He’s getting closer #Santa2025 At an impressive 1008 knots, it won’t be long

Looking at my Inbox, you’d think we skipped Christmas Day and advanced straight to Boxing Day (Sales).

How it started, how it ended. Smoked Salmon vacuumed packed and ready to go for Christmas lunch. Cured with Salt, then flavoured with Maple Syrup, Manuka Honey, Onion/Garlic salt, fresh ground pepper and basil. #SmokingLife

And there we have it, first Boxing Day Sale email award goes to PBTech! I guess I should brace myself for the deluge to follow!

This year on Bluesky I wrote 125 posts and 3,898 replies. I received 7,256 likes, whereas 62 was from my most popular post, and apparently I love saying "not" and 😂! (Sounds about right, 2025 has been a year! Roll on 2026) www.madebyolof.com/bluesky-wrap...

Colour me surprised (pun very much intended) www.nzherald.co.nz/business/eco...

Of course they are Genesis, be good if you invested some of that profit back into the network to help keep prices down eh? Useless. #NZPol

Boomers on smartphones holding them up to their ears while on speakerphone…on the bus. Yeah, don’t do that.

Has anyone asked Luxo if he’s aware of the fire in Tongariro National Park…he might get to put those gumboots on again this week (if he doesn’t skip the country in light of an impending disaster) #NZPol

It seems common sense and FENZ cannot be used in the same sentence. This is just nuts. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

PSA to anyone in NZ, turn your wake up alarm off now.

In today’s NZ Herald #megastrike

If ‘Survive till 2025’ was the CoC catch cry for this year, what have they got cooked up for 2026? I say vote in 2026 like your life depends on it! (It doesn’t rhyme but it works for me)

Just spotted Prime Mince in the Woolworths for $30.40 per Kilo, over $30 a Kg for mince…someone is having a laugh. Used to pay that for decent steak not so long ago. So much for that laser focus on the cost of living #NZPol

$6M seems like a pretty cheap deal for the NZ Govt to dump a second hand survey ship within their sovereign territory. Would cost more to dispose of in the more traditional way🤔

Eric Smidt‘s super yacht berthed down in Wynyard Quarter yesterday, not a bad looking boat! www.superyachtfan.com/yacht/infini...

Make a band singular. Bro

www.1news.co.nz/2025/08/30/p... "It's probably the strangest thing I've pulled up from 400 metres. How did it stay in the net is what I'd like to know? We've got mesh it could fall through, that's what amazes me." (they are telling on themselves here…bottom trawling, small object stay in the nets)

As seen today down in Wynyard Quarter. They aren’t wrong about the weather (or Trumpy)

This is hilarious, Bluesky #nzpol

So let me get this straight. Waka Kotahi can close lanes on the Harbour Bridge for six hours while Spark NZ film a commercial, but they refuse to close on lane for a Walking and Biking lane trial? I wonder why that is🤔 (are they afraid it will be successful?) www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3607... #NZPol

I think I can answer this one without reading it. The global price of butter is dropping, what does it mean for us? Nothing, we will continue to be price gauged by the supermarkets. Remember when they were culling hens, and eggs were $1 each…they still are $1 each😡 www.stuff.co.nz/money/360782...

What a waste, PM and VIPs travel on the first passenger train running through the City Rail Loop…it will be the first, and last time any of them ride that train. PM only agreed to it as there were, ‘A lot less smelly armpits here…’ (aka, bottom feeders) www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland/...

Timothy Jago, the ex-ACT Party President is the gift that keeps on giving. While he’s trying to clear his name…fresh allegations have surfaced. Colour me surprised! #NZPol www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3607...

I think this means he’ll keep all the Gold medals and just give replicas to the athletes who earn them.

It amazes me how often the reaction to hitting “Tim Tams” and other cycleway separators is “those shouldn’t be there” rather than “there are a lot of bad drivers who can’t drive in a straight line and who need to slow down”

Oh, accidentally sat on the button again?

I know I should have been expecting that…gets me every time. Flash backs to March 2020. 👎🏻

I don’t think I’ve ever seen as stupid a headline as this one, I’ve never met a farmer who has had this concern…most farm kids are riding motorbikes before they hit 10. Just more plain old lies from ACT. #NZPol www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

Maybe just sell it cheaper locally chaps. #NZPol www.rnz.co.nz/news/country...

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Cracker day in Tāmaki Makaurau, specifically Lake Pupuke…after a week plus of rain, we’ll take it.

Laser focussed on the cOsT oF LiViNg & getting NZ bAcK oN tRaCk 🤪🤨🙄 #OneTermGovernment #nzpol #Aotearoa #NZ #NeverVoteNationalEVER #CoalitionOfCunts #VoteSmarterNZ #LedByLosers #LyingLuxon

Prime Video starting to include ads from 26 August, unless I pay and additional $2.99. No need to do anything they say, well there is something I need to do. Cancel my subscription I guess. Both Prime and Disney have gone to the dogs of late anyway. We watch most stuff on TVNZ On Demand.

I have a whole chicken to cook on the BBQ tonight, not really feeling it with this weather. But the Chook must be cooked, so best I get my Crocs ready. #BBQLife

So a new classroom build costs about as much as the Retail Advisory Group spend on themselves in 100 days. The Group doesn’t seem like great value at all. Would prefer three new classrooms per year rather than their ill advised advice. #NZPol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

1.9kg Whole Chicken versus 1kg Prime 5% Fat Beef Mince…the Chicken is $14.50, and the Beef Mince is $29.90. It’s not really a hard choice is it. I remember in the early 80’s Mince being the budget choice, and Chicken was only eaten at Christmas time. My how times have changed🤔

Jeepers, is old Charlie on the Epstein list?🤔😬 Never before has this been done. www.nzherald.co.nz/world/king-c...

Going for a swim in the river without thinking about it, or a swim in the ocean without checking the swim safe website first.

💯 agree, pity the NZ Govt insists on selling these assets. 😡

Nice on Rebel Sport, I see this prize guarantees entry to the New York Marathon, but doesn’t guarantee entry to the United States…not sure I want to chance my arm there!

This is exactly what the internet is for.

Still not going. I bet they’ll make you remove everything before issuing prison uniform, right before throwing you in a cage. Hard pass. www.stuff.co.nz/travel/36074...

Why is Noel Edmonds in my newsfeed everywhere all of a sudden. I don’t care if he is unhappy, proposing in a hot tub etc etc. he’s more than welcome to return to the UK.

I saw this on LinkedIn this morning, I had no idea this was still a thing. I mean it used to be televised in the 80’s…but given it gets almost zero exposure these days, just assuming they didn’t run this anymore. Good on her👍 www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/au...

We just know that the current Govt will look at this, ignore it thinking they can do better…and we will all pay the ultimate price in the long run. #NZPol

I wonder if this group of prominent New Zealanders decided to send this letter in order to distance themselves from that other prominent New Zealander who has been in the news today. There’s no way it could be one of them, unless they are hiding in plain sight. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

Well there’s half New Zealand’s population rules out in the latest prominent New Zealander saga. Herald confirms it’s a male. Case being held in Wellington so probably from that area. The net is tightening. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/wellingto...

This is not normal…and never should be treated as such. Shame on #NZPol CoC. 😡