Its been so lovely making new memories with my tamariki. 2 years of saving up for this 🥵🙏🏼🙌🏻

Excellent reading spot 😅🥵

Has he broken the RSNZ code of conduct? Probably not (the bar is high). Has he done himself, his university and RSNZ proud? Absolutely not. It's not enough to just scrape through. These dudes need to do better. So. much. better.

This guy is a Fellow of RSNZ and received their prestigious Rutherford Medal in 2020 (worth $100K) for "preeminent research, scholarship or innovation". This is what "merit-based" appointments serve up. Absolutely shameful. I'm not sure I've ever seen such a bad interview.

I am willing to believe that an English prof was oblivious to the news cycle & did not realise he was talking money with a registered sex offender, but if you are a Nabokov expert you should realise that you will attract pedos who joyfully misinterpret Lolita, such as this Newsroom journalist.

We on holiday 🥲🥰

Kaea is going a little senile in his old age. He still takes his role as guard dog very seriously though he never barks when we are out walking but when people walk past our house he always barks VERY loudly.

Jesus christ

Evergreen reminder that this was something she came up with, not something she was advised to do. In fact she was pretty specifically advised it was a terrible idea (it was) but she went ahead with it anyway because something something Not Real Science

PSA

Hue tunnel update: Of course we have started getting powdery mildew with all the rain so I have had to thin out the leaves. I have stopped hand polinating and have started removing new hue to the old ones have a chance to grow

Chickens runnings for snacks is very cute 😆😍

PLEASE if you can help with funds for Te Araroa whānau to help Manaaki Matakāoa get shit done, helping whānau in need during the floods that have destroyed their whenua and have cut them off from everyone. www.manaakimatakaoa.com

Love this rug sooo much! One of my absolutely favourite things

My kids keep loosing their hats at school so I am hand stitching their names on it 😆🫠

Today we ate cucumber, tomato, lettuce, corn, bok choy and strawberries all grown in our māra! Such a privilege to have and eat from a garden 🙌🏻

I am all packed for our holiday 😅😉

Does anyone have a good sandwhich bread recipe? I cannot afford a loaf of bread a day for these kids 😮‍💨🫠

Sometimes I like to read romances in the sauna and othertimes i read books like this 😅 i am a very multifaceted woman

I am in bed having my morning coffee and its been nearly two hours since i have heard any noises from my kids 😅😅😅

I will be looking for an RA soon as my amazing postdoc has got a permanent role on our team. I will be looking for an emerging Māori researcher who has a social science background preferably :) dm me if you know of anyone or want to kōrero

Tonight in the māra

This dahlia has taken soooooo many days to open up! If anyone in aotearoa is keen to swap tubers next season let me know 😅

I once wrote an entire funding proposal at one of those horrible kids jumping places. So i thought id try my luck again today but massive school holiday programme just bought all their million kids here and it is so hectic 😮‍💨

Can someone with good library access pretty please download me a book chapter?

I started saving up to take my boys on an overseas holiday 2 years ago and we are going next week 🎉🛬

Honestly our whare is so beautiful. It has curved walls and lovely native wood and also this sunset window 😍

Nice to have a slow morning after a busy weekend of stacking wood and painting 😮‍💨☕️

first coat on the first wall of the house painted! 😍

one of the reasons i started running was to keep up with my kids. Now im faster than them 😅😎

I am writing a poem about why i hate publishing in science journals 😅

Big and little hue babies 😍😍

So depressing when the discourse of science as pure, separable from, and not related to, real world actions is being perpetuate by those with the power to change this... www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

In a zoom meeting and one of my kids is doing starjumps in his undies and the other is reading next to me with his foot on me 🫠🫠🫠

Love been told by editors I need to reduce the word count but also need to define every Māori word in the text 🫠🫠🫠

In two more pay cycles my student loan will finally be under $20k and I cannot wait to be rid of it!!!!

I generally love bugs BUT NOT FLIES IN MY HOUSE. PLEASE GIVE ME FLY KILLING SOLUTIONS

My baby figured out how to stand up on his surfboard yesterday #proudmāmā

Huggles under the hue 😍

I haven't been paid child support since before xmas and now I won't get it until the end of next month 😮‍💨🫠

The boys and I have been hand pollinating the female flowers everynight 💕🌱

Honestly having no tv is great for my boys they read so much and spend all day playing together and creating their own fun

Book number 5 of the year and its fascinating 😮‍💨👀

So far my 7 y.o after dinner has ate 3 apples and 1 banana and i think i am going to need to take a second job to feed him

Took me all day to do this 😅😅😅😮‍💨 fml

After lots of research I am ready to paint the house 😅 i think i have all the gear and no idea but hey wr ready to roll 😅😅😅

How much firewood does one need??? 🤔🤔

Abundance from my māra 😍

Looks like my bookclub is going to choose this for next month @michaelhobbes.bsky.social what do I dooooooo do I just let them 🥲