Ata mārie

Moon

New in the ‘hood

Huddle

The Waimapihi Christmas tree is up

@fergusthw.bsky.social Zoom in for La Parisienne

lost and all alone

Fuck

conjoined twins

The beautiful weather and promise of summer is nice and all that but there is a large fly in my apartment and how dare it.

@apocalypseelf.bsky.social something you might like

Duh. Accidentally turned off the power switch for my modem. At least I was still on hold with Spark when I realised and didn't have to suffer the embarrassment.

Love a misty walk in Waimapihi

I know this is trivial and ad hominem but Jason Walls has a very annoying voice.

Gnarly

Today I came across the phrase 'odd as a jar of sausages'. Highlight of my day.

They've found the other two children. Thank god.

Kākā flying overhead in the early morning, the sun lighting up their red underwings

Credit to Hipkins for actually saying on national television that Luxon is full of himself.

New on the street

That feeling of quiet embarrassment when you go to reserve a book at the library and find you already have.

@foxylustygrover.bsky.social fyi www.textpublishing.com.au/books/the-mu...

Today in bushwalk adventures, a kākā twice tried to land on my head. (Mistook me in my brown cardigan for a tree, I guess.)

slightly diminish a band: Young Pumice Giants

Nice to see the media are still putting up their most flattering shots of Luxon. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Yeah, this is scandalous. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

So Luxo's been on leave for something like two weeks and on TV just now he looked totally wrecked.

This is good: 'It’s actually quite hard to get a recession in New Zealand, but since 2000, we have had the Global Financial Crisis (GFC), the COVID-19 Lockdown, and now Hon. Nicola Willis.' craigrenney.substack.com/p/its-not-19...

Natura morta

Well, that was a great start to the morning: spilt half my coffee all over the kitchen bench.

The mighty Maitai on a still, chilly Nelson morning

@pacificraft.bsky.social Did you recognise where this is?

Afternoon playlist

Joe Heenan and Peter Fraser rolling in their graves www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Love it when the fire alarm goes off in the middle of the night.

Sam Duckor-Jones at Bowen Galleries

Oh my, there's a new Stereolab imminent.

Will I ever not make myself too much salad?

@dialogcrm.bsky.social I think it was you I had a conversation with on here a while back about Alice Rohrwacher. I watched Corpo Celeste last night, her first feature, and it's worth seeking out I reckon (if you haven't seen it already).

I missed this. Jane Gardam was a recent and very welcome discovery. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

@elizabethknoxnz.bsky.social @fergusthw.bsky.social Have you started feeding the locals yet?

It's getting hard(er) to keep up with this government's dastardliness.

Hope you’re pleased with yourselves, Labour.

Saturday Morning trivia: I didn't know that Tina Cross sang the Shortland Street theme song. (Not that I'd ever actually wondered.)

Oh dear

Chonky

Two years on and Corin still can't correctly pronounce Gabrielle

Quite nice really

salvation

Tonight’s watching (aka Cosy Dens). I’d forgotten this is a Christmas movie.