Rita noticed the friendly banter going on between these two kea in front of the Sir Edmund Hillary Alpine Centre at Mt Cook.
Funny kids' Q and As
1. Listening to the Brooke Fraser song when it came out, summer of 2010/2011, with repetitive "something in the water" chorus, 3-year-old Adam asks and answers his own question: "What's in the water? Probably a fish."
2. After minor eye surgery, one eye was bandaged over for the day with a bandage patch. After staring at me intently for about two minutes without saying anything, my 5-year-old nephew asked: "But where is your pirate hat and your pirate pants?"
Addressing the issues
A reader writes: "An email from the Dean to all staff at the University of Auckland said this: 'It has been brought to my attention that the standard of internal envelope addressing has declined (etc etc)'. The staff are obviously far too busy generating new understandings of the world, solutions to world conflict, poverty, global warming, creating works of art, discovering cures for disease ... that sort of thing."
Little shark on the median barrier
Liz broke down in the middle of Spaghetti Junction and while waiting for the AA guy to rescue her, she spotted this little shark on the median barrier.
Well preserved at 101
Interview with 101-year-old Hattie Mae Macdonald. Wine is not the only drink that's good for you. Reporter: "Can you give us some health tips for reaching the age of 101?" Hattie: "For better digestion I drink beer. In the case of appetite loss I drink white wine. For low blood pressure I drink red wine. In the case of high blood pressure I drink scotch. And when I have a cold I drink schnapps." Reporter: "When do you drink water?" Hattie: "I've never been that sick."
Perfect spherical egg no yolk
A "perfectly spherical" chicken egg has sold for an 480 ($980) on internet auction website eBay. Kim Broughton found one of her hens - now renamed Ping Pong - had laid the round egg in her garden in Latchingdon, Essex, on February 17 - Pancake Day. She decided to auction the egg in aid of the Cystic Fibrosis Trust after a friend's son died from the disease. Ms Broughton, 44, said she imagined the buyer was interested in preserving, rather than eating, the unusual egg. The item, laid by a Buff Orpington hen - described as the "Scarlett Johansson of the chicken world" - attracted 64 bids, but the identity of the winner is not yet known. Ms Broughton said she had been tempted to cook and eat the egg before being told it was "one-in-a-billion". (Source: BBC.co.uk)
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