Brunch at Unknown Chapter in Christchurch 🍳

Kaikoura 📸

Ohau lookout seal colony 📸

Black Sand Beach in the afternoon sun 📸

Selfie in the Blenheim public art - a sculpture depicting the sun, appropriate for the claimed “sunniest place in New Zealand”.

The town looks like a truck stop from the highway. Turn off and there is a lovely town center, classic NZ covered walkways, lots of shops and cafes.

Interislander ferry from Wellington to Picton

First day in Wellington. Took a stroll at Lyall Bay 📸

Made it to Wellington. Really pleased to be back in New Zealand.

Went to see the colony of bats that live in Centennial Park, Sydney 📸

Loving the Aussie architectural style 📸

Quick dinner out at [Kukthai] (https://maps.app.goo.gl/7HbvbrxwdkvWdpH37) in Woollahra 🍴

Our studio window, Paddington, Sydney 📸

Caffeine and morning roll to chase away the jet lag @ Flat White Cafe

Made it to Sydney!

Switched out the newborn seat for the high chair seat. It’s incredible how fast these changes happen. We have a boy that sits up!

The Age of Average

Who or where is doing different? Is this actually true, or just what we are exposed to via the middle class AirBnb city-hopping lifestyle?

Using ChatGPT to brainstorm an itinerary for our New Zealand trip. It’s useful for scaffolding out ideas which we can then tweak.

Added a new testimonial from Lesley at BoCreate to my business website https://www.telaco.com - we’ve just wrapped up the first version of the product.

A nice interview with Pete Wands, Edinburgh Street Photographer on YouTube

Back at EH3 Milers this evening 🏃

Finished reading: Red Crosses by Sasha Filipenko 📚

“Ordinary people . . . Papa often repeated: ordinary people. An impregnable combination of words, don’t you think? An ordinary person . . . What is that? A parasite who does mean things or a nameless hero who performs a feat of bravery? An ordinary person . . . How many of them have I had a chance to meet? Fate has presented me with hundreds of versions but has never given me the correct answer.”

🎶 Radiant Bloom, Astronoid

shoegaze metal-ish with a dreamy vigour

Thinking about Why so many elites feel like losers, Freddie deBoer.

What role models of success do I have? What role models are healthy for society in general? What success has intrinsic worth? What success is about the type of person you will be?

Started reading: Red Crosses by Sasha Filipenko 📚

Finished reading: Red Plenty by Francis Spufford 📚