Genesis 🇮🇪 🇳🇿

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Irish Kiwi living in Ōtautahi. Nerdy lefty neurodivergent; owns many fountain pens, hammocks, and boxes of craft supplies. Sometimes uses them.

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Genesis 🇮🇪 🇳🇿@genesis· 23d

Sand art. I had no idea this was a thing, let alone that Andrew Clemens was so mind-blowingly good at it in the 1800s. How did he have the patience?! www.antiquetrader.com/art/rare-san...

A bottle of naturally coloured sand grains somehow turned into intricate patterns and images against the glass.

Genesis 🇮🇪 🇳🇿@genesis· 29d

Live your life so that people are seeing posts like this, one after the other, when you die.

Social media posts urging people to live so that folk in NZ talk about you when you die like we're talking about Sam Neill

Genesis 🇮🇪 🇳🇿@genesis· Jul 11

I enjoyed the Matariki community event in the Red Zone in Christchurch this afternoon. The hāngī was very popular and smelled great—hope they didn't run out of food before the last people in the very long queue!

Hāngī pit being opened and food extracted to be served to the masses

Slicing open the muslin (I think) around the vegetables hot from the underground cooking pit

Kids partaking in the traditional bonfire activity of roasting marshmallows on sticks

Spokes provided free valet parking for bicycles, which was well used!

Genesis 🇮🇪 🇳🇿@genesis· Jul 10

Matariki is my favourite holiday here in New Zealand. Time to remember those we've lost, appreciate the present, and set intentions for the future, plus a day off work for most folk? I think I can get behind that. I offered up some food in the form of baking, which I have hardly done in years.

My holiday-Friday triumph of dinner rolls with an egg wash and sesame seeds, fresh out of the oven and with one already sliced open and being slathered with butter.

Genesis 🇮🇪 🇳🇿@genesis· Jul 7

See?! 😄

Genesis 🇮🇪 🇳🇿@genesis· Jul 5

Happu school holidays to the children of NZ I guess.

Monday's weather forecast for Christchurch showing rain all day, and noting that the next sunny day is expected to be Saturday.

Genesis 🇮🇪 🇳🇿@genesis· Jun 27

This evening I amused myself by making the moon line up with the weathervane on this local church.

The glowing orb of the moon appears to perch atop the point of a weathervane on top of this church in Woolston, Christchurch, NZ

Genesis 🇮🇪 🇳🇿@genesis· Jun 25

Toastie Takeover is happening again! www.toastietakeover.com I am both intrigued and repelled by this entry from The Bog 😆

Celtic Melt

Corned beef, braised cabbage, McClure's Pickles & Guinness cheese toastie with fries.

Genesis 🇮🇪 🇳🇿@genesis· Jun 22

I am up past my bedtime but that was time well spent. I only got this out of the library yesterday morning!

A library copy of Catherine Chidgey's book "The Book of Guilt"

Genesis 🇮🇪 🇳🇿@genesis· Jun 21

The Ōpāwaho / Heathcote river looking steamy in the cold this morning. We had hot sunny 25c weather two days ago and today people are pouring water over their car windscreens to de-ice them before they can drive.

Steam rises in golden light from the surface of the Ōpāwaho river in Ōtautahi, NZ on a frosty winter morning.

Genesis 🇮🇪 🇳🇿@genesis· Jun 21

Just thinking about the most fun gig I've ever been to, which was the Polyphonic Spree in Belfast in 2004. I can definitely understand the appeal of cults where people sing and dance together and everyone wears special gowns because it was just a great vibe. Not my pic but it was pretty much this.

A stage full of people all wearing white robes like a choir or a cult, singing and gesturing and generally vibing in front of an enthusiastic crowd.

Genesis 🇮🇪 🇳🇿@genesis· Jun 21

"Shortest day of the year" activity completed.

A hand holding some garlic cloves, with two long tubs holding more garlic cloves ready for planting in the background. Garlic planting is a traditional activity for the shortest day of the year, which is June 21 in NZ.

Genesis 🇮🇪 🇳🇿@genesis· Jun 20

I cannot now remember the exact nature of the "crafts by kids" entries that are apparently traditional at NZ A&P shows and were discussed here a while back, but my mum in Ireland just sent these of the local equivalent show in her home town and I think they're along very similar lines 😁

Best 6 decorated Rice Krispie buns on a paper plate, featuring six rectangular blocks covered in fondant with googly eyes (they might be cars as they have Smarties stuck in front like headlights), and six chocolate nests in paper cases with mini marshmallows and sprinkles on top, plus Smarties of course.

Best miniature garden on a biscuit tin lid, featuring an array of real and fake plants and flowers, a round brown house with a blue roof, toadstools, snails, rivers, ponds, animals come down for a drink, and ALL SORTS of stuff.

In the same photo you can see some of the colouring-in entries featuring a highland cow, and a couple of welly boots with flowers stuck in them and painted on them.

Genesis 🇮🇪 🇳🇿@genesis· Jun 15

Survived my first day back at work since 2025, enjoyed some rain, *and* a $377 GST refund appeared like magic in my bank account. Happy Monday to me 😁

Red sky in the morning, shepherd's warning

It bucketed rain most of the day but had stopped by the time my evening walk took me past the local swimming pool

Genesis 🇮🇪 🇳🇿@genesis· Jun 14

My anticipated fashion look for the apocalypse. What's yours?

Genesis 🇮🇪 🇳🇿@genesis· Jun 10

Love the new Matariki postage stamps! collectables.nzpost.co.nz/matariki2026...

Single $5.80 'Matariki' stamp

Matariki is the central whetū and is regarded as the mother of the Matariki constellation. In Māori tradition, Matariki was taken as a wife by Rehua, the paramount chief of the heavens (the star Antares), who sits apart from the Matariki cluster. As the mother, Matariki is closely associated with wellbeing, health, and collective vitality.

This stamp issue celebrates the Māori New Year.

Genesis 🇮🇪 🇳🇿@genesis· Jun 8

I really thought this header text on the Warehouse website read "BRALESS", and the image didn't exactly dispel that misunderstanding 😆

An ad that says "brdrless" with a photo of two models, one of whom really does not look like she has a bra on under her clingy top.

Genesis 🇮🇪 🇳🇿@genesis· Jun 7

Genesis 🇮🇪 🇳🇿@genesis· Jun 3

After two months in Europe I am very much enjoying being able to take the top off the milk properly again in NZ, instead of having it remain attached to annoy me every time I want to pour milk.

A 1 litre milk bottle with the top fully removed

Genesis 🇮🇪 🇳🇿@genesis· Jun 3

I got a cracker view of Sydney Harbour when we were leaving for Christchurch yesterday. Glad I scooted over to that side of the mostly-empty plane as soon as the seat belt sign went off!

Central Sydney basking in low sunshine as seen by my cellphone pressed up against the window of an Airbus A380.

Genesis 🇮🇪 🇳🇿@genesis· Jun 1

I for one would not be looking so delighted if gulls were circling directly above the open top of my vehicle 🐦‍⬛💩

An advert for a TIGGO7 which seems to be both a passenger vehicle and a receptacle for gull crap. Even if the top is glass rather than being open (I can't tell), it's going to end in a mess!

Genesis 🇮🇪 🇳🇿@genesis· May 30

Cat, plus a quite magnificent carpet that was fitted in the family home around 1980 and is still going strong in the sitting room.

A sturdy tabby cat reclining on a wool carpet in browns and greens on a cream background, depicting leaves and flowers.

Genesis 🇮🇪 🇳🇿@genesis· May 30

The farm sheds haven't been used in a long time and some of the oldest ones are only fit for demolition now, but they're full of memories for me, especially what was the calving shed. As soon as I slid open the doorhandle and walked through the door I could almost smell straw and cows.

Genesis 🇮🇪 🇳🇿@genesis· May 29

Bzzzzz

A honey bee on a dog rose, in the early summer sunshine of rural Ireland

Genesis 🇮🇪 🇳🇿@genesis· May 28

I never thought I'd say this, but it was Far Too Hot in Ireland this past few days and I am glad the heatwave has broken. I had to wear SPF30 and felt sticky all over with the humidity. In Kerry!!! The sheep were very hot and uncomfortable, panting away in their big fleeces with no real shade.

A sheep in a sunny spot wrapped in its own thick fleece and panting unhappily.

Genesis 🇮🇪 🇳🇿@genesis· May 26

The Kerry Cliffs are nowhere near as famous as the Cliffs of Moher but boy did they deliver today.

Dramatic cliffs towering over the Atlantic Ocean in blazing sunshine

People standing on a viewing platform, absolutely dwarfed by the cliff they're perched atop

Genesis 🇮🇪 🇳🇿@genesis· May 25

Bronze Age stone circle in a boggy paddock in Co.Cork. It's pretty cool to just walk up and pat stones that were put there about 3000 years ago.

Ardgroom Stone Circle, still mostly upright since the Bronze Age.

Genesis 🇮🇪 🇳🇿@genesis· May 19

I have really spent a lot more of this Irish trip with graveyard dirt under my fingernails than I expected 😂 I've been on a mini crusade to roll back decades of moss and grass on the oldest gravestones of my paternal ancestors.

Hi ho, hi ho, it's to the graveyard with a spade I go!

Before and after of what turned out to be the grave of my great-great-great-grandparents once I removed carpet of grass, moss, and unhappy ants. Maybe there's another great- in there, I've lost track a bit.

Bright yellow flowers and bright green grass around the graves

An Irish country graveyard containing the remains of about 250 people, almost all of whom I'm related to in some way

Genesis 🇮🇪 🇳🇿@genesis· May 17

A little outing before the rain hit. #Ireland

An old stone bridge crosses a stream in the village of Blackwater in Co. Wexford, Ireland

A person walks along the strand at Ballyconnigar in Co. Wexford, Ireland, as storm clouds loom overhead.

A man teaches his child how to hit a ball with a hurl as two other people sit looking on, at Ballyconnigar strand in Co. Wexford.

Bright pink flowers and small green ferns grow on a stone wall in the village of Blackwater in Co. Wexford, Ireland

Genesis 🇮🇪 🇳🇿@genesis· May 15

Two housemartins in flight, attending to important nest business under the eaves.