We are now a week on the cold side of the shortest day.
Queenstown has it's annual snowfall, the hills of the Banks Peninsula the same.
A cold Southerly wind is sweeping up the country and will probably leave snow on the Desert Road of the Northern Plateau.
"News" sites are awash with photographs and stories of these natural events.
How unusual!
In the last couple of days in the USA a former police officer has been jailed for being on the wrong side of politics and a lawyer has had his license suspended for stating his side an argument.
Maybe the movie was correct: Home of the brave, land of the free-with-purchase.
Land of the free without purchasing the latest woke shit it certainly ain't!
A price should be paid!
News is that some Covid-infected people visited Wellington recently.
Were it not for total Government incompetence this would not be a problem. The majority of the populace would have be vaccinated and immune to any transmission.
Due to Government's abject failure to do their job this is not the case, in fact serious vaccination of New Zealanders has not even started.
So, because of last October's disgrace and totally incompetent leadership, both of the country and the Dept. of Health, it looks like Wellington may have to shut it's commercial doors and pay a massive price.
Wellingtonians will once more be placed under house arrest.
I suggest it's time for a price to be paid for this failure.
The reintroduction of public corporal punishment, specifically of the Prime Minister (Ha!), her Minister of Health and the talking-head of the Ministry would be a good start.
For a second, subsequent offense I recommend the reintroduction of capital punishment for all three!
There is a story on NewstalkZB's site at the moment about an accident involving a turning milk-tanker and an idiot.
There can, of course, be no doubt in the idiocy of the Audi driver.... BUT .......
there can be doubt as to the actions of the tanker driver.
As a young fart so many years ago (and a long-standing professional driver since) I was taught (and practiced) that when turning right it is safer to, when possible, pull to the left and let any following traffic clear before turning right.
Based on the video, that was possible in this case.
On South Island roads, at least, this practice has been discontinued and I have at times been forced to brake hurriedly to avoid some idiot "parked" in the centre of the road.
The standard of driving in this country has been dropping remarkably in recent years and the NZTA would help make the roads safer if they addressed issues like this rather than continue their competition to create the most dangerous road designs ever and push newly-made-up gobblety-gook onto the public.
I notice the Mayor of Christchurch has stated movie crews working on a movie about Mr Tarrant and his ChCh escapade will not be welcomed by her.
I'll happily welcome them and provide not just labour but any other assistance they may need - as long as they tell the truth about the grossly dishonest harridan wearing the tea-towel.
