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MonkeyKing @monkeyking.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 15h

Home office refit underway. Trying to decide whether to use the ceiling hexagon tiles for wargames or Traveller subsector maps.

White room ceiling partially covered in panels of wooden hexagon tiles.

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MonkeyKing @monkeyking.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Worst Duke of Wellington statue ever.

Pōhutukawa tree with an orange traffic cone in cleft.

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MonkeyKing @monkeyking.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

I think KMart has formed an opinion on the prospects of Manchester City's appeal succeeding.

Close-up of badge and price tag on a Manchester City sweatshirt. Price tag show price reduced from $45 to $25.

MonkeyKing @monkeyking.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

We now possess the Dishwasher of Omega (sadly, Rassilon model not available). Soon, we will be Master of Time and Space (Saving)!

Big brown cardboard box with Omega name and label and white dishwasher label, on flatbed trolley in car park.

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MonkeyKing @monkeyking.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Done my planning for this year's Porirua Choctoberfest. Got 3 weekends for the desserts. Mapping the outlets and grouping by ones that don't do takeaways vs those that do, looks like I can cover them all in 4 trips across the 6 days, comprising 1 (one with 2) eat-in and 3-4 takeaways for later […]

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MonkeyKing @monkeyking.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

#JukeboxFridayNight #AWiderWorld Discovered this on the Rough Guide to the Music of China CD and had been something of an anthem of rebellion around the Tiananmen Square protests. 崔健 - 一無所有 / Cui Jian - Nothing to My Name www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7uk0-vlpP0

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MonkeyKing @monkeyking.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

#JukeboxFridayNight #AWiderWorld There's a bar/restaurant in Helsinki called Zetor, named after the Czech tractors. One of my favourite places when working there, they played a lot of Finnish music which, of course, I understood none of (bar the Finnish Country & Western covers) but I still […]

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MonkeyKing @monkeyking.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

And thus do we mark the passing of the seasons.

Booklet for Porirua Choctoberfest 2026.

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MonkeyKing @monkeyking.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

From a few days ago - when we got home, @smitty spotted a thrush enthusiastically whacking a snail against the pavement.

Thrush with snail in its beak.

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MonkeyKing @monkeyking.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

Anyone have any recommendations (positive or negative) for 45cm wide (i.e., slimline) dishwashers?

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MonkeyKing @monkeyking.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

From Twitter: Dublin Airport - "Good news for Man City fans in Ireland: we offer direct flights to Luton, Birmingham, Bristol, Bradford and Cardiff"

Screengrab of Dublin Airport Twitter post saying "Good news for Man City fans in Ireland: we offer direct flights to Luton, Birmingham, Bristol, Bradford and Cardiff" with photo of gate 115.

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MonkeyKing @monkeyking.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Because I just don't have enough pain and despair in my life...

Wellington Phoenix season pass and lanyard on top of 20th season/member 2026/27 scarf.

MonkeyKing @monkeyking.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

#JukeboxFridayNight #Dirty Bruce Springsteen - This Hard Land Hey there, mister Can you tell me what happened to the seeds I've sown? Can you gimme a reason, sir As to why they've never grown? They've just blown around from town to town 'Til they're back out on to these fields Yeah, where they […]

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MonkeyKing @monkeyking.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

#JukeboxFridayNight #Dirty Bruce Springsteen - Devils and Dust I got my finger on the trigger But I don't know who to trust When I look into your eyes There's just devils and dust We're a long, long way from home, Bobbie Home's a long, long way from us I feel a dirty wind blowing Devils and […]

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MonkeyKing @monkeyking.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

#JukeboxFridayNight #Dirty Gaz Brookfield - Sand and Sea www.youtube.com/watch?v=vI8ITOKELTk

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MonkeyKing @monkeyking.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

#JukeboxFridayNight #Dirty Belinda Carlisle - Circle In The Sand Circle in the sand, round and round Never ending love is what we've found And you complete the heart of me Our love is all we need Circle in the sand (circle in the sand) Circle in the sand (circle in the sand) […]

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MonkeyKing @monkeyking.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

#JukeboxFridayNight #Dirty Belinda Carlisle - Heaven Is A Place On Earth Ooh, baby, do you know what that's worth? Ooh, Heaven is a place on Earth They say in Heaven, love comes first We'll make Heaven a place on Earth Ooh, Heaven is a place on Earth www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2F4INQFjEI

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MonkeyKing @monkeyking.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

#JukeboxFridayNight #Dirty Bonnie Tyler - Loving You's a Dirty Job (But Somebody's Gotta Do It) I can't explain it away, it doesn't make any sense To know what it's like, I guess you gotta go through it I guess you gotta go through it, I guess you gotta go through it It doesn't matter, baby […]

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MonkeyKing @monkeyking.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

#JukeboxFridayNight #Dirty Saw these guys just the once, supporting Bryan Adams at Wembley Stadium, I think... Thunder – Dirty Love I don't need your dirty love I don't want you touching me I don't want your dirty love It's enough, trying to live with the memory […]

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MonkeyKing @monkeyking.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

Got to the stage of Half-Life: Alyx where you now have access to grenades and they are surprisingly plentiful, unlike other ammo but you have very limited inventory space (2 slots+2 hands, to be shared with healing kits and weapons). Have now discovered I can carry the grenades and other stuff […]

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MonkeyKing @monkeyking.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

OK, looking for suitably geeky name suggestions for a dedicated VR headset wireless network - something more imaginative than Matrix or Holodeck or Oasis.

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MonkeyKing @monkeyking.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

Been a bit of a low key Birthday this year, failed to organize anything major due to work business but, found the obligatory Birthday geocache and finally set up that PrismVR Puppis S1 VR router so Half-Life: Alyx is looking very good indeed. Now at Kai Tahi for dinner from the new branch of […]

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MonkeyKing @monkeyking.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

#JukeboxFridayNight #PersonalPlaylist Wouldn't exactly say it's a favourite but I suspect I spent enough time listening to this while in the phone queue it warrants an entry! Warning - still not great despite (because of?) being autotuned to within an inch of its life! Immigration New Zealand […]

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MonkeyKing @monkeyking.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

#JukeboxFridayNight #PersonalPlaylist Frank Turner - Get Better So try and get better and don't ever accept less. Take a plain black marker and write this on your chest: Draw a line underneath all of this unhappiness, Come on now let's fix this mess. We can get better, because we're not dead […]

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MonkeyKing @monkeyking.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

#JukeboxFridayNight #PersonalPlaylist For a guy who's 14 years younger than me, Frank Turner doesn't half write a lot of songs that seem to speak to my stage in life! Frank Turner - Polaroid Picture But in the stillness of the moment it takes for a polaroid picture To capture our faces […]

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MonkeyKing @monkeyking.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

#JukeboxFridayNight #PersonalPlaylist I have often described Babylon 5 as my One True Love, fandom-wise and this particular early music video is one I always closely associate with those heady days of early online 90s fandom. Have to admit, I'd be hard pushed to name another song by this band! […]

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MonkeyKing @monkeyking.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

#JukeboxFridayNight #PersonalPlaylist Back to that question of 'What song would you like when you walk onto a stage?' - this would have to be another candidate, just for the opening guitar rifss! Iron Maiden -- Phantom of the Opera www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5jaRipA5_M

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MonkeyKing @monkeyking.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

#JukeboxFridayNight #PersonalPlaylist China Beach was the first TV series to really bring home to me the passage of time and the inevitability of change, especially its fourth and final season where episodes cut back and forth between the characters' time in Vietnam and back in the US in the […]

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MonkeyKing @monkeyking.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

#JukeboxFridayNight #PersonalPlaylist This is one that gets me through stressful, high workload times. Rush - Marathon From first to last The peak is never passed Something always fires the light That gets in your eyes One moment's high And glory rolls on by Like a streak of lightning That […]

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MonkeyKing @monkeyking.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

#JukeboxFridayNight #PersonalPlaylist The London 2012 Olympics opening ceremony was probably the last I felt really optimistic about the future of the UK as it depicted a country proud of its past and achievements but also realistic about them and its place in the world and that was also the […]

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MonkeyKing @monkeyking.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

#JukeboxFridayNight #PersonalPlaylist I prefer Dolly Parton's version but this was the version playing on the radio just after someone very dear to me let me down gently but unambiguously. Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You I hope life treats you kind And I hope you have all you've […]

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MonkeyKing @monkeyking.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

#JukeboxFridayNight #PersonalPlaylist Still on the subject of the Arsenal's role in my life, this song wasn't adopted as an anthem till after we left London but does it ever get straight to the heart (well, the chorus anyway). Still trying not to take it too personally that their great […]

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MonkeyKing @monkeyking.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

#JukeboxFridayNight #PersonalPlaylist From a time when being an Arsenal fan was emotionally a lot harder. This would be my go to song after another of their occasional more abject performances, along with quoting Lt Colonel John Paul Vann after the Battle of Ap Bac and posts of wanting the […]

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MonkeyKing @monkeyking.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

#JukeboxFridayNight #PersonalPlaylist One of the songs that got me through my first breakup. On the bright side, nothing else has ever felt that bad! Big Country - Alone It's not my life in those old pictures The ones you threw away For I was always someone else And always far away Walking in […]

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MonkeyKing @monkeyking.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

#JukeboxFridayNight #PersonalPlaylist Can we have retrospective personal playlist songs? This didn't come out till we left London for Wellington but that was probably just as well as Frank Turner was our last London gig and this song would have wrecked us, with departure imminent. Frank Turner […]

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MonkeyKing @monkeyking.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

#JukeboxFridayNight #PersonalPlaylist And now a rather sweary song about commuter life in London and my introduction to the Amateur Transplants. Amateur Transplants - London Underground Song www.youtube.com/watch?v=KplTcCK2h9Y

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MonkeyKing @monkeyking.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

#JukeboxFridayNight #PersonalPlaylist Thinking about @Kay 's original post - 'What song would you like when you walk onto a stage?' - This would have to be a strong candidate: The theme song from the Once Upon A Time In China films - "A Man Should Be Better" or "A Man Should Be Self-Reliant" […]

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MonkeyKing @monkeyking.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

#JukeboxFridayNight #PersonalPlaylist As with my previous song, one of those songs which has become more relevant to me with time. Rush - Time Stand Still Time stand still I'm not looking back But I want to look around me now Time stands still See more of the people And the places that […]

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MonkeyKing @monkeyking.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

#JukeboxFridayNight #PersonalPlaylist Hmm... interesting theme. These days, most relevant is probably this one or the one that follows, especially on the eve of my Birthday! Bon Jovi - Just Older I like the bed I'm sleeping in It's just like me, it's broken in It's not old -- just older Like […]

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MonkeyKing @monkeyking.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

I'm clearly moving up in the world: YouTube is serving me Bentley ads.

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MonkeyKing @monkeyking.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

Went to the Wellington Brick Show at Te Rauparaha Arena yesterday.

Lego Space Shuttle.

Lego AT-AT.

Lego blue penguin.

Lego flying ship.

MonkeyKing @monkeyking.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

So, just as my left knee seems to be just about back to normal, slipped on a grassy slope and may have now knackered my right knee (hopefully less seriously). And to think I was laughing last night at Roy Kent doing his knee while jumping to House of Pain's Jump Around in the latest episode of […]

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MonkeyKing @monkeyking.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

Went down to the Old Bailey for a 7am Sunderland-Arsenal kickoff. Good game and result. We then decided to stay on for the All Blacks-South Africa game. Oh well...

MonkeyKing @monkeyking.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

Did the glow worm tour at the Botanic Gardens last night. Needless to say, they don't photograph terribly well but we did notice that a Bee In The City entry ahead of it starting on Monday. Must find out where the one my employer sponsored will be!

Giant black and yellow bee statue on a yellow rock on a plinth in the botanic gardens.

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MonkeyKing @monkeyking.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

#JukeboxFridayNight #History Finishing up tonight with a 1980s song about the Nore mutiny in the 19th century Royal Navy with references to the Jacobeans, William Pitt, Thomas Paine and Edmund Burke! The Men They Couldn't Hang - The Colours I am a member of the council of the naval mutiny And […]

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MonkeyKing @monkeyking.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

#JukeboxFridayNight #History Occurred to me that Springsteen's career has spanned the Vietnam and Iraq wars. Bruce Springsteen - Devils and Dust I got my finger on the trigger But I don't know who to trust When I look into your eyes There's just devils and dust We're a long, long way from […]

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That Other Place @that-other-place.mementomori.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

This week's #JukeboxFridayNight theme is #history. In 1959. Johnny Horton had a number one hit US pop hit with his version of Jimmy Driftwood's "The Battle of New Orleans", depicting a battle that was fought between the American and British troops on January 8, 1815: Johnny Horton: The Battle […]

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MonkeyKing @monkeyking.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

#JukeboxFridayNight #History Iron Maiden do Charge of the Light Brigade Iron Maiden - The Trooper You'll take my life, but I'll take yours too You'll fire your musket, but I'll run you through So when you're waiting for the next attack You'd better stand, there's no turning back The bugle […]

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MonkeyKing @monkeyking.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

#JukeboxFridayNight #History Country Joe & The Fish - Vietnam Song Well, come on all of you, big strong men Uncle Sam needs your help again Yeah, he's got himself in a terrible jam Way down yonder in Vietnam So put down your books and pick up a gun Gonna have a whole lotta fun And it's one […]

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MonkeyKing @monkeyking.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

#JukeboxFridayNight #History Worth a post just for the lines And got let down again by some poor excuse for protest - By idiot ****** hippies in fifty different factions Who are locked inside some kind of Sixties battle re-enactment. and So come on old friends to the streets Let's be 1905 […]

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