Looks like a rejected illustration for a Philip Pullman book #nuttermail

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Today I told a former friend who lives in France that I didn’t want to catch up when they come to NZ in January because I unfriended his wife for posting her support of the great replacement theory. He said he didn’t know what that was and would chat to her. #amIamarriagewrecker

Aperol does what?

Whakairo by Kereama Taepa at the newly opened Tauranga Art Gallery - as viewed through the app on my phone

Did they have to use the word come?

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In the fruit and veg shop today, an elderly Italian man, dapper in braces, lecturing two women waiting in line about how "People in this country know NOTHING! The artichoke has been used in Italian cuisine for CENTURIES!' He was buying an ice cream. I will never know who brought up artichokes

No fan of this creepazoid, but at least he admitted it before the elections, unlike our government who's still clinging to their flagrant bullshit

Didn’t quite make the deadline to apply for the MA in Creative Writing? Good news: we’ve extended it until Friday. It’s not too late to come and write your poetry/fiction/creative nonfiction/script with us next year!

Robert Redford and George R.R. Martin cameos in series 3 of Dark Winds.

New novella up for pre-order. Slow-burn friends to lovers mid-spice rom-com, in the Miss Lovelock series. Trying a different tone with this one, less of the mildly bonkers external plot-line, more focus on the characters (more grit, also more swearing). On the Amazons and Kindle Unlimited. #romcoms

Lolz to The NY Times

What I see if I look down #Olive

Hawke's Bay right now - stay safe everyone

Big paw #Olive

Mini blep #Reginald

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May I present a dramatic pigeon. Hawke’s Bay A&P show yesterday

I wish I could be as relaxed as my cat. His name is Reginald and he’s actually a lot more feral than he looks in this photo while also being deeply affectionate - a contradiction

My Lock Screen

Trans people are increasingly being painted as a threat to women. We’re supporting @nionwomen.bsky.social to fight back against this harmful narrative. 👇 https://goodlaw.social/xmgc

Not a National voter obvs, but we ended up sitting next to Jim Bolger in a corporate box at the Wgtn stadium when the All Whites were playing Bahrain in the world cup qualifiers, and he leapt up and hugged my husband when we saved the penalty

My lap #catpile

“Fat chance, economan. Why acknowledge the wider policy decisions that fed into people’s circumstances when you could just tell them to buck up their ideas and move to Dargaville? Why rethink economic orthodoxy when you could ask people to consider not being poor?”

There are so many reasons not to read Dame Jilly now but in the 1980s her books blew everything else out of the water. She made me think writing could actually be huge fun (all double entendres deliberate)

Everyone got their summer flea and tick treatment today and this is Reg’s response #Burmese

Olive visits the neighbours #shameless

The strongest National supporter I know told me last week how worried he was that his grandson had applied for so many jobs and was still unemployed. I think this comment will infuriate even him cause he believes in work & knows people aren't sitting on the couch. www.nzherald.co.nz/rotorua-dail...

Hawke's Bay and nearby folk, the Hawke's Bay Readers & Writers Festival kicks off Friday 10th October! Here's one of our awesome Friday night sessions, Understanding Te Tiriti with Roimata Smail. Tickets only $15!

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Post something random or have an awful October

‘This farrago of fantasy, menace, and autocratic peacocking is the kind of thing that the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan evocatively called “boob bait for the Bubbas” and that George Orwell might have called “prolefeed.”’ A must read

Excited to introduce Vibes from Meta. Eat your slop, piggies!

Yeah, tell me more about this antichrist thing? "Another Epstein schedule notes a planned lunch with tech billionaire Peter Thiel on Nov. 27, 2017, and a breakfast with conservative political strategist Steve Bannon on Feb. 16, 2019..." www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

You cannot be pro peace while witnessing genocide, that’s just fucking stupid

On Fridays, I look forward to The Betoota Advocate email newsletter. From today's...

This what plain speaking and honesty and courage sounds like - should be shown to every politician to shame and train them

Felt better about the world after spectating at the national men's netball A grade final in Hawkes Bay yesterday: so inclusive, so much queer pride, heaps of te reo, haka, waiata, collegial, warm, supportive. Team I was supporting, Waikato-Tainui, lost by 1 point in an absolute banger of a match

Weird moment: am rewatching the TV series Spooks, not seen it since the early 2000s. Episode began and I had a sudden vision of an Inspector Morse episode where the villain was played by Ian McDiarmid (Emperor Palpatine). Two scenes in and lo who appears but Ian McDiarmid. Brains are amazing

Cold and wet outside this morning #fourcats

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📣📣 Check out our tax calculator! It’s super easy to use. Find out how much you can save with our Tax Policy. Click the link below! ⬇️⬇️✨ #NZPol

My smallest cat vomited on my head at 4am. She did not apologise

“No? Not even going to try?” 😂😂😂

On tomorrow (Tuesday)evening, come along!

Wellington peeps! If you can face it, check out this exhibition on misogyny and online harassment. It’s on till Monday www.teauahaevents.com/home/the-gla...