“...This will enable schools to do significant maintenance over the coming summer holidays..." Stand by for summer holidays to be cancelled so there's someone around to do the work...

TLDR: Luxon tight.

Anti-bat discrimination aside...make sure you a. vote and b. validate your vote via email....

In a stunning and totally unexpected display of moral fibre, the government privatises ACT where it is found to be unproductive, inefficient and unprofitable and is broken up for parts...

A little me time... sjponeillmodelsblog.wordpress.com/2025/09/22/b... #scalemodel #histscalemodel

Map showing nations where Luxon and Willis are NOT taking the economy.... #nzpol #MostMockedGovernment #OneTermGovernment

"...a sociopathic choice..."

Govt announces money it's already announced... #ReannouncementRubbish #OneTermGovernment #MostMockedGovernment #PerfomativePolitics

We really need to surge into getting these reflectors built into all outdoors clothing and equipment that is on the Kiwi market... #Lifesaving recco.com/recco-expand...

Aaaaah....the good old days of a Pentium 90 and a whole 16 Mb of RAM....

All of the below, peeps. I've been working in a regional hospital the last couple of weeks and you have no idea how stretched everything is and how hard the staff are working just to keep it going....

Cauliflower in Cheese Sauce It's been around a year sonce we started with Wonky Box for our main fruit and vege supplies. It's been around SIX years since I wrote anything even remotely foodie - just with stuff going on...so...onwards and upwards... We started with the small weekly Wonly Box but…

Forrest Gump had it right: stupid is as stupid does...

As a Cantabrian cyclist, all I can say is MORE SPEED BUMPS AND BIKE PATHS. I don't care if a couple drivers are mad, I DON'T WANT TO DIE.

There are only two 'e's in #BitterWellington....

Unlike Labour which, respite some excellent alternate leadership potential, stick with a wet bus ticket who refuses to work and play well with others...

When the party is so desperate for change that Chris Bishop looks like an option....

One if the biggest reasons we have sub-optimal local govt is poor voter engagement. Please vote.

Seriously...? C'mon, Team Bluesky, you know what to do... www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

Jeff Bell sums it up perfectly. www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

When you're rich and out of touch like Heather, it's all about what others can do for you, not what you can do for others... Not supporting local, where we can, means more closed businesses, more struggling small towns as people have to move away... www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/heath...

Just published, available soon from www.venturerpublications.com #RNZAF #Aotearoa

Brilliant writing and great reading. I only knew Christchurch I the period between the abandonment of the motorway idea and the earthquakes. This is a fascinating prequel to my early years...

Blue Hill breakfast... #Owhango #RuapehuNZ #CruisingSH4

Luxon is like ScoMo but not as cool, suave or debonair... ....or competent, professional or engaging...

At least the planes taking thousands of Kiwis to live in Australia won't be empty on the way back.... #nzpol

Waiting for a ferry... #nzpol #MostMockedGovernment #OneTermGovernment

Hah...! How many of them have been to the School of Reckons...?

A time before Winston...

There's hope for future careers for Luxon and Willis after all....

RNZ: "Health NZ will have to prove the senior doctors' union has "breached good faith" in order for the ERA to overrule the bargaining process." How embarrassing for the government when the ERA - like everyone else - tell Simeon Brown that he is wrong (again).... www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

"...we keep talking all the time..." TBF, she probs wishes he would just STFU....

#RuapehuNZ #Raetihi #CrusingSH4

September 27 6-30PM, Ruapehu College in Ohakune... #RuapehuNZ #Ohakune #CruisingSH4

If any emergency responders are interested in participating... canterbury.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... #Aotearoa

That snivelling little snot-weasel needs to put some scrubs on (I'm sure there's a specific scrub colour for snivelling snot-weasels - and spend a couple of days working in a busy ED...

#BitterWellington needs another tap in the Inbox...

Ruapehu's issues could be resolved by giving it a guaranteed slice of tourism-related GST to cover tourism-related infrastructure, especially roads and bridges. The same for other areas with low ratepayer bases but high tourism numbers... newsroom.co.nz/2025/09/17/s...

Clueless: Without a clue... At least, Caine and Kingsley were funny and got the job done eventually...

And people think this guy is Prime Minister material...?

The boat isn't the only thing full of that substance....

Back on track....

Bad bet. #nzpol Listener cartoon from early 2024

An INTENDED result of going after free speech is it scares people into being silent in a moment where we need everyone to be the loudest.

Climate crisis? What climate crisis...? Bishop is such a muppet...

Maybe this "revolution" just isn't worth it...

Luxon's resigning....? #NZPOL

Put. McAnulty. In. Charge. Of. Labour. FFS.

Note the dates - this isn't a Post-election/mid-term update...it's a total collpase over less than a month...