To celebrate Sir David Attenborough's 100th birthday please do enjoy this clip of the legend himself meeting a quite incredible bird guy. Happy Birthday, Sir Dave! Here's to another 100 years!

The Mandarin Orange 🍊 test to get it out without spilling a drop of water 💧

My solution to all things is peas. Making rice? Chuck in some peas. Making bolognese? Add peas. 2 min ramen? Peas will cut the sodium 🤷🏽‍♀️

Boring job made more fun today 🚲 🛍️

I can hear the ice cream truck and our elderly neighbour just asked her husband “is that your phone?” 😂

The crucible. That sparked so many conversations with a friend of mine that she gave me a copy of it at the end of the year with key quotes handwritten at the start. I still have it and we’re still friends 💝

There are only two days left to sign the petition by Migrants Against the Acceptable Standard of Health Aotearoa to remove the archaic and eugenicist rules that have seen so many disabled and chronically ill migrants deported form the country, including children. Please, please, PLEASE sign this.

Our afghani neighbour popped over with questions re the cyclone. She is still learning English and so we did the best we could together re civil defence supplies etc but it was tricky! Then I found this website: www.ethniccommunities.govt.nz/resources/vi... info in different languages!

Ooh hello emergency alert do Waikato 😳

Good morning parents, carers, and anyone else looking after children over the Easter holidays! Here’s my regular reminder of this thread of videos of TOYS you can make at home with scrap materials you probably have lying around

#Kirikiriroa I’m starting up a little library box for our neighbourhood kids. If you have children’s books you no longer need, I’d love to take them off your hands!

Public transit is so wholesome. Let's fund it.

One thing that AI evangelists seem to assume, particularly legal AI evangelists assume, is that the thinking and analysis is quick, and the writing is just tedious busywork that slows us down. But the writing IS the thinking and analysis. You work out the thinking and analysis by writing it down.

Loaded up the bikes for a comfy snacky time at the park.

Why Do Some People Still Wear Masks In 2026 And On A Completely Unrelated Note Why Is Everyone In The Office Sick Right Now Apart From The Guy In The Mask?

Your friendly therapist reminder to do something today that moves the needle, no matter how slight, towards the world you want to see. Donate a few bucks to a gofundme or mutual aid. Research ways to get involved in a cause that aligns with you. Have that conversation with someone. Move your body.

A nice day out! 😺

School swimming sports and some clever parents have brought along camp chairs and cheese + crackers. Living in the future!

Early morning for me! Catching Te Huia for the first time!

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On hold with healthline. Do I need a tetanus jab after being cut with dirty scissors? Had my last one ?9 years ago. Not an especially deep cut..

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. “Look at my mouth”

Today I made banana muffins but added oats and LSA, and crucially chocolate chips. Yum.

You’ve never see a more random group of celebrities lip syncing Let It Be. Every new person will surprise delight surprise you 🥴🥴🤭🤭 Part 1 of 2

When my daughter was a tiny baby, it started raining as we finished supermarket shopping. A stranger held her umbrella over us as I carried baby to the car and buckled her into her car seat.

There’s not much better than meeting a new baby in the family 🥰

Trains!

All fazer, no daze.

All sterio. No gram.

In 2026, I want one thing – a kidney donated from a living donor for my partner. I've lost sleep over whether I should post this – it's a massive ask. Sometimes I wonder if it's asking too much? But the reality is that I'm unable to donate my kidney, and he has zero family who are in the position

This is a heartwarming but also really important story of how important the arts are in so many different ways. A society that funds the arts is a society that loves its people www.stuff.co.nz/culture/3609...

Just finished ‘I am not Esther’ by Fleur Beale. So good! Couldn’t put it down.

Got an air fryer for Xmas. Just made some extremely crispy chips. Now trying chicken nuggies!

Merry Christmas from Kirikiriroa! A beautiful day to swim in the river. So refreshing!

Loving the thoughtfulness I see in the #SecretSantaAoNZ presents. What a special thing to be a part of during advent when I reflect on hope, joy, peace, and love 🥰

Thank you so much Santa! I love raspberry and chocolate together so looking forward to trying this block! The titipounamu pin is perfect. It’s so me! Clever to use leaves to pack it!

SCHOOOOOLS OUT FOR SUMMER!

My present has arrived! Thank you Santa! #SecretSantaAoNZ

"Our trial demonstrated this approach is cost-effective: at about A$7,000 per participant annually versus $150,000 for incarceration." Giving men a common antidepressant could help tackle domestic violence: world-first study theconversation.com/giving-men-a...

Went to the Christmas parade. Highlight was this guy pushing a kid in a stroller. Was he a float? Was he separated from his crew? Was he lost? Was he just on a stroll? So many questions!

Sent my #SecretSantaAoNZ gift! Hope they like it!

Latest booster on board. Just waiting five minutes for the magnetism to kick in 😉

Christmas began in our lounge yesterday! We have a joyful chaos approach to decorating. In the box are some advent candles that we light each day in 4 weeks leading up to Xmas. They represent hope, joy, peace, love and on Xmas day we light the Christ candle 😊

I like a dilmah in the morning when I wake up then either a coffee or another dilmah later in the morning. Then a dilmah or a Coke Zero in the afternoon 😁 I don’t drink much alcohol but do enjoy an occasional icy cold sav 🥂

Spent a happy hour with my daughter planting flowers. Poppies and primroses.

Glitter Thanksgiving is a go! First up is cranberry sauce - I used a combo of red and gold, and it’s hard to photograph but I assure you it’s very sparkly in person Also I am already covered in glitter

“I got the handheld meat pies. Do do do do do do do do do” 🐙 🦞

I don’t do puzzles. I am so so terrible at them. I think it’s a spatial awareness thing. They just stress me out. I’ll occasionally do a crossword or colour something in.

I’m not really into games but I sometimes play wordle, connections, strands. I am a word game person rather than any other game.