in a while.
Getting out of the house today and going swimming. Going to practice butterfly.
- Indoor pool, I hope. Though I know there are people in Wellington who have lunchtime swims in the harbour even through winter, so maybe not.
  
  Yeah indoor pool. Went there but I didn't know how to get a lane. It seemed there were constantly people swimming there.
Super blue moon is out and super bright! And for once it's not too cloudy in Wellington to see it. Just took my little one out to see it before bedtime.
- I was a bit slow at looking out the window so now it's not clear enough to see 🙁
I'm so glad I'm working up the coast this week, it seems like a bad time to be driving into Wellington.

On the bright side, the police seem to be getting pretty quick at getting these protestors off the roads.

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