I have a soft spot for cup a soups as an emergency snack in the office and was wondering if I should branch out from my usual cream of mushroom. Came across this and umm... Firstly $4.50 a serve for cup a soup is mad. Secondly, these are whole separate websites and the flavours are gender exclusive.

This is not helpful Alex 😒

Took my 13yo daughter to uni to show her my office and the tuataras before her haircut today. I still find it amazing that I can pop down and see creatures that have been around since the Triassic period just chilling out.

I had things I wanted to do this evening, but my 11yo son just laid a pillow over my lap and lay down so now I'm stuck on the couch watching Iron Man for the foreseeable future because these snuggles are getting few and far between 🥹

This enormous singular rhododendron plant. Every hometown’s got the ominous megastructure. What’s yours?

I once did an in-depth essay on this book. I was expressly told that I should write the full title in the body of the essay but made the executive decision to abridge it. 171 words is entirely too many words for a title.

We're not really a sports family but my son has recently got into football so to show our support we're turning to the age old method of gambling to make sport more compelling. $1 for a win 1st round (50c for a draw), $2 2nd round, $3 3rd round, $4 1/4 finals, $5 semis, $10 bronze final, $20 final.

Today's dose of unwanted adrenaline... I just dropped a dexamphetamine pill on the floor in front of my dog while filling my meds organiser. Thankfully she heeded my frantic cries of "leave it" as, rolling, it meandered it's way through chair legs whilst I scrambled on all fours to catch up with it.

Current bathroom arrangement for good measure. Art by my very talented sister Sophie Barron.

Side note: may I suggest that anyone with a little bit of garden grow bay trees. Not only will your meals never lack for bay leaves, but they are THE best cut foliage plant. They last a month or more in the vase and look how stunning they are

Rainbow birthday cake for Miss Soon-to-be 13. Tonight I have nine 11-13 year olds in the house. Praying for a clear night so they can play outside with fire most of the time 🙏

For your amusement. This lenticular cloud shaped like a vulva. Enjoy 🫡

On a related non moral panicky note... look how stoked these cross-dressing young people are at their mock debutante ball in rural Taranaki in 1961.

Fighting for my life trying to uphold my "no chickens in the house" policy today.

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Who knows how much a tiny traumatised kid who'd been on his own for years knew about his background. Reporting in NZ mentions relatives but no one in my family has mentioned them. Non-zero chance they picked up a random kid and looked out for him before parting ways at a DP camp.

Trying to do research and hitting naught but brick walls. He appears on shipping records (that's him on the right) but who knows the details are accurate. Latvia was occupied by Russia in 1940, then Germany in 1941, then Russia again in 1945 so I'm having to navigate brick walls in 3 languages 😓

Did a scary thing and booked a ticket for a reunion weekend for WWII displaced persons and their families. I wish I knew more about my maternal grandfather and how he got here. This photo must have been taken soon after he came to NZ as a war orphan from Latvia in 1949. He's so tiny for a 13 yo 😢

Also the fact that there are SO many people who are engaging with this and not realising it's AI. For reference this is a real tailor bird nest. That first bird is tying the thread in a knot, one of the nests has a top hem and tape on it. Ffs 🫩

Could turn it into a shadow?

Name me one political skill Luxon has going for him that this potato mascot doesn't, I'll wait. #nzpol

Jfc. She then complains about him having to resort to grabbing "a quick energy boost" on the go. I refuse to believe no one in his team is capable of sorting out a healthy snack or that he can't remember to bring his lunchbox. Lunch doesn't need the silver sevice.

For once, it would be really nice to pick up a book related to medicine from the first half of the 20th century and not immediately realise I'm going to have to trudge through a bunch of eugenics slop. This was written by a doctor in NZ...in 1949.

Just me and my pocketful of sharpies against the world 🥹

I could happily go my entire life without seeing a third ugly yellow horse rendered in 3d.

I have found some information about the coat. It's a gabardine wool raincoat, most likely made in the late 50s or 60s. The fabric was made in England and the coat constructed by N.Z. Raincoats in Petone. It would have originally sold for the equivalent of $400-500 today.

I just bought the most gorgeous, well constructed wool coat. Does anyone know anything about company that made it? Or ideas about the era it was made. It's probably a men's coat.