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Andrew Frame
@napierinframe.bsky.social
Dad, Husband, Writer, Local Issues Commentator, Cricketer, Umpire, Office Worker, Bay Buzz magazine Columnist, Champion of all things Hawke's Bay. Napier, New Zealand.
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Highlight for my year was appearing on the "Bays of our Lives" podcast!
@yvonnelorkin.bsky.social & Daniel Brennan at Dan's Decibel Wines in Hastings' CBD
16 episodes to date talking to Hawke's Bay locals (& some visitors)
My fav is probably Darryl "DLT" Thomson

open.spotify.com/episode/3uBm...
Ep 14: Andrew Frame - Hawkesbaylien, Commentator, GC
Bays of Our Lives · Episode
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"Raindrops on Roses and Whiskers on Kittens..."
Hi, my @secretsanta.nz #SecretSantaAoNZ!
If you are stuck for ideas here are some of my favorite things:
November 11, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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"COME BACK HERE, YOU FEATHERED LITTLE £*<&€R, YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE MY CONTENTS PAGE!!!"
May 1, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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What brown bear?
May 17, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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25 years since it was published, Bob Kerr's "After the War" is still one of the most glorious, beautiful, & heartbreaking pictorial social histories of Aotearoa New Zealand.
The pictures tell a billion little stories, covering 55 years of a Kiwi family's life.
Simply stunning!
July 2, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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Maybe the "mature conversation" NZ needs to have is about the gap between rhetoric and reality with CEO and board appointments.
November 11, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Replace the word "officers" with "ministers", Ms Attourney-General, and get back to us, eh?
November 11, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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Who the fuck thought the guy who ruined regional radio would be an ideal board member for Hawke's Bay's regional water authority??!!

www.napier.govt.nz/home/article...
One step closer to a new Hawke’s Bay Water Services Entity
A joint plan for the delivery of water services across Central Hawke’s Bay, Hastings and Napier has received the tick of approval from Government and a four-person Establishment Advisory Board is now ...
www.napier.govt.nz
November 10, 2025 at 7:13 PM
The same way that New Zealand's highest paid, most biased media opinionist, Mike Hosking, constantly berates the "bias" of "the media" in New Zealand....
"Because they've failed to run the economy properly..."

Who is"they",Mr Peters?

FYI, NZFirst is part of this govt. Mr Peters has served as Deputy PM.

So any failure can be shared with him.

Its called responsibility.

www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
'Tawdry, silly argument': Winston Peters criticises asset sales, says government has not fixed economy
The NZ First leader has savaged National's suggestion, saying it has failed to fix the economy and is now trying to balance the books.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 10, 2025 at 10:50 PM
21 years, 8 months & 10 days.
All done.
Redundant as of today.
November 10, 2025 at 10:34 PM
November 10, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I mean, COME ON!!
This from three years ago:

Steven Joyce: Three Waters a tipping point for disillusioned provincial NZ www.nzherald.co.nz/business/ste...
November 10, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Who the fuck thought the guy who ruined regional radio would be an ideal board member for Hawke's Bay's regional water authority??!!

www.napier.govt.nz/home/article...
One step closer to a new Hawke’s Bay Water Services Entity
A joint plan for the delivery of water services across Central Hawke’s Bay, Hastings and Napier has received the tick of approval from Government and a four-person Establishment Advisory Board is now ...
www.napier.govt.nz
November 10, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Now #SecretSantaAoNZ has kicked off, I’m going to have a think about some good clues I can give my Santa. I’ll probably post around the time we get paired up.

Want to play with us? Go to secretsanta.nz for details and sign up!!
a man in a green elf costume is sitting at a table in front of a shelf filled with toys .
Alt: Will Ferrell, in a green elf costume, is sitting at a table in front of a shelf filled with toys, playing with a Jack-in-the-Box
media.tenor.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:37 AM
November 10:
Napier and Hastings move to level 2 Water Restrictions
November 10, 2025 at 5:57 AM
The 80s called in my latest NapierinFrame post:

Optimizing Prime
napierinframe.co.nz/optimizing-p...
Optimizing Prime
Last year I was able get “a grail” – a toy I only dreamed about having as a child – Transformers’ Optimus Prime! As an only child I was fortunate to be able to accumul…
napierinframe.co.nz
November 10, 2025 at 5:54 AM
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Luxon thinks we need a "mature conversation" about selling state assets... But I don't think he really means that, because a mature conversation would look at the history of failure and the shortsighted focus on profit ahead of public interest.

He wants a conversation where we agree with him.
November 10, 2025 at 2:51 AM
I had an interesting day yesterday!
November 10, 2025 at 4:40 AM
If "Te Pāti Māori is a joke", that must make Luxon's cringey, chaotic coalition any show featuring Jono & Ben?
November 10, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Good to know at least Ex Prime Ministers and TV Political Reporters are sorted...
Good news everybody! ANZ has posted a record $2.53Billion profit, just when we thought everything was dire and no one had any money we find out that ANZ is absolutely coining it!!! #NZPol
November 10, 2025 at 12:27 AM
I'm in! #SecretSantaAoNZ ahoy!
November 10, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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It's beginning to look a bit like Christmas,
With sign up going live!🎶🎵

So here's the Bluesky Secret Santa AoNZ, with some friends from Mastodon along for the ride. We hope you are looking forward to some fun, and that we can bring it to you 🎄
Official hashtag: #SecretSantaAoNZ
App: secretsanta.nz
November 9, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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NZ media landscape is noticeably more dire after the Nats slashed the covid subsidies and Seymour nicked $18 million out of the RNZ budget
November 9, 2025 at 7:14 AM
I caught some of RNZ Mediawatch this morning discussing lack of trust in NZ media.

The show lead-off featuring new Zealand's highest paid media opinionist (he himself has repeatedly declared he is NOT a journalist) Mike Hosking, decrying how biased & bad NZ media is.

YOU ARE MEDIA, fucknuckle!
November 9, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Do we have any satellite imagery of the smoke from National Park fire, @weatherwatchnz.bsky.social @weatherbom.bsky.social?
Getting some trippy cloud colours here in Hawke’s Bay!
November 9, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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November 7, 2025 at 7:27 AM