Anna Dunford
@annadinnz.bsky.social
Quaker, timebanker, working towards zero waste and a happier community and environment in Aotearoa NZ.
Gradually migrating away from the metaverse…
Gradually migrating away from the metaverse…
1st September and I’m STILL picking tomatoes ripening in the garden 😳 This is NOT normal. #nz #aotearoa #climatechange
August 31, 2025 at 10:13 PM
1st September and I’m STILL picking tomatoes ripening in the garden 😳 This is NOT normal. #nz #aotearoa #climatechange
As is said in the article, it’s high school geography, not rocket science. Rivers flood, and you have to give them room.
Paywall now lifted: My special report this morning is about how we spent generations strangling our rivers to make room for our homes and farms, only to find we've ended up supercharging their flows.
What do we do when we realise we've built a society in a riverbed?
newsroom.co.nz/2025/08/13/l...
What do we do when we realise we've built a society in a riverbed?
newsroom.co.nz/2025/08/13/l...
We strangled our rivers; now they're fighting back
Special report: We forced NZ's braided rivers into tiny channels so we could build our homes and farms in their riverbeds – now we're seeing the consequences. Marc Daalder investigates.
newsroom.co.nz
August 17, 2025 at 6:32 AM
As is said in the article, it’s high school geography, not rocket science. Rivers flood, and you have to give them room.
Thank you internet, that’s one less cabbage white going to hatch out now!
August 11, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Thank you internet, that’s one less cabbage white going to hatch out now!
It appears that nothing has been learned from Cyclone Gabrielle as forestry ‘slash’ causes devastation again. How many more times will this have to happen before practices change?
'Flash flood' devastates small community in Motueka Valley www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
'Flash flood' devastates small community in Motueka Valley www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
'Flash flood' devastates small community in Motueka Valley
A path of destruction has been cut through a rural settlement in Motueka Valley, with one local blaming slash, saying "thousands of tonnes of logs and silt" came down.
www.rnz.co.nz
July 13, 2025 at 9:19 PM
It appears that nothing has been learned from Cyclone Gabrielle as forestry ‘slash’ causes devastation again. How many more times will this have to happen before practices change?
'Flash flood' devastates small community in Motueka Valley www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
'Flash flood' devastates small community in Motueka Valley www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
July 3, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Our 4th official public holiday for Matariki was yesterday www.nzgeo.com/stories/mata...
Matariki rising
There’s a new holiday on the calendar: Matariki, the Māori new year. It’s the first indigenous celebration to be formally recognised in any colonised country. It brings with it a focus on the resurgen...
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June 21, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Our 4th official public holiday for Matariki was yesterday www.nzgeo.com/stories/mata...
This kukupa/kererū has become a regular visitor in our garden of late. Question is, will they hang around to be counted in the #nzgardenbirdsurvey or will they be like the kōtare and show up either side of the counting?
June 17, 2025 at 10:35 PM
This kukupa/kererū has become a regular visitor in our garden of late. Question is, will they hang around to be counted in the #nzgardenbirdsurvey or will they be like the kōtare and show up either side of the counting?
Around 8yrs of saved blister packs about to be sent off to Terracycle. I bought the box in a sale last year and have crammed it to bursting (lots of tape used!) The cost doesn’t seem so bad when it covers 8yrs!
June 17, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Around 8yrs of saved blister packs about to be sent off to Terracycle. I bought the box in a sale last year and have crammed it to bursting (lots of tape used!) The cost doesn’t seem so bad when it covers 8yrs!
The indigenous ways so often prove to be the best ways of managing a balance between people and planet.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
A map, a myth and a pre-Incan lagoon: the man who brought water back to a drought-ridden town
When historian Galo Ramón uncovered a long-forgotten pre-Incan water system in Ecuador, he set about restoring it, and helped transform the landscape and livelihoods
www.theguardian.com
June 15, 2025 at 3:35 AM
The indigenous ways so often prove to be the best ways of managing a balance between people and planet.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
This is embarrassing at best; the dying embers of colonialism desperately trying to cling to control over the unstoppable movement towards truly being a nation of Te Tiriti.
I doubt that History will be kind to this government’s cow towing to the far right
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
I doubt that History will be kind to this government’s cow towing to the far right
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
New Zealand MPs who performed haka in parliament given record suspensions
Parliament votes to enact punishment after hours of fraught debate including attitudes towards Māori culture
www.theguardian.com
June 7, 2025 at 10:56 PM
This is embarrassing at best; the dying embers of colonialism desperately trying to cling to control over the unstoppable movement towards truly being a nation of Te Tiriti.
I doubt that History will be kind to this government’s cow towing to the far right
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
I doubt that History will be kind to this government’s cow towing to the far right
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Got my Tax Return in a month early, go me! Makes up for the other four out of five years when it’s in late 🙄
June 7, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Got my Tax Return in a month early, go me! Makes up for the other four out of five years when it’s in late 🙄
What’s the betting that once they’re in opposition again they’d be hopping mad if the incoming government did the same. It sets a very dangerous precedent. Are we to see legislation flipping in and out of existence under urgency every time we have change of govt?
ICYMI: A Newsroom analysis shows the Government has passed more bills through Parliament via urgency without a select committee process than any since at least 1987.
newsroom.co.nz/2025/05/29/g...
newsroom.co.nz/2025/05/29/g...
Govt on record-breaking urgency streak amid flurry of Budget laws
The coalition Government is outpacing its Labour predecessor with an almost unprecedented use of urgency to pass legislation through Parliament.
newsroom.co.nz
June 3, 2025 at 7:08 AM
What’s the betting that once they’re in opposition again they’d be hopping mad if the incoming government did the same. It sets a very dangerous precedent. Are we to see legislation flipping in and out of existence under urgency every time we have change of govt?
Luxon dismisses them as ‘worthies’, and Federated Farmers refuse to consider reducing methane emissions. Bet they’re the first to expect handouts when climate change
scuppers their incomes though 🙄 So arrogant and shortsighted 😞
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
scuppers their incomes though 🙄 So arrogant and shortsighted 😞
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Climate change scientists accuse government of 'ignoring scientific evidence'
But the Greens say New Zealand appears to be on "climate denial bandwagon".
www.rnz.co.nz
June 3, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Luxon dismisses them as ‘worthies’, and Federated Farmers refuse to consider reducing methane emissions. Bet they’re the first to expect handouts when climate change
scuppers their incomes though 🙄 So arrogant and shortsighted 😞
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
scuppers their incomes though 🙄 So arrogant and shortsighted 😞
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Doing my bit for Predator Free NZ and have been setting a trap in the garden over the last few weeks as the overnight temperatures have been dropping.
Tally so far:
2 great big fat leopard slugs
2 that got away/ghosts
1 mouse
1 rat
I have to admit I was surprised the slugs triggered it!
Tally so far:
2 great big fat leopard slugs
2 that got away/ghosts
1 mouse
1 rat
I have to admit I was surprised the slugs triggered it!
June 1, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Doing my bit for Predator Free NZ and have been setting a trap in the garden over the last few weeks as the overnight temperatures have been dropping.
Tally so far:
2 great big fat leopard slugs
2 that got away/ghosts
1 mouse
1 rat
I have to admit I was surprised the slugs triggered it!
Tally so far:
2 great big fat leopard slugs
2 that got away/ghosts
1 mouse
1 rat
I have to admit I was surprised the slugs triggered it!
The Quaker Yearly Meeting of Aotearoa New Zealand approved a statement on Palestine earlier this week. quakers.nz/support-pale...
Support for Palestinian Freedom | Quakers
Support for Palestinian FreedomIndividual Friends and Meetings are concerned for the Palestinian people, and peace movements in Israel seeking peace
quakers.nz
May 30, 2025 at 4:59 AM
The Quaker Yearly Meeting of Aotearoa New Zealand approved a statement on Palestine earlier this week. quakers.nz/support-pale...
What do the ants know that we don’t? I keep finding clusters of ants, mostly sitting still in odd places. This is by far the largest though. Ironically one cluster was under a lid with ant-bait in. Some clusters are about the size of a 20c coin. But all are mostly stationary. What’s going on?! #nz
May 25, 2025 at 8:50 PM
What do the ants know that we don’t? I keep finding clusters of ants, mostly sitting still in odd places. This is by far the largest though. Ironically one cluster was under a lid with ant-bait in. Some clusters are about the size of a 20c coin. But all are mostly stationary. What’s going on?! #nz
Seeing as this is creating quite a bit of interest in that other place, here are progress photos of my first homegrown bunch of bananas! Very exciting for someone who spent the first 35yrs of their life in the UK with literally freezing cold winters.
#Aotearoa #TeTaiTokerau
#Aotearoa #TeTaiTokerau
May 22, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Seeing as this is creating quite a bit of interest in that other place, here are progress photos of my first homegrown bunch of bananas! Very exciting for someone who spent the first 35yrs of their life in the UK with literally freezing cold winters.
#Aotearoa #TeTaiTokerau
#Aotearoa #TeTaiTokerau
Given an awful lot of the submissions on the Bill said that just weren’t enough worthwhile ideas in it, I can’t say that I’m overly surprised he didn’t like what was in them 🤦🏽♀️
The majority of the 23,000 public submissions on the Regulatory Standards Bill were never read by ministry staff, but Minister David Seymour says he's comfortable with it because "there just weren't that many" worthwhile ideas submitted by the public.
newsroom.co.nz/2025/05/19/t...
newsroom.co.nz/2025/05/19/t...
Thousands of Regulatory Standards Bill submissions not read by ministry
David Seymour said 'there just weren't that many' worthwhile ideas in the 23,000 submissions on his proposed law, despite most of them going unread
newsroom.co.nz
May 20, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Given an awful lot of the submissions on the Bill said that just weren’t enough worthwhile ideas in it, I can’t say that I’m overly surprised he didn’t like what was in them 🤦🏽♀️
May 14, 2025 at 2:46 AM
First Monarch chrysalis I’ve spotted this year. Lots more caterpillars though 😊
May 12, 2025 at 7:42 AM
First Monarch chrysalis I’ve spotted this year. Lots more caterpillars though 😊
I always enjoy seeing what comes up in this each year. Are any of my photographer friends entertaining?!
www.nzgeo.com/photography/...
www.nzgeo.com/photography/...
Photographer of the Year 2025: Entries open
Entries are now open for Photographer of the Year, New Zealand's largest and most prestigious photographic event.
www.nzgeo.com
May 11, 2025 at 9:01 AM
I always enjoy seeing what comes up in this each year. Are any of my photographer friends entertaining?!
www.nzgeo.com/photography/...
www.nzgeo.com/photography/...
Anne Salmond pointing out what should be bleeding obvious.
Having declared war on the environment, the Government is now declaring war on women.
Anne Salmond: She won't be right, mate
newsroom.co.nz
May 11, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Anne Salmond pointing out what should be bleeding obvious.