If only we could emulate Bhutan… www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Excellent news from just up the road/down the river from here www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

1st September and I’m STILL picking tomatoes ripening in the garden 😳 This is NOT normal. #nz #aotearoa #climatechange

As is said in the article, it’s high school geography, not rocket science. Rivers flood, and you have to give them room.

Thank you internet, that’s one less cabbage white going to hatch out now!

It appears that nothing has been learned from Cyclone Gabrielle as forestry ‘slash’ causes devastation again. How many more times will this have to happen before practices change? 'Flash flood' devastates small community in Motueka Valley www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

A casualty of our recent stormy weather rescued Monarch butterfly chrysalis #aotearoa

Our 4th official public holiday for Matariki was yesterday www.nzgeo.com/stories/mata...

This kukupa/kererū has become a regular visitor in our garden of late. Question is, will they hang around to be counted in the #nzgardenbirdsurvey or will they be like the kōtare and show up either side of the counting?

Around 8yrs of saved blister packs about to be sent off to Terracycle. I bought the box in a sale last year and have crammed it to bursting (lots of tape used!) The cost doesn’t seem so bad when it covers 8yrs!

The indigenous ways so often prove to be the best ways of managing a balance between people and planet. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

This is embarrassing at best; the dying embers of colonialism desperately trying to cling to control over the unstoppable movement towards truly being a nation of Te Tiriti. I doubt that History will be kind to this government’s cow towing to the far right www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Got my Tax Return in a month early, go me! Makes up for the other four out of five years when it’s in late 🙄

What’s the betting that once they’re in opposition again they’d be hopping mad if the incoming government did the same. It sets a very dangerous precedent. Are we to see legislation flipping in and out of existence under urgency every time we have change of govt?

Luxon dismisses them as ‘worthies’, and Federated Farmers refuse to consider reducing methane emissions. Bet they’re the first to expect handouts when climate change scuppers their incomes though 🙄 So arrogant and shortsighted 😞 www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Doing my bit for Predator Free NZ and have been setting a trap in the garden over the last few weeks as the overnight temperatures have been dropping. Tally so far: 2 great big fat leopard slugs 2 that got away/ghosts 1 mouse 1 rat I have to admit I was surprised the slugs triggered it!

The Quaker Yearly Meeting of Aotearoa New Zealand approved a statement on Palestine earlier this week. quakers.nz/support-pale...

What do the ants know that we don’t? I keep finding clusters of ants, mostly sitting still in odd places. This is by far the largest though. Ironically one cluster was under a lid with ant-bait in. Some clusters are about the size of a 20c coin. But all are mostly stationary. What’s going on?! #nz

Seeing as this is creating quite a bit of interest in that other place, here are progress photos of my first homegrown bunch of bananas! Very exciting for someone who spent the first 35yrs of their life in the UK with literally freezing cold winters. #Aotearoa #TeTaiTokerau

Pot. Kettle. thespinoff.co.nz/politics/20-...

Given an awful lot of the submissions on the Bill said that just weren’t enough worthwhile ideas in it, I can’t say that I’m overly surprised he didn’t like what was in them 🤦🏽‍♀️

Plum blossom. In mid May. This is most definitely Not Normal. #aotearoa #nz

First Monarch chrysalis I’ve spotted this year. Lots more caterpillars though 😊

I always enjoy seeing what comes up in this each year. Are any of my photographer friends entertaining?! www.nzgeo.com/photography/...

Anne Salmond pointing out what should be bleeding obvious.

Quite. Love the headline.

I’ve just finished ‘Doorway of Death’ by friend and former colleague Leena Taylor Gillespie, can’t wait for the next book to come out! Unexpected twists and turns abound, and a real page turner. leenataylorgillespie.com

Can you help out? I’ve been doing this for years. One fairly quick email to deal with on a Monday and you can opt out over the summer months. The more of us do this the better their data will be #Aotearoa #NZ www.flutracking.net/Join/NZ/inv2...

When politicians resort to saying those against them are ‘marxists’ and it’s ‘green-witch doctory’ they’re basically acknowledging that they’re in the moral wrong, but are demonising the opposition to undermine their credibility and throw the blame. Sickening.

All to save the govt money 😡 Which bit of ‘pay the low paid more and it stimulates the local economy’ don’t they get? Or are they only interested in big business shareholders perchance? 🤔 www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

How and why do other countries keep letting Israel get away with this? Anywhere else and there would be outrage and serious repercussions. This. Is. Not. Okay. 🥵

@geckomanart.bsky.social have you seen this? I’d love to get down to Rakiura one day. www.nzgeo.com/stories/the-...

This is not okay. Ever. Gaza humanitarian crisis worst since 2023, UN office says www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/5...

It says a lot about an author’s skill when you find yourself in tears over the reporting of the death of a character who turns up decidedly not dead several pages later, & you already knew this because you have read the book before, and the ones that follow it. No spoilers! #JodiTaylorBooks

I don’t know about anyone else but I’m finding it really hard to have any empathy for the ‘Christian’ right (they keep using that word, I do not think it means what they think it means… )

Tino pai Wellington Libraries! If only our government would embrace such thinking rather than trying to undermine progress made. If anything though they have made many of us step up a notch in support of Te Tiriti and kaupapa Māori. www.rnz.co.nz/news/te-manu...

Well said @timquaker.bsky.social , I hadn’t heard of Youth Demand before either but I won’t be forgetting it. Whilst I’m pleased it has brought many (back) to Meetings and raised awareness of our existence, I don’t think it’s an outreach strategy to encourage. wagingnonviolence.org/2025/04/quak...

Fonterra markets its Anchor butter as ‘grass-fed’, but it's a deception. Fonterra dairy cows are fed almost two million tonnes of palm kernel imported from Southeast Asia every year. #TooManyCows

It appears that even JRM is on the right side sometimes; what strange times we live in… not that Quakers consider their buildings sacred, but if the police will do this to a premises of a historic peace church where would they draw the line?

This is despicable. More war crimes stacked up by the Zionists. How anyone can think that this is okay baffles me. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

And now for some good news… A beautiful thing to see indeed 😊

A tiny Australian outpost gets steep Trump tariff despite few exports, plus two territories with a population of 0 🤦🏽‍♀️ Someone didn’t do their homework and apparently copied a list of the top domain names rather than economic partners, & didn’t understand ‘trade deficit’ www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/5...

Hmmmm… if that many businesses are not paying tax because they aren’t making enough profits, it rather under cuts the government claims of a healthy economy surely? www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...

People talking and peacefully demonstrating is not a threat to society; but stopping them is. www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

Loving the fact that this armed break in by the Met Police to Westminster Quaker Meeting House has increased public interest in Youth Demand who were targeted. A well written commentary on the incident.

If the police are expecting this to intimidate and stop the protests I suspect they’ll be disappointed. There is no excuse for such a heavy handed response. It’ll result in a level of distrust in the police not seen since the 80s/90s.

Disgraceful. To see this happening in the UK is scary stuff; a legacy from the latest Tory era that Labour has yet (?) to undo. I’ll not be holding my breath for change though as Starmer’s Labour is even more right wing than Blair’s, & that’s saying something 🥵 www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

Says it all really, doesn’t it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Well knock me down with a feather, fact checking Winston Peters on climate accord shows that he either doesn’t know or is deliberately spreading falsehoods. Neither is a good look. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

A sign of a guilty conscience? Or at least on behalf of the industries at fault. Luxon can’t have it both ways.