So here we are again with the old boys in blue protecting their own and despite the pleas of the Minister how are we meant to trust our Police when the scum rises to the top! 🚨 www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Blue Light Disco 🪩 casts a long shadow www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

“The proclamation which you have just heard read by the Governor-General’s official secretary was countersigned ‘Malcolm Fraser’ who will undoubtedly go down in Australian history from Remembrance Day 1975 as Kerr’s cur.” — Gough Whitlam #TheDismissal50

As I was saying . . . when two tribes go to war! www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

21 years ago today The Unknown New Zealand Warrior was laid to rest at the National War Memorial in Wellington. So many memories of the years to this day and the people who made it happen, many of whom are no longer with us. The day itself I will never forget. www.nzonscreen.com/title/our-da...

Tomorrow will be the first Remembrance Day in over 30 years that I’ll be back home in Dunedin. #RemembranceDay

The RSA’s day in court against the RSA. Cue Frankie Goes to Hollywood ‘Two Tribes’ and it’s too cute that tomorrow is Armistice Day! #Poppycock #WhenTwoTribesGoToWar

For the first time in a decade for family reasons I’ll not be attending or leading the Armistice Service at the Auckland War Memorial Museum at 11am tomorrow. Remember it’s taking place this year at The Cenotaph due to maintenance in the Hall of Memories. www.aucklandmuseum.com/visit/whats-...

At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them. #RemembranceSunday

. My World War I Poem Inside each trench, the sound of prayer. Inside each prayer, the sound of digging. .

Waiwaiā waiata! Keala Settle representing Aotearoa and her Ngāti Rangitāne, Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāti Kahungunu whakapapa overnight at the Royal British Legion’s Festival of Remembrance @royalalberthall.bsky.social singing Pō Atarau / Now is the Hour. Ka maumahara tonu tātou ki a rātou. #Remembrance

Moe mai rā Lee Tamahori 🎥 www.nzonscreen.com/title/1990-c...

Watched Lee Tamahori’s Once Were Warriors on my OE and was absolutely floored as it delivered a one-two punch to my sense of identity: pride in the absolute brilliance of this film and shame that I had been blind to this story in Aotearoa. vimeo.com/66461262

Lee Tamahori 1950 – 2025

It’s Friday but too early to drink anyway? #TGIF

Back in the days of the old . . . This stained glass window is one of the few features left on the former Dunedin RSA building at the corner of Burlington Street & Moray Place. It was more than just a RSA it was a war memorial gifted by the citizens of Dunedin to the living in memory of the dead.

Miss 14 back in the blue dress for Tāmaki Makaurau to compete at the 39th Annual Aotearoa Māori Netball Tournament, Easter Weekend 2026. 💙 #poitarawhiti #netball

107 years ago today my great-great-great uncle Ewing Riddle was killed in action during the liberation of Le Quesnoy on 4 November 1918 and buried at Le Quesnoy Communal Cemetery Extension. One of four Riddle sons who served and two killed during the war. We will remember them. #LeQuesnoy 🇫🇷 🇳🇿

It’s always sunny in Dunedin. 😎 I’m meant to be in the garden but a later start as the Chief Gardener is having a well-earned sleep after a few days in hospital.

Coming home.

Ahead of my journey south Friday night drinks this week coming to you from the London Lounge, Royal Albert Tavern on the cnr of London/George Sts, Dunedin. For the first few months of Dad's life he lived directly across the road in a flat above the BNZ (Dunedin North Branch) where his dad worked. 🍻

For those who participate your consideration to 'Throw a party for Guy Fawkes or Halloween' like back in '71 in the Bay of Plenty! #PlentyGoinOn 🕺 #halloween 👻

'Fools' said I, 'You do not know Silence like a cancer grows Hear my words that I might teach you Take my arms that I might reach you' But my words like silent raindrops fell And echoed in the wells of silence. In the natural order of life going home to Dunedin tomorrow to support Dad (and Mum) x

Since 1886 and out! #Ancre #LeBeurre

“I like your man from New Zealand” but let’s remember Albo is Trump’s right-hand man and he is keeping him close — “I can smell the rare earth minerals on your breath”. #nzpol

Last Rounds at Papanui RSA on Sunday 8 November. Cheers for the memories. 🍻 www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

Save our literary heritage from demolition. #signed thebigidea.nz/stories/writ...

Message in a Bottle www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

20 sleeps until the centenary of the self-proclaimed "The Greatest Spectacle Ever Held in the Dominion!" This was no hype with 3.2 million visitors it remains the largest public event ever held in Aotearoa New Zealand. #TheBigShow 💯 #Dunedin #history

On this day 80 years ago the New Zealand Forces Club in Rome at the Hotel Quirinale Via Nazionale was still open as evidenced by these photos by 163937 Private Frederick Dennis Warbuton of a female singer and orchestra entertaining New Zealand soldiers on leave and seen in the dining room. 🇳🇿 🇮🇹

Hey, politician, leave them kids alone. newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/28/n...

Prunella Scales 1932 – 2025

'Tis the Season (don’t ask just cue Wham!) #PlayingTheLongGame #Xmas

My Dunedin great-grandmother Isabella Clarke at Yosemite Falls in 1936. Photo taken by her husband Geoff Clarke.

A day to unfurl the United Tribes Ensign selected a year earlier by W[h]akaputanga o Nu Tireni at Waitangi in 1834 — the first flag of Aotearoa New Zealand.

190 years ago today 34 Māori rangatira at Waitangi signed He W[h]akaputanga o te Rangatiratanga o Nu Tireni | The Declaration of Independence of the United Tribes of New Zealand on 28 October 1835. Rā Maumahara Day National Day of Commemoration! #RāMaumahara #Aotearoa #History

The Minister for Veterans' Affairs seems to be dragging his heels over new appointments to the Council of the Australian War Memorial. I've had a say about it at the invitation of the Canberra Times: www.defendingcountry.au/news/how-abo...

Tim Cook CM 1971 – 2025 A great loss to the military history community worldwide. Thoughts and aroha with his family in Canada. www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

Pre-sunrise, Monday, 27 October from Makorori Beach, Aotearoa / New Zealand. Sunrise was pretty grey and overcast but the pre-sunrise was beautiful. Ata mārie / Good Morning ☀️.

The Northern Expressway we were told would cost $10 billion is now priced at $18 billion, or six times the Cook Strait crossing we were told was unaffordable. This is fantasy stuff. www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-adv...

“In my years in the New Zealand industry, Adam Holt is probably the purest example of an old-school record man I’ve ever known.” – Simon Grigg It’s some career and read!

There's rain on my window But I'm thinking of you Tears on my pillow But I will come through Josephine, I'll send you all my love And every single step I take I take for you Josephine Chris Rea (1985) 153 years ago today Josephine took her inaugural journeys on the Dunedin–Port Chalmers Railway.

Well played Otago and mighty congratulations to Canterbury 🏆 Clarke whānau so proud of Canterbury No. 11 Ngatungane Punivai whose great-great-great-great Clarke migrated to Dunedin in 1879. ❤️🖤💙💛

While the case of "having procured an abortion on Alice Mary Marshall" (resulting in her death) was ultimately dismissed it's puzzling that Atholl Anderson's DNZB entry is silent on this not insignificant matter? teara.govt.nz/en/biographi... www.waikatotimes.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

Memories . . .

“We're takin' this bloody car to Christchurch.”

There is an interesting history behind Labour Weekend but in 2025 its sole purpose is to give those born in Otago and those who call Otago home an extra day to celebrate! 💙💛 #Otaaaaago #Otago #ItsOyear

After yesterday's weather Friday night drinks coming from a clear Aoraki / Mount Cook and the Hermitage Hotel in 1960 thanks to Brian Brake. At the start of the long Labour Weekend may your peaks be clear and glass half full! 🍸 #TGIF #LabourWeekend

Anzac Down! www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin...

Holy heka, Batman. www.odt.co.nz/southland/so...