Nau mai, haere mai Welly folk. Art on the Landing 18th of Dec. In the Writers Studio 145 Cuba St. There will be ceramics, wood block prints, photography, paintings, collage, books, hand-written framed poetry, pop art and drawings for sale. We will have tasty bites and some beverages. Karakia at 6.

Visibility on Te Ahumairangi was pretty poor and Hauraro was whipping the blossoms off the trees this weekend so I picked all my remaining tulips and brought them inside to brighten up the day.🌱🇳🇿 #AotearoaGardens

Rhetorical question, why do we keep re-electing stale, pale, male, conservative mayors and councillors? I'm over it 😬😕

Oh FFS. The usual fossil councillors are back Te Whanganui a Tara… plus the dreadful icecream man got in to council. What a mixed bag. But Yay! @lauriefoon.bsky.social and @rebeccamatthews.bsky.social are in!! So pleased for you both!

The bargain barrow tulips are beginning to pop! Loving the peony tulips - so Floofy! 🇳🇿🌺🌱

#Aotearoabirds 🇳🇿🦜 We have a kaka who comes to visit our deck and garden bird feeder most days. Last couple of days it’s started to tap on the window and lick it to get our attention. ‘Please, kinI’ve some apple? I knows you’re in there’…

Turns out you can do a mix of Seville and Navel oranges in a Seville orange marmalade. I only had to add 3 to make up the weight too. Jars of sunshine! 🥝 🇳🇿#Aotearoafoodies

OK Seville Marmalade makers. Please share your best Seville marmalade recipe that doesn’t start with ‘first boil your oranges for 2 and a half hours’. But also, can I sub in some Naval oranges if I don’t have enough Seville’s? 🍊🫙🫙 #preserving #foodies

When Wellington busts out a sunny day but you’ve got a killer dead arm from your Shingrex vax, the right thing to do is sit in the sun and eat lemon sherbet doughnut right? #TGIF 🇳🇿

Hello Aotearoa Gardens 🇳🇿🌱 Here’s a pic of my early tulips for your Sunday joy.

Dr Hilary Stace Historian and Disability Advocate Extraordinaire 1954 – 2025 💔

Moe Mai Rā Maurice Gee. Thank you for ‘Under The Mountain’ - probably the most gripping and creepy book of my childhood. www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3607...

Broken pipe dream

Need a good cry? Mozart’s requiem sung by Supertonic choir will be just what we need. 17 May Tickets through Humanatix. 🇳🇿

Here’s my friend Bob Kerr’s latest piece (with his own illustrations) for the Spinoff. How do we get this level of public health care back again? thespinoff.co.nz/society/05-0...

Do we need an Aotearoa baking feed? I think we might @dreddieclark.bsky.social Here are our London Fog Cookies by Sheri Silver with Earl Grey tea and lavender infused butter. #AotearoaBaking 🇳🇿🧁

This is my latest children’s book illustrated by the wonderful @adelespencil.bsky.social. Once again Fanshaw narrates the funny, rewarding, and highly skilled antics of an RNZAF squadron in the 70s to the 90s. #HenryFanshaw #75Squadron #NZAuthor #RNZAF

With @adelespencil.bsky.social and Megan Woods MP and featured character Butch Boyce at the Air Force Museum in Wigan to celebrate the launch of our picture book. Such a joy filled day.

Off to Otautahi today to launch our book ‘Henry Fanshaw Takes Flight’ with @gilliantorckler.bsky.social and this scruffy loveable bear at The Air Force Museum 2-3pm Come see us if you’re in the

And here it is. The tiny Feijoa tree that could. Go little tree! 🌱🇳🇿 #WellingtonCityCouncil #urbanfruittrees #loveWellington @rebeccamatthews.bsky.social

An appreciation post for this tiny feijoa tree that the lovely #WellingtonCityCouncil gardeners planted in Ghuznee St just 1 year ago. Two thumbs high but sporting 3 fruits this year. Thanks so much for replanting the fruit trees WCC - urban fruit is the best! @rebeccamatthews.bsky.social 🌱🇳🇿

Went for a walk through the Botanical Gardens today. Recommended medicine for these times. 🌱🇳🇿 #Aotearoagardens

Autumn flowers in the late afternoon sunshine. 🌱🇳🇿

It’s been a bit of a week. The Shingrex vax is a good one but I had quite a bold reaction to it. Maybe it’s from having shingles in the past? Anyway today I picked myself some Autumn flowers and had an afternoon kip. Hope you all did something nice for yourselves too? 🌱🇳🇿 #Aotearoagardens

Not the Saturday lie in I was expecting. #eqnz

The Spinoff has published this little essay when by my studio mate fellow illustrator and painter Bob Kerr. It’s beautifully observed with a light touch. Have a read #Aotearoa/NewZealand 🇳🇿 thespinoff.co.nz/society/15-0...

Up in my veggie garden there’s an old seat settled amongst a profusion of wild mombretia irises and a jumble of summer flowers. Intentionally chaotic, it’s my favourite thinking place. #AotearoaGardens 🇳🇿🌱

So this happened. Very little seeds and tomato jelly but was juicy and delicious on crackers - almost more like a fruit than a tomato. Yes, it was a conjoined triplet!

Giving my Rebel Starfighter Prime tomato some time in the sun today so these amazing tomato fruits can ripen. #Ididntkillit #rebelstarfightertomato #conjoinedtomatoes 🇳🇿🌱

Like the cheese, good things take time right? It’s been six or seven years waiting for this nutso Red Buttons Hoya to flower at our place but she’s finally done it! 🇳🇿🌸

When your Wellington summer garden finally starts to look like you imagined back in the depths of winter when you ordered your seeds.

For what it’s worth this is my submission to the Treaty Principles Bill. I’m no writer, but it is heart felt and at least I’ve done it. 🇳🇿

And green beans are Go! First up are the Kaiapoi Red dwarf beans from Heritage Food Crops in Whanganui. 🌱🇳🇿

Just another family walking off Christmas lunch on the beach. As you do. 🇳🇿🪿

@kats-garden.nz My 12 Jersey Benne’s gave me 3kg of delicious, decent sized potatoes. So stoked! One of my 3 bags produced spuds with warty skins. Anyone know what that is? I wondered about psyllid damage?

Bless. Back fence family’s kids got recorders for Christmas. #AotearoaChristmas

To the man next door mowing his cm long grass at 9.15am on Christmas morning. Who’s going to judge your lawns today?

“Cannibal capitalism” e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-...

Finally a day still enough on my side of the hill to plant out my sunflowers, cosmos and snap dragons. Might be a bit sore tomorrow. 🌱🇳🇿

#AotearoaGardening 🌱🇳🇿 Looks! This is my first home grown potato from my first potato plants. I can report we divided it in 3 pieces, smothered it in butter and salt and it was small but epic. Can’t wait for Christmas now!

Dr Bex pointing out the wide ranging result of defunding the social sciences in the Marsden Fund shake up. The ramifications are chilling and another way this Govt is silencing dissenters. Defunding the social sciences open.substack.com/pub/drbex/p/...

#AotearoaGardens 🇳🇿 my tomato plant has gone curly and droopy and basically looks fucked. I put it outside last week for an hour of sunshine and the merest zephyr of breeze. I think I’m death to tomatoes! Is there any hope?

#pukapuka #books #nz newsroom.co.nz/2024/12/02/e...

Light relief for your Sunday. 🇳🇿🥝

🥝🇳🇿 Home made Eccles cakes for the win. Testing out our Christmas baking. These hit the spot with a slab of aged Linkwater cheddar and a glass of port.

“Let’s not allow US neo-authoritarianism to be the next in a line of hegemonic imports that we embrace without skepticism. Let’s be a bit more discerning.” — Melody Nixon.

#Kikorangi Yesterday my husband and I visited the Ceramicus exhibition and pottery market. We stopped at the Herb Garden and sat a while in the pagoda. The only other people were a young couple by the pond. In that quiet moment he dropped to one knee and we watched his proposal from a distance 💕

John Toogood playing acoustic guitar from his solo album Last of the Lonely Gods at Meow in Welly tonight. Thanks for an excellent concert Dude!