Category: Oops!

We Suffered a Whoops

Some alien little S.O.B. managed to beat the security on our site and install a nasty little bit of malicious code in the software for the Theme I built it on. As it was above my paygrade (and I was out of town and trying to cope with it on my phone screen) I had to SOS our providers to delouse it for me.

Which they did, but I have had to revert to an older theme to get things up and running again. I will eventually (after I get home from Wellywood) try and pretty it up again – but I sure as Hellers won’t be using the theme that had the buggar factor in it!

Otto’s and Manuel’s Image Expeariament

I took some photos on the way back home from lunch at Ruawai on May Day, wending from Arapohue to Tangiteroria. There was still quite a bit of flooding after three week’s of “Drought-breaking” rain.
Instead of loading them into a Gallery as per usual, I hunted out a Linux app that will produce slideshows and render them as a video. And I included the donor photos as well as the usual stitched panoramas.

Oh! Fragious joy! NOT!

First teach the elderly brain how to drive the app. Then teach it how to add subtitles in YouTube. Then add sound from a Creative Commons source. Anyhoo, anyhoo: several tries (MUCH) later…
(Oops. Click on the CC at the bottom of the YouTube player to show the subtitles…)

From Kitchen Malfunction Junction

Today was a hot one for Waitangi Day, and I thought that would ensure my sourdough would go gangbusters, just like my starter was at breakfast time. I mixed up my dough, put on the shower cap (¡on the mixing bowl, not my noggin!) and put the bowl out on the deck rail in the sunshine to proof. Without considering what the temperature was gonna get up to in the tiny glasshouse I had just created.

Sure ’nuff – when I took it inside to tip it onto a board to preform it ready for the banneton it had WAY over-proofed and turned to flour and pumpkin seed custard. ¡Buggar! Time to become Mr International Bread Rescue.

I threw some more flour onto the board and kneaded and floured and kneaded and floured until I had a born-again dough.
¡Hallelujah!
And I cut it up and patted it out to fit my biggest cast iron frypan, and yea, verily, I discovereth flat bread. Turned out half-way between naan and tortilla and was very nummy.

Mock tacos – 🌮🌮🌮🌮.

Rescue underway

Satisfied consumer having an, “Heft meer em!” moment.

Visit From A JAFA Rellie – Day 7

Today will be the last full day before we deport the visitor back to South of the Harbour Bridge. Jean was harassing everybody into the car because she wanted to get to the Library, so off we went. Then I had anticipated heading to Rawene for lunch at the Boat Shed, where the lunch menu isn’t available until midday. So we dawdled up through Okaihau, then down to Horeke and along for a stretch of legs at Mangungu Mission House.

Thence over Horeke – Taheke Road. The locals managed to “acquire” another wildfire (like they do on this road EVERY summer — Hmmm‽) So we expected Fire Service activity and just hoped the road was open – it was. Firies still around, and at least one helicopter and monsoon bucket working. Got through to SH12, turned right to the Taheke Bridge, round the corner from the marae. Ay! Caramba!