NZ in the news in the US again

Breaking news. Or not. It's hot!! So, lemonade iceblocks is the answer. Drive carefully, peeps, as tempers can get frayed in this weather. Don't be one of those people. 🔥 🥵🎄 #Canberra

32° at 7pm 🥵 and we're looking at a "low" of 18° overnight 😥 Earlier this week I had the electric blanket on!

A young fur seal waddled into a New Zealand bar on a rainy Sunday, sparking excitement and disbelief. The pup was showing “normal exploratory behavior” by exploring the bar, which was about a mile from the coast, a ranger said. https://wapo.st/4rBDpL9

Noisy power maintenance people up a pole nearby for the last half hour and now we have an outage 😭

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Visitors on the back doorstep... This is not a gingerbread house, gerroff!

Middle kid was telling us that he used to calculate the precise division of the Winter Village Lego sets we have as an "advent calendar" to know how much to build each day... "but since then I've done a year of university physics and now it's like, pi is 10" 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Extremely Canberra but its sure nice how the handmade markets gives people that have never been in a crowd before a chance to mingle with people who have never walked in a straight line before.

I think my takeaway dinner is a happy meal 😂

Home from seeing the Ferns vs the Tillies just in time for kickoff @wgtnphoenixfc.bsky.social #COYN

When you have friends who are legends ...

I think I just saw my first live echidna in the wild. By the side of the road, with two vehicles stopped and a family crouched around it, and WIRES (wildlife rescue) just arriving. I hope it will be ok.

There’s silo art off the main trails! This one is in Brunswick. Yes, that’s the former NZ Prime Minister in inner suburbs of Melbourne.

Really rude that the #FootballFerns didn't get introduced at the ground #AUSvNZL #ComeOnYouFerns

Football Ferns v Australia live on TVNZ+ sport right now.

Come on you Ferns! #NZFootball #AUSvNZL

Husband's colleague has a cherry tree. I am in heaven.

NON SIGN - neon sign with one letter out

Hilarious to hear "Same old Aussies always cheating" chanted at the Ashes 😂 @wgtnphoenixfc.bsky.social

I love grass parrots! (Also known as the red-rumped parrot) 🪶

In case I haven't announced it... There's a holiday session of One Hundred Factorial once a month and if you're in Adelaide at the appropriate time you're most welcome to come and join in. 26th Nov, 17th Dec, 7th Jan, 4th Feb 10am to 2pm Level 3 Hub Central, City East Campus of Adelaide University

🎂 It's #ScienceSocks 6th anniversary! 🥳 Celebrate with me by raising money for #STEM! 🤑 For the next 48h I will donate: * 20% of sales on sciencesocks.co#ScienceSocks👈 * $1 per repost Get a head start on #holiday shopping 😎 Please like, repost and let's party🕺💃 🔭🐡🧪🎨#bsnm

First piece of bucks point lace. A couple of mistakes (that I can spot - maybe more I haven't noticed!) but I'm pretty happy with it

I love #Canberra

How's the blood pressure, Wellington? #WELvAKL #COYN ⚽

🤦🤦🤦#welvakl ⚽

View from the #LittleCornerOfYellow #COYN @wgtnphoenixfc.bsky.social

Getting ready to head to the game #roadtrip #awayfans #COYN ⚽ #CCMvWEL @wgtnphoenixfc.bsky.social

Woohoo my tshirt arrived! Thanks to the people who alerted me to the diy merch option 😍

These cockatoos perched on the rotary clothesline - I thought they might figure out how to turn it into a fun ride - then enjoyed the birdbath. 🪶

Do you have a Samsung phone like I do? You'd better read this 👇 "Telstra testing has revealed some Samsung mobile phone users may be unable to call triple-0 in an emergency with more than 70 models found not to be connecting correctly." #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Goanna, coastal NSW

I'm at the coast for a couple of days. Seeing whales from the shore never gets old!

33° forecast on Monday for Canberra?! 😮🥵

I know @katydidnz.bsky.social and @grumpyyetamusin.bsky.social will be interested to see this...

I 🥰 this shot. It's the Black Mountain tower in Canberra. Once an iconic tourist destination, it was closed to the public in 2021 due to a state of disrepair. Telstra and the ACT government have agreed to work together on a plan to refurbish and reopen it. Thumbs up to that. #Canberra

I'm at an Austen-related theatre event and they are serving complimentary tea and scones before the show on fancy china 😍

Melbourne 🥰

All welcome at my book's launch: Unity Books Wellington 6 pm this Friday 10 October. Come and say hello.

My new book of science cartoons, PHYSICS FOR CATS is out in a week! Order a copy today from you local bookshop or at one of the links here: www.tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2

Attn @herodotuspenguin.bsky.social (if you win a pin & don't want it, I'd find it a new home 😉)

Forever forgetting the #birds hashtag 🪶

Good morning magpies!

Hey NZ, I need you to know, democracy sausages are not free! They are not "treating". They are fundraisers for the school hosting the polling place. Go ahead, have more sausages 🌭 Electoral Amendment Bill: Submitters want fewer restrictions, more sausages www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

We don't feed the magpies. But they remember that the people who used to live here did.

My voting papers arrived! 🎉

Long day 😔

Amazing flowers on display today at the Canberra #Orchid show (hi, @orchids.bsky.social )

One of my colleagues stocked the snack jar with Whittakers mini slabs and at this point of a long day (still an hour or more to go) it is an absolute godsend.