Welcome to today’s daily kōrero!

Anyone can make the thread, first in first served. If you are here on a day and there’s no daily thread, feel free to create it!

Anyway, it’s just a chance to talk about your day, what you have planned, what you have done, etc.

So, how’s it going?

  • @DaveOPMA
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    25 months ago

    Oh wow, I was expecting it to all happen a lot earlier than that! It seems tomatoes were in the UK in the 1500s but didn’t become popular until the 1800s!

    • @eagleeyedtiger
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      5 months ago

      I’m guessing the varieties back then didn’t grow too well in the UK climate and would have been hard to get fresh imported tomatoes on slow ships

      • @DaveOPMA
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        25 months ago

        I’m sure there’s a climate change joke in there somewhere.

        • @eagleeyedtiger
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          25 months ago

          I know climate change is definitely bad… but if I could grow tropical fruit in my backyard year round it would be pretty sweet

          • @DaveOPMA
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            25 months ago

            I think the obvious answer here is move to the tropics!

            • @eagleeyedtiger
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              25 months ago

              If only I could, probably have to wait until the kids are grown. But by then the tropics might have moved here!

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                5 months ago

                My Auntie and Uncle spent 2 years living and working in Malaysia when their kids were about 5ish and 8ish. Awesome experience for adults and kids alike, and also for their young adult nephew (me) who went to visit them as well! Kids attended an Australian school in Malaysia following the Australian curriculum.

                • @eagleeyedtiger
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                  5 months ago

                  We lived in Bangkok for a couple of years before we had kids, we sort of came back here because we didn’t want to raise kids over there. Honestly, thinking about it the hot season there was pretty unbearable, and this was about 10 years ago. It was a big city though, hardly any trees in built up areas made it stifling.

                  I do fantasize about living on a tropical island near beaches, waves and coconut trees. Don’t think we’ll ever be able to afford that though.

                  • @DaveOPMA
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                    25 months ago

                    Don’t give up! Price it up, see how many of your kids you need to be doctors! Well, doctors don’t make that much actually. You need a CEO or two I think, of large companies.

                    I joke, but it’s a real thing where people save up heaps of money then move to a tropical country where the cost of living is low to retire early. A subset of the FIRE movement.