How to be Moderately Successful.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jan/01/how-to-be-moderately-successful-person-like-me

* it is actually ok to make people use coasters#

#because I said so, and because I do. 

So, what do you think the above photo is? 

Just About to Cop It

Here's the rain coming. It's nice and warm, however. Too late now to wish I'd cleaned out the gutters yesterday.

Tauranga is at the point of the smaller arrow. The wind direction is the bigger arrows. This was the situation 12 minutes before writing these words. 

My Genuine, Mass-Produced Good Wishes for 2016

This image shows my local seaside town last night : hot-spot for thousands who visit and also climb and sit around on the summit of the extinct volcano (Mauao - Mount Maunganui) all night and wait for the first day of a new year.  This would have been their view. Look at the hoards of people.

The other popular place is Whangamata where a tame New Year's Eve meant only 22 were arrested.

I was even more tamer-ly tucked up in bed having a lovely sleep.  Mmmm-mm!

Eye Candy Day 59

"I don't really relate to nature. I relate more to poetic questions about knowing something.  Recognizing something."

Eye Candy Day 58

Her parents agreed to call her ******** because his father loved the Edgar Allan Poe short story by the same name while her mother, being fond of astronomy, had in mind the Coma ********  constellation.

Normal Service

... will be resumed as soon as possible. In the meantime the writer of the Last Visible Dog thanks you for your patience.

Eye Candy Day 57

"I discovered that silent film is almost an advantage. You just have to think of the feeling for it to show. No lines pollute it. It doesn't take much - a gaze, an eyelash flutter - for the emotion to be vivid."