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Paola@paolina.bsky.social |
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ScIwi (Scottish Italian New Zealander) in Te Whanganui a Tara Wellington, Aotearoa NZ, formerly Edinburgh, Scotland. Lover of food, cocktails, travel, sunsets, beach walks, photography, sunshine ☀️ She/her/ia Also PaolaBrett on birdsite; paolina_b Insta
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Teen nephew and some friends discovered a table tennis club at local community centre and decided to go along. Turned up to find it full of senior Asian players who absolutely smashed them in doubles! Seniors decided to teach them top tips, they had a blast and want to make it regular-gorgeous! 🥰
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Former colleague sent a screenshot of a Teams chat 💬 that now says “Paola left the chat” and a sad 😢 I replied that I didn’t leave the chat, I was evicted!!! 😂 Following my redundancy I guess the system is booting me off!
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Welly peeps, roofer recommendations please?
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Flaming Nora! I’ve been away for 6 weeks and Olive Oil has gone up to $30 for a litre!!!!! You bet I bought Pam’s olive oil instead!
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😳
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In Six Nations rugby they encourage showing respect to the kicker, pretty sure the Irish are particularly good at shushing 🤫 the crowd for the kick. The Dunedin crowd booing the kicker is rude and embarrassing 😳 Enough! #NZLvENG
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Em,…not that I saw!
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Same same!! 😂
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Looks good!
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A tale of Wellington weather!
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Ok, I like cats however I’m allergic to them. The neighbourhood cats 🐈⬛ seem to congregate in our garden, and scrap with each other (always in the middle of the night) so I want to discourage them visiting! Any tips of things that would put them off hanging around our place?
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Paola
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My socials’ algorithm is all over the show, clearly my spending time in the UK and Italy recently has thrown it out of whack! 😂 Been back in NZ a week and still not settled
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Well, yes that looks like a great morning 😋
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Paris Marx
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A total ban is the only sane policy for Airbnb. There obviously needs to be accommodation in cities for visitors, but that shouldn’t be at the expense of housing units for people who actually live there. More governments should follow Barcelona’s lead.
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Paola
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Indeed!
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Thanks
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Just when I thought the weather couldn’t be more feral it steps up a notch! What a welcome home! Oh, this and the living room ceiling having collapsed while we were away due to a roof leak! Great end to our holiday,…oh, and we are both sick! 🤢😐😂
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We spent 15 nights in southern Italy and 25 nights in Scotland and can confirm both to be more expensive than we have experienced in previous visits, so cost of living increases are affecting them too, it’s not just an NZ thing.
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Did the Johnnie Walker experience in Edinburgh, and loved this quote: “Today’s rain is tomorrow’s whisky” …how very Scottish! 🤣
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A new low, being on the floor of the airplane loo hurling my guts while holding on for dear life during turbulence!! Ugh
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They did have seismic activity when Taylor Swift played here a few weeks ago! 😂 I’d prioritise the booze placement for survival in post EQ!!!! 🤪
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Last night of going to bed thinking the vases (there’s another on the other side) are an earthquake hazard! Not unheard of in Edinburgh, but not a regular occurrence like we have in NZ! 😳
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Made my Dad’s fave, Pavlova. Great time to be in Scotland as it’s berry season and we do berries very well!
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So this ends up around $58 NZD for #scapegracegin in Waitrose (not a cheap supermarket in UK) that includes 20% VAT, when it’s roughly $75 NZD in NZ!!!?!??? Grinds my gears!
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I’ll just leave this here again. #nzpol New ferries
“The two new ferries would have meant double the passenger and vehicle capacity and triple rail capacity, while reducing the carbon footprint by about 40 percent.”
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Paola
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Precisely 😉
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It’s all a bit crazy!
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At the Johnnie Walker experience some US tourists walked past saying “it’s an ok view”. This was the view, Edinburgh Castle, one of the oldest fortified places in Europe and origins back to the Iron Age! 😂 #Edinburgh
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“Discretionary service fee of 12.5% will be added” or words similar seem to be EVERYwhere, even a wee cafe, in Scotland. Don’t remember it being so widespread last time I was home. Chatting with friends it seems people don’t tip as much now as there’s the service fee.
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Dr Neil and Mr Price
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Imagine cancelling a long planned project to give money to your mates only to turn around and end up spending more, to get less…and still claiming to be fiscally savvy … hilarious 😹
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Vasemaca
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This so depressing. I applied for a job a few weeks ago to do 10hrs a week on minimum wage in retail and the employer said they got over 500 applications in 5 days.
Applicants say job hunting like 'The Hunger Games' as labour market tightens www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...
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Paola
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I think this might indeed be the cheesiest bag ever 😂
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Finally visited Rosslyn Chapel today, it’s been on my to do list for years. It’s an intricately carved wee chapel built in 1446, but was made famous as it was featured in The Da Vinci Code movie. It’s beautiful but no pics inside allowed, so can’t share. Outside isn’t shabby tho
#travel #scotland
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I saw this and cracked up on the bus! However I’m now in Edinburgh, where all the buses are double deckers, and if you aren’t at the door for the stop you want the driver doesn’t stop, so you’ve to slide down those lava steps regardless!!!! 😂
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Paola
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Love your style of coping!!!!
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Catbus
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William S Burroughs on Capitalism
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Question is, do you have enough Gin? 😉😂
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Cin cin!
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Caught up with friends we go back decades with, and got to hang out with their Cocker Spaniel puppies! Tooo cute, a bit chewy as they’ve discovered their teeth, but sooooo sweet!! 😍
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I’m so bad at it, I always have issues!!!
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I always use the staffed checkout!
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I do love our coffee machine, but while in Italy I’ve enjoyed the process of making coffee in a moka pot, particularly on a gas stove. …Although this pot is cute, it’s completely impractical as the handle gets hot and the lid wants to come off! So regular moka for the win!
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10 years ago this month, in what still seems insightful, the National Govt started finding the National Science Challenges, covering 11 areas that are important to NZ This month, the work stops, the researchers will dissipate, the opportunities are lost While our CEO tells us we need to innovate
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Impressed by recycling ♻️ in Italy. This is the set up in the apartment we are renting, and at the trullo they had all the options too. Don’t know enough about what happens to it all, and certainly there’s still a LOT of plastic behind used particularly for drinking water.
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😳what the actual…!!! That’s appalling
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When you’re wandering around an ancient town in southern Italy, Matera, one of the oldest continuously-inhabited settlement in history, and think ‘hang on, I know that man!’ then you realise it’s Steve Hansen and it looks like he’s with Robbie Deans, so you don’t know them, but you know who they are
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Lolz to the fact I can watch the Scotland v Germany Euros football match for free in Italy on Rai, but in Scotland they can’t watch it free to air!! 😳
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Which city is in summer time, which is in winter?! Glad to be in Italy just now, where it’s definitely summer!
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Paula Penfold
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Here's our doco investigating CCP influence and interference operations in New Zealand. There are options for Chinese and English subtitles if you click on the little box second from right at the bottom of the screen. Also.. set aside some time. It's a feature length documentary, 80 minutes
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Arrived at accommodation in Puglia to find it well styled, well thought out and comfortable! Has a fabulous laundry too, and Italians take laundry seriously so finally figured out that’s where I get it from (my Mum is Italian!). The heat has required much frequent laundry 🧺🥵
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