Out to SLUNCH
Reader Fiona has come up with a new name for the late lunch, which might become the early supper. "SLUNCH incorporates: The slouch late lunch/supper you have while wandering about in your PJs at 3pm searching for leftovers you take back to eat in bed while lazily watching TV, finishing a book or planning to be fitter while kicking back to the tennis or cricket (can be adjusted to S'LUNCH for bleary eyed teenagers). The planned relaxed late lunch where friends come bringing a plate and also enough pre-prepared food to keep youngsters totally catered for when 5.30 comes and the 'help-I-need-to-feed-the-children' panic sets in. The common garden variety SLUNCH involves delicious food, too much wine, slurring and a cab home."
Two things you need to know today ...
Pac-Man was originally released in Japan as Puck Man, because he looks like a hockey puck. When the game was launched in the US it was changed to Pac-Man, for fear that people might vandalise the first letter of Puck Man
... And since the magnitude 7.8 earthquake in Kaikoura in 2016, the South Island has crept 35cm closer to the North Island.
