Donna

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Nativity nook

Our Nativity scene starring Werner Herzog as The Narrator.

Street art taking shape

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The best memoirs and biographies of 2025 Anthony Hopkins and Kathy Burke on acting, Jacinda Ardern and Nicola Sturgeon on politics, plus Margaret Atwood on a life well lived

Jacinda Ardern’s memoir is in The Guardian’s list of the year’s best biographies and memoirs. The best memoirs and biographies of 2025 www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...
#booksky #pukapuka

Street art mural Being worked on

Street art by Kophie Loaf MEEP

Photocopy of a face in a jar, looking like someone is smooshed inside

Pickled.

Oh that’s cool!

41 years ago today ... FJ's!
and the car park sign you can spot now at Papanui.

Tea and books pin on Christmas tree

Audiobooks pin on Christmas tree

Persuasion pin on Christmas tree

Bibliophile pin on Christmas tree

Turned book pins into wee Christmas tree decorations using paper clips.
(Great idea from Kate Gabrielle on Instagram).

Enjoyed revealing a little about how the cover for @erikkennedy.com’s Sick Power Trip came together for the @christchurchlib.bsky.social blog. Erik’s collection was one of my highlights from @thwupbooks.bsky.social this year.

On the ground in Geneva | E-Tangata “As soon as the Committee began its questions, I knew we were in the right place at the right time. The questioning was fast, direct, and showed they understood the situation in detail.”  — Roimata Sm...

“As soon as the Committee began its questions, I knew we were in the right place at the right time. The questioning was fast, direct, and showed they understood the situation in detail.” — Roimata Smail at the UN to present evidence of government discrimination against Māori #nzpol

Parking sign

View of building site with sign in background

Farmer John’s #ghostsign on Main North Road is now visible and man, that’s some nostalgia. And it wasn’t even me that frequented it, my brother did when we first moved to Christchurch. #Christchurch #Ōtautahi

This is bloody great!

Buxom older woman holds two labubus in the air

Labuboobs

Three large street art murals

In context

View of street art on a large wall

Big new street art work going up on Manchester Street.
#StreetArt #Christchurch #Ōtautahi

I went here once some years ago, and the food was great.

Also - Bonus information: I think it had heated toilet seats which was a revelation.

a man in a black vest is pointing at something . Alt: Han Solo saluting

all present and correct and gorgeous

Excellent photo usage, no notes.

$500 million indoor sport and aquatics centre to open in Christchurch next month

📢 People will be able to whizz down a hydroslide, shoot some hoops or relax in a sauna at Parakiore as soon as the sun is up on 17 December.

Older woman in hat growls at a tiny carnotaurus

Older woman in hat and denim clothing holds a tiny carnotaurus

A little light Dr Alan Grant cosplay of a Wednesday. No carnotaurus was harmed in the taking of photos.

'Scotland's Christmas advert': Boys spread festive cheer with doorstep rendition of Last Christmas The video starts with five young boys rocking up the driveway of a house but takes an unexpected turn.

Scottish schoolboys singing Last Christmas on doorbell camera footage is wholesome festiveness to warm the cockles of your heart. news.stv.tv/west-central...

Beautiful Paris it’s beautiful flowers A lot of beautiful buildings

Paris’s tourism slogan:
“Beautiful Paris
it’s beautiful flowers
A lot of beautiful buildings”

Decorative rubbish bin

Kiddo and me both chortled our heads at this beauteous bin.

6 placemats and 2 books

Today in op shoppery. Arts Centre placemats and Tinderbox by Megan Dunn & Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid.

Here's an odd vintage project: a Norse couple asked me to do a portrait of their cats, but make it look like the cover of a Frank Zappa album. The building on the TinselTown Rebellion cover is local to their home town.

Big drink bottle and very small bottle

I invested in a ridiculously small water bottle for walks and such. Here it is beside someone’s large one.

In my corner of the bass-playing universe there was life pre- and post-Mani. He brought a liquid, melodic funkiness that EVERYONE copied. And when I finally met him he was exactly how you imagined him: joyful, generous, unstarry (& more of a star because of it) and wickedly funny. A life well lived