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Otaku-sempai
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Mar 27 2020, 1:11am
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Something still seems to be going on with the site.
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For one thing, right now I can't reach the homepage. And the forums look a bit odd at the moment.
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Starling
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Mar 27 2020, 4:12am
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This is the first time I have managed to reach the site today
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I wondered if it was on a Level 4 lockdown...
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Otaku-sempai
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Mar 27 2020, 4:16am
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TORn also seems to be functioning faster than I've seen it work in weeks.
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(This post was edited by Otaku-sempai on Mar 27 2020, 4:17am)
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Altaira
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Mar 27 2020, 3:52pm
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He upgraded the server! It gave him something to do to get him out of the house. 
Everything should be okay now, but if he has to tweak anything, the site could go down again temporarily.
Koru: Maori symbol representing a fern frond as it opens. The koru reaches towards the light, striving for perfection, encouraging new, positive beginnings.
"Life can't be all work and no TORn" -- jflower
"I take a moment to fervently hope that the camaradarie and just plain old fun I found at TORn will never end" -- LOTR_nutcase
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dernwyn
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Mar 27 2020, 3:55pm
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A little bit of refreshing and renewing is a nice thing! 
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"I desired dragons with a profound desire"
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Silverlode
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Mar 27 2020, 7:31pm
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Silverlode
Roads go ever ever on
Under cloud and under star
Yet feet that wandering have gone
Turn at last to home afar.
Eyes that fire and sword have seen
And horror in the halls of stone
Look at last on meadows green
And trees and hills they long have known.
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Lissuin
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Mar 27 2020, 7:39pm
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Corvar the Magnificent! Cheers, mate!
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This is amazing! We're back in the game! We're cookin' with gas! We've found some of that silver lining the song told us to look for! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOthCD8n0mA
It's so much fun to click on things this morning my head is spinning.
Thanks, guy! May your bandwidth always increase!
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Starling
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Mar 27 2020, 9:30pm
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Are you going to be littering this site
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with endless cute ruru pics for the next month?
Be my guest. 
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Lissuin
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Mar 27 2020, 10:08pm
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Cute ruru, and kittens and silly songs - and cabbage trees 'cause they're funny.
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You've been warned.
I was once in a staring contest with a ruru in broad daylight. She was on a tree branch at my eye level 20feet/6-ish metres away. I thought it was a young one because it was so small, but as Ataahua says, adults are small. We just looked at one another for a couple of minutes.
She won.
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Lissuin
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Mar 27 2020, 10:30pm
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And a tui just this moment hopped across the tree in front of my window!
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Just thought you'd like to know, Starling.
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Ataahua
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Mar 27 2020, 10:44pm
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I'd love to see a ruru in the wild
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but the little critters are well-camouflaged! Well done on spotting your one.
Celebrimbor: "Pretty rings..."
Dwarves: "Pretty rings..."
Men: "Pretty rings..."
Sauron: "Mine's better."
"Ah, how ironic, the addictive qualities of Sauron’s master weapon led to its own destruction. Which just goes to show, kids - if you want two small and noble souls to succeed on a mission of dire importance... send an evil-minded beggar with them too." - Gandalf's Diaries, final par, by Ufthak.
Fantasy novel - The Arcanist's Tattoo
My LOTR fan-fiction
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Starling
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Mar 27 2020, 10:55pm
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We see Little Owls in this part of the world sometimes, but that's about it.
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Starling
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Mar 27 2020, 10:57pm
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I'm such a tourist. The first thing I do is ask to go for a walk somewhere so I can see a tui. I wish we had them down here.
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Ataahua
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Mar 27 2020, 11:01pm
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I didn't know that tui weren't around your area.
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Does that have to do with habitat loss or winter temperatures being too low for them?
Celebrimbor: "Pretty rings..."
Dwarves: "Pretty rings..."
Men: "Pretty rings..."
Sauron: "Mine's better."
"Ah, how ironic, the addictive qualities of Sauron’s master weapon led to its own destruction. Which just goes to show, kids - if you want two small and noble souls to succeed on a mission of dire importance... send an evil-minded beggar with them too." - Gandalf's Diaries, final par, by Ufthak.
Fantasy novel - The Arcanist's Tattoo
My LOTR fan-fiction
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Lissuin
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Mar 27 2020, 11:20pm
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When you do get to make your visit there, the ruru sleep in the trees all along the people paths. They don't seem to be a bit disturbed by us non-feathered two-leggeds. Kapiti is a wonderland - a very quiet one now, I imagine, except for the chattering of fantails and the call of moreporks at night. http://nzbirdsonline.org.nz/...morepork#bird-sounds
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Starling
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Mar 27 2020, 11:40pm
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Tui are boisterous, medium-sized, common and widespread bird of forest and suburbia – unless you live in Canterbury.
Apparently because the area is too open for them - think Canterbury Plains. There have been attempts to get them established around Banks Peninsula, but I'm not sure how that is going.We don't have mynas either.
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Ataahua
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Mar 28 2020, 12:14am
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The ruru must have been hiding.
Celebrimbor: "Pretty rings..."
Dwarves: "Pretty rings..."
Men: "Pretty rings..."
Sauron: "Mine's better."
"Ah, how ironic, the addictive qualities of Sauron’s master weapon led to its own destruction. Which just goes to show, kids - if you want two small and noble souls to succeed on a mission of dire importance... send an evil-minded beggar with them too." - Gandalf's Diaries, final par, by Ufthak.
Fantasy novel - The Arcanist's Tattoo
My LOTR fan-fiction
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Ataahua
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Mar 28 2020, 12:15am
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We don't have mynas either.
Raucous bullies. The only bird I could happily do without.
Celebrimbor: "Pretty rings..."
Dwarves: "Pretty rings..."
Men: "Pretty rings..."
Sauron: "Mine's better."
"Ah, how ironic, the addictive qualities of Sauron’s master weapon led to its own destruction. Which just goes to show, kids - if you want two small and noble souls to succeed on a mission of dire importance... send an evil-minded beggar with them too." - Gandalf's Diaries, final par, by Ufthak.
Fantasy novel - The Arcanist's Tattoo
My LOTR fan-fiction
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Otaku-sempai
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Mar 28 2020, 12:25am
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Mynas sound a lot like blue jays.
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We don't have mynas either. Raucous bullies. The only bird I could happily do without.
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Kimi
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Mar 28 2020, 1:11am
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The tui largely keep them away
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Tui are a bit bigger and tougher. We have plenty of tui where they live, and while we occasionally see a mynah, they never hang around.
Magpies, on the other hand... :)
The Passing of Mistress Rose
My historical novels
Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
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Starling
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Mar 28 2020, 1:29am
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But then they are also on my 'tourist' list.
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Lissuin
Valinor
Apr 29 2020, 10:55am
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Starling, you had a visit from a tui recently in Mt Pleasant, I see.
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https://www.stuff.co.nz/...e-for-beer-and-chips
It did seem to cause a fair bit of excitement. The article says "there are now regular sightings in Akaroa and Little River."
There is always hope, eh?
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