Aotearoa New Zealand. Editor-at-large. Librarian. Flâneuse. Tea Mum.
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This is a brilliant listen. Quite the lineup: John of Patmos, Stanley Kubrick, Margaret Atwood, The Clash, John van Neumann, Threads, Melancholia, Chernobyl ...
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Me and my highlighters making friends with the WORD Christchurch Festival programme. Ka rawe! wordchristchurch.co.nz/programme/
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Good find at Hato Hone Papanui yesterday. Selby for $3. Luca Rossi for $2.50. Office Siren-core according to my op shopping buddy kiddo.
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N sync! I haven't started yet but am up for a comfort watch.
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Ooooh Just spotted there's a LEGO Masters Australia vs rhe World on TV3. www.threenow.co.nz/shows/lego-m... cc @moatatamaira.bsky.social
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Glad to know I'm not the only one. I love it.
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From this awesome book by Dorian Lynskey christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S3...
TBF I can't say the title "Everything must go" without singing the Manic Street Preachers song.
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TIL that CAPTCHA is a contrived acronym for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart".
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WORD Christchurch Festival's programme is out! wordchristchurch.co.nz/programme/
Programme picks:
Me my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/blogs/post/m...
@moatatamaira.bsky.social my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/blogs/post/w...
@secondzeit.bsky.social www.thepress.co.nz/culture/3503...
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June in Books - 8 books and 2 audiobooks. A brilliant lineup topped by the audiobook Hine Toa, read by Ngāhuia te Awekotuku herself. Other standouts - the bitchily compelling Erotic Vagrancy and the horrendous scenario of Nuclear War. (Plus My fave thing is Monsters book 2 & half of Butter(
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My favorite thing is Monsters 2 by Emil Ferris is not only the most incredible looking book, the killer visuals are matched by a story that ensnares your heart & mind. WOW WOW WOW.
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It's a warm walk this morning in Ōtautahi Christchurch!
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"Ngāi Tahu artists have delivered an immersive, sensory experience in the heart of Te Matatiki Toi Ora The Arts Centre.Te Waiatatanga Mai o te Atua, The Song of the Gods tells one of Ngāi Tahu’s origin stories as written down in 1849 by Matiaha Tiramōrehu." ❤
www.artscentre.org.nz/about-us/new...
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I love to see it!
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There were trees where you could share wishes for the New Year - the star Hiwa-i-te-rangi my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/matariki-hiw...
& aroha for those who died this year - Pōhutukawa my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/matariki-poh... (the youngest & oldest stars of the Matariki cluster).
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Mānawatia a Matariki!
Matariki is front page news today in Te Matatika - The Press.
Last night had celebrations including a hangi. And there are special things happening all weekend. It's beautiful! Hope you enjoy your Matariki x
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Coneheads in Victoria Square
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Free Palestine (on the dance-o-mat)
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Night Creatures on the stairs at Tūranga have such swagggg! They're part of the Doc Edge Festival on now in Ōtautahi. Deets at: my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/blogs/post/d...
docedge.nz
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It was great, not spooky but a little trippy
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More from #InsidetheCathedral. It felt special to be inside after all these years. Songs from a choir, speeches from Dean Ben, Jenny May, & others.
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#InsidetheCathedral
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The fish and chip shop was chockablock tonight.
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1,000 followers seems like an achievable goal for the day
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The sun will rise in #Christchurch #NewZealand tomorrow at 8:00, 29 seconds later than the day before.
It will set at 16:58, 5 seconds earlier than the day before.
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The sun will rise in #Christchurch #NewZealand tomorrow at 7:57, 37 seconds later than the day before.
It will set at 16:59, 16 seconds earlier than the day before.
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"I do not think that the novel is likely to have a wide appeal in Te Awamutu, but it is one, that should be read by all readers who like to be up-to-date in their reading."
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1984 by George Orwell turns 75 tomorrow. I found the best review of it in the Te Awamutu Courier, 21 October 1949. paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/T... "Mr Orbell (sic) has etched with skill and vigour a picture that makes the writer, at least, glad that he is not likely to be alive in 1984."
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Great retired people protest in Cathedral Square. Gnomes!
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Tomorrow is 5pm sunset. Here is yesterday's.
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Ta! That Liv Sisson book is inspiring.
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There are free RAT tests at Bargain Chemist at Eastgate, Linwood. Expiry date 2027.
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Spotted a complex trametes versicolor. Fungi fun.
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It looks like a lean month - 3 audiobooks & 2 books - but have been reading the chonky Erotic Vagrancy and didn't finish it until June.
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Today I saw the monarch tree at Abberley Park heaving with butterflies. And a kererū in St Albans. Beauties!
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The last 3 tracks of Smiths Best 2. Man I have been crooning today.
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A mild morning means washing on the line, windows & doors open, & lightly dowsing the neighbourhood with choons - Cigarettes after sex & The Smiths & such.
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More exciting book news outta Aotearoa. The Mermaid Chronicles by Megan Dunn, out in August.
🧜♀️ 🥰 www.penguin.co.nz/books/the-me...
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If you've ever wondered why there are always some open bananas beside the Triton Dairy in Colombo Street, Sydenham - it is so the birds will go for them, instead of the ones for sale.
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Nearly time for sunset before 5pm.
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Was wondering what Michaela Jaé Rodriguez was wearing in a recent eppy of Loot. And all of Maya's outfits.
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Vic's Bakery makes cinnamon buns on Friday and Saturday if you like that sort of thing. Comes with white or coffee icing. EFFIN GOOD I TELL YA
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My long weekend reading - a little fashion, a little apocalypse.
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Talia Marshall's WHAEA BLUE August 8. 😤🙏🏽 #Māori #Indigenous #Aotearoa
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The Colombo art takeover by the paintings of Philip Trusttum is an absolute joy. Art everywhere. www.dmcart.net/trusttum-tak... it's produced & curated by DMC.
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Saw the number of cyclists riding over the bridge to the hospital tick over the 22,000 mark for the year.
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New bust of Rewi Alley in the Arts Centre.
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The story of Stinko Gingko.
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Getting back into watching movies. Here are some favourites - not comfortable watches, but each uniquely great:
🎬Downtown Owl
🎬Shiva Baby
🎬How to have sex
🎬All of us strangers
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It's so beautiful.
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