This picture was snapped on SH43, the Forgotten World Highway, heading east from Whangamomona to Taumarunui. The shovel-ready stage of a building project is where workers can be employed and construction can begin.
Sideswipe: November 19: Shovel-ready? Not on your spade
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Spool of salami
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Unfortunate incidences of insect eradication
Last week a man in Tucson, Arizona tried to kill a spider with blowtorch and accidentally burnt his parents house down. Reminiscent of the man in France who just months earlier accidentally blew up part of his home and injured himself while trying to swat an annoying fly with a guitar-shaped bug zapper that interrupted his dinner. The electricity reacted with a gas pocket from a leaking gas canister inside the home, according to French news outlet France Bleu. The fate of the housefly is still unknown.