Fishery Observers are our eyes at sea and we are failing to protect them docedge.nz/events/fatal...

Saturday night - bridgeway theatre. I’ll be doing a q&a

Don’t sit this one out. The Regulatory Standards Bill is a direct threat to all of us. It’s a gift to corporates. It favours privatisation & cuts to public services. If there’s one thing you do this weekend, make a submission and get a mate to do one too. Closes 1pm, Mon 23 June 2025. #NZPol

OR JUST NOT FUCKING USE IT EVER

The lunar eclipse is going to have to work hard to beat this

Nurses, social workers working as receptionists as ‘back office’ public sector cuts bite

Swim o’clock

The tomato sauce could be a bit off www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3605...

Speaking of dysfunctional countries, this Marquez book might this years greatest ocean read. (I’m about 70 years late to it, ur what a cracker) Great background reading for the 100 years of solitude series

Annual visit to the albino peacock

Moon over Mahurangi

Dusk is excellent. I thought I’d discovered a great new author (for me) but realised I’d read Limberlost a few years ago - also excellent

Whangaroa

Great to finish a year with 2 excellent local books.

Hattie Salmon wrote a story. I love it. Short story winner: Logbook www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...

Ram Raid Mums - tonight 730 on TVNZ1. - support local documentary, and the amazing mums trying to change their and their children’s’ lives

Tusiata Avia is right, this is a beautiful book.

This book is bloody wonderful

Turn off your phone and read this wonderful book.

Grey Lynn graffiti

Planting on Motutapu gives me good feelings.

Not an unattractive city…

Citizen Science! Kikorangi ‘We want to hear about your MOST RECENT fishing trip. We are keen to know where have you caught fish, did it have mushy white flesh, and when you were out. If your fish were fine we want to know that too.’

Can we stop pouring poo into this please?

The Creative sector is bigger then Space

The Mt Maunganui Industrial area is one of the most polluted air spaces in NZ. Toxic dust from factories blows over homes and schools and marae and kills 13 people a year. But regulators seem powerless to stop it www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/i...

Pekepeke-kiore - one of the nicest mushrooms ever

The spring seedlings arrived with the promise (?) of a summer where chillies don’t rot before they redden

Starting on the Booler shortlist

I was honoured to be able to help with the Origins series. Scotty brings a touch or magic as a presenter. On TVNZ+ now www.tvnz.co.nz/shows/origins

So much on last night, the crowd was a small but enthusiastic one for Graeme Jeffries and his marxaphone at the Unitarian church, but we bloody loved it.