The Daily Blog Open Mic – 5th December 2025
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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Things have to be babied up to amuse our febrile minds. Now met service can’t just give us the weather in straightforward ways –
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A big ol’ cloud sandwich about Aoraki/Mt Cook this morning with high cloud, lenticulars, and stratus cloud.
Similarly, the weather has a lot of ingredients going on.
wind in the south
☁️cloud in the west
and sun in the east ⛱️
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/580970/highs-of-30c-for-parts-of-south-island-before-scorching-weather-moves-north-this-weekend
(My there’s a lot of weather around, whoop-dee-dooh.)
Yeah and yay and isn’t life funny and full of fun, run by jokesters, pranksters, and monsters (behind the scenes). I’ll add a weather-related old song just to be keep up the cuteness. It’s a classic ain’t it.
Life gits tee-jus don’t it – Carson Robison from 1947
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggVI2c7cUUs
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/580979/successful-medical-drone-delivery-could-offer-faster-healthcare-access-for-remote-communities
Tom Phillips couldn’t get away from the Law and the Lore and have an influence on his own children in his own way because he and his wife could not work together getting help from gummint. So he got shot for being a bad boy. Now that’s a lesson for the children.
Drones would have made the job much easier. Now the kind gummint wants to help people in remote areas needing medicines using drone delivery. Perhaps they will provide too with nearby public birthing centres and medical clinics and personnel that will really help when there is an urgent need for caring assistance. Did Jeffrey Epstein have this sort of thing on his islands?
You shall obey. Remember that basic phrase. Perhaps it was in Smith’s mind in the book Smith’s Dream when he tries to go bush.
Smith’s Dream by C.K. Stead (publ. 1971)
Goodreads
https://goodreads.com › show › 911132.Smith_s_Dream
When Smith is left by his wife and goes to hide away in the bush in the Coromandel he never imagines he will become the most wanted man in the country.
This link from 2015 referring to Smith’s Dream is interesting in discussing problems from 10 years ago that seem quite up-to-date. https://napierinframe.co.nz/smiths-dream-keys-reality-nzs-nightmare/
Is “Smith’s Dream” Becoming NZ’s Real-life Nightmare?
Napier In Frame https://napierinframe.co.nz › smiths-dream-keys-reality-n…
17 Aug 2015 — The story follows a man named Smith amidst an alternative New Zealand timeline of political, social and military upheaval and makes just as gripping reading …
and
https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/books/125043600/terrorism-and-two-endings-ck-steads-first-novel-smiths-dream-50-years-on
What’s up? Being aware: –
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/580932/worksafe-rule-change-introduces-lethal-risk-of-electrocution-electrical-inspectors-say