Ngā Manu Nature Reserve in Waikanae is the place to bring your whānau this long weekend - I've been here all afternoon looking after the BBQ and scooping icecreams and it's been great.

Sending so much love and solidarity to our trans whānau today. You shouldn't have to keep dealing with shit from a bunch of bigots using who you are to try to score cheap political points. I'm sorry they're doing this again. 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍⚧️

First phone calling evening of the year for the Kapiti Green campaign! More than 100 people called, with plenty signing up to attend our upcoming meet-up event (2pm, Sat 11 April @ St Peter's Hall in Paekākāriki, all welcome!) and to volunteer to make real change this election 💚💚💚

Annual flu and six-monthly Covid vaccinations both done this afternoon in Waikanae village. Quick and easy, thanks to the friendly team who looked after us!

OH MY HOLY WOW MELIE KERR 🐐 🐐 🐐

When they ask me how many presents I want

Another @nzpsa.bsky.social win Join your union✊🏻 #nzpol

Come along for the first Kapiti Green volunteer meet-up on Saturday 11 April at St Peter's Hall in Paekākāriki! It's a great commitment-free way to hear about what our campaign will look like and the wide range of different ways you can help.

So good! 💚💚💚

Great news that NZ Post have decided to cancel their plans to remove post services from Paekākāriki. Massive credit to the Paekākāriki Community Board, Councillor Bede Laracy and all those who told NZ Post how important it was to have these services remain. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/wellingto...

*pssst* even if we'd just done three waters, the price of water services for drinking, sewage and stormwater in this country was going to at least double this decade - you can't policy your way out of hundreds of billions of dollars of infrastructure deficit or water quality standards - it needs $

Melie Kerr simply unbelievable! A second T20 international century, 105 off 54 balls. Four of her five highest scores have come this year, she's loving the captaincy eh. Her bowling isn't falling back as her batting improves either, it's still top notch. #NZvSA

Ridiculous over. Neesham gives up 3 catches in 5 balls, South Africa drop the first two but finally get him on the third. Things not looking great for us here #NZvSA

That last over from Ben Sears was a thing of true beauty. So good having him fit and playing again. Robinson and Clarke off to a good start with the chase too #NZvSA

Sophie Devine out for 64 off 34. Was that her last ever game in Wellington? Could well be. Lot of appreciation from the crowd. #NZvSA

50 for Queen Sophie (the only royal I believe in) #NZvSA

Four runs for magnificent Melie Kerr! #NZvSA

3-16 off four for the magnificent Jess Kerr, hometown hero #NZvSA

Excellent start for the @WHITE_FERNS on a perfect Wellington day for cricket #NZvSA

Headlines like this should worry us all. As AI and chatbots are pushed by bosses as a way to restructure people out of our jobs and cut costs, we need to be asking questions about how much we can really trust these human-free systems.

Quality win for the Black Caps and then I switched over to watch Van Der Meer and Nunn score the second and third goals for the Phoenix for them to lead Sydney 3-1. And the Hurricanes won, on top of the White Ferns win earlier. What a night for the teams I support!

Mitch Santner you beauty! Perfect over and the pressure gets to South Africa. 44-4 is a great start #NZvSA

Even on a near perfect evening like this, Waikanae Beach has plenty of space. Absolutely magical spot!

Devine and Green doing it easy here. Should be a comfortable win, love to see it #NZvSA

Beautiful direct hit from Melie! The @WHITE_FERNS looking good, bowling well and taking regular wickets. Should keep them well under 150 #NZvSA

This is very clever for folks with EVs in apartment buildings with on-site parking.

I have a bad comms joke but you wouldn't understand it.

As a former freelance journalist, I know it's a really hard time out there for local media. In recent years our region has seen the Kapi-Mana News and Kāpiti Observer both close, and the Kāpiti News and Ōtaki Mail both come close to closure before new owners came in.

I love being a member of Dayenu: New Zealand Jews Against Occupation - it's a way to stay proudly connected to my Jewish culture and heritage while standing staunchly in solidarity with Palestinian liberation and against occupation and genocide.

Love an evening stroll, even if I am missing the start of the cricket

This is a really dominant performance by the White Ferns, so good to watch. Expected a much closer match tbh, I'm sure the rest of the series won't be this smooth, but I'll enjoy this for as long as it lasts! #NZvSA

Had heaps of fun at the Ōtaki Kite Festival over the weekend - one of the highlights of the Kāpiti summer event calendar.

Yael Shochat (of Ima's Kitchen in Auckland's CBD) is crowdfunding a documentary that she made with Naram Sleiman. Yael has emerged as one of the more visible pro-Palestinian voices in Auckland in the last couple of years, and this is about how she got there. I'm super excited about this.

Supporting my goddaughters at the Kiwi Kids TRYathlon this morning. Never seen so many bikes in my life!

Reupping for the evening crowd 💚💚💚

So proud to be the @greens.org.nz candidate for the new electorate of Kapiti, stretching from Whitby and Paremata in the south through to Ōtaki in the north. Really excited to help elect a new Government this year with not only a compassionate Green heart, but also a strong Green spine.

Familiar names on this list...

Hattrick for Melie Kerr! Brilliantly bowled, we're so lucky to have her.

Absolutely fascinating to check out the small firefighting museum at Wellington City Fire Station yesterday. I was on site for a meeting of @fireandemergencynz's Wellington Local Advisory Committee that I'm a member of.

Good evening from Waikanae Beach

Genuine kudos for this from my region's civic leaders. Speaking with one voice against this immoral law change.

Jorja Miller is one of the most dominant rugby players I've ever seen. Her ability as a big game player is simply phenomenal. And she's still only 22! Incredible. Black Ferns Sevens win again, what a team!

I'm calling it, gonna try for another 2 hours sleep before work.

Seifert was never going to be able to do it on his own. There's been no support at all. Really don't see what we gained by playing Chapman ahead of (in form) Conway throughout this tournament. #INDvsNZ

Damn. Surely that's it 😭 #INDvsNZ

Fantastic comeback here at the back end of the innings after an awful start from us. Giving ourselves a chance perhaps? #INDvsNZ

I built my first ever website aged 10 in self-taught HTML. Safe to say things are a bit different now, 31 years later, but I really enjoyed pulling together the website for Predator Free Kāpiti Coast recently and am pleased to set it loose into the world. www.predatorfreekapiticoast.org

I was lucky to spend time this morning with Ātiawa ki Whakarongotai and the Department of Conservation helping to clear out koi carp in Paraparaumu.

Made the decision not to wake up at 2.30 for the World Cup semi final. Absolutely gutted about that now. What a win, what an innings from Finn Allen. Can't wait to watch it delayed tonight. Let's go Black Caps!

Collecting seed from the regionally declining, locally critical tirauriki/dwarf mistletoe (Korthalsella salicornioides) today. Rhys Mills from Ngā Manu Nature Reserve singlehandedly started this population from seed he collected from Waikanae Park & one other private property over the past decade.