Taking these two home with me. Who needs 6 7 when you can 1985 & 1986! ^DR

There is Mr Whippy in town by The Press building! Loads of people waiting all giggly and fun.

First day of being a Crone. Menopause Hurrah!

He aroha whakatō He aroha puta mai. If kindness is sown, Then kindness you shall receive.

If you were out looking at the moon, you might like a late night stargazing from the Observatory Tower at Te Matatiki Toi Ora The Arts Centre - looking through the Townsend Teece Telescope (10 April to 25 September) www.artscentre.org.nz/whats-on/her... My sessions both got rained out last year so 🤞

One of my favourite Christchurch houses is for rent.

Bus selfie

The former prime minister’s memoir continues its international momentum, earning an Ockham shortlist spot after winning Best Political Book at the Westminster Book Awards in London.

I managed to photograph it in the wild on Route 7, my very own route into town. Look forward to riding it soon!

Double rainbow in Ōtautahi Christchurch!

Just saw this double decker! It looks well cool. www.odt.co.nz/star-news/st...

I love The Menswear ads, recalling the days when adverts were yarns.

I am dressed up like the Michelin Man for today’s Christchurch commute - raincoat over coat over sweatshirt, gumboots, hat, gloves. It is dark and wet and wind is bitterly cold.

“Move all homeless into vacant properties” Poster on Colombo Street.

Tino Rangatiratanga flag on Captain Cook statue in Victoria Square.

The rain might have tried its best but Ōtautahi still turned up for pride!

Today’s Mediawatch includes a deserved shout out for 15th anniversary of 22 Feb 2011 quake coverage, especially @secondzeit.bsky.social www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...

Autumn is coming.

What next? Fayreform Taxi Driver? Nah, I actually love the idea of hardass movie-related brassieres.

How a 'weekend wānanga' kickstarted the Māori art revolution

A story of The Disintegration Loops, told by William Basinski @musex1.bsky.social and ANOHNI. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/f... Kia ora @timjonze.bsky.social for this feature. I remember listening to Disintegration Loops sometime after our earthquakes, knowing that apocalyptic feeling.

Coat of not-many-colours but they are all bright af. Autumnish-ness has gotta have some advantages, and cocooning in coats is one of them.

we finally reached the end of this calendar event i accidentally made 12 years ago

Maureen’s Mansion, Worcester Street,

Fictional Selves, a memoir by forever babe Kyle MacLachlan, is published in October. www.penguin.co.uk/books/470220...

having a highfalutin poetry discussion in the office. But I lowered the tone by mixing up Dulce et decorum est / Wilfred Owen with Hugh Selwyn Mauberley / Ezra Pound Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge ...

Current fave fashion thing - Muriel’s wedding collection by Romance was Born www.romancewasborn.com/collections/...

Am dressed like a fruit n vege salad. Pineapple, eggplant, bananas, and greens finger.

Ata Mārie! Chalkful of Joy has shared some fun chalk art at Linwood Park. On IG at www.instagram.com/chalkfulofjo...

Yesterday was the anniversary of the 22 Feb quake. Here are some pics from the Civic service at Oi Manawa Canterbury Earthquake National Memorial. It's quite something to hear a bell tolled softly 185 times.

If your Heights be Wuthering, the Brontë be Emily Your Brontë is Charlotte? First book Jane Eyre-y.

The funniest thing I saw today was a large pig 🐽 going for a walk on the beach. 🐷🌊

Found “Things We Know” by Richard Scarry at the op shop. Here are some of my fave pics: toadstool, sausages, reading, cat freak out…. #RichardScarry #RichardScarrylove

Kiwi AF headline maaaaate “Shoplifter puts frozen crayfish down pants at supermarket, goes back for mud cake” www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Thumbs up to the hairdressers who went Penguin for their signage.

Sumner poetry.

I am putting this event in my diary. It is happening in what was formerly Jade Corporation HQ. So 80s! Much design! www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3609... re-ztyled IG: www.instagram.com/re.ztyled?ig...

Dance-o-mat is now go go in its new home in the Arts Centre. Dimitri’s food truck to the right, old Dux de Lux behind. #Ōtautahi #Christchurch

Dahlia-palooza. (The last pinky one is called Miss Piggy 🐷💗)

Ok, so you don’t have Pride and Prejudice, but you do have Pride & Prejudice. Noted.

Sunday roses.

Tottering-by-gently is my new favourite rose name.

“I Can’t Stop Thinking About Horses and Sex” is the fragmented comic strip/artwork memoir of a “horse girl, now in her forties”. One of my faves @lisahanawalt.bsky.social has a memoir coming out in October @dandq.bsky.social Hooray!

Wet weather and flooding safety information. CCC information on what to do related to floodwater, if your house is flooding, if your toilet isn't working, and how you can help. www.newsline.ccc.govt.nz/news/story/w... #Floods #Ōtautahi #Christchurch #BanksPeninsula

"Local State of Emergency declared for Banks Peninsula Mayor Phil Mauger made the declaration at 12pm following the impact of the wet weather such as flooding, fallen trees, slips, landslides and loss of communication and power ..." www.newsline.ccc.govt.nz/news/story/w... #Christchurch #Ōtautahi

Today in op shop bookery: The Spinoff Book, Wuthering Heights, and A 1000 (and more) New Zealand jokes.

Looking at Then and Now photos of Ōtautahi Christchurch. Chchchanges.Does my head in, and heart a bit too. Great work by Charlie Mitchell @comingupcharlie.bsky.social ahead of next week’s 15th anniversary of 22 February 2011 earthquake. @thepress.co.nz www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

Before and after images reveal how the earthquakes created two versions of the same city.

Almost 15 years to the day that her home was devastated by the Christchurch earthquake, Rae Francis handed over the keys and moved out.

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