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KEN RING: WEATHER BY THE MOON AUCKLAND WEATHER DIARY, FEBRUARY 2021 February is much drier than normal, with rain only in the first week. Temperatures will be a degree warmer than the average, with more sunshine. The first week brings rain each day, but the second, third and fourth weeks are mostly dry. The hottest day is around the 28th, and the coolest night is around the 9th. Atmospheric pressures should average about 1018mbs, with winds averaging southerly.
For gardeners, only the 25th and 26th are good days for sowing (waxing moon ascending). Pruning is best on 10th and 11th (waning moon descending). For longer shelf-life for crops, harvest at neap tide days on 6th and 21st.
For fishers, the highest kingtide may be 13th. The best fishing bitetimes in the east are at dusk on 10th - 14th, and 25th - 30th (and in the west around noon on those days). Chances are also good in the east for midday on the 3rd - 5th, and 18th - 20th, (and in the west around dusk on those days).
Allow 24 hour error for all forecasting. (KEN RING) PN For future weather for any date, and the 2021 NZ Weather Almanac, see www.predictweather.com.
@ LEYS LITTLE LIBRARY Kia ora koutou Ponsonby, Ngā mihi o te tau hou. Happy New Year and welcome to 2021. Many things seem to change these days, however, some things remain in place such as the February Pride Festival. We are delighted to again be hosting the PRIDE Poetry speakeasy with Samesame But Different. Join us at Grey Lynn Library on Wednesday 10 February 5pm-7pm. This is the sixth year of this successful, and very popular open mic poetry evening. This year’s special guest speaker is Courtney Sina Meredith, who is a poet, playwright, and fiction writer - the author of Tail of the Taniwha and Brown Girls in Bright Red Lipstick; her most recent book is The Adventures of Tupaia. On Thursday 11 February 6.30pm - 7.30pm also at Grey Lynn Library The Sisters Gay present... Your Loving Friend: a library event for Pride. Move over Brothers Grimm, Grey Lynn Library’s Sisters Gay present an after-hours story-time. Drawing on the long-standing public library tradition of storytelling for pre-schoolers, our Auckland Pride Festival event combines story, song and silliness – more for grown-ups, though all are welcome. The 2021 literary salon features ardent epistles and juicy journals by ladies (and the odd gent) of letters. Rediscover the lost and loving arts of correspondence, complete with curlicues. This will be the third annual Sisters Gay event, held in association with SameSame But Different, and Grey Lynn Library. February brings the return of our regular preschool programming with a slight schedule change. On Wednesdays starting 10 February
we will be hosting two sessions of Wriggle and Rhyme at the Ponsonby Baptist Church Hall (corner of Seymour Street and Jervois Road) 10am and 11am. Bring along your little one for some music, rhymes, bubbles and most importantly fun. Wriggle and Rhyme is targeted at little ones 0-2 years and their caregivers. However, older preschoolers are always welcome. We are thinking of potentially hosting some fun storytimes in our little library, so watch this space. Every summer between New Year’s resolutions and Waitangi Day I think to myself ‘I wish I knew more te reo’. I must admit I seldom manage to get further than this passing thought. However, thanks to Auckland Libraries my excuses for not pursuing this thought are getting fewer and fewer. With an Auckland Libraries card you (and I) can access an app called Lingogo which is a language learning app - So, with bilingual te reo stories to help you (and I) learn Te Reo Maori. if like me you said to yourself over summer ‘I would like to learn more te reo’, Auckland Libraries are here to help with Lingogo and numerous other resources to be found online or in your local (little) library. Please note that because Waitangi Day is a Saturday the library will be closed on both Saturday 6 February and Monday 8 February (Waitangi Day Observed). Hours: Monday - Friday 9am-6pm, Saturday 9am-4pm. PN Chloë – Community Library Manager, Leys Institute Little library, 14 Jervois Road, Ponsonby.
LEYS INSTITUTE LITTLE LIBRARY, Corner of Jervois road and Redmond Street, T: 09 377 0209, www.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz
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