How is there any dignity in elderly care when people aren’t being showered for TWO WEEKS. And only eating 1/4 of a meal because there isn’t enough time to ensure they can eat. This is absolutely grim reading. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

This is THE best wedding cake cutting thingy I have ever seen. I love it! Juuuust brilliant.

Well I guess Sunday chores aren’t going to happen today…

Today, attempting to recreate my fave salad of all time, avocado, butter bean, quinoa, tomato, red onion + fresh lime juice. I’ve given up on ever finding physalis / cape gooseberry ever 😭, so will try a mango coulis with it instead!

A massive thanks to you all for the support and engagement this term. Also please go and vote by 12 noon tomorrow. Drop your votes to a Woolworths or Library (don’t post it). No papers? Enrol & special vote at the locations at the bottom of this link. voteauckland.co.nz/en/informati...

In light of the new Tom Scott album release today - I had to share this GREAT playlist curated by him I've just uncovered - with the greatest name that I want to dedicate to ALL the introverts out there open.spotify.com/playlist/3NU...

I was an 18 year old on the benefit. I’d crashed out of school with 4 school cert subjects, and living away from home. I was applying for any admin job I could, and sent myself on a computer course to certify skills I already had. I needed a leg up, a hand from up the ladder, not a push backwards.

Some job-search “highlights” from an 18yo of my acquaintance: - applied for f/t retail job, was “interviewed” via AI/video 🤯, didn’t get job - applied for p/t retail job, was one of 3000, didn’t get job - got short-term gig shilling vapes in malls (required own transport + lots of driving) Grim.

LOVE

Getting scoped out by some locals today

'Put your clocks forward for the summer' - Noj Toobad

Seeing Snoop perform “still Dre” with a didgeridoo in the back at the afl grand final is absolutely the reason I moved to Melbourne #afl #catslions #footy

“What are we having for tea?” Asks the 7 year old “Ratatouille” “Whaaaat? I don’t want to eat a rat and a tūī?!” He Was Horrified. Maybe I should rename to “Bird of the year for dinner”

Absolutely f*!# this noise. I did a clinical trial for the RSV vaccine while pregnant 8 years ago to help stop the huge amounts of babies hospitalised for it - this is awful, and dangerous, and will absolutely inflame dropping vaccination numbers. This is absolutely awful.

Kitted up for the #breakers game today

7 year old gems: “why are there spring onions, and no summer or autumn or winter onions?”

Needed a bit of sunshine today. Very much missing my garden full of freesias and daffs and tulips

Even the local trees are supporting the hawks today #HawksCats #AFL #Footy

Oh my goodness I have to share these utterly delightful looking and delicious sounding mooncakes from my favourite bakery!! Jasmine Green Tea, Pomelo & Grapefruit sounds right up my alley shop.leyeahllow.com.au/products/vio...

Hey #BOTY #Kikorangi, just a reminder from Peppy that I have a LOT of native bird enamel pins and sticker designs...while I may not have EVERY bird, I do give a portion of profits to Trees That Count every month. Snag some goodies, support a local artist, and celebrate birds! pepperraccoon.com

But I love all the birds. They're all my birds of the year.

This hilarious kookaburra just tried to steal a chip out of my 7 year olds mouth, and then came back and stole a chip off my 6 year olds’ plate. Wowsers.

TIL you can buy the afl guernseys from games - I have so many questions!! Are they washed????? auctions.officialmemorabilia.com.au/iSynApp/allA...

Definitely from Melbourne now - wearing footy team kit day after a big win 💛💛💛

Oodies make the best cat beds.

Blurgh I love a homemade stovetop hot chocolate - but the skin that forms? Yuck yuck yuck.

Trump, Nash, Marokopa - thinking of all the survivors of a lot of things today ❤️

Don’t know why but we made up the phrase “toastie pie” about being all snugged up and warm in our wee fam. I just hope those wee kids are toastie pie, and having a couple of treats, and feel safe. I can’t imagine how frightened and worried and anxious they must be. They’ll be in shock.

Dinner last night, cheese for days.

How now

School disco, enchanted forest theme - so think fairies in wee fairy and animal outfits - and it feels like 8.7 degrees. The poor kids will get hypothermia!

Like clockwork. ⛈️🚲🫡

Caturday! Flatwhite, blanky, cat snuggles - fave way to kick off the weekend

It me.

Crew I’m delighted to say we have a new campaign at NZ Geographic—let’s find Ned the lefty snail a mate! Have a look in your garden. Do any of the snails’ shells coil to the right? Only 1 in 40,000 coil left - and lefties can only mate w/ other lefties cos their shells get in the way 😭 nzgeo.com/Ned

Me: Hooooorrrraaaay I sold a book today!! woohoooo Also me: Wow that's the first one I've sold this YEAR. 😓

This comment about the Qantas employment case “He described the lengthy legal battle between the TWU and Qantas as “no ordinary case” and said he had “hesitation in reaching a conclusion” as to whether Qantas was “truly contrite or rather engaging in performative remorse” sounds like…

Okay this is one of my fave things ever ever ever - @pepperraccoon.com have you seen it? Relevant to your bird interests! It's Tiritiri Matangi wplace.live?lat=-36.6010...

I bet all these people in support of limiting Te Reo absolutely loved Riverdance

I’m often saying “nz rugby could never” to everything AFL over here - but seriously how amaze is this supporters kit - it’s available in kids AND adults sizes. I freaking LOVE it.

Friday - leftover whatever-needs-eating lunch day. - pink mince (mince + vege + beeeeeetroot) - couscous - “sludge” (super thick vege soup mix with loads of pulses) - veges from sausage chorizo stovetop casserole Topped with my fave two hot sauces

Love me a bit of Sade.

Started my wee rolife Sakura wine alley kit that I got for my bday yesterday. It’s very cute, and really easy to put together, easier than Lego!

The number one thing I miss about home are the birbs. The noisy Magpies and corellas and cuckoos are just too much for me 😅 Love the bats tho!

Love living in Melbourne - but super struggling with grey days and “feels like” temps of 7.4 degreeeeeees

Fat Freddy's Drop, along with Amy Winehouse, basically kept the CD & DVD Store chain alive about two years longer than it would otherwise have lasted. I sold so many copies of 'Based on a True Story' to European tourists who wanted to take some NZ music home it probably showed up in Stats NZ data

🫢

I’m always so amazed when I see Van Gogh paintings up close, how much of the canvas you can see. They’re always so beautiful to me. NGV impressionist exhib was absolutely wonderful, one of the first in this morning so had a few of the rooms pretty much on my own.

Live jazz with little old men in their late 60’s jamming at our local is just the Sunday afternoon I needed ☺️

Ngā whetū o Matariki ✨