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Children's books by Swapna Haddow Swapna Haddow is a featured author on the School Reading List and appears in the following recommended reading lists for children.

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Love Swapna! She’s funny and lovely.

He was going for Cuba the moment he took Venezuela... he'll pick off all of South America one by one then turn his sights on North America and Greenland. And he won't let another election happen until it's done so why's everyone just sitting on their hands?

The river was like a millpond this morning, by the time I grabbed a coffee and put the kayak in the water it was choppy and the wind was up. So glad I left the wheels on top bc it was a one way paddle upriver and a long walk home pushing a kayak! 😂

He's done it now. Switzerland provide 50M US women with Estradiol... 50M angry menopausal women should be enough to take out Trump, his ICE goons and the whole damn Republican Party!

Okay, I give up! The fridge didn't work either. Maybe I should get a wine fridge for the sole purpose of maintaining temperature for sour dough starter... suddenly bread's not looking that expensive! I'll just sour dough start the day before I need a loaf. Keeping one going is impossible in summer.

It’s doubling in size on the first feed so I’m think I can just start a starter the day before every time and not have to keep one going!

Bread’s so expensive I thought I’ll order in some flour & get a sour dough starter going. A bag of flour later I figured out the timing in this heat. 24hrs feed, 6hrs feed put it in the goddamned fridge! I’m on the 3rd attempt to keep it from turning. The Poilâne method has never failed before.

A poinciana tree in full flower. Tufts of red in an umbrella shape.

That’s so creepy. Is it horror?

Australia's should just be, 'swallow this fly.' You know you're gonna do it one day soon anyway. Although having sat the citizenship test, it does contain a lot of great anti-racism and anti-bigotted stuff which most of our politicians need to learn.

I've read 2. That's just the Japanese style of writing. You see it in manga dialogue too. They like repetition. They're a culture who like to know with certainty. Unlike the UK/Aus where you're asked to between the lines. Where things like, 'Yeah righto, mate,' is not right nor friendly.

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You think you’ll see another election?

Don't take ol bum slider up anything steep. She'll crack the shits coming down. Rubbed her arse top to bottom down Uluru like she stole it. Oh wait...

I made seitan from vital wheat gluten the other day. It was so easy and tasty! Never eaten so well since I learned to cook whole food vegan. Sauces where you just chuck bundles of herbs or a whole capsicum in! No more oils and emulsifiers. So good.

We got thirsty.

NZ doesn’t want to be on the map. It’s hiding!

It was a protest march! No more meat! Go vegan!

Then I think, in a consumerist society surely the fact that solar panel power generation and fermented dairy is now cheaper than trad options surely they'll be dragged by the force of consumerism into the future.

Not Auckland. NZ is currently suffering under a Right Wing govt. Aus yo-yos between slightly right and full on Nut Job Right. Need a neutral zone. I sometimes think the Republicans are dragging the US backwards but then private companies set up huge solar farms in Texas or dairy fermentation plants.

Can we donate to this cause? Or are we going to wait until he gets Cuba, Nicaragua and Greenland? Where's the last straw.

Yeah. It's very popular. I haven't read it though.

They’ve been after Cuba for so long but a puppet govt in Venezuela will stop supporting Cuba.

He’s a good thinker. Not many good thinkers in this world.

Musk has a Palantir of his own so we can’t say it’s the most dangerous but it certainly isn’t safe!

I think it might be a Cory Doctorow word.

Dismissing him as a clumsy fool is dangerous. The whole Party is playing out their standard MO as he’s proving that he can say anything do anything, grab a whole country by the pussy and he gets away with it. I think we’ve already seen USs last election, sadly.

The segregation crisis in schools funding In the Albanese government’s first term, Education Minister Jason Clare observed that Australia has one of the most segregated education systems in the OECD. What is deeply shocking – though not surpr...

Delighted my article on Australia’s shameful education system (stealing resources from children of the poor to further advantage children of the better off) features in The Saturday Paper’s list of its best in 2025. Hope it also helps drives change. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topi...

It’s like holding a spotlight on the internet saying EVERYTHING HERE IS FAKERY! Like the internet hasn’t always had that issue. The enshittification of the internet is almost complete. Actors, models, artists, writers, please also study plumbing. AI can’t do plumbing.