Donna
@kebabette.bsky.social
Ōtautahi Christchurch. Aotearoa New Zealand. Editor-at-large. Librarian. Flâneuse. Tea Mum. She / her.
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Today in op shoppery. Arts Centre placemats and Tinderbox by Megan Dunn & Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid.
November 22, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Today in op shoppery. Arts Centre placemats and Tinderbox by Megan Dunn & Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid.
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Here's an odd vintage project: a Norse couple asked me to do a portrait of their cats, but make it look like the cover of a Frank Zappa album. The building on the TinselTown Rebellion cover is local to their home town.
November 21, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Here's an odd vintage project: a Norse couple asked me to do a portrait of their cats, but make it look like the cover of a Frank Zappa album. The building on the TinselTown Rebellion cover is local to their home town.
I invested in a ridiculously small water bottle for walks and such. Here it is beside someone’s large one.
November 21, 2025 at 11:26 PM
I invested in a ridiculously small water bottle for walks and such. Here it is beside someone’s large one.
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In my corner of the bass-playing universe there was life pre- and post-Mani. He brought a liquid, melodic funkiness that EVERYONE copied. And when I finally met him he was exactly how you imagined him: joyful, generous, unstarry (& more of a star because of it) and wickedly funny. A life well lived
November 21, 2025 at 8:20 AM
In my corner of the bass-playing universe there was life pre- and post-Mani. He brought a liquid, melodic funkiness that EVERYONE copied. And when I finally met him he was exactly how you imagined him: joyful, generous, unstarry (& more of a star because of it) and wickedly funny. A life well lived
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“Trust us! Marginalising these communities more will absolutely bring down the cost of a KG of Mince and get your job back!”
November 20, 2025 at 4:47 AM
“Trust us! Marginalising these communities more will absolutely bring down the cost of a KG of Mince and get your job back!”
Added a little print from Ōtautahi Creative Spaces artist to my Work Wonderwall. It came with this badge.
November 20, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Added a little print from Ōtautahi Creative Spaces artist to my Work Wonderwall. It came with this badge.
The big literary news that doesn't involve cats with teeth!
Dublin Literary Award nominated titles are out!
Kia ora to the writers from Aotearoa New Zealand on this list:
📗1985 by Dominic Hoey
📕Delirious by Damien Wilkins
📘Kataraina by Becky Manawatu
and - our pick - 📙The Mires by Tina Makereti.
dublinliteraryaward.ie/features/new...
#Booksky #ReadNZ ^DR
Kia ora to the writers from Aotearoa New Zealand on this list:
📗1985 by Dominic Hoey
📕Delirious by Damien Wilkins
📘Kataraina by Becky Manawatu
and - our pick - 📙The Mires by Tina Makereti.
dublinliteraryaward.ie/features/new...
#Booksky #ReadNZ ^DR
November 19, 2025 at 8:15 PM
The big literary news that doesn't involve cats with teeth!
Woah. This story has made The Guardian, and now the New York Times. It’s a biggie.
A New Zealand book competition dropped two of a publisher’s books because they had A.I.-generated covers. The publisher and the designer pushed back.
These Books Were Judged by Their A.I. Covers, and Disqualified
A New Zealand book competition dropped two of a publisher’s books because they had A.I.-generated covers. The publisher and the designer pushed back.
nyti.ms
November 19, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Woah. This story has made The Guardian, and now the New York Times. It’s a biggie.
Out here watching the Ōtautahi Christchurch sky do the do while bugs bite me.
November 18, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Out here watching the Ōtautahi Christchurch sky do the do while bugs bite me.
Had a look inside the IKEA Art House in Cathedral Square. www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3608...
November 18, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Had a look inside the IKEA Art House in Cathedral Square. www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3608...
“Hardy said based on last year’s seed volume, about 62kg of wildflower seeds have been sown – equating to about 100 million seeds. “Not all germinate, but there’s plenty for people and insects to enjoy.” www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3608...
November 17, 2025 at 7:20 AM
“Hardy said based on last year’s seed volume, about 62kg of wildflower seeds have been sown – equating to about 100 million seeds. “Not all germinate, but there’s plenty for people and insects to enjoy.” www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3608...
M’s look is joyous af! 💕💐🌸❤️🌹💋
Dopamine dressing 101: Dress like you’re trying to make the 7 year old inside you happy. #ootd
November 17, 2025 at 4:35 AM
M’s look is joyous af! 💕💐🌸❤️🌹💋
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Christchurch’s Cake-nic craze is here, with the second cake picnic in three months attracting 200 bakers.
Viral cake-nic trend takes off as hundreds turn out in Christchurch
Christchurch’s Cake-nic craze is here, with the second cake picnic in three months attracting 200 bakers.
dlvr.it
November 16, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Christchurch’s Cake-nic craze is here, with the second cake picnic in three months attracting 200 bakers.
Christchurch Cake-Nic 2.0 is on at Risingholme Park in Opawa.
November 15, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Christchurch Cake-Nic 2.0 is on at Risingholme Park in Opawa.
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The Samoan-New Zealand typographer behind the beloved Bugonia font
The Samoan-New Zealand typographer behind the beloved Bugonia font
The late Joseph Churchward designed more than 600 fonts, many of which can be seen all over New Zealand life....
thespinoff.co.nz
November 15, 2025 at 9:17 PM
The Samoan-New Zealand typographer behind the beloved Bugonia font
The books I read in October.
My faves:
👠History is painted by the victors by Kent Monkman
🗡️Murderland by Caroline Fraser
💧Is a river alive? by Robert Macfarlane
Reviews at christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/users/750...
@thestorygraph.com #pukapuka #booksky
My faves:
👠History is painted by the victors by Kent Monkman
🗡️Murderland by Caroline Fraser
💧Is a river alive? by Robert Macfarlane
Reviews at christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/users/750...
@thestorygraph.com #pukapuka #booksky
November 14, 2025 at 3:01 AM
The books I read in October.
My faves:
👠History is painted by the victors by Kent Monkman
🗡️Murderland by Caroline Fraser
💧Is a river alive? by Robert Macfarlane
Reviews at christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/users/750...
@thestorygraph.com #pukapuka #booksky
My faves:
👠History is painted by the victors by Kent Monkman
🗡️Murderland by Caroline Fraser
💧Is a river alive? by Robert Macfarlane
Reviews at christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/users/750...
@thestorygraph.com #pukapuka #booksky
This is time travelling. Head back to the early-mid nineties via The Press on Papers Past.
Big Fresh. Billy T James. Big Snow. Aramoana. Ruthanasia.
Oh, and Radiohead, and Servalan from Blake's Seven.
Yes, it's the Nineties! You can now dive into The Press from 1990 to 1995 with Papers Past.
my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/blogs/post/1... ^DR
#Christchurch #Ōtautahi
Oh, and Radiohead, and Servalan from Blake's Seven.
Yes, it's the Nineties! You can now dive into The Press from 1990 to 1995 with Papers Past.
my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/blogs/post/1... ^DR
#Christchurch #Ōtautahi
134 years of The Press online: Papers Past now goes to 1995
Copies of The Press from 1861 to 1995 are now online at Papers Past. The years 1990 to 1995 are newly available.
my.christchurchcitylibraries.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:37 PM
This is time travelling. Head back to the early-mid nineties via The Press on Papers Past.
And he had the great MC names Mr Cardamom fka Young Cardamom
This must be the first Guardian story about Zohran Mamdani: a piece about when he was a rapper and got Madhur Jaffrey to lip-sync in one of his videos. The following year he quit the rap game to get elected to the New York State Assembly
www.theguardian.com/music/2019/m...
www.theguardian.com/music/2019/m...
How Mr Cardamom convinced 85-year-old Madhur Jaffrey to swear
A tribute to his maternal grandmother, Nani’s foul-mouthed celebrity connection has transformed the rapper’s career
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:06 PM
And he had the great MC names Mr Cardamom fka Young Cardamom
Interesting building happening in Cathedral Square. Maybe SCAPE related? #Ōtautahi #Christchurch
November 11, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Interesting building happening in Cathedral Square. Maybe SCAPE related? #Ōtautahi #Christchurch
Wearing my wedding shoes today.
November 10, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Wearing my wedding shoes today.
Interested to see if the one book on the Booker Prize shortlist that I read gets the gong. Go Flesh!
christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S3...
christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S3...
Flesh — Christchurch City Libraries Ngā Kete Wānanga o Ōtautahi
Flesh — Szalay, David — Fifteen-year-old Istvan lives with his mother in a quiet apartment complex in Hungary. New to the town and shy, he is unfamiliar with the social rituals at school and soon beco...
christchurch.bibliocommons.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Interested to see if the one book on the Booker Prize shortlist that I read gets the gong. Go Flesh!
christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S3...
christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S3...
The chapel in All Souls Church in Merivale is beautiful.
November 9, 2025 at 5:53 AM
The chapel in All Souls Church in Merivale is beautiful.
All hatted up courtesy of yesterday’s costume sale at Showbiz Christchurch. Had an absolute ball!
November 9, 2025 at 1:13 AM
All hatted up courtesy of yesterday’s costume sale at Showbiz Christchurch. Had an absolute ball!
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On this day in 1881 the Māori settlement of Parihaka was invaded by 1500 militia and armed constabulary.
Learn more about what happened and how leaders Tohu and Te Whiti ended up in Christchurch.
my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/parihaka/ ^MT
Learn more about what happened and how leaders Tohu and Te Whiti ended up in Christchurch.
my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/parihaka/ ^MT
Parihaka
This page details some of the key resources at your library about the peaceful resistance to the militia invasion of the Taranaki settlement…
my.christchurchcitylibraries.com
November 4, 2025 at 8:30 PM
On this day in 1881 the Māori settlement of Parihaka was invaded by 1500 militia and armed constabulary.
Learn more about what happened and how leaders Tohu and Te Whiti ended up in Christchurch.
my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/parihaka/ ^MT
Learn more about what happened and how leaders Tohu and Te Whiti ended up in Christchurch.
my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/parihaka/ ^MT