Super early or forgotten signage spotted this week in Newmarket, corner of Great South Rd and St Marks Rd.
NZ suited to repel invaders
This question posed on quora.com - "Which country would be the most difficult to invade?" gets this response from Jon Mixon. "New Zealand. It's closest neighbour is Australia, which is 1340 miles [2156km] across a pretty turbulent body of water. It has no land neighbours and any nation looking to invade would have to bring all or most of the supplies that it needs with it as the logistics lines would be incredible. Both islands are exceptionally mountainous meaning that numerous ambush points can be established that would make land war very treacherous. Finally, capturing both islands and holding them without nearby bases to reinforce your troops there would make any such invasion and occupation extremely costly." (Source: quora.com)
Bible according to Kanye
After Kanye West released an album called Yeezus with a track titled I Am a God, some entrepreneur has printed a Bible that replaces all mentions of God with Kanye. The Book of Yeezus takes every instance of the words "God" and "Yahweh" and replaces them with "Kanye" and "Yeezus". It is meant to be an exploration of our obsession with celebrity, but the book's webpage admits it's also a "coffee-table novelty". (Source: Death & Taxes)
Pride in peacocks
Re: The history of the Papatoetoe peacocks. Lorraine writes: "'I live in the location of the peacocks. A male peacock has lived in the area for five years or more. He has been well received by a large number of neighbours in the area, which has some large open spaces and many large specimen trees. More than a year ago a neighbour bought a peahen for the male peacock and she had four peachicks, which she raised in our yard for about six months until they could roost in trees. They still visit occasionally. We and our neighbours have enjoyed their company and put up with the associated mess they leave. It is very rare to have wild birds in the city. The peahen disappeared. The peachicks have reduced to three, one lost, having been seen being "captured" by someone in the area. I suggest that the reader who complained about them learns more tolerance to the wildlife that we have in our area and not to 'turn the hose on them' so readily."
