So yesterday I went to the maiden speech of the newest MP to Parliament, Georgie Dansey who is from Kirikiriroa Hamilton (of course!). It's been a long time since I've been to Parliament (like, my year 8 class trip in 2005) and I was really struck by a few things.

Do I need a Snapper for non airport buses? Or can I pay cash?

Just noting that if you want to show Tamatha Paul some love after the last couple of weeks, now’s a great time to volunteer! We have a phone bank this Thursday, 6-8pm and a door knock this Sunday 12-2pm. I train you personally before you have a crack 🙂 www.greens.org.nz/events_near_...

Exciting plot twist this morning - flight to Wellington was delayed by 25 minutes and then un-delayed by 15!

I do think about these political commentators (add the air quotes yourself here) who actually just wax about the outcome they want. Edwards does it all the time too. It's more than just a misunderstanding, it's a fundamental willing for the parties they're "analysising" to be different.

I don't currently have the words for my anger and frustration seeing climate events happen all over the motu and knowing - we could have been better prepared. We could have made different choices. People don't have to die. I'm trying terribly hard to not be bitter.

So, packing for my trip to Wellington next week, I understand it's very cold? Currently?

Nothing like trying to get a pattern you need 2.4m of fabric for, out of 2m of fabric that's since been discontinued. And it's satin crepe.

This is so funny to me. Yes, interview the former mayor who was a known member of the National Party about how he thinks local politics should be "apolitical". No no, no irony there whatsoever. www.waikatotimes.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

Maybe the most controversial opinion I have, but I really thought there would be more hockey in Heated Rivalry...

Smarter legal people than me, what recourse would there be in NZ of someone feeing your likeness into AI? Obv political cartoonists spoof a likeness all the time but that's not the same as feeding your image into an AI dataset.

Small irrelevant gripe in the scheme of things but current sewing pattern I'm using converted inches into a decimal so instead of saying it's a ⅜th seam allowance they've said 0.39in seam - despite the fact inches are marked in 8ths on a ruler, not 10ths. Juuuust annoys me.

I've been catching up on some of my craft chores - namely putting away all the fabric I bought in January that's been sitting on my cutting table. Sometimes I'm like UGH why did I buy this and then I check the receipt and I'm like oh silk suiting for $12/m I know why I bought this 😎

I want one of those apothecary shelves but instead of filling it with knick nacks, I want to fill it with my knitted sock collection

As a Hamiltonian gracing your fair city today, our humidity is often very very high, but not often coupled with 29°. This is like walking in a soup, and it is very unpleasant.

Did I bring my breakfast with me on the train? Yes. Do I now regret the soggy wheatbix as I can smell mince and cheese pies on the train? Yes.

According to Tama Potaka and Ryan Hamilton, both speaking at the Stack the Station rally, the Te Huia train will get a 12 month extension! Would love to have that confirmed by someone in the National Party who has any actual say over that.

All the way down in Queenstown, NZ, I spotted little character hats with ears at the Saturday market, flapping in the wind, not far from a stall selling donuts with aprons that said Minneapolis, Minnasota USA. Heartbreaking what small, banal things are now reminders of fascism and authoritarianism.

Kirikiriroa/ Hamilton folks. It would be great to have a strong show of support for Te Huia this Sunday 2pm at Hamilton Frankton Station. A key decision is coming up in a couple of weeks on extending the trial by another year and your support could help get this across the line.

Councillors being like 🥺😱 did you know there were 23 accidents at the Morrinsville Rd intersection, we just learnt that today! 👉👈 I guess it's good we're now doing these upgrades, and they're paid for by the govt! ...when that info was available for their whole DOWN WITH CYCLING SPENDING campaign

So many terrifying things happening in the world. Here's a few beautiful things from the last few days to just remember they exist. Been doing a lot of rest in order to be ferocious again soon.

Another trope I've heard a couple of times recently is that "the Greens used to be the party of environmentalism ...and they should go back to being just that" ...despite the fact we've more than doubled our number of MPs in that time 🤔

Thank you all for the great recommendations! Just happened across the Robertson & Heather book in a bookstore in Arrowtown so delighted to have picked that up. Next stop, binoculars.

#TrainNews: Community advocates are ramping up pressure on the Government to commit to a permanent passenger rail network connecting Auckland, Waikato and the Bay of Plenty, ahead of a key funding decision on the future of Te Huia. Via Waatea News: waateanews.com/2026/01/26/r...

We need this to be permanent and expand! - please sign: our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/go...

Anywhere in Queenstown or nearby that would sell me 2.25mm double pointed needles? No, Spotlight doesn't stock them...

When the shoes you bought specifically to show off your hand knit socks work out perfectly 😍😎

Unreasonably annoyed that both RNZ and One News both ran stories with Teeks as the first musician on stage at the new theatre. I guess the 450 local performers that were on stage Monday-Wednesday we're just chopped liver then.

Maybe a silly question, does Mr Resetti put all your stuff somewhere or does it go in the bin 🤔🤔

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

When I tried to put $100,000 in the budget to purchase scientific data on how increased heat and flooding would effect our city, I was mocked, ridiculed, and bullied on the public record by my fellow councillors because we "couldn't afford" it. A hundred thousand dollars. *looks into camera*

Because we're not married and there's a goblin that lives in my brain, I take joy in introducing Brad in social settings, especially when the set-up is: Someone else: "and this is my husband, [name]" Me: "...and this is Not My Husband, Brad" This got quite a few laughs last night

Because it's my mums birthday, I cleaned out her inbox for her (at her request). Boy do I have some thoughts on charities who sign up elderly people for monthly donations with no way to cancelling the direct debit. One charity was getting $500/year from her because she didn't know how to stop it.

Jk the HCC library has a whole page on it hamiltonlibraries.co.nz/digital-libr...

I made pita! From scratch! 🫓🤩

So, if I did want to get into birding, what should I know? NZ hot takes only pls. Ideally I'd like to have like a pokedex I could tick birds off in, might begrudlingly use iNaturalist if I have to (had just unkind experience using it tenish years ago). Alternatively a good book I could annotate?

Fb memories serving up some very funny jokes that got absolutely no likes from my fellow 21yos at the time 😂

If you want to be a part of changing the things you don't like in the world, you do have to engage with the actual issues and then provide political will for the actual solutions.

The venn diagram of whinging about the regional theatre selling naming rights and ppl who mad that council gave them their $1m in operational costs early is a circle. If you don't want theatres to have corporate names on them, accept they need more public funding - not less.

This is really the damning part of this Newsroom story about the rates cap gimmick. They had their performative policy and weren't very interested in being told whether it made sense or not. newsroom.co.nz/2026/01/15/r...

or if u don't have the money to spend on books, request them at ur local library that helps authors as well 💚

Follow up question for the kobo users. I thought I'd make a cover for my mum, because that's very cute, anything you want your case to include? Should I knit it or sew it?

Anyone used a rug doctor on a couch before...

Added to my calendar!

Oh so THIS is Wellington on a good day.

Not feeling optimistic about our flight out of Wellington today

On the flight yesterday, there were two small boys travelling unaccompanied sitting opposite us. They held hands for probably a third of the flight, had never flown before.

You know what, I get it. I get why gazpacho was invented now.

Today's approach to pain management:

Two pro tips - I have fifteen minute timers set in the parental control settings, and no data plan. Can't doom scroll when I'm out and waiting to pick up pizza, but I get to check it in the morning and be like oh yes, world still on fire.