Bex
@rebekahlyell.bsky.social
Kei te ngenge ahau. He kairīpoata au.
Faves: Whittakers Hokey Pokey, salted caramel, peach, blueberry, sour squirms.
Not into: red meat, fake berry.
I love baking and am into sourdough and breads at the moment. Bake sweet things for @goodbitchesbake.bsky.social and the kids' lunchboxes. Christall Lowe's Kai series is my go-to cookbook
Not into: red meat, fake berry.
I love baking and am into sourdough and breads at the moment. Bake sweet things for @goodbitchesbake.bsky.social and the kids' lunchboxes. Christall Lowe's Kai series is my go-to cookbook
Time for another question #SecretSantaAoNZ
What are your favourite foods? Least favourite? What can't you eat? What are your go to foods FOR MORALE?
Quote or reply with your answers.
What are your favourite foods? Least favourite? What can't you eat? What are your go to foods FOR MORALE?
Quote or reply with your answers.
November 13, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Faves: Whittakers Hokey Pokey, salted caramel, peach, blueberry, sour squirms.
Not into: red meat, fake berry.
I love baking and am into sourdough and breads at the moment. Bake sweet things for @goodbitchesbake.bsky.social and the kids' lunchboxes. Christall Lowe's Kai series is my go-to cookbook
Not into: red meat, fake berry.
I love baking and am into sourdough and breads at the moment. Bake sweet things for @goodbitchesbake.bsky.social and the kids' lunchboxes. Christall Lowe's Kai series is my go-to cookbook
All signed up for #SecretSantaAoNZ after a few years hiatus. It's been an absolute kaka year and need a bit of joy in our whare 🎄
November 10, 2025 at 4:30 AM
All signed up for #SecretSantaAoNZ after a few years hiatus. It's been an absolute kaka year and need a bit of joy in our whare 🎄
Just in case... If anyone is keen to try Wonky Box but looking for a discount, here's a 25% off code (if you use it, I get 25% off too). LM3MLT is the code. For our first box today and quite impressed! Thinking we'll do it once a month.
November 6, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Just in case... If anyone is keen to try Wonky Box but looking for a discount, here's a 25% off code (if you use it, I get 25% off too). LM3MLT is the code. For our first box today and quite impressed! Thinking we'll do it once a month.
Re the NZ Curriculum... "It’s recolonisation disguised as reform." Was seriously thinking about renewing my teaching certificate... Absolutely not happening now. #NZPol
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Recolonising Te Mātaiaho
How the new version walks back the promise of the original
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October 29, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Re the NZ Curriculum... "It’s recolonisation disguised as reform." Was seriously thinking about renewing my teaching certificate... Absolutely not happening now. #NZPol
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The new Social studies curriculum is atrocious in general, but I just want to shine a spotlight on the explicit retreading of literal Nazi propaganda that is woven through the year 10 content! Buckle up this shit is shocking!
October 29, 2025 at 12:32 AM
The new Social studies curriculum is atrocious in general, but I just want to shine a spotlight on the explicit retreading of literal Nazi propaganda that is woven through the year 10 content! Buckle up this shit is shocking!
Snow flurries in Balclutha. The icing on the wind storm recovery.
October 27, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Snow flurries in Balclutha. The icing on the wind storm recovery.
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Aotearoa , new Zealand - MMR vaccine is free for anyone aged under 18, and for people over 18 eligible for free healthcare. please visit your local chemist that offers vaccinations & see if you had 2 doses. If not please get vaccinated. Protect yourself and people who can’t get vaccinated #nz
October 26, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Aotearoa , new Zealand - MMR vaccine is free for anyone aged under 18, and for people over 18 eligible for free healthcare. please visit your local chemist that offers vaccinations & see if you had 2 doses. If not please get vaccinated. Protect yourself and people who can’t get vaccinated #nz
22 hours with no power (and no estimate for restoration), house damaged but all safe. Limited cell phones working down there (I'm in Dunedin for the morning). That wind in Clutha was hectic - the district is annihilated. Fortunately, mainly superficial damage so far.
October 23, 2025 at 9:09 PM
22 hours with no power (and no estimate for restoration), house damaged but all safe. Limited cell phones working down there (I'm in Dunedin for the morning). That wind in Clutha was hectic - the district is annihilated. Fortunately, mainly superficial damage so far.
I wish I was still a journo in Hokitika on days like this. Grant was a frequent flier to my office back when I was. The stories I could tell... 😂
If she secures it, it'll have been 6th time lucky.
If she secures it, it'll have been 6th time lucky.
Jacquie Grant, who is 82 years old and a trans woman, looks likely to be the new mayor of Westland www.westlanddc.govt.nz/media/u0kbft...
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October 11, 2025 at 8:06 AM
I wish I was still a journo in Hokitika on days like this. Grant was a frequent flier to my office back when I was. The stories I could tell... 😂
If she secures it, it'll have been 6th time lucky.
If she secures it, it'll have been 6th time lucky.
Ahakoa he iti, he iti nā te aroha. This month's @goodbitchesbake.bsky.social off to Women's Refuge. One daughter does the box design each month, the other helps bake.
September 30, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Ahakoa he iti, he iti nā te aroha. This month's @goodbitchesbake.bsky.social off to Women's Refuge. One daughter does the box design each month, the other helps bake.
Absolute baloney. While waitlists for first specialist assessments (FSA) may be improving, its what happens after that's the kicker. 10 months (and waiting) for the followup test the FSA ordered and we're a "semi urgent" patient.
A new release is available from Hon Simeon Brown.
Health targets: shorter waits and faster care for South Islanders
Patients across Canterbury, Otago, Southland, Nelson Marlborough, and the West Coast are seeing faster access to care, the latest health results show, Health Minister Simeon Brown says.
www.beehive.govt.nz
September 29, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Absolute baloney. While waitlists for first specialist assessments (FSA) may be improving, its what happens after that's the kicker. 10 months (and waiting) for the followup test the FSA ordered and we're a "semi urgent" patient.
It's the... kārearea! www.forestandbird.org.nz/resources/ka... #BOTY
Kārearea NZ Falcon is the 2025 Bird of the Year
an early lead, the kārearea New Zealand falcon kept its talons firmly on the top spot and has snatched the crown in the 20th anniversary Bird of the Year competition.
www.forestandbird.org.nz
September 28, 2025 at 7:33 PM
It's the... kārearea! www.forestandbird.org.nz/resources/ka... #BOTY
Primary school teachers, primary principals, school support staff and Ministry of Education specialist staff will all strike together on October 23 #NZPol
September 16, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Primary school teachers, primary principals, school support staff and Ministry of Education specialist staff will all strike together on October 23 #NZPol
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I’m hyperventilating. Our country could actually be this iconic if useless white men weren’t running it.
September 5, 2025 at 4:21 AM
I’m hyperventilating. Our country could actually be this iconic if useless white men weren’t running it.
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Every day with this Govt is a 😑 day. Way to line your lobby mates' pockets.
A new release is available from Hon Nicole McKee.
Government reforms to improve alcohol regulation
Associate Justice Minister Nicole McKee today announced proposed changes to the Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012, and says the focus is on restoring fairness and practicality to the system without compromisin
www.beehive.govt.nz
August 28, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Every day with this Govt is a 😑 day. Way to line your lobby mates' pockets.
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“Children have a human right to a quality education that equips them for effective participation in a strong democracy — not one that simply shapes them into cogs for the economic machine.” — Catherine Murupaenga-Ikenn.
Preparing our kids for the real world? | E-Tangata
“Children have a human right to a quality education that equips them for effective participation in a strong democracy — not one that simply shapes them into cogs for the economic machine.” — Catheri...
e-tangata.co.nz
August 23, 2025 at 8:54 PM
“Children have a human right to a quality education that equips them for effective participation in a strong democracy — not one that simply shapes them into cogs for the economic machine.” — Catherine Murupaenga-Ikenn.
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This is assimilation era pedagogy.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Education Minister cut Māori words from future junior books, documents reveal
The near-total ban was driven by concern it would be confusing for children learning to read English, documents show.
www.rnz.co.nz
August 12, 2025 at 7:29 PM
This is assimilation era pedagogy.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Dr Bex nails it again
This reads an AWFUL lot like,
The wealthy boomers we hang out with don't understand NCEA so we are making it super simple for them to know who the clever kids are.
It utterly fails to understand that anyone under the age of 40 is VERY familiar with NCEA and has a solid working knowledge of it all
The wealthy boomers we hang out with don't understand NCEA so we are making it super simple for them to know who the clever kids are.
It utterly fails to understand that anyone under the age of 40 is VERY familiar with NCEA and has a solid working knowledge of it all
Oh yes that will fix it. Let’s completely change everything on a whim and in a hurry. Yup, job done.
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August 3, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Dr Bex nails it again
I'm stepping down after 6 years, including last 3 as chair. I knew I had to when I was taking time off work (unpaid) to do board work. It's relentless, challenging and so frustrating. The lack of nominations does not surprise me at all.
Also, parents are TIRED of being in school boards!!
It is a never-ending task:
- Primary school
- Intermediate
- High school
No compensation, loads of work, limited power to enact real change, minmal thanks.
It's horrendous. Tomorrow's Schools has failed
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
It is a never-ending task:
- Primary school
- Intermediate
- High school
No compensation, loads of work, limited power to enact real change, minmal thanks.
It's horrendous. Tomorrow's Schools has failed
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Schools are struggling to recruit new board members as deadlines loom
Just 2000 parents have applied across 10,000 soon-to-be empty school board positions.
www.rnz.co.nz
August 1, 2025 at 6:38 AM
I'm stepping down after 6 years, including last 3 as chair. I knew I had to when I was taking time off work (unpaid) to do board work. It's relentless, challenging and so frustrating. The lack of nominations does not surprise me at all.
@stephm1.bsky.social Random, but my 11 y.o is doing a study on an NZ author @ school and she chose.... You! She has 1 question she'd love to know, if you have a moment to indulge her: what inspires you as a writer? (Flight of the Fantail is her favourite book ever - big horror/gruesome fan 😂).
July 15, 2025 at 8:29 AM
@stephm1.bsky.social Random, but my 11 y.o is doing a study on an NZ author @ school and she chose.... You! She has 1 question she'd love to know, if you have a moment to indulge her: what inspires you as a writer? (Flight of the Fantail is her favourite book ever - big horror/gruesome fan 😂).
Keen to know how order numbers are stacking up. Our school went from every child (aka 100%) gets a lunch to opt in (24%), one term after the change to Seymour's slop.
#BHN Holy shit, school lunches is the gift that just keeps on giving to commentators (not so much to the school kids)
"The School Lunch Collective has started using a cheaper offal mince blend, a move that has raised compliance questions."
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"The School Lunch Collective has started using a cheaper offal mince blend, a move that has raised compliance questions."
businessdesk.co.nz/article/inve...
From prime to offal: Compass puts cheap cuts on school lunch menu
The School Lunch Collective has started using a cheaper offal mince blend, a move that has raised compliance questions. The supplier, headed by the Compas...
businessdesk.co.nz
July 15, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Keen to know how order numbers are stacking up. Our school went from every child (aka 100%) gets a lunch to opt in (24%), one term after the change to Seymour's slop.
My tamāhine made the Matariki mā Puaka table centre piece this year... Christall Lowe's horopito gingerbread whare ❤️ 3rd year in a row I've taken just one photo of our hākari (it's always kai related 😂) but my heart, and puku, are full
June 22, 2025 at 6:45 AM
My tamāhine made the Matariki mā Puaka table centre piece this year... Christall Lowe's horopito gingerbread whare ❤️ 3rd year in a row I've taken just one photo of our hākari (it's always kai related 😂) but my heart, and puku, are full
Ngā Kurakura o Hinenuitepō ❤️
June 1, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Ngā Kurakura o Hinenuitepō ❤️