Is it payday today? If you have a few dollars spare, please consider supporting Ciara and help her get what her amazing cross-stitch is worth!

This gorgeous piece of handcrafted art deserves so many tips and would be a wonderful gift! Jump onto Ko-fi NOW, today, this week, to help someone who really needs it and get a chance at this beautiful cross-stitch!

Finally!!! I pushed through lots of pain to finish her. Really need to sell her quickly, & for as much $ as I can possibly get… definitely wanting at least $1500 as she’s very big. 78.5cm x 70cm. Please share widely, I would greatly appreciate the help. #CrossStitch #Kikorangi #nzpol

Great opportunity here! Please offer some support if you can. The cross-stitch is utterly gorgeous!

Thank you so much to my Sectre Santa!!! I appreciate your thoughtfulness with delicious treats for the humans and animals in my house! And fun hairties! #SecretSantaAoNZ

Yay! It's #SecretSantaAoNZ opening day!!! Here we go!

#SecretSantaAoNZ woohoo! My Secret Santa was very busy! Lots of little packages for me to look forward to on opening day!!! Thank you!!! So exciting 🎅🤶🧑‍🎄

Hmm, a good day would likely involve a delicious brekkie incl eggs, hash browns, maybe waffles; sunshine, time at the beach, playing with the puppy, hanging with my kid(s) and nieces & nephews, maybe some boardgames, no jobs that need doing and easy prep food for snacks! ##SecretSantaAoNZ

No allergies for me :) Am usually plant-based, and do almond or soy milk, but it's not strict or required. Still enjoy a regular cheddar cheese and milk in things like chocolate and ice-cream! #SecretSantaAoNZ

#SecretSantaAoNZ - jewellery! I don't wear a lot - mostly necklaces if I do. Do have my ears pierced and love some of the recent earrings shared on here, but just don't wear them often. Prefer silver to gold. Also have long hair - so hair ties or accessories are helpful!

Excited to be playing #SecretSantaAoNZ again! I don't post that often which means my likes and hints answers from the last season are only a few posts down my feed!

Just one more day to go!!! Would really appreciate any last minute donations - Every dollar helps unleash brighter futures for Rainbow and Takatāpui whānau— and means the world to me!!!! Thanks a paw-ful 🐾💖 www.sweatwithpride.com/fundraisers/...

Tato loved walking with his sister, Luna, today!!! Double the dogs for double the donations???? Every $ helps :) 🐾 🌈 www.sweatwithpride.com/fundraisers/... And if you make a donation of $10 or more between now and midnight Sunday, you go in the drawer for a $100 LSKD voucher! Win, win!

#Oct23strike #megastrike Just adding my voice in support of all those on strike today. We can have a functioning health system, and pay our public service workers decent wages - our govt is choosing not too. I support us making different choices and backing our people and communities.

The world does owe future generations a living. Anyone who believes otherwise should never be put in a position of power ever again.

Tato and I got in our first 3.5km walk just before the rain came down this morning! Challenging ourselves to walk 100km this October and raise $250 for Rainbow communities! Help us reach our goal! www.sweatwithpride.com/fundraisers/...

Use “I” statements please Winston. The tens of thousands of NZers who marched, the thousands and thousands more who see this genocide for what it is and who know recognising Palestine is an important symbol of solidarity, your decision does not represent us.

If you belong to an organisation with its own Zoom subscription, which manages access to Zoom apps at an organisational level, you may well need to be signed into zoom with your own private login to get the voting app.

I see there's some discussion around NZ media treating politics like sports (which I agree with) but I'm going to present a slightly alternate perspective that it's a kind of social dissociation. We talk about the "optics" or the "play" because it holds everything at a safe remove.

So cold this morning, and car so damp - I had to scrape ice off the inside of the windshield!! Brrrrrrrr

Spent most of the day installing a pergola and turning it into a catio - and now all the muscles I haven't used in months are complaining! Catio is super cute though and the kitties are happy 🐈‍⬛

Christchurch - RSB submission night tomorrow at Space Academy! #nzpol #bhn

Thank you #MWSecretSantaAoNZ!!!! This is adorable!!! I love it. Really appreciate the work that went into this, it's gorgeous and will look great on my wall.

#MWSecretSantaAoNZ gift has arrived! Exciting!! Being guarded by this ferocious dragon so I don't sneak an early peek! Sent my giftees prese yesterday, fingers crossed they like it!

This one's very important for EVERYONE - the RSB opens us up to an American hellscape with many unintended consequences. It's part of the Coalition agreement, and they passed the first stage through urgency. But this Select Committee process is arguably MORE important than the TPB. SUBMIT. #nzpol

Clean air in our schools is so important - let's help our kids stay healthy and stop getting sick all the time! our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/cl...

A possibly interesting fact about me - that might also help my Secret Santa - I have no sense of smell! Never have as far as I can tell :) So things like scented candles or perfumed things don't really do much for me! Can't smell yummy things - but also can't smell yuck things! #MWSecretSantaAoNZ

My favorite colour schemes are in the images below - pastel rainbows, and muted, dusty pinks and purples! Would love to decorate my house in the pastel rainbows like this! #mwsecretsantaaonz

Hmm, favorites- Lindt milk choc, Pavlova, fish and chips! Am mostly vegetarian. Dont really like anything too bitter or spicy.

We have 5 much loved pets in our little tiny house! Scruffy dog Tato who rules the roost, and 4 hefty indoor cats!

Hoping this will get me started on hints! Soo... Definitely sweet over salty, milk chocolate, non-alcoholic, and coffee over tea. Do not understand Salted Caramel- do not put salty in my sweet!! :)

#eqnz Decent wiggle here in Levin. Hopefully no more!

"Improving indoor air quality has been shown to reduce in-classroom transmission of COVID-19 by at least 80 per cent in schools."

Gorgeous piece - would make a lovely gift and help out someone who really needs it!

Well Santa has arrived at our local supermarket sothe Christmas countdown is on!

Heads up to those submitting on the Treaty Bill. Submissions that call people racist won't be accepted. New guidance from the Justice Committee states that the committee will not accept: -racist material, particularly overt racism and characterizing people as racist

Reminder! This is on tonight 🙌

Retweet if you’re a New Zealander and you think NZ trans women like me belong in women’s sports.

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,138,854! Not the earliest - but pretty early! Nearly a year ago now.

Can't be at the protest in Wellington today, but am in solidarity with the message. Toitu Te Tiriti. People before profits.

Delicious breakfast at home and donation made this morning #BlueSkyPinkbreakfast #KikorangiMāwheroKai, to fundraise.bcf.org.nz/fundraisers/..., supporting BCFNZ in their education. Thanks @thesewphist.bsky.social for organsing the virtual option!

Gorgeous skies in Levin/Taitoko, and loved the 'reveal' in the camera. Could see some red and pink with naked eye, but then got the full blast of colour from phone pics.

Something yellow from your gallery....

Feeling the sadness as friends post about all the adventures and possibilities for their turning 21yr olds, when my almost 21yr old's world is so small - chronic illness meaning they only occasionally leave the house, and can't have a big, exciting future ahead. Happy for others and what we do have

Show us your pet and what they're named after...

One smallish good boy waiting not so patiently for that ball to be thrown!

Exhausted from cleaning ash out of the flue, pipes and catalytic converter on the incinerator toilet, really hoping that fixes the 'knocking' sound and errors we were getting and it all works smoothly again!

Sisters dog was missing, searched the streets for a good 20 minutes, only to find out she was hiding under the deck (where we had looked, but not well enough apparently!). Panic averted!