ADDRESSING THE ISSUE

 Richard has been putting up images of guys in skirts on his last two posts:

Maybe this is a response to Robert's transgender and cross-dressing posts.

He should use this store video camera shot of him shopping at the Wainuiomata Countdown:

SATURDAY MORNING

 It's a lovely day today - cool at 15 degrees but bluE-skied with sun.

I went for a gentle stroll around the bay. This is the flat bit with no hill or bush tracks. I'll be doing some digging and paving stone laying today so thought I'd take it easy on the walk.

I stopped at the Settler's church at the end of our road and peeked in the window.

I couldn't see any sign of god but she might have been out fishing.

After all she's pulling a double shift tomorrow as you can see by the sign:

SOME PRETTY GOOD NEWS

 Thanks to the other blog writers in this community we (the Curmudgeons Inc.ⓒ) have created two new Curmudgeons.

The Lazy Curmudgeon: THE LAZY CURMUDGEON was sponsored by Richard of Richard's Bass Bag. Thanks to that guy - one of my favourites. The cheque is in the mail (or, was it I promise not to come in your mouth or I'll still love you in the morning?).

The Inconstant Curmudgeon: THE INCONSTANT CURMUDGEON was sponsored by Robert of ROB (don't ask) and we'll have to wait and see if thanks is necessary.

Stay tuned folks because, who knows, there could be some great posts to come under these banners.

SCAMMERS, LIARS AND OUTRIGHT BASTARDS!

 No, I'm not talking about the other blog members - I'll save that for another post.

I'm referring to the fact that yesterday two different people turned up at my house with cars and trailers to collect furniture that they had 'bought' on Facebook Marketplace. One woman had driven, towing a horse float, from miles away.

I told the first person that she must have been duped unless she had got the address wrong but when another turned up later it was obvious that this is a shyster who is fleecing them for money and providing a bogus address. The second one said that she thought it was a really good deal! I wish that I'd got more details from her but I had dinner cooking on the stove so didn't have time.

I posted the following on Facebook's Neighbourly after dinner:

WARNING SCAM ARTIST 'SELLING' COUCHES
Twice today I've had innocent and duped people turning up to my house to collect couches that they thought they had bought via Marketplace on Facebook. The B*st*** who 'sold' them the non-existent furniture, for some reason used my street address.
Beware!
I think the price asked (and got in one case) was $350 - "A bargain" one woman said. As the bank fraud people say - "If it sounds too good to be true - it isn't".
I've looked up Marketplace on Facebook to put an alert on but there are so many variants I don't know which one is the right one. Hopefully the duped people can do this and get the P***k stopped.

It's so annoying that prick bastards abuse useful sites like Neighbourly and Marketplace. I would never buy from these myself and certainly would never process a payment before seeing or picking up the goods. They don't have the guarantees that Trade Me have. 

ANAZAC DAY 2024

It's a national day of remembrance naturally, but with me it's always a personal day where I remember my dad and uncles, aunts, grand parents, great uncles and great aunts who served in the two world wars.

Dad served in Greece, Crete, North Africa and Italy from 1939 to 1945 in The Divisional Cavalry operating out of light tanks, bren-carriers and Staghounds.

I used to accompany Dad to Dawn Parades in Wellington - just me as my siblings were too lazy to get out of bed that early.

Keeping an eye out for snipers

This afternoon I'll go to the local club for the 2PM service. It's OK, not as evocative and haunting as the Dawn Parades I remember but there will be a piper and a bugler (not some guy playing a nose trumpet like you saw on Robert's blog).

I'll have a coffee laced with rum and maybe an ANZAC biscuit or two,

Yep, I'll remember them - or some of them.

NEW POST - THE HAPPY CURMUDGEON

 

GOING...GOING ...

NEW POST - THE DARKER CURMUDGEON

 The Darker Curmudgeon has a new post.

It has disturbing content so - proceed with care.

STRANGER THAN FICTION

FANCIES

 The previous post on blogging stats was very successful and I'm really pleased.

The success is not in the number of comments received though as so far there have only been four. No, I measure success in the joy I brought to one old blogger who was chuffed to be congratulated on his blogging frequency and to  have been awarded a bronze medal.

You're welcome old blogging guy, enjoy!

If you can bring a little bit of joy to an elderly person from time to time then there's a place in heaven for you if such a place existed.

I kind of borrowed and paraphrased that from Robert's 'ROB' blog:

I wonder if he'll put a good word in for me to the Vatican at the next round of saint selection? I'd fancy that.

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Moving on but talking about fancy - here's a photo taken in Whangarei Heads yesterday (not by me) of a poseur (not me):

We have lots of interesting birdlife here and it's always a treat to see them.

Here's another poseur, this one from the 1970s:

I didn't dress like this myself, preferring the denim and cowboy shirt look but I do remember that Richard sported red velvet trousers and a vinyl jacket at uni. Maybe he still has duds like these that he wants to tell us about?

IT'S STATS TIME OF YEAR

The big news in the blog community is that Robert has changed the theme and layout of his blog!

Not only that but the observant reader will notice that the name he uses has been shortened by about fifteen descriptors to read just 'ROB'. This is a significant improvement.

In the new layout Rob, sorry, Robert has included an archive list. This is right up there with advancements like Princess phones in the 1960s, Ford having other car colour choices in the 1940s and The Gear Meat Company moving out of Petone in the 1980s. This archive list is very telling and shows that Robert has increased the frequency of posting exponentially over the last 23 months. Anyone brave enough to access his blog will also notice that his posts are longer and more detailed and are accompanied by pictures that sometimes have relevance to the content.

The archive shows a total of 488 posts since June 2022 an average of 21 posts a month!

As a comparison The Curmudgeon's blog archive shows 993 posts during the same period - an average of 43 posts per month.

Richard's Bass Bag archive is hard to read due to, I suspect, the deliberate use of unreadable colours in the numbers to obfuscate the results - kind of like how a Mafioso accountant might cook the books.

I think that the average is about 12 posts a month but we'll be generous and say it's 15 making the total over 23 months 345 posts. This is still a notable achievement for one of advanced years who still has difficulties in mastering the reading, writing and posting functions on his phone and computer so a round of applause for him is appropriate:

Well done that man!

NEW POST - THE MUSIC CURMUDGEON

 

DIAMOND IN THE SMOOTH