My Facebook access has been disabled so you may be seeing me a lot more on here :) I used a free airport web terminal over the weekend when I was visiting Auckland, and I think someone managed to get my password from there and use it to pester people via FB chat. There's an ongoing scam where people get messaged that the user (me) is in a bad way ( Read more... )

In honour of NZ Poetry Day, here's one that resonated with me by one of my favourite NZ writers, Robin Hyde ( Read more... )

If someone wins lotto this weekend and wants to buy me a present, can I has this plzkthx? Ta :)

I was at the local car boot sale last Sunday, saw this poster and just had to have it (it was only $1):


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Planning to do the Earth Hour thing tonight, not because I believe it'll make some sort of instant difference to the state of the world or anything like that, but it's a bit of an experiment to see how many appliances we have going at once and how well we do for an hour with no electricity. Since watching the doco "The End of Suburbia" I've been ( Read more... )

Happy Robot Day!

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I just saw this on Deutsche Welle news - it's a bionic manta ray! I so want one! I thought it was a real ray when I first saw it, but then realised that it had no eyes. Still, cute as anything!

Bliss* is sitting on St Clair beach in the sun with my love, eating homemade herb and blue cheese bread and watching our son bum-wiggling across the sand and waving at strangers <3

He turns 1 on Friday - this time last year I think my induction had just commenced...

Lookit my big boy now:


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In honour of International Talk Like A Pirate Day, I present:

Dress Your Offspring Like A Pirate:


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