@MHReddell Michael, I always find this chart fascinating but struggle to understand the real reason why. Is it that our economy based around services etc rather than production. Like they say Auckland doesn’t actually produce much but busy serving coffee to office workers.
As Cat Stevens sung -
Morning has broken like the first morning
Blackbird has spoken like the first bird
Praise for the singing, praise for the morning
Praise for them springing fresh from the world
Wellington this morning
#photography#dawn#sunrise#wellington@MetService
@MHReddell “A burble-free speech from PM” reinforces my thinking that Luxon is becoming more robotic by the day….. and probably AI driven with Nicola’s help lol
@MHReddell “Survival” - NZ used to borrow to build the future. Now it borrows to maintain the present at best.
Seems borrowing increasingly feels less like a choice and more like a survival thing
A bit gloomy in the city this morning but a burst of sunlight highlighted the cranes down on the wharf
Taken Petone Beach looking into Wellington
#photography#light#weather#wellington@MetService
@kellyenz Might even go below 80. The mental well bearing of the population continues to fall. Talk of stagflation won’t help. This Consumer Confidence measure looking more like the Misery Index as time passes.
The sea-mist curls in a soft, white lace
Against the blue of the bay’s bright face
A ghostly hug on a golden day
Where the sunbeams and the shadows play
Lyall Bay, in its morning glow,
Watching the tide-lines ebb and flow;
While the fog drifts in, a silent guest