@kferrand.bsky.social
Yet another tedious GenXer on yet another social media app, yay.. Collect too many books and read too few of them..bumble around on YouTube as Christchurch Review of Books… youtube.com/@kferrandCRB mastodon.nz/@kferrand pixelfed.social/@kferrand2
Happy Waitangi Day!
06.02.2026 00:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Its here, the final Laundry Files book. I’ve being reading this series from Charles Stross for large chunk of my life, more than 15 years..
Emergency biscuit
18.01.2026 01:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Holding up an iPad with an ebook copy of “I Deliver Parcels in Beijing” onscreen
Holding up a copy of “Everything Is Tuberculosis”
Holding up a copy of “Slow Gods”
Holding up a copy of “The Routledge Companion to Cyberpunk Culture”
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Starting 2026 trying to ingest all this.
Chubby-faced middle aged man holds up a copy of “The Martians” by David Baron
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120 years ago the media had Mars-mania..
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A quick look at this little book
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Newly shaven-headed, chubby-faced middle aged man holds up a copy of Junji Ito’s Cat Diary: Yon & Mu
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Gotta get cats back into my life somehow 🐈
Chubby-faced middle aged man holds up a copy of “Going South” by Colin Hogg and smiles at the camera with a neutral background
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Settled on reading this one, “Going South” by Colin Hogg from 2015…really enjoying it and racing through the pages this afternoon. It takes the framework of a road trip around the southern most parts of New Zealand’s South Island and adds plenty of personal and local history.
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Starting on one or two…or maybe all of these tonight.
Mural painted on the side of a building depicting a contemporary pacifc island girl(?) wearing a hat, denim jacket and skirt. Pasifika style patterns form the background. Her legs are in water up to above her knees. City buildings are waterlogged on either side of her. A message about climate change is in the lower left.
Mural painted on the side of a building depicting a contemporary pacifc island girl(?) wearing a hat, denim jacket and skirt. Pasifika style patterns form the background. Her legs are in water up to above her knees. City buildings are waterlogged on either side of her. A message about climate change is in the lower left.
Mural painted on the side of a building depicting a contemporary pacifc island girl(?) wearing a hat, denim jacket and skirt. Pasifika style patterns form the background. Her legs are in water up to above her knees. City buildings are waterlogged on either side of her. A message about climate change is in the lower left.
Mural painted on the side of a building depicting a contemporary pacifc island girl(?) wearing a hat, denim jacket and skirt. Pasifika style patterns form the background. Her legs are in water up to above her knees. City buildings are waterlogged on either side of her. A message about climate change is in the lower left.
Newly completed mural, Manchester Street, Christchurch.
06.12.2025 11:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A black and white photograph from the 1940s showing a young girl (my Mother) trying to hold a large tabby cat.
It was my mother’s funeral today, here she is in the 1940s holding a cat, a life long habit.
05.12.2025 04:48 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Take me to your leader (Detail of mural off Colombo Street, Christchurch)
27.11.2025 18:13 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I don’t remember anything about this
27.11.2025 18:08 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A street art mural on the side of a commercial building depicting a young woman holding up a mobile phone in her right hand as she emerges or submerges from a sea of text below.
A street art mural on the side of a commercial building depicting a young woman holding up a mobile phone in her right hand as she emerges or submerges from a sea of text below.
A street art mural on the side of a commercial building depicting a young woman holding up a mobile phone in her right hand as she emerges or submerges from a sea of text below.
A street art mural on the side of a commercial building depicting a young woman holding up a mobile phone in her right hand as she emerges or submerges from a sea of text below. A chubby-faced middle aged man (the photographer) stands in the foreground.
A mural called ‘Ophelia’ - Colombo Street, Christchurch
26.11.2025 18:14 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Chubby-faced middle-aged man holds up the book “The Mad and the Brave” and an iPad Air tablet with the cover of “Heavy Light” displayed via the Kindle app..
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Still doing the stupid thing of reading multiple books at once…trying to get through these two (different forms of madness I guess) and get to the ideas-heavy SF that I seem to be craving.
Good kitty
16.11.2025 02:39 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
An elaborate street art mural painted on the side wall of a shop - it features cartoon style and semi-realistic images of dogs, a boy and exaggerated lettering
An elaborate street art mural painted on the side wall of a shop - it features cartoon style and semi-realistic images of dogs, a boy and exaggerated lettering
An elaborate street art mural painted on the side wall of a shop - it features cartoon style and semi-realistic images of dogs, a boy and exaggerated lettering
An elaborate street art mural painted on the side wall of a shop - it features cartoon style and semi-realistic images of dogs, a boy and exaggerated lettering
Street art mural on Riccarton Road, Christchurch.
02.11.2025 02:52 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Chubby-faced man holds up an iPad on which can be seen the cover of Cory Doctorow’s book “Enshittification” via the Kindle app…
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Now on to something totally shitty..
Timaru from 20,000ft
27.10.2025 04:07 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Mural off Colombo Street, Sydenham, Christchurch
27.10.2025 04:03 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Chubby-faced middle-aged man in a green t-shirt smiles as he holds up a copy Of Saga Volume 12
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I’ve been reading this series in these collected editions for 20% of my life now(!)
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Currently reading 5 or 6 different books..why not add another one?
2025 Bookshop Day promo material
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10.10.2025 22:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Chubby faced middle aged man holds up a copy of Chris O’Leary’s book “Ashes To Ashes: The Songs of David Bowie 1976 - 2016”
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Major Tom’s a Junkie
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A traffic light pole tilted over at close to 45 degree angle
Oops
05.10.2025 05:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Great mural - Sydenham, Christchurch
20.09.2025 07:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Chubby faced middle aged man holds up a copy of Mick Heron’s latest Slough House novel “Clown Town”
Its here!
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