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?
$18 postage to have some bourbon aged coffee shipped to me, bought it last weekend and it still hasn’t arrived… I didn’t realise the aging happened during transit.
It really bugs me when shipping is expensive but slower than normal. If you’re charging more it should be faster.
The worst part is I don’t even have a tracking number.
Do you know if they’ve sent it yet? If it was me I’d follow up with them by now.
Yeah I got an automated email on Sunday to say it had been shipped, but no tracking number. I’ll email and see what’s up.
Edit: They replied almost instantly, they have an email chain with PosteHaste (come on, if you’re charging $18 at least use NZ Post). It seems it’s been sitting in Christchurch all week, no updates in the tracking since Monday.
Oof Post Haste is usually terrible for me, good luck
I’m cold. /whinge
I am so toasty warm, sitting in a small room with a heater cranked up. Anyone who tells you NZ homes are cold clearly hasn’t tried the power bill explosion technique. Highly recommended.
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Oh I just take off my jersey when it gets too warm 😆
Does anyone know where I can find historical (“historical” like 1990-95ish) pictures of Auckland? I’m specifically looking for pictures of the playground in Maraetai that I played on as a kid.
There was reported the ‘tallest playground tower’ in south Auckland, but I’m sure the wooden tower in Maraetai with the fireman’s pole was like, 6 stories or more.
There was reported the ‘tallest playground tower’ in the south island
It’s actually in South Auckland, if you’re referring to the one you linked.
I’ve tried and failed to find any photos of a Maraetai playground that aren’t current. 6 stories sounds huge! Though it really depends on the height of the stories, because I’ve been in some playgrounds that have multiple stories and as a parent there’s often not a lot of head room. The one you linked is a little over 12 metres tall, so a 6 story playground would probably still end up shorter since that’s 2m per floor. This is assuming the floors were structured like an office building, which they probably weren’t 😆
The photos in the article aren’t great, but it does seem a lot of the top of this one is just for show, you can’t actually climb until you’re 12M off the ground.
Woops, fixed it.
I remember it being crazy tall but then I was like 7 years old so, who knows.
Thanks for checking!
Hey don’t get me wrong, even if it’s only 10 metres tall, that is huge! One of the local playgrounds here has a tower up to a slide (not unlike the one in the article, though less fancy), and that’s probably only 5 meters tall, but it still looks huge. If I was up at the top of the 12m tall one in the article, it would probably give me vertigo!
I know safety standards were lax back then, but 6 stories would be like 20 meters wouldn’t it? Even back then they would think twice for a kids playground at that height.
Playgrounds don’t need to have head space for adults, and don’t need to have space between floors for wires, pipes, etc. So I’d think a maximum of 2m high for a floor, and probably less.
True. Still 12 or more meters is still pretty high for kids!
Agreed! That’s massive!
I’ve been having a bit of a shit time with my back the last couple of weeks but it’s finally coming right. Didn’t realise how much of an effect it was having on my mood but I feel a lot better now 😄
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Yeah it’s been a bit shit. Worked out I just can’t sit at my desk for any length of time so have been using a standing desk for the last couple of days and it’s really helping. Plus the exercises the physio gave me are good too. Hoping to ease back into the gym routine, I miss lifting weights.
Glad to hear it! Plus it’s Friday, I’m sure that helps the mood.
Fuck yeah Friday, plus I told my asshole boss to stick it up his ass and left work at midday. The best part about being self-employed (ish, it’s a small worker’s cooperative).
Are you your asshole boss?
Edit: awww man, can’t get GIPHY links to work in my Lemmy client.
That plays at like 20x speed for me in Memmy 😂
That sounds exciting since it seems to only be half a second long to start with!
