hey Auckland, it's so cold is it going to ❄️ snow! 🥶

Finally a useful aspect to the 'new' & annoying record button that I usually accidentally knock with an earring or my cheek.. a scam call from visa. The voice started ' you are now being recorded' Reader - phone immediately went dead! 🤣

Excited to see Cityhop members in the Toyota ad. In 2007, HelenClarkNZ launched us calling us the 'wheel deal'. #carshare 75s | Is this an ad for Toyota, or is it just NZ? youtu.be/oQiVsO8vEpg?si… via @YouTube

Screen shot this & and can't remember where, but some of you may like! the anti -ironers!

"My one continuing disappointment is that NZ fails to invest in R & D properly or to use science internationally well. We consider R & D as a luxury for the future, evidence shows it’s core to a nation’s productivity and wealth." @businessdesk.co.nz businessdesk.co.nz/article/fail...

Gold this week from Mary Holm in @businessdesk.nzcow.com 💡 "Is more money better, beyond having enough for the basics? That’s why I called my book "Rich enough, 🪙 "Research has found that beyond a certain point, more wealth can actually make you less happy." businessdesk.co.nz/article/fail...

And just when you thought the rain couldn't be heavier, the sound gets even louder on the roof! 🌧🌧

a story? @nzherald.nzcow.com be interesting to know some reasons for withdrawing? eg loss of job? big impact ultimately.

Inspired by a friend who urged us to post more flower photos as an antidote to all that is wrong in the world, I give Winter Flowers #1: Luculia pinceana 'Fragrant Cloud'. Strongly perfumed but also frost tender.

It's really sad that these community newspapers are closing, but if i knew where to get one to read (since it's uneconomic to deliver) or they had figured out a way to tell us how to subscribe to the local news maybe they'd still be here? #digital www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3604...

These local papers were an important way for local government candidates to raise profile locally. We need informed voters to vote in LG elections. Sad they are going, could they have promoted them in their own main paper SST? offered online links /subs? www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3604...

Enjoyed interviewing Lance. Best advice, plant a tree 🌳 Lance has planted 14000 + 🌳🌳🌳🏇🐎🏇🏇 businessdesk.co.nz/article/fail...

Lunch time scroll & smile 😅 Stuck in the middle with ewe

I love the generosity of donors who encourage others to give and they match it. 50 % of the air we breathe in a lifetime will have come from the ocean. So many reasons to support this good work, but mainly my kids have loved Goat Island. #science #oceans donate.auckland.ac.nz/givingday

It was a good morning for early 🐦 birds! #tamakimakaurau

Great honesty from Sarah Kennedy in #failfile BusinessDesk NZ on founding Calocurb. 💓 "You need to be singular and obsessed, and you also live with the constant fear of failure." 🪔 " founding a business is a lot harder and takes a lot longer." businessdesk.co.nz/article/fail...

Beautiful morning Tamaki Makaurau

Clearly maintaining the White House dress code is very important

If everyone, all over the world, who didn't like the #potus #zelansky #Vance interview gave some money (whatever they could) to help #Ukraine i know it sounds simple, but if that action helped & was another step to stopping war, be worth it, wouldn't it? #actions #PeoplePower

30 seconds of March 1st arriving. Te Tairāwhiti-first light. 🌅

I love Steve Martin and just saw he was in @saturdaynightlive.bsky.social 16 times... 💪❤️😎 so here is another example of his range! youtu.be/ltnSq4zljGM?...

If you live in New Zealand and know someone with a Tesla, you may like to buy for them $7 or let them know how they can show they aren't a fan of Elon! #antielonteslaclub www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/car...

When the moon is big, it makes me feel closer to loved ones, far far away, we are seeing the same thing at different times!

Good cartoon @thetimes.com

Stop means bloody stop! Can't believe how many people treat 🛑 signs as a give way! I remember my driving instructor saying, you must come to a complete ✋️ stop! I wonder how many fines are given for something like this? 🚗🚘🏍🚴‍♀️🚶‍♂️🚶‍♀️🚗

Time-lapse, 1 February dawning from Okitu Beach, te Tairāwhiti, Aotearoa / New Zealand.

Some gems here like "our society would be more successful if we were open to different knowledge systems, cultural, academia etc." "we need our own ethics to inspire us" Fall down 7 times, stand up 8 - what caused the fall?" #businessdesk businessdesk.co.nz/article/fail...

I present to you crocheted Green Man, the coolest fucking crafted thing I've seen

Sometimes i think no one except the same half a dozen ever write to NZ Herald Letters!

If you live in New Zealand and know someone with a Tesla, you may like to buy for them $7 or let them know how they can show they aren't a fan of Elon! #antielonteslaclub www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/car...

This is good news and about time. Some other silly rules need tweaking too, i went to Fiji for 5 days & couldn't give blood even tho no mozzie bites! #nzblood www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/gay-blood...

A Gretchen Albrecht painting morning 🌄

Any suggestions for email hosting now Gmail is toxic? I have my own domain. I want a non-corporate dickhead provider who won't go "oh now we support fascism and can read all your emails to train our AI on your writing style LOL"

Remember when you were young (!) & it felt like the radio just played love when you felt rejected? well random spotify list gave me these great affirming songs 💪💪 A little respect - Erasure Break out - Swing out sister The Door - Teddy Swims and then It's my Life! youtu.be/b00RCluE5RM?...

Bought a few shares through Sharesies and now really regretting it. $50 to get out per ASX share & $15 for NZX! so much for being a platform to teach & invest in shares for teeny weeny investors & kids! Spread risk takes on new gouging meaning!

Yep agree with this, what's the point of sending people to space when those in wheelchairs can't rely on 'their legs' arriving in one piece, undamaged and the same as when they last used them. #disability #fairness www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3605...

Not just a NZ problem? Cartoons - same theme, different countries and politics. ⁦@nzherald⁩ Meanwhile over in the UK, ⁦@thetimes⁩ and the Labour Government.

Best friend told me I'm a Pluviophile! it's a lover of rain! I get peace of mind when it rains, I like rain, the sound on the roof, i like the smell of the earth and soil 🌧☔️

A typical European car is parked 92% of the time. It spends 1/5th of its driving time looking for parking. Its 5 seats only move 1.5 people. 86% of its fuel never reaches the wheels, and most of the energy that does, moves the car, not the people. Sound efficient? HT @ellenmacarthurfdn.bsky.social

Bishop Mariann Budde: "It requires practice and discipline to be a source of goodness. It's not hard to be negative, or even cynical about the world ..... #courage #no blind eye hope her speech is here! www.threads.net/@dream.foram...

I am enjoying the new subscription to nzlistener. Yes old school hard copy, Mr C & I chat about stories and columns in a way you can't online! Today I've spent more time reading it than NZ HarveyNorman I mean NZ Herald! (oh & Steve Braunias if you like his writing too) This quote tho..."I wonder"

Cordys auctions has about 40 of these beautiful watercolors up for auction (closes tonight). Oscar Kendall nz landscapes circa 1963. Coromandel, Kawau, so charming, delicate and detailed. V good value.

Dipped into this today & this sentence.. one for the times! President Zelensky "i don't want my picture in your offices, have your kids' photos instead, look at them each time you make a decision" #headandheart leadership We are all leaders.

My kind of people.

I don't often walk to my bookshelf, take a book and open it at a page because I am troubled. Today... this!

Sometimes i think a lot of people must be thinking about the.wordle word. 100th monkey theory. Today could have easily been a fail! odd word Wordle 1,311 3/6 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

One of the things I find most inspirational in creating art is engaging with kids on how they perceive it. This is my little nephew & me in the National Gallery. He made a beeline for this Picasso! His excitement is how I approach drawing as you can see in this thread of my art!

😅 Not sure about the live stream whispered chatter while @nzherald.bsky.social everyone waits for PM to arrive. "haven't been in this room before" directions on getting around Wn, & then that recognizable laugh!

Pretty clear my genre of choice! Started Morality in early December & loved. So much underlining. Yes "Morality matters! Why? because we cherish relationships, care for liberty... because we fear the impovershhment of groups within society when the only sources of value are material." so much good.

About to read NZHarvey Norman, oops i mean NZ Herald. I know we should be grateful for advertisers but gee 10 of 30 pages in front section!