I have 2 - 
1974 - we had Christmas lunch, and dinner, on the back lawn we shared with Peter and Karen, in Christchurch.

1983 -  Christmas lunch at South Kaipara Head, with friends. We drove our cars around the lagoon beach, and up into the trees, where we stayed until the tide went back out.

I'm located about 30km north of Stratford so like many others in Taranaki I'm watching the daily COVID case reports intently to see if the wastewater detection of COVID there last Monday is followed by any local cases. Like many other people we have been travelling throughout Taranaki over the last week (including Stratford on Thursday) as we visited the many private and public gardens and art displays which are presently open for the Taranaki Garden Festival and Arts Trail.

The events finish at days end today so the many out of province visitors will be heading back to their home towns. It will be interesting to see if the COVID case detected in Stratford pops up elsewhere or if the virus hitches a ride home with someone else. I'm sure COVID will become endemic here in NZ in the near future but just hope that a sufficient percentage of us are vaccinated by then to limit the pressure this will place on our health system when that does happen.

When we were kids we use to build these on wet days, with blankets and sheets and cushions and our favourite comfort beasts. A book or two, life giving sustenance, and a good companion or two.

Sometimes I wonder if we adults should build one of these for ourselves. Or maybe, just maybe, our message boards are our version. In which case we should bring brooms. To poke out of the drapery and repel unfriendly boarders.

James Nesbitt in a police vest. Hasn't this been done already?

Realised that with Trade Me's board closing down, I won't know who to blacklist!

Always enjoyed people moaning about some woeful trader they've had to deal with, or better yet, the ones that outed themselves not realising that they themselves were the woeful trader.

Going through the current blacklist, there's a few with perfectly good feedback that make you wonder why they got on the blacklist in the first place, but there's some shockers. Most have smartly stopped using their account, but as we're not on TM, here's a freebie: "russia94"

Lulu was a prostitute, but she didn't want her grandma to know.
One day, the police raided the brothel and took all the girls outside and made them line up.
Suddenly, Lulu's grandma came by and Grandma asked, "Why are you standing in line here, dear?"
Not willing to let her grandma know the truth, Lulu told her that the police were passing out free oranges and she was just lining up for some.
"Why, that's awfully nice of them. I think I'll get some for myself," Grandma said, and she proceeded to the back of the line.
A policeman was going down the line asking for information from all the prostitutes. When he got to grandma, he was bewildered and exclaimed, "Wow, still going at it at your age? How do you do it old girl?"
Grandma replied, "Oh, it's easy, dear. I just take my dentures out,
rip the skin back and suck em' dry."
The policeman fainted.

I do  not wish to intrude on Praktica's thread as I can in no way match his extensive camera range nor his expertise.  Neither is this a true collector's thread as I do not still possess all these cameras I have had in the past.  
I shall therefore start this separate thread and endeavour to list and describe the cameras I have had in the past.

My very first camera was one I inherited from my father.   It was an Eastman Kodak 116 Box Brownie.  These were manufactured by Eastman Kodak in USA from 1917 in various models through until the 1930's  My father must have acquired this in the early 1920's and I inherited it in the early 1940's.    It had a problem that it let in the light badly so you were never sure how much if any of a photo you were going to capture.
It was similar to this

Hi
I made an offer subject to LIM, builder's report, finance and sale of my existing houses.
So while I was making calls arranging other things on my lunch breaks I put LIM application on the back burner. Now that a week has passed and I get around to the LIM I see it takes 10 working days for them to process the information. But I had to fulfill that condition withing 15 days.

So how important is a LIM? Just to make sure the building(s) on site match the LIM? Or are there other things I should be looking for?

Just to make things more stressful, when the agent was signing me up for the sale of my properties she said I should check with my accountant to make sure I won't have to pay tax on the sale of the rental. I've owned the house I live in for 20 years. I've owned the rental since about Sep 2016. I'm not gst registered. I have not heard from my accountant and could not get through to IRD. (Who could get through to IRD on a half hour break?)

You've mixed up the ingredients and chucked your baking in the oven.

Who here gets out the scraper or spoon and helps themselves whatever is left in the mixing bowl? I'm sure some don't (eww, uncooked things!), but quite often it tastes better than whatever disaster you'll eventually pull out of the oven.

As a kid (and even now), I was always hanging around the kitchen when Mum was doing some baking. Good times.

I'm getting tons of text messages because NZ Android users have been caught out by the FluBot. 

Has anyone got a successful way of dealing with these?

Here's what I'm trying...

I noticed that the same phone numbers were sending me messages so I created a contacted called "SMS Spam" and I've blocked that contact. 

Every time I get a new sender I send them a link to https://news.vodafone.co.nz/flubot and then add their number to the SMS contact - as if a person had a huge number of numbers.