You made it✅ Raining here but only lightly.

The broad beans didn’t enjoy the cold morning but as always they bounced back.

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I’m driving one of my cousins crazy by referring to the trump ticket as ‘Felon/Fake 2024’

Yes I see that and while STV can give a similar result, the effect of waiting a week after see how your fellow citizens have voted (maybe some buyer’s remorse) has some good points. Of course with all the polling we have now no election is quite as surprising as the good old days.

Do you know why it was dropped? Time for bit more research.

Who knew New Zealand briefly had a double ballot system similar to the French one. Certainly not me and I studied NZ constitution and universal suffrage. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_...

Second Ballot Act 1908 - Wikipedia

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Loved real French meals but this so true. The French beans were just a course, maybe crushed almonds on them, delicious. Liked the rule about hands always on display but the lack of side plates took some getting use too.

Exactly, I am married to a Taranaki woman, though she has been in the South for 49 years. Not that the local beaches are anything to talk about….plus dangerous.