Orange is not a colour, it's a state of mind

It’s a roller coaster – share price has gone from 0.67 to 1.13 in a week!

Hmmm, not sure if change in season, end of financial year, big work milestone met, cold day or what but I feel ready to scream and stamp my foot in manner of stubborn ewe. Work isn’t particularly stressful so not sure what it is. Might need a break.

Struth, I know the weather guy on 3 is trying to be hip cool but really, what kind of English is “…there ain’t a lot of change …” and “…getter gooder…” Definitely not cool.

Mmm, mmmm. Homemade popcorn all good. Even with nothing on it but melted unsalted butter. Just had our first popping experience. Will put less corn in the pot next time.

It’s another lovely blue day in Wellington today, just how I like it, looks warm but when you go outside there’s a very slight autumn coolness in the air.

Had a long wander through town and around the harbour yesterday.

Saw a very orange bus and trailer.

And took an arty photo of the ivy up the side of the Museum Hotel. Soon it will be full coppery autumn colours.

Hmm, Earth Hour was a bit of a fizzer in central Wellington last night. We lit our candles and turned out the lights, then looked out the window waiting for lights to go out on the hills. None that you’d notice.

We’re going to do the lights out thing tomorrow night 8.30 – 9.30 for Earth Hour. Will be interesting to look out the window and see if the city is any less lit than usual. Probably not seeing as it’s mostly commercial.

Am now armed with knowledge of foods low in sodium. More bad news. No more date scones. Baking powder and baking soda are bad. Very bad. And there’s 3 heaped teaspoons of baking powder in the 6 date scones we make each week. And in fact lots of home baking is out. Poor Mister. So we’ve got the bread maker out of the bottom of the pantry and we’re going to attempt homemade hot cross buns instead.

And I just had a pre-dinner snack of plain corn chips. I’m not much of a fan of corn chips anyway and the plain ones were very unsatisfying. It’s only been a day of trying to cut down salt and I’m craving already. And I thought I had a fairly low salt diet in the first place.

Got stuck in a queue in the Mt Vic tunnel this afternoon and when we got out on the city side we saw that a nose-to-tail accident was causing a bit of delay. A rather well-loved white Subaru was parked up on the footpath and the Mister reported that the front was definitely dinged – no other cars in site so probably wasn’t that bad except for the rather large number of police and an ambulance that were in attendance. And then we drove by the entrance to the high school a little further down and 2 cars were parked in there with police all around – it’d been a 3-car concertina and one of them was a beautiful new black Porsche 911 Carrera. My God. From the whip-around glimpse I got the guy looked horrified. The guy in the white car on the footpath looked ruined. Imagine ramming the back of a Porsche. Not long after when we came out of Moore Wilsons, what did we see parked 2 cars down from us. The Porsche. They guy and his ballerina daughter had just got out of the car. The guy looked back at the damage and they walked off into the shop – he looked sick. We hung back and surveyed the damaged. The spoiler was in-tact and the boot was still able to shut but it was totally banged in. With white paint all over the place. Yikes. Watch your following distance.

Just went to the Geonet site to find out the magnitude of a small quake we felt during breakfast this morning only to discover that we felt the 7.7 (yikes!) quake from the undersea volcano erupting in Tonga at the moment. Stuff.co.nz is reporting that New Zealand is on a tsunami alert – *if* it comes it will get to Fiji around 10am and then here next I guess. Wonder if I should go home and pack.