Adele Jackson

A blossom petal is stuck to a wet window and outside everything is wet and covered in grey cloud.

A vibrant bunch of red, pink, lilac and bicoloured yellow and scarlet tulips sits in a ceramic jug on a windowsill. Outside it is raining and grey with low cloud and almost no visibility.

Visibility on Te Ahumairangi was pretty poor and Hauraro was whipping the blossoms off the trees this weekend so I picked all my remaining tulips and brought them inside to brighten up the day.🌱🇳🇿 #AotearoaGardens

This is the best news. I’m so pleased for you!

I know, right?

Rhetorical question, why do we keep re-electing stale, pale, male, conservative mayors and councillors?
I'm over it 😬😕

Oh FFS. The usual fossil councillors are back Te Whanganui a Tara… plus the dreadful icecream man got in to council. What a mixed bag. But Yay! @lauriefoon.bsky.social and @rebeccamatthews.bsky.social are in!! So pleased for you both!

I’m sorry Tori. Thank you for all your mahi and your leadership during your time as Mayor. You faced A Lot and I’m very grateful that our city had you for mayor for the past 3 years. (And p.s I love your mayoral portrait!)

Needs a skinny black radio antennae snaking up the wall, an empty coffee cup and accompanying sticky coffee cup rings and a Lot More dust.

I’m sad, ashamed, disappointed, angry and so so let down by this Government today. Who were those 60% they polled - definitely not me.

A collection of brightly coloured mixed tulips in a raised garden in Aotearoa.

The bargain barrow tulips are beginning to pop! Loving the peony tulips - so Floofy! 🇳🇿🌺🌱

#Aotearoabirds 🇳🇿🦜 We have a kaka who comes to visit our deck and garden bird feeder most days. Last couple of days it’s started to tap on the window and lick it to get our attention. ‘Please, kinI’ve some apple? I knows you’re in there’…

Jars of home made marmalade on a kitchen bench.

Turns out you can do a mix of Seville and Navel oranges in a Seville orange marmalade. I only had to add 3 to make up the weight too.
Jars of sunshine! 🥝 🇳🇿#Aotearoafoodies

Oops forgot 🥝🇳🇿 #Aotearoafoodies

OK Seville Marmalade makers. Please share your best Seville marmalade recipe that doesn’t start with ‘first boil your oranges for 2 and a half hours’. But also, can I sub in some Naval oranges if I don’t have enough Seville’s? 🍊🫙🫙 #preserving #foodies

Always Bookhub to find the book first.

Thx - it’s a bit of a sore one but it’s doneski so I’m happy.

Cute lil’ lemon wedge!

A lemon sherbet doughnut sits on a tiny table on Ghuznee St Welly in the sunshine.

When Wellington busts out a sunny day but you’ve got a killer dead arm from your Shingrex vax, the right thing to do is sit in the sun and eat lemon sherbet doughnut right? #TGIF 🇳🇿

They were from last years lot that I left in the ground. So they’ve *chosen* to come early! Frosts are rare up on our hill so I guess they’re chancing it.

So beautiful!

Lipstick pink tulip early flowing tulips covered in rain drops in my garden.

Hello Aotearoa Gardens 🇳🇿🌱
Here’s a pic of my early tulips for your Sunday joy.

Only nine artists studios 😞 for a deserving few.

That’s a gorgeous Joaquín Sorolla. That shallow sea water 👨‍🍳😘

Dr Hilary Stace
Historian and Disability Advocate Extraordinaire
1954 – 2025 💔

A strong woman, a generous friend, a dedicated Playcentre parent, staunch Labour member, oral historian, politically astute, compassionate, kind and funny. She will be greatly missed.

You need this stuff from Japanmart Dallas.
It goes in the fabric softener drawer in yr machine. Antibacterial and kills that smell completely. Fill the cap up to no.2 mark.

I did thanks.

Fantastic article.Thanks for sharing it.

Writer Maurice Gee has died The prolific and unassuming writer died in Nelson.

Moe Mai Rā Maurice Gee. Thank you for ‘Under The Mountain’ - probably the most gripping and creepy book of my childhood.

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What a bloody good idea. Go those good people.

So beautiful. Thanks for sharing Feana.