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Hannah
@hkmolloy.bsky.social
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Feeling a deep sense of overwhelm and existential dread. There's still beauty in little things and small moments of kindness and openness.

#FreePalestine #ToituTeTiriti #KindnessMatters

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A curious perimenopausal symptom is I've gone all the way off garlic but have started drinking strong tea.
Chewy caramel ✔️
Chilli in all its forms ✔️
Chocolate 💁‍♀️
Liquorice ✔️
Dutch liquorice 🚫
Spices ✔️
One of my fave #SecretSantaAoNZ gifts resulted in this legacy:
Four shelves of herbs and spices, mostly in orderly square jars but with some chaos happening on the top shelf
November 13, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Wonky box is offering meat now. My brain is reading it as expensive so I haven't signed up for it but is an option.
Screenshot from a wonky box email detailing two meat packs.
November 8, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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November 1, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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I think Ōtepoti wins Halloween 🤡👀😱
A red balloon waves enticingly from a grate at an intersection.
October 30, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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I'm sorry for the length of this hard time for you both and I hope the peace is coming soon.

You pop into my mind in a nebulous way when I look at your paintings - they give me pleasure and I appreciate you for that.
Painting in blues, greens and yellows in a wooden frame on a pale wall with a wooden chair back below it.
October 28, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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This one sympathises.
Elderly grey cat doing a sad loaf on a pink cushion on a green couch. Her ears however suggest disapproval rather than sadness.
October 7, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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I've had two pretty well faked phishing emails from 'the IRD' in two days. Why are people jerks?

phishing.ird.govt.nz is a handy email address.
Screenshot of the body of a pretty well faked email from (not from) the IRD telling me they've finished my recent tax assessment and I should log in at the link below to check it's all correct.
September 4, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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Opening act for Otago Polyfest, Portobello School 😍

If you're in Ōtepoti this week with some time to spare, it's a $2 entry fee and a great time.
Te atamira ki te Otago Polyfest. Three beautiful banners with toi Pasifika motifs drop from the ceiling and Portobello School in formation across the stage.
September 1, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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Might not be what you're after but my friend's family has been discussing which penguin species they identify with and they invited me into the discussion.

It's very accurate when you check the pictures. #TeamRockhopper
Screenshot of a rock hopper penguin staring down the barrel of the camera. It has Large hair and looks like it has had a rough week and has No Time For Your Nonsense.
July 9, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Do we think I can figure out how to do a floorboard patch? I have some pine t&g and a handsaw - what could go wrong?
June 7, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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What a stash! The best Whittaker's flavour, cards to trounce my boys with, seeds 😍😍😍, this beautiful book I nearly bought 2 weeks ago and the softest cloud you can imagine! And a donation to @goodbitchesbake.bsky.social - too much kindness thank you 🙏

#MWSecretSantaAoNZ
A beautiful, unimaginably soft blanket (probably will be work as a scarf in my world) in blues, pinks, greys and a touch of green. A stack of little treats - and navy envelope with a white panel that says 'random flower seeds - scatter in spring', a block of hiney nougat Whittaker's chocolate, a deck of art deco inspired playing cards, a copy of Dear Moko by Dr Hinemoa Elder and the inside of the card that accompanied the gifts.
June 6, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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I think it has arrived? I'm not expecting any other parcels (that I remember...) but haven't had a notification that it was on it's way - to open or not to open 😱👀

#MWSecretSantaAoNZ
May 24, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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This is why I stopped mowing my lawns...

FIVE korimako discussing important matters at the top of their voices in this tree. 😍

There are more across the road in an equally wild garden. A few years ago I was lucky to see one in passing.
April 20, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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One of my jobs released an extremely amazing project today. It has been my baby for nearly a year and releasing it to the world is as nervewracking as letting my actual children go.
A photo of a cookbook called Familiar Foods: Treats of Aotearoa. It has a light background with teaspoons of spices (from foreground at the bottom to background at the top chilli flakes, saffron, turmeric, himalayan salt, paprika, cardamom and ground black pepper). There's a clip on the side because this is actually the proof copy and the pages are loose.
April 14, 2025 at 5:54 AM
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I stopped mowing my lawns pre-pandemic and have a garden full of birds and bugs. But also there is an inner city apartment in my near future.

I have an elderly cat and some fish with great personality. I am also mother to two lovely men in their 20s.
Said elderly cat deeply asleep on a fluffy pink cushion. She's little and grey and her front paws are crossed. There seems to he washing in the background but at least it's folded.
April 11, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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If you see this, post something pink.
A pretty grey cat deeply asleep with her face smooshed into a fluffy pink cushion. Her front paws are crossed daintily and her back legs are tucked in. There's washing in the top left corner but at least it's folded.
January 21, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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This dear little friend took herself off to her big sleep today after a few uncomfortable days. Little creatures are so trusting and it's a bit shit when you can't make them feel better.

Blu, Jan 2018 - Jan 2025
Large grey rabbit under a woodburner with flames glowing behind the glass. Her ears are forward and her nose is nearly touching the firebrush and shovel in an offended sort of way. Same large grey rabbit snuggled up in a duvet on the bed where she is *not* supposed to be. A head, shoulders and ears shot from above of that rabbit sneaking the cat's food. No one told her rabbits are vegetarian but apparently cat biscuits are delicious. The poor elderly cat had to learn to jump up onto the freezer to find her food. Large grey rabbit snuggled firmly between two fluffy pink cushions on the coucb. Her flat ears indicate deep comfort. You can see in this picture that she has quite a large tummy and very soft fur.
January 16, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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This beautiful tree is full of happy bees, both bumble and regular. It also has tūī and korimako zooming in and out of it.

It's one of two at the front of my section that were a house-warming present from my parents 13 (14?) years ago. My sister had grown them from seed.
A fluffy pōhutukawa tree with lots of red blossoms sitting in long grass with a backdrop of blue sky, hills and a telegraph pole. A close (ish) up of a pōhutukawa blossom with a bee butt sticking out of it. The background is out of focus long grass and a silver birch with patches of blue sky
January 2, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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Lol the algorithm is listening 🤣
December 29, 2024 at 8:22 AM
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Here are some pets.
Elderly grey cat sleeping aggressively on a fluffy dusty pink cushion. Large grey rabbit relaxing under a roaring woodburner. She's slightly puzzled by the hearthbrush and shovel very close to her nose.
November 26, 2024 at 6:50 AM
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This Rarotongan rupe had very perfect white eyeliner and was extremely greedy with these berries. The bulge was visible almost all the way to its tummy.

If you see this, post a bird.
A rupe (wood pigeon) on a branch of palm berries. Its shovelling a whole berry about 2/3 the size of its head into its beak. Its head and neck are pale grey and the rest is dark grey. The sky behind it is blue with some dreamy white clouds.
October 20, 2024 at 6:36 AM
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Not a beautiful photo but I'm quite proud of these little friends.

Wrapping dumplings is meditative - lots of time to think about how food is so similar and so different across cultures. And also delicious.
A black cooling rack on a stainless steel bench has 11 green zongzi on it. They are sticky rice dumplings wrapped in bamboo leaves and tied with grass. They're supposed to be pyramids but are more like triangle adjacent.
September 29, 2024 at 5:31 AM
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Update:
A cornerwise photo of 201 drones lit up purple and laid out in beautifully straight rows at night on a black ground. My camera is pretty bad so it captured their purple glow with lots of diffusion.
June 27, 2024 at 8:01 AM
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More beautiful toi Māori to be celebrated in Ōtepoti this weekend - these are 10 of the 201 drones that will be telling a Kāi Tahu story on Saturday night. NZ Science Festival has been working on this for 2 years....

Creative by Kitty Brown and Kirsten Peterson.
June 27, 2024 at 5:09 AM
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I made this 3 or 4 years ago and then an NZ Secret Santa sent me the most amazing box of treats to add to it.
June 22, 2024 at 11:10 PM