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  A good 35+ years ago I was in a giant inter-school choir that sang in the Town Hall and I still remember many of the songs word for word and note for note (in some cases both melody and descant). One of them in particular, "The Mermaid", is one I got in the habit of singing to myself when particularly upset, in order to ward off tears. YouTube doesn't have the exact version we sang, but https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5iO0lddP9Y by the King's Singers comes closest -- we only...

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  _Full of Grace_ by Sarah McLachlan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVnCgoAKqeg "The winter here is cold and bitter It’s chilled us to the bone I havent seen the sun for weeks Too long, too far from home..." #JukeboxFridayNight #HotOrCold

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  It always confuses me when a right-wing party proposes an actual good law especially one that would ordinarily be associated with the left. So when I saw the RNZ article about National pledging reform of consent definitions I was all "Huh, what's up with that?" Part of what's up with that seemed to be that they were tying it in with their "victim's rights / tough on crime" rhetoric which always ends up actually bashing vulnerable groups disproportionately, but s...

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  Moon and Venus at sunset tonight. As always, celestial objects make themselves look smaller for the camera.

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  Never before seen leaves last long enough to grow lichen. #LichenSubscribe

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  Sweet dreams are made of geese Who am I to diss a beak The shareholders counted the golden eggs Everybody's looking for value Some of them want to goose you Some of them want to be goosed by you Some of them want to accrue you Some of them want to be a goose Number goes up Value goes up (Layin' eggs) Number goes up (Layin' eggs) Value goes up (Layin' eggs) Number goes up (Layin' eggs) Value goes up (Layin' eggs) Number goes up (Layin' eggs) Value goes up...

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  The responses to this utter plonker who reckons people issuing severe weather warnings should Think About The Lost Sales are a *lot* politer than I would have been, but are also very on point. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/weather/594002/new-zealanders-are-like-sheep-the-business-impact-of-weather-warnings

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  Looking for experiences of before/after with window insulating film - especially if you've used EcoLux 70 Solar Gard. The data rates pretty well compared to double-glazing especially for the price. I get it would cut incoming radiative heat in summer, and keep more warmth in in winter, and these are good. I'm more nervous about: * it would also obviously cut incoming radiative heat in winter, and my big bay window is *glorious* to sit in on a sunny winter morning so that would...