A weekend of storm anxiety?, yeah, nah

A big thing is made of storms and cyclones these days, they become a media event all by themselves, with the media constantly telling us ‘it’s the worse storm ever since records began’ and climate change is going to get us, yadda yadda.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/591735/damaging-potentially-life-threatening-cyclone-vaianu-increasingly-likely-to-hit-nz

https://www.1news.co.nz/2026/04/10/cyclone-vaianu-it-will-hit-hard-with-a-big-impact-on-nz/

Going hand in hand with that narrative is any phone constantly been sent OTT alarmist messages telling us to pack a bag and wait for something really bad to happen..

There’s a point when the boy cries wolf too often..

So we spent a stormy night, with my phone in the garage where it didn’t annoy us anymore, watching ‘Leave the world behind’ (a doomsday movie) on netflix as this seemed appropriate somehow.

The next day was wet without wind, which made it ideal for pulling out weeds and thistles, and other stuff around the house.

The Duck population explosion..

Back last August, we got 2 ducks and a drake, now 7 months later we have 29!

Were at the point of taking eggs away now, because they are slowly taking over the place and the food bills going up,  and in a dry summer, we could run out of good pasture (they eat clover, young grass, etc)

This means we are now moving on from raising ducks to eating them as well, which is quite a different mindset to have.

It helps that muscovies aren’t a duck you can grow fond of -they don’t like been handled at all, but will always follow you around for food.

So it’s also important to note we are rather impersonel with them -these aren’t pets and they don’t have names (apart from the original three)

BTW, duck orange is delicious.