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Anne-Louise
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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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What will you do about the curriculum changes?
October 30, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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October 30, 2025 at 8:47 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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How does it feel when you experience this? I can feel the emotion in Hana's voice as she is speaking. Aue!
October 29, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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When we know the history and we make policies that 'neutralise' curricular anyway that is intentional policy-making to eradicate culture and history of Aotearoa.
October 29, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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Anxiety that we haven't done enough when wwesee everything we've achieved through hard work over years struck off in when fell swoop.
October 29, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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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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190 yrs since He Whakaputanga was signed #TinoRangatiratanga #HeWhakaputanga #StitchingIsResistance
October 28, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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Labour day cat antics. #LabourDay #CatAntics
October 26, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Who are we aligning with? Who is pulling the strings? This tells a story of this shameful government. #Palestine
September 26, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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Rā tuarua, tuatoru hoki. Ētahi atu o tōku whanau.
Two cousins sitting on outside chairs in a garden in front of a brick house. My sister and her husband on an old city wall with a street in the background. Mark is tall, he wears glasses, brown trousers, blue tshirt and khaki green rain jacket. He is smiling. Stephanie is cuddled into him, smiling too. She is wearing cream cord trousers and a black rain jacket. My sister and I both smiling our hair being blown in the wind. There are rain clouds behind us. Stephanie and Mark sitting on the top of a ridge with the city behind and below them. Mark has his arm around Stephanie and she is leaning into him. There is a steep cliff to the right of them.
August 29, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Kei te hararei ahau, a ka tino koa au ki te kite anō i tāku whanau.
#Europe2025 #Whanau
Granddaughters and great nieces x 3, mothers x 3, daughters x 5, grandmother x 1, great aunt x 1. Blondies x 5, grey hair x 1. A smiling family group. Strong women. My Aunty and me. 91 years young and full of life wearing a white cotton top and smiling broadly. I am on the left in a black top and wearing a green tiki. 3 sisters and a cousin sitting on a sofa. All of an age - 63 - 69 yrs young. My sister amd me. On the left my taller than me but younger little sister in a blue summer dress. Both have curly hair, my sister's is piled on top of her head. I am in denim shorts and a dark longsleeved top. We are watched by a mini dark brown daschund.
August 29, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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So much fluff! My constant work companion since her sister died. #BubblesIsACat #OnlyCat
A grey fluffy cat asleep on my desk. Her front paws covering her nose and part of her eyes. Occasionally, she half opens them. She is also snoring and she must be dreaming of kitten days running and jumping because she twitches and her paws reach out before curling back up.
August 14, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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Finding & sharing all the stories of the rohe is important. Colonial & settler histories have been most prominent in recent times but Māori have been in the rohe much longer & hidden in the archive there are some real taonga. Journals, maps, ledgers that tell the stories of Māori settlement.
An imposing brick building with white columns, door and window surrounds. Early 1900 colonial British architecture. A more modern building is attached at the left hand side - brown metal columns. Two signs outside advertise Thames School of Mines and The Treasury Te Whare Pātaka. Overlaid is 1800s script written in ink and 1900s adverts for local businesses.
August 2, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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Inspired by some journals that are in Te Whare Pātaka, The Treasury in Thames to make some photo art. A fascinating and unique archive - worth a visit. www.thetreasury.org.nz
Photo collage that has the date 1835 in red across the whole image. The He Whakaputanga flag is behind it and overlaid is scipt. This is written in copper plate script using an ink pen and is a snippet from an account of Waikato and Hongi travelling overseas.
August 2, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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Ata Mārie - always better with coffee and a bit of creativity.
A white cup with black coffee. The crema is beautifully thick in top. Background is cursive script from 1800s written in ink describing the journey of Waikato and Hongi.
August 2, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Aahh! Coffee!❣️ First good coffee all week. #TravellungForWork #NotConferenceCoffee #NotMotelCoffee #RealCoffee
A blue grey cup with a white inside, filled with rich, black coffee sits on a saucer of the same colour. A small metal spoon is placed across the saucer in front of the cup, the bowl of the spoon is heart shaped. Behind and to the right of the cup is a small white crockery jug containing hot water.
July 31, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Kei waenganui i te ua me te rā ka kōwhiti a Uenuku pēnei i ngā whetū.
Who would have thought this lushness would be hidden in the concrete jungle of the industrial zone in Māngere? #WellbeingAnchors #FindTheGoodStiff
A full arc double rainbow in a stormy sky. Grey clouds abound but white cumulus and blue sky sit within the arc. The sun casts its light across the grass and the trees turning them a rich, lush green.
July 31, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Redemption - came at it fresh this morning and finished it. A 3 whiri kete. Often used as the basis for a wahakura (baby's sleeping basket). Lots of lessons learned! And the next prepared and ready to finish tomorrow.
3 whiri (plait) kete (basket) made from harakeke (flax) 3 whiri (plait) kete (basket) made from harakeke (flax) with wooly hat and gloves inside it and phone outside for scale. 3 whiri (plaits) with whenu (flax strands) woven in to form an arrow shape.
July 26, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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I marvel at the ingenuity of those who designed in the first place to envisage how these three squares could interlock to form something new. Started to realise something was not quite right as I joined the 2nd one but was told to keep going. It wasn't all right😧 there was a gap, a whenu missing. 2/
3 woven squares of harakeke (flax) ready to be joined. Pegs hold the whenu (strands) in place.
July 26, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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Raranga - the joy and the frustration. It all started so well. Several hours to prep and size the whenu before class, all ready to go. Made my first square, then two more. Ready for the magic of joining them together!
Harakeke - prepared and plaited to form the basis to weave.
July 26, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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Winter roses .... a little colour for the timeline.
Yellow rose Yellow rose in full bloom Salmon pink rose not quite in full bloom. Dark salmon pink rosebud
July 23, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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Kei te moata e kaukau ana i te moana ka rangona ngā reo o ngā manu katoa, me te waraki kahikatea. Ko te wai makariri e whakahauora ana ki a au.
#EarlyMorningSwim #StartTheDayRight #Hauora
A relatively calm ocean. A small swell as waves roll gently in to shore. A swimner looks out to the horizon at pink tinged clouds. A few white clouds gathering in the blue sky above. To the left is a tree covered headland
July 10, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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July 2, 2025 at 9:16 PM