I was not expecting to hear a lounge cover of Black Eyed Peas 'I gotta feeling' tonight. And I kinda wish I hadn't.

Just had a call from a number I didn't know... Me: Hello They: Hi, is that [my actual name] Me: Yes. Them: Hi, it's me, your weed guy. Me: Sorry? Them: Trevor Me: Um, I don't know who you are. Them: Oh, shit, sorry, I think I've got the wrong number.

Ha! We're getting email spam in Te Reo Māori now. If that's not a sign of a healthy, active, living language, I don't know what is.

Taking a break from snarkiness to admire my tomatoes! So many! And this is just one bunch on one plant ☺️

Must've got a bit sun-drunk at the river yesterday - managed to leave my car unlocked all night and left my keys in the front door. And now I'm supposed to WORK?!

Welp. Looks like I'm Cohen the Barbarian.

Meri Kirihimete ki a koutou! Christmas in our house starts with pavlova for breakfast. Looks just like Nadia's, as always 😁

Our Christmas tradition is to get together with a good friend, and anyone else who wants to visit. We get the My Food Bag Christmas box so no one had to think or make decisions or go to the supermarket on Xmas eve. Then we eat good food, talk shit and play boardgames for a couple days...

I'm fascinated by the decision-making in this second-hand bookshop. I don't think they're using the Dewey decimal system.

Every announcement from this government makes me furious. #nzpol

Someone has donated an incredible collection of shoes to the Foxton Op Shop - if only I could walk in heels! (They're size 39-41, if anyone's interested!) 👠🇳🇿

I cannot sit in the correct ergonomic position at my desk because the dog is sleeping on the wheel of my chair. 🐶🇳🇿

THE COVER! 💚

If I behaved in work meetings like this I would be severely reprimanded, or sacked. Cut his fucking pay, or something, if he can't answer straight forward questions without being a cunt.

Love that Stuff used a shot from Karen O’Leary’s Full Disclosure podcast for this finance dude’s photo 😁🌈

This is such an incredible book. Radically personal and political. 💚#nzbooks

"Incoherent misstep" is such a polite way to say "gigantic fuck up", I might start using it at work.

It had to happen at some point. Yesterday I dropped an entire case of wine on the stockroom floor. Entry in the health and safety register just reads "BE MORE CAREFUL, ME!"

Finally signed up for Good Bitches Baking! The rage is overwhelming me a little at the moment, and I’m hoping that baking and giving kai will help me reconnect with hope and joy.

This is upsetting on so many levels. Banning new prescriptions is extremely harmful and doing this during trans awareness week, a few days before the transgender day of remembrance just makes it so much worse. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

If you need any evidence that our trans whānau bare the brunt of this society that serves none of us. We should be protecting our trans whānau at all costs.

$4 BILLION to save 'up to 10 minutes' during peak traffic. Fucking hell - imagine what that $4B could do for housing, education, health, etc, in Aotearoa.

Are they though?

Please don't email a company to say you "love supporting NZ-owned companies, love sustainability, can I have a discount because I want to buy [an unremarkable number of items]?" 🙄

Invited people round for a bbq, so now we HAVE to clean the bbq. Genius!

Not looking forward to all the fawning media coverage that Foodstuffs will get for donating just over $300 per store per year to a charity helping families facing hardship. www.fmcgbusiness.co.nz/fsni-partner...

If it all goes to plan, these are going to be blueberries one day! 🇳🇿🌿

Our vet diagnosed Bea with 'garbagitis' this week. She's so bloody proud of herself, the little hoover.

I know some NZ politicians who could do with reading the entire BWB back catalogue...

Oh my god, National are so fucking out of touch and useless. This is a genuine Facebook post. Over 450 comments and I didn't see anything positive. #nzpol

I've spent way too much time at work making this gif, to send to a customer who emailed me to express their anger at my use of the word 'Aotearoa'. This song was released in 1982, and I don't recall any people having fucking conniptions about it. (But I was 6, so maybe I missed it?)

Super impressed myself by correctly using the brickwork term "pointing" today. Then ruined it by saying "that's the right word, aye?"

Someone just emailed to ask if they could use my workplace for a professional nude photoshoot. 😳

What rich eejit in Aotearoa is paying $9 for three over-packaged, imported, pre-shucked pieces of corn?

Today's queer agenda included: - getting a trailer load of dirt for the garden - going to the local Women's Day of Action event in my amazing new hoodie - grocery shopping - admiring my ngutukākā Busy day!

I'm facing a tough decision over on Facebook... #nzpol

Jesus H Christ. One of our local councillors has posted on Facebook that he is sad and angry at the murder of Charlie Kirk. Nzpol Here's a snippet:

The 3-tear-old is staying the night and my partner was putting her to bed. All I could hear was "I'm gonna marry [muffled]! I'm gonna marry [muffled]!". Then D said "Well, you've got plenty of time to decide." It was BURGERS. She wants to marry burgers. 😂

This is ... a terrible way to make laws. So of course it's David fucking Seymour. #nzpol

Spring has reached our wee house, with 12-15 tūī feeding and flapping and fighting in every kōwhai tree. One even tried to bully this chonky bugger but they were having none of it.

This has McPhail and Gadsby vibes 😂 #nzpol

Our defense starts on Wednesday, so let us know if you can come along!

How am I supposed to work when there's a dog chasing rabbits in my office?

Um, Adidas, I do know what you're trying to say here, but... those two words mean something else entirely 😬

Oh gods, someone on a local Facebook page is doing a survey to help inform the local government elections: Do you think we pay too much/not enough/about the right amount in rates? That’s going to be really, hugely informative and not at all skewed. 🙄🙄🙄

Join us this Monday night in Auckland! Shaun Hendy on 'The Covid Response' with Siouxsie Wiles, chaired by Toby Manhire. 📅 Mon 25 Aug | ⏰ 5.30pm doors, 6pm start 📍 Old Government House, 24 Princes St, Auckland Free public event, no RSVP. Nau mai, haere mai! www.bwb.co.nz/events/the-cov...

Saw a young person in a cafe wearing low rise, wide leg, Roxy-on-the-butt jeans... The clothes of my 20s are now vintage! <screams in late-40s>

Bea doing her best 'bugger' dog, while we wait for the vet to come back with test results. 🐕

I saw a branded truck today and now I'll have a certain song in my head for weeeeeeeeeeks

Oh FFS. This will NOT reduce the price of items in the supermarket. Any pennies saved in the labelling process will just go into the shareholders' pockets. (Removed screenshot cos I couldn't stand looking at his face.) www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...