Delicious new gf beer! Pretty low ABV too, at 3.5% 👏

Reading Marilyn Hacker this morning 💝 formal mastery and prescient political commentary.

A friend flippantly suggested 'Better Than Tupperware' as a name for my poetry collection. When I searched it, imagine my surprise to find an award winning 2003 book of that name by David Eggleton! (Completely hallucinated by the AI summary function)

Epic day at the last ever Wellington Homegrown Festival. So much talent on stage, and love for the music from the crowd. Nesian Mystic were my highlight - and great to finish the night with the wholesome vibe of Uncle Dave (albeit sad to miss Shihad...)

Weather come good for Shihad at Black Barn 🖤

My friend Michael Giacon released a beautiful book of poetry in May - 'undressing in slow motion' . It's fabulous! And this lovely poem about being cared for by his elder brother, in his old family bedroom, makes me cry every time I read it.

Me: Elmo's gonna haunt me now 😬
My son: Theres one haunting figure in that photo and it isnt elmo

Kiri!

Vale, Vincent O'Sullivan 💜

love this poem from Remember Me, Poems to Learn by Heart, edited by Anne Kennedy, AUP 2023

I made Lilly Pilly jelly from our own tree (and now I'm obsessed with the phrase Lilly Pilly jelly 💜)

Kiri is two today 🎊 she brings me so much joy!

Almost a year since Cyclone Gabrielle and we had all the feels reading these words above the bar at the Puketapu Pub this afternoon. The power of poetry 💖

Wrapping Charlie Tangaroa by @taniaroxborogh.bsky.social for my niece and found this sweet note! Thanks for the great service @goodbookshopnz.bsky.social 🌸 I know she'll be a fan too.

Tell me where you are from with a food picture.

#inktober - day 3. Today's prompt was path - which made me think of my old headmaster at Tamatea High reading us Robert Frost's The Road Not Taken every year without fail.

#Inktober Day 2 Spiders. My first time - just having fun 🕷