Suggestions for my antipodean New Year resolutions?

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I am pretty sure if the dawn of era civilisations had established themselves in the southern hemisphere, we would celebrate coming of New Year just about now. Indeed we have Matariki, the Māori tradition to mark the beginning of a new year here in Aotearoa New Zealand. According to Te Ara Online Encyclopaedia of New Zealand: …

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Eyewitnessing one cosmic event

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Unlike the much publicised Transit of Venus tomorrow, publicity about the partial lunar eclipse last night was scarce in media or Internet.

After missing out the annular solar eclipse event on 20 May, and with the hopeless weather forecast for the 6 June Transit of Venus, I had been hoping at least to catch this lunar eclipse.

We had a somewhat cloudy afternoon. And by evening, layers of clouds had rolled out over the sky. …

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Ultimate back-breaking day

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This is the second post about my back/neck breaking efforts on my section.

I had this thick ivy covered retaining wall, which I cleared last spring, another garden/section task after making raised garden bed.

The end result was again very satisfying. But I was also left with piles of debris. Some I moved to a part of back section where it could slowly decay and go back to earth. …

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