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Emma Dickson
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I say that apart from family and friends I have been able to get everything I need in Kirikiriroa. It's a lie, I have not found a good flower supply. 5 gorgeous peonies for $12 at my favourite fruit and veggie shop on the North Shore for my Grandma's birthday. I have only seen them here at 3 for $17
A white female wearing glasses and a navy top holds coral peonies with greenery in the background.
November 23, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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Apparently it's already summer in Kirikiriroa.
Con: melting
Pro: strawberry season
Three strawberry danishes (rectangular) topped with custard and fresh chopped strawberries on a tray scattered with whole strawberries and cardamom pods
November 5, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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I’m taking part in Pride Unleashed to raise life-changing funds for rainbow kiwis. 🐾✨

I’ll be walking, wagging, and fundraising to support our Rainbow and Takatāpui whānau.
www.sweatwithpride.com/fundraisers/...

Every dollar helps unleash brighter futures
Thanks a paw-ful 🐾💖

Honey (and Emma)
Honey, a ginger dog wearing a Pride Unleashed Rainbow bandana naps on fluffy grey pillows with the sun streaming in behind her.
October 27, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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First walk completed for Pride Unleashed. If you want to support Honey in her fundraising efforts for the Rainbow Community you can find her profile here. www.sweatwithpride.com/fundraisers/...
Honey, a ginger dog lying down on green grass wearing a rainbow bandana and Emma, white female wearing a yellow jumper, black pants and a pink hat crouched beside the dog, both look at the camera. Pink cherry blossoms trees in bloom are in the background
October 1, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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Reposted with permission from Instagram 💔
shanneazy (Repost because lots of people wanted to share xx) Just a reminder that healthcare in aotearoa is crumbling. Starting tomorrow, in my ICU we are refusing to work outside of our unit. Lately, atleast once a month we are sent to work out in the wards because they are short staffed. But we are not trained to work in these areas. We work in an extremely specialized unit.. Imagine working at Mcdonald's and when you show up for your shift, you are told you have to go and do your shift at the KFC down the road. Oh and if you make a mistake, somebody dies. This is what's it's like being sent to work in an area that you were not even trained to work in. However, this week we are refusing to work outside of our unit, because this is where we were hired to work! And we have been told that if we do refuse, we will lose 10% of our pay for that week. Keep in mind, by refusing to be redeployed, we are still working a full 12.5hr shift in the unit that we were HIRED to work in. WE LOSE 10% OF OUR WEEKLY PAY BECAUSE WE ARE WORKING OUR SHIFT IN THE UNIT WE WERE HIRED TO WORK IN AND FOR REFUSING TO WORK IN AN UNKNOWN ENVIRONMENT WE WEREN'T TRAINED FOR. Make it make sense.
August 18, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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How rude, lying on my bed in the sun while I sort and put away the laundry. How do I apply to become a cat?
A black and white cat lying in the sun on a green and floral duvet
August 3, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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Love reporting dumping and general rubbish accumulation in the park behind our house only for the council to ignore me for weeks. Spent some time this afternoon trying to carefully extract jasmine runners and roots out of it and discovered it's even worse than we thought. Will try again on Monday 🤷🏼‍♀️
A pile of dumped rubbish and park green waste
August 2, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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I am so glad I am not the only one who does this. I hope yours is delightful, the one I threw together last year was quite yummy.
Close up of a caramelised onion, potato and gruyere galette
July 3, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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Happy Dog Tail Syndrome has struck. Honestly surprised that it took this long given the way that thing whips around. If you visit our house please don't be alarmed by tiny blood splatters on the walls 🫣🤣 Every time we think we have got them all we find another
Ginger brindle dog sits on the window seat looking out into the yard, her face is reflected in the window. Her long thin tail has a white bandage at the end.
June 22, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Ok I shall be cute, he is a good human!
Cinnamon roll with a browned butter cream cheese glaze on a plate in the background and a latte in a flamingo coffee mug. Breakfast and coffee in bed
June 19, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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What would I do without our window vacuum? The house has an HRV, is well insulated and gets all day sun and I still get 600 mL of water off the windows. New Zealand houses are dumb
Yellow and black window vacuum sits behind two 250 mL glass Pyrex jugs filled with water
June 17, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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On a much lighter note I have entered my faculty wife era. Baked cookies for @drbenomycin.bsky.social 's group meeting this afternoon.
Unbaked cookie dough (3 portions) with chunks of chocolate and sprinkled with sea salt Baked chocolate chunk cookies on a paper lined tray. Chunks of dark and milk Whittakers chocolate on top of the cookies and a sprinkle of sea salt
June 12, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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Lunchbox notes for Schools' Pride Week Aotearoa. This year's theme is "Everyone is Magic" which is so encouraging and inclusive. Hope it's a bright and beautiful week for you all 🌈💕🌈
A pink post it note on a white and grey stone bench. The note reads "Happy Schools' Pride Week. Everyone is Magic. *Rainbow picture* *Heart picture* Be kind. Be Awesome. Be you!
June 2, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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When you don't quite have the cake vision sorted before you start but it all works out
Tall round white cake that has hot pink, light pink, purple, blue and white sprinkles. A pink drip coming down from the top and topped with icing swirls and more sprinkles.
May 15, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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Thankfully she is quite proud of her accessories and has not stopped living her best princess puppy lifestyle
A ginger dog wearing black booties and a cone of shame lies on a round dog bed on an outdoor patio.
April 27, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Having a rough Monday? Honey has got your back. Her lovely Easter trip to the bach turned into an allergic reaction and she has been subjected to a bath, booties and now the cone of shame 🫣 Got to love that sensitive skin from her Shar Pei ancestry
April 27, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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How do we feel about "alternative" hot cross buns? Thanks @drbenomycin.bsky.social for pointing out that the obvious choice this year was a fairy bread bun as I have filled my baking cupboard with sprinkles. Dark chocolate and cardamon for our teen who has much more refined taste than her parents
Fairy bread hot cross buns. Hot cross buns filled with pink pastry cream, a pink cross and covered in sprinkles styled with a small copper cake fork and spoon Dark chocolate and cardamon hot cross buns. Dark brown chocolate buns with a dark chocolate pastry cream cross, bun cut in half and filled with chocolate pastry cream. Styled with golden cake forks and spoons
April 18, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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I like to cook them just in a bit of butter instead of oil and I added cardamom to the cinnamon sugar today which was not a bad choice
April 12, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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So glad I remembered about feijoa fritters at the beginning of the season this year.
The makings of feijoa fritters. Four glass bowls, one with peeled and chopped feijoas, one with whole feijoas, on with cardamom and cinnamon sugar and one with fritter batter. Measuring spoons and a whisk in between them Cooked feijoa fritters coated in cardamon and cinnamon sugar on a plate with whole feijoas. A hand holds a bitten into feijoa fritter showing the creamy inside. Blurred behind is a bowl of whole green feijoas.
April 12, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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Honey has got your back Lilja 💕
Honey, a tan dog with ginger eyes, lies on floral duvets
March 27, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Why @drbenomycin.bsky.social is justified for having dinner timeline trust issues. Saturday morning Emma "I want to do an easy dinner, let's have kimchi grilled cheese tonight." Starts making brioche at midday and it doesn't even go into the oven till 7:30 pm 🫣 He did tell me to just buy bread...
Three rectangle bread pans filled with unbaked brioche dough sit on a bench with oven mitts, a dough whisk and a measuring cup
March 8, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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After being a stay at home mom for 10 years I am feeling so lucky to be part of a team that let me help to rework a first year lab course and move it from a lab report heavy assessment format to an in lab workbook. First hard copies hot off the presses and I love them 🤓🤣😍
White female wearing glasses and a grey t-shirt smiles holds two A4 lab manuals with a light green and lime green cover.
February 18, 2025 at 5:46 AM
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I did a thing...but on a scale of 1-10 how badly do we need a matching family set of these?!
A white female wearing glasses and a tie die pink and blue hoodie kneels on the ground beside a ginger dog also wearing a pink and blue tie die hoodie. Both are smiling
February 4, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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So pleased it worked for her. Mine says she pressed hers six times and I definitely looked at my heart and thought of her 🥹🥰
An adult arm with a child arm, child hand on top of the adult's, palms up. Both have little hearts drawn on their wrists, outlined in black, filled in with pink.
February 3, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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She takes the long weekend seriously. Slept past 9 and after a quick sniffy walk has collapsed in her fluffy bed.
Honey, a ginger dog with wrinkly skin, lies in her blue/grey fluffy dog bed.
October 27, 2024 at 11:26 PM