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Anne-Louise
@robeanne.bsky.social
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Language geek, outdoors freak, reading, books, handstands in high places, a wee dram or two never goes amiss. Love my boys. Kei Kirikiriroa Hamilton au e noho ana ināianei engari i tipu au i Leeds. Proud Yorkshire lass in Aotearoa
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Flowers from my garden.
Flowers in a vase on a table - red dhalias, yellow lily, blue hydrangea and something purple!
January 13, 2026 at 8:41 AM
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January 11, 2026 at 7:13 AM
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Went down to the mighty maunga this weekend. The other one, not the one we went to last weekend. How lucky are we to have Ruapehu and Taranaki with striking distance from home. Sunrises and sunsets magnificent. #Aotearoa #Ruapehu #TeTōngaOTeRā #TeWhitingaOTeRā
Sunset over a landscape. Tussock, mānuka and hebe in the foreground. The sun is casting red rays over he landscape as it drops to the horizon. The sky glowing golden with wispy clouds. The light of the setting sun turning the tussock grass golden. It is also reflecting off the pockets of snow on the mountain known as Ruapehu. The peaks are glowing golden from the setting sun. The light of the rising sun is just touching the top of Ruapehu (mountain). The snow at the top is bright with the sunlight. In the foreground, native tree are also touched by the light. The sky is a light blue. The sky appears ro be on fire. The clouds are lit brightly by the setting sun. There is also a band of dark cloud in front and the muted golden rays of the sun can be seen beneath the dark band. A few branches from trees are in the foreground
January 11, 2026 at 5:47 AM
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Summer evenings - a good book and a good drink. #SunIsOverTheYardArm #SummerTreats
An outside table with a glass of clear liwuid (gin) ice and lime on the left, book on the right, ready to be read. Table adornments behibd; a metal wrought bird in flight, a small iron hare sitting upright with pointy ears, succulents in clay pots, one shaped like a whale. It is sunny.
January 11, 2026 at 5:32 AM
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I like this. #Strength #Vulnerability #Resilience #Courage
A photo of a wave crashing with the words "Break often - not like porcelain, but like waves".
January 8, 2026 at 8:51 PM
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Stolen from the dark side but very apposite atm.
A venn diagram showing where we are as a world in the context of dystopian novels of the 1900s.
January 8, 2026 at 8:48 PM
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Back to work today so procrastinating by scrolling and looking at photos of our few days away in Taranaki. What a maunga!
Taranaki Maunga (mountain) in a blue sky with white fluffy cloud to the right flank. Foreground, green lush bush. A male in a red tee-shirt and black shorts hiking along a bush covered ridge .
January 4, 2026 at 7:44 PM
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See a bridge. Post a bridge.
January 4, 2026 at 7:33 PM
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Playing with blackout poetry art - it's quite the challenge but rewarding. From Maupassant's A Woman's Life. #GettingCreative #BlackoutPoetry
A page from a novel with selected words circled to create a sort of poem. The rest of the words are blacked out. Drawings of a purple perfume bottle, a red ribbon, bare trees and a blue bird illustrate the text. A page from a novel with selected words circled to create a sort of poem. The rest of the words are blacked out. Drawings of a fly, a cricket, a cup of coffee and a moss covered pathway illustrate the text.
January 1, 2026 at 6:34 AM
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Ngā mihi o te tau hou Pākehā. Let 2026 be happy, positive and kind.
A grey, long haired cat sitting upright on the arm of a sofa looking at the photographer or just to the right of them. It is evening as it is dark outside. There is a house plant behind the cat. A greeting for the new year is written in te reo Māori and English in yellow at the bottom of the image.
December 31, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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A rainy day upcycling project. The chair on the left was done 5 years or so ago. The other has been waiting in the garage! Thanks for reminding me to get on with it @alinasu33.bsky.social ! #Upcycling #Restoration #RainyDayProject
A pair of low lounge chairs in a living room. They habe wooden curved arms. The chair on the left is upholstered in retro orange and navy blue patterned material. The one on the right is upholstered in modern material woth brown, orange, brown and grey circles and hearts. Low lounge chair with wooden arms, upholstered with material with brown, grey and red abstract shapes on.
December 29, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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Meri Kirihimete nō Kirikiriroa
December 25, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Hey, Aotearoa New Zealand #nzpol. This vandalous National Party/NZ First/ACT coalition government has set us 'back on track' to being ridiculed by the world on the international stage again.
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#TooManyCows #ClimateCrisis

www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
New Zealand awarded dubious 'Fossil of the Day' at COP30 climate talks
The government's decision to weaken methane emissions targets have garnered it the award for a fourth time, after avoiding it last year.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 19, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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Today, 144 years ago, 1600 Crown troops invaded a pacifist settlement that was the centre of resistance against British colonialism. The leaders were arrested, the settlement sacked, the people violated.

For many in Aotearoa, November 5th is Parihaka Day, or Te Rā o te Pāhua: The Day of Plunder.
A black and white photograph of a settlement, Parihaka, with a great snow capped mountain (Taranaki Maunga) in the background
November 5, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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Hit 2 of the morning - we sort of knew it was coming but now it looks like it actually is. FFS!
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...
Govt to remove requirement for school boards to give effect to Treaty of Waitangi
Boards will still need to try to achieve equitable outcomes for Māori.
www.nzherald.co.nz
November 3, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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It's depressing waking up these days! Stanford showing lack of trust of the professionalism of teachers again.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Education Minister's plans for Teaching Council a 'power grab', union says
Education Minister Erica Stanford has announced plans to shrink the council, replace most of its members with ministerial appointees, and remove its role in teacher training.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 3, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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"The ultimate ‘killer app’ in education is not a workbook, a script, or the next initiative. It is a thinking teacher who adapts wisely to change, drawing on what helps while setting aside what hinders, always keeping learners at the centre."
aecnz.substack.com/p/drowning-i...
Drowning in Change: Why Aotearoa’s Teachers Must Find Their Voice
By Stephen Lethbridge
aecnz.substack.com
November 2, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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What will you do about the curriculum changes?
October 30, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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Ko te kaupapa whakahirahira rawa atu ināianei - ngā kōrero o ngā rangatahi - conversation with the students andvthe Children's Commissioner #AEC #Uplifted
October 30, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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There is a tension in Aotearoa NZ between being a bit of England in the Pacific and being a proud Pacific nation. We need to be brave enough to cut the umbilical cord! #AotearoaEducatorsCollective
October 30, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Next up - wahine toa, e hoa. Jaye Riki! Bring it on!
October 30, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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Up next someone I am proud to call a friend - Hana O'Regan #Uplifted new horizons - we habe to remember the oast but we do have to look to the future possibilities and potential
October 29, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Looking forward to being uplifted #AotearoaEducatorsCollective
A stage with a banner on which Uplifted is written.
October 29, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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"this is not balance. It is a political rewrite that strips out the uncomfortable truths of colonisation and power, replacing them with a feel-good migration story and a dash of Ancient Rome. That is not education. It is deception."
drhsinghnz.substack.com/p/why-the-hi...
Why the History Curriculum Rewrite Is a Lie by Omission
By Dr Harpreet Singh | drhsinghnz.substack.com | FB: @DrHSinghNZ
drhsinghnz.substack.com
October 29, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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aecnz.substack.com/p/recolonisi...
I am angry, sad, disappointed, shocked, in disbelief but also not surprised.
Recolonising Te Mātaiaho
How the new version walks back the promise of the original
aecnz.substack.com
October 28, 2025 at 7:02 AM