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Rosemarie North
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🇳🇿🇨🇭🇺🇳🐾, playing the glad game, mostly. She/her. Ōtautahi Christchurch.
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Gorgeous day & cheerful turnout for Ōtautahi Christchurch #Pride 🏳️‍🌈
Rainbow, trans, intersex & other flags in front of the Bridge of Remembrance in Christchurch, New Zealand.
March 1, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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Coming in from the Cold - stories of male survivors of #sexualviolence in Aotearoa. Launched at Scorpio Books last night in a moving & hopeful session with the authors. www.ketebooks.co.nz/en/events/bo...
Fiona Clapham Howard holds her book
February 18, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Is there a word for the feeling evoked by ripening apricots that you will never taste because birds?
Tree branches with many nearly orange apricots
December 30, 2024 at 4:19 AM
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A step-through Apollo from TradeMe. Able to carry (or maybe that’s me) long coconut poles to prop up plants!
Plant support pole (more that 1m long) rests on the basket of a packed woman’s bicycle.
February 21, 2024 at 7:08 PM
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Delighted to give the brilliant and biting Big Fat Brown Bitch to a young relative for Christmas.

👏🏽 👏🏽👏🏽to Tusiata Avia for winning the 2023 Prime Minister’s Awards for Literary Achievement.

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Cover of Big Fat Brown Bitch by Tusiata Avia
December 21, 2023 at 6:28 PM
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The birds haven’t eaten ALL of my raspberries!
Bowl of yoghurt & nuts with a single raspberry. Also on the table: rhubarb. Behind, raspberry plant with netting bags protecting berries.
December 19, 2023 at 8:11 PM
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For anyone who needs a pick-me-up today.
Close up photo of blue Chatham Island forget-me-not flower with dark green leaves.
October 14, 2023 at 7:35 PM
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I can’t stop now. You’ve unleashed the 🐑 beast.
Filthy, knitted sheep soft toy on a stone
October 5, 2023 at 7:14 PM
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When you get an unwelcome answer but still feel relieved that you can stop hoping. #serenity
Two characters from the movie The Castle stand outside at night. “How’s the serenity?”
October 5, 2023 at 6:41 PM
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You too! Baby sheeps also available.
Hill overlooking ocean with sheep, lambs & cabbage trees. Hill overlooking ocean with sheep, lambs & cabbage trees.
October 4, 2023 at 7:04 AM
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I’ve been thinking a lot about Antarctic 🇦🇶expeditions and @fingerpost.bsky.social recently. On Banks Peninsula, for example, is Scott’s cabin, with lovely views.
Plaque in front of small wooden cabin on hillside. Plague explains Scott’s cabin’s travels from England to Antarctica & to Aotearoa New Zealand. Cabin with view of ocean and headland
October 3, 2023 at 10:39 PM
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What’s your sign?
Sign in Vietnamese & English says: The grass is being nourished. Please keep of[f] the grass. Thank you!
September 20, 2023 at 8:28 AM
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Happy #VietNam Independence Day! #quockhanh
Street scene with motorcycle & flag of Viet Nam
September 2, 2023 at 5:51 AM
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In Viet Nam 🇻🇳 for work & using cool, clean, cheap buses to commute. Is this the most scenic bus stop ever? I ❤️ #publictransport.
Footpath with bus stop sign and in the background a palm tree and tall, narrow pagoda.
August 31, 2023 at 11:35 PM
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#BlueMoon over Hà Nội 🇻🇳
Evening with moon & lights reflected in a lake
August 31, 2023 at 2:32 PM