Ahhhhhhhhhh!!!!! Thank you, just needed to scream into the ether.

Getting up for the gym only having to cancel because you can't find your trainers after a weekend at the beach. Being woken in the night to rodents having moved in, to the ceiling cavity, whilst you were away.

Well have woken up to wind picking up. So no school for Teens. When the weather calmed they can help me gather chooks. Stay safe out there xxx

I'm on the Coromandel Peninsula, and what else is there to do when unable to leave but write about the weather and climate change: drbex.substack.com/p/climate-ch...

Interrupting world news for Fluffy Bums - little Orpington chickens

What ya reading?

Well that's one way to connect with loads of cool people on here. Join a progressive Party. #NZpol 💚❤️🖤💚

#NZpol I joined the Green Party today.

Offering free 15 min business consultations to kick start 2026. If your a business owner or wannabe business owner in Aotearoa - NZ, this is your sign, what have you got to lose? 21 years experience & you will come away with ideas and actions regardless. DM me. #BusinessOwner #Aotearoa

Things that have broken today, my hair grip as I was putting my hair up, my flip flop whilst wearing and away from the house and the spray action on some iodine as I was trying to use it. 🙄 Good start 🤦

What's up with the right wing focusing only on things no one asked them any help with (because they're clueless or just none of their damn business) and completely ignoring those who actually need help and ask? Stop interfering with people's hormone medication ffs! Start dealing with cost of food.

Big dog plus small armchair = Lamb on a mat for good excentric measure

View out the bedroom window. #PeakandCreek

Everyone folds laundry with their lamb on a hot day right? #PeakandCreek

Not a bad recall. #PeakandCreek

Watching the US results coming in is giving hope... Add the Greens making headway in the UK, I just need the left leaning block to get their ducks in a row here (Lux & Co need to go ASAP)... A Green led left block would be my preference, got a lot of crap from this lot to undo. #NZpol

Gone from dog to human... NB:To those worried as he gets bigger, he has some girl friends ordered for Jan so he can Re-sheepify. #PeakandCreek

I really do hate "punching above his weight, Seymour", such a face in need of a fist! Gutting history. Ffs!!!

Solidarity with those striking today. #NZpol Pay people well, give them support, put a plan in place to have more staff to reduce burnout.

Attempt to save the last of the okra and cucumber seedlings. Yeah I am not holding out much hope either.

Just a bit windy here *sarcasm

I'm a dog! Right? #PeakandCreek

Day 2 with now 4 day old lamb... Making friends with the pooches. #PeakandCreak

It wasn't me... This time #PeakandCreek

Had a lovely day. Got brunch, did a bit of op shopping, saw Primeminister (very good, just heart breaking), Asian supermarket shop, pick kids up and home via chemist for prescription. Lovely sunny day too boot. I have not absorbed any news today. Date day with a friend. Highly recommended.

Well I'm squarely in the minority this local election 😕 Disappointing. #NZpol

Something made the dogs jump #eqnz

If anyone needs a reminder, starving people is bad, killing is bad, kidnapping people is bad, not having enough to put food on the table and pay essentials is bad, getting into dept (especially for healthcare) is bad. 1/3

When you figure out why you're having sneeze attacks.

I wish there was a feature on social media, where you can declare you've voted, so you don't get sent more sponsored content from candidates. #NZpol

Vote in the Orange box at the Library. Now I can unplug a little. #NZpol

Right, I need an,"I'm a witch & he was Catholic, but I converted him" sign made for the fence. Save people wasting fuel heading down the driveway. JW on the rural run.

I'm looking forward to school holidays. Everything just flows better in our household. I homeschooled my kids up til 11yrs.

More #Bonsai made it inside... One smashed pot so far. Scared floofies🤦💨🍃🍷

Wind picks up, some trees come inside #Bonsai

Nick, from our last clutch of free range, broody hatched, chicks. At a few weeks old, they got stuck & ripping the neck. Found, almost passed. Deliberating dispatching, I had an idea to stitch the skin together. Clean needle, cotten and vasaline...WORKED. This is Nick (nearly headless) now.

#NZpol Local council elections. Buzzwords that are feeling very 🚩 "common sense" "rates cap" - especially with no plan to fix problems "Back to basics" (code for cutting libraries etc) "Try something new"

Foggy/frosty start to the day here. But sun is trying to load.

Father's day is going to be Brisket 3 ways... Bbq if the wind dies down enough, slow cooker and oven roast.

And winning most awkward looking sleep... I offer Rusty.

Shart

Big floofy hates the wind.

Shattered. Bring on the weekend. We lived in a cabin for 2 years whilst we built. It has been unhuman inhabited 🐁🐭🐀🪳🪳🪳🪰🪰 for over a year. Yesterday and today has been deep cleaning. Throw in a puppy chasing my Guineafowl, I'm shattered.

Govt... New rule or enforced rule idea... Any companies using AotearoaNZ resources (land, soil, road ways, energy, labour, education etc) have to provide % of products cost controled to us, the people. Or is it that this govt happy with us getting shafted?! #NZpol

Gosh today has been full on. Trying to make Math, Math (budgeting). Helping kids with homework (not math homework). Food preparation to reduce the need of the supermarket for a while. Clearing a bit of email spam.

I could never be an MP... The "Decorum" rubbish in parliament is preventing people calling BS and stopping people listening to what is being said. Just trying to "gotcha" on words. Blooming rediculious. Civility is an excuse to not listen. #NZPOL

QUAKE: Mag 4.9, Wed, Aug 13 2025, 05:53:11 PM, 25 km south of Hastings. Depth: 40 km #eqnz https://www.geonet.org.nz/earthquake/2025p606068#eqnz

#eqnz Felt that.

Pissss... Lux & Winny, you know you could claw back a smidgen of clout, if you got rid of DS&Act... We hate him the most. Just saying. #NZpol

Very pink start to the day here #HawkesBay