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In my district we only have two towns that make the grade. 50%+ of the population miss out.
Yikes! Ugly. Whereabouts?
Central Hawke's Bay. Very small and rural population.
I'd like to know if we are on the cabinetisation plan but I'm sitting in a hotel room in New Plymouth using Telecom's mobile broadband and the download is very slow and keeps stalling around 13%.
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Yes, you could well be right there. We were sent out the expectations for the Tasman District which included most of our smaller settlements but not all.
In my district we only have two towns that make the grade. 50%+ of the population miss out.
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They've mentioned communities of 500+ inhabitants will be included. Little ole Brightwater where I live isn't large but is definitely on the list for the Tasman rollout.
I think they are talking more about communities with either 500+ households or 500+ lines (I cannot recall which), neither of which are the same as communities with 500+ inhabitants.
Interestingly, I found out he was a C++ programmer. Whodathunk ?
Interesting indeed and he apparently enjoys it a lot having once said that "cutting C++ code is better than sex".
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Birds are the worst things for them to catch, you'll be finding feathers for weeks.
When we moved into our current house the neighbour was breeding white doves. He had a dozen or more and they lived freely, roosting in the trees at the end of the property.
One day I was in our reading room (reading) and looked through the dining room into the kitchen and saw our cat with its head in the pantry. I called it and it pulled its head out with a mouthful of paper towels which I thought very odd, even for a cat.
It was actually a nicely peeled dove. The head, feet, wings and tail were there along with skin of the body holding it together. The cat dropped it and left.
Over the next month we found white dove bits and feathers all through the house. Even now, some 4 years later, we can move some object in an obscure part of the house (very large house) and find white feathers.
The neighbour moved out shortly thereafter, presumably to preserve his rapidly reducing dove population.
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You may be surprised by your cat's reaction when you get home. They often get miffed when the family goes away and can be quite stand offish when they come home again.
I knew one cat that would make a point of crapping on its owner's bed whenever they went away. I found this out when I was their house sitter a few times.