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You can take the girl out of West Auckland but you can't take the West Auckland out of the girl Pakehā, tangata tiriti, she/her/ia, NZ

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You’ve already had some great suggestions but jumping in to add that Tempero on K Rd are very coeliac friendly

17.11.2025 05:41 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
The inside of a tin tool shed with all the gardening tools hanging up tidily. It hasn’t looked this organised since the day I first built it!

The inside of a tin tool shed with all the gardening tools hanging up tidily. It hasn’t looked this organised since the day I first built it!

A thing of beauty
🇳🇿🌱

16.11.2025 02:48 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Couple of branching thoughts before I move on.

As long as we continue to view management and leadership as about control and status laddering, rather delivering results and elevating those around us, we will continue to incentivise unsuitable and sometimes downright broken people to cling to power.

13.11.2025 11:45 — 👍 72    🔁 18    💬 3    📌 0

They have seats in the mosh pit???

14.11.2025 06:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Australia and New Zealand Tour Dates and Tickets — Pub Choir

So much fun at Pub Choir tonight, absolutely worth the earworm that will stay with my me for a long time. My face hurts from smiling and my throat knows it’s been singing loudly!
Wellington And Christchurch - there are still tickets left for shows this week - it’s a fab night out!

09.11.2025 09:10 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

I don’t know what’s going on here in Tamaki Makaurau…fog disrupting flights at the airport all morning while it’s beautiful and clear at our place 20km away…but soooo muggy and now radio weather is threatening afternoon thunderstorms. Have we been transported to Singapore?!?!?

08.11.2025 00:30 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

This Parihaka Day, it's even more vitally important we acknowledge the ugliness in our past, as our government twist themselves in knots undoing all progress towards redressing such injustices. They're arrogant, racist and dangerous.

04.11.2025 20:44 — 👍 21    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
A faux-wood panel fence, with a garden bed in front, and then my patchy lawn

A faux-wood panel fence, with a garden bed in front, and then my patchy lawn

We built a new fence/wall. Exhausted. Back to the office job tomorrow!

02.11.2025 06:44 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I’d like to donate directly but can’t seem to dm you either

31.10.2025 18:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
A black cat crouched on an open notebook on an office desk

A black cat crouched on an open notebook on an office desk

No more working! Only pats 🐈‍⬛

25.10.2025 09:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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a group of people are gathered around a woman on a family feud game show Alt: a group of people are gathered around a woman on a family feud game show, all telling her what to do

What’s it like inside your head?

25.10.2025 06:27 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Gonna repost this every time I come across it on socials. 💚

23.10.2025 15:48 — 👍 2570    🔁 1184    💬 6    📌 18
I support the strikers

I support the strikers

#Oct23Strike

22.10.2025 17:50 — 👍 41    🔁 21    💬 0    📌 1

In our extended family, we are divided into two groups - those (Swedish architects) who hang things in an orderly way and must have matching coloured pegs, and those anarchist chaos monkeys who hang things haphazardly with gay abandon.

16.10.2025 17:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Share a cartoon from the past that kids today have probably never heard of

14.10.2025 08:57 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I’m on a 3-day course for work, and was surprised to find it is lecture-style. This guy just spent 40 minutes lecturing us about differing learning styles and how most of us learn through doing or talking/reflecting… without a flicker of realisation or irony. I thought the ed sector had moved on!

14.10.2025 02:20 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

MATTY PAYNE!!! Go you good thing! Wow, what a race. No kangaroos or echidnas and the rain was the real winner on the day, but stoked to see a kiwi on the top of the podium. We were on our feet for those last five laps!

12.10.2025 08:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
A tv sitting on a wooden cabinet. On screen are V8 Supercars winding their way around the track.

A tv sitting on a wooden cabinet. On screen are V8 Supercars winding their way around the track.

In my heathen westie bogan petrolhead family, St Bathurst’s Day is what passes for a religious holiday. In position on the couch for the next 5 hours!
#Bathurst1000

12.10.2025 01:17 — 👍 27    🔁 2    💬 8    📌 0

Small, silver hatchback. Wish I’d got the rego!

09.10.2025 16:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Two black cats sitting on a windowsill watching the rain outside. Ozzy (left) will love bomb when he’s hungry and then disappear; Tui (right) is timid but once he gets to know you he’ll be a cuddly limpet.

Two black cats sitting on a windowsill watching the rain outside. Ozzy (left) will love bomb when he’s hungry and then disappear; Tui (right) is timid but once he gets to know you he’ll be a cuddly limpet.

Can anyone recommend a trusted sleepover-in-our-home pet sitter in west Auckland? Our amazing sitter has moved away and I’ve had no luck finding a regular replacement. I’ve tried Pawshake and they’re great but would prefer consistency. 🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🇳🇿

09.10.2025 08:18 — 👍 94    🔁 15    💬 3    📌 0

I’ve had that, one day on my bike I narrowly avoided a car driving down from Takau St, all along below Kingsland almost to Nixon Park, completely oblivious to cyclists shouting and waving!

09.10.2025 07:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I’ve spent a lot of time in hospitals the past few days with a sick family member and was astonished at how few people were masked. Hospitals are FULL of sick people! And even if that ward wasn’t for that kind of sick, plenty of the visitors were coughing and sniffing. 😷

29.09.2025 06:11 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I too am married to a guy who looks like he should be the next leader of the National Party…but thankfully doesn’t share their (lack of) values!

29.09.2025 04:39 — 👍 10    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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An excellent earworm for your morning - love it! Now do cycling…

🔊Sound on

www.instagram.com/reel/DOxddQo...

22.09.2025 20:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

Schedule

19.09.2025 09:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Just to say, I read all the alt-text! Thanks for making the effort.

14.09.2025 10:38 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I was at both this march today and the March for Nature last year - this one was at least as big, if not bigger. Then again, the media downplayed the size of the crowd last time too.

12.09.2025 23:26 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
Free Palestine flags at the March for Humanity

Free Palestine flags at the March for Humanity

A large crowd gathered in Aotea Square for the March for Humanity. Lots of Palestine flags.

A large crowd gathered in Aotea Square for the March for Humanity. Lots of Palestine flags.

A large Palestine flag among protest signs:
It’s impossible to starve children to death in self defence 
Stop the killing

A large Palestine flag among protest signs: It’s impossible to starve children to death in self defence Stop the killing

A large crowd marching down Queen St in the March for Humanity, with lots of Palestine flags

A large crowd marching down Queen St in the March for Humanity, with lots of Palestine flags

End the genocide now

12.09.2025 22:59 — 👍 30    🔁 7    💬 4    📌 1
Red and green plants growing on the top of the bus shelter roof

Red and green plants growing on the top of the bus shelter roof

One of the many benefits of our new electric double decker buses…being able to check out the thriving green roof of the bus shelter!

12.09.2025 20:55 — 👍 25    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1

Even if you don't vote for your council (pls do but), tick that box for the referendum.

It is BINDING for three terms - so if it fails, no Māori ward for nearly a decade.

And EVERYONE votes, not just Māori. Tāngata Tiriti step up, Pākehā mā, you need to vote.

12.09.2025 06:43 — 👍 81    🔁 46    💬 4    📌 2

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