Jane Copland

Not only am I not over how photos from the 90s look like they're from the 60s, but it is, in fact, getting worse.

My son has announced, as he does every time New Zealand plays rugby on TV in his earshot, that he is actually a Kiwi (he is the most English person I know, but he does have the passport)👍

The face you make after making the mistake of taking nine ten year old boys to an Arsenal match when you could’ve been sitting alone in a dark room somewhere 🙃❤️ #coyg

Nearly made the mistake of forgetting these before spending an hour on a bus to the Emirates with nine ten year olds. Literally ran home to fetch them 🫡 #coyg ❤️🤍

I finished The Candy House a few weeks ago, also by Jennifer Egan. Phenomenal.

... it was possible to avoid clashes with existing competitions, because besides the NCAA, swimming doesn't have existing months-long multi-nation leagues like rugby.

Notably, this also required a billionaire to make the league operational, and it failed when he couldn't pay wages anymore.

International Swimming League - Wikipedia

"Setting up a 12-team global competition in three months appears unrealistic." I'm sad they neglected to add a dramatic "..." after "appears."

A somewhat similar idea worked briefly in swimming (failed due to Ukrainian funding + war): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interna...

With that said...

With a brief trip to the Emirates in the middle (Reddit match thread to the rescue), sames.

All good here thanks! Working on a big project with a literary agent and still wrangling German Shepherds 😊 xx

@joannaredfeather.bsky.social Hey lady! It's been ages, how are you? x

😂 His collection of mid-century New Zealand sports literature is pretty impressive. Some of it was actually his, too!

The things my parents didn't return to the library 😂 Please don't tell the good people of Wairoa, but my father owes them $1,121.50, according to my ChatGPT maths.

Something about a dictionary without the word “internet” 💙

Also Mum, this book is overdue.

It’s time.

😂

She’s convinced I haven’t given her all of the treats. I have given her all of the treats.

Sweet sixteenth. 27 January 2009 🇬🇧 Arrived with two suitcases and a five year visa.

They’ll laugh at you, they’ll call you names, they’ll say you’ll fail, they’ll be wrong. Here’s to ignoring all the conditioning to appease the crabs in the bucket, and choosing your future.

Thanks mate!

This is 41 🩷

Always acknowledge the day you won your freedom.

17 January 2009, I left Seattle with two suitcases and a UK visa, which I took with me to London nine days later.

Sixteen years well spent 🇬🇧 🩷

2024, you beauty. It has been an absolute privilege 🫡🩷🤘

A very messy 24 hours in 🇳🇱 with Bekki and Eyad. We were all coached by my dad, Eyad 15 years later than Bekki and me, and we’d never hung out altogether before. From Syria to Napier, via West Auckland, to an Irish pub in Amsterdam 😂

I miss you 🩷

Absolutely. I mean, I could use a few decades of therapy to undo the trauma of being a young woman in tech in the 2010s, but I'm 95% of the way through the second draft of a manuscript with my literary agent at the moment, and it's beautiful. Life is good. And short. Quit SEO. Write about rugby x 😁

Just Oxford dog walks.

I’m really sorry, friend.

England faithful 🌹🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏉❤️

Shetland here for the most part, so they found the coldest, windiest parts of NZ. Guys, seriously, you coulda moved to the Bay of Islands. Yeah nah, apparently.

I spent 35 years being smug about "Australian convicts" and then learned that he was probably a bit of a live wire, whoever he was 😂

My great grandfather was an immigrant to NZ and a Jones, so we assumed Wales.

Then my journalist uncle found no record of him arriving in NZ, besides rocking up randomly on the west coast and buying a pub, and their best guess was he was Australian. And well dodgy. And using a fake name.

Love it.

All due respect Google, but no?