Yup. Very much so

I really didn't want to, but she and I have an understanding and it's just what we do.

Love this, and what a question! I'll sit with that one...

Delighted for you! Bloody well done.

I really needed them Heather! Conservation work can be so draining and they, and the kererū were so close, and reminded me why it's actually worthwhile.

Finished work in a terrible mood, grumbled at the dog for needing a walk (the temerity!), stamped up the road. And...
Two tiny tīrairaka (which I think is kai tahu dialect for pīwakawaka) chasing each other, hunting and landing on the dog's lead.
A huge kererū stuffing itself with poroporo berries

Love this! The kererū numbees have been massive in the ‘bay this year too.

Oh my goodness!

Neighbourhood gossip says that there has been a kākā spotted flying up the valley!!!

National webinar on biodiversity credits (really good) with one of the pictures being that view of mountains with lupin in the foreground (come on team!)

Slices of baked aubergine stacked with tomatoes, mozarealla and pesto and re-baked. So good.

thats not ideal for you. I hope that you have space and support to process all of this.

I hope that the whole conference is nourishing and fruitful for all of you

The headline of which is that you're making a difference to that ecosystem, and the sub-headline is "and providing work for locals". So it's basically all good.

This is brilliant P! Look at the difference you're making. Well done.

I'm so relived and happy for you

Making apple butter and the house smells of hot apples, cinammon, nutmeg and cloves

Excellent. Thank you for the advice and I'll pop a seaweed forgaing trip on my spring calendar.

Excellent work!

No! Should I?

I've put some of these in here too! They don't look as lush as yours yet. But we'll get there.

Cos delivery is incredibly hard! She says, flippantly. But it really is. I'm the one in our team who is endlessly saying "unless there's actual work on the actual ground, it doesn't matter how lovely the plan is".

But the bit that makes me hopeful is the intangible plan - the relationships and shared learning journey (a term I HATE for a concept I love) that the group went through in the co-development process.

the funding is incredibly hard to get.
We, as a team, have an 18 month health check and 5 and 10 year re-plan organised and are committed to adaptive management.
Is any of this going to actually deliver the plans? Gosh I don't know. We, as an org, might not exist in a year. (3/n)

I asked the group to chose whether a)I deleted their numbers from my phone, b) they had had fun co-developing but had busy lives - I can call them if I need them, or c) they were all in for plan delivery. I had 10 out of 16 all in for plan delvery.
We have the people power and momentum but (2/n)

We do both environmental planning and delivery and the delivery is by far the harder of the two to do. I think of our planning process as resulting in both the tangible outcomes (the plan) and the intangible which is the group that co-developed the plan.
When we finished the Catlins one (1/n)

This is exactly what I was doing!

Sounds beautiful! Hurray for rain on our gardens.

Prepared a veggie bed this afternoon but was too tired and sore to water it in. But it's hosing down with rain right now and I am delighted

ginger cat lies on blue couch

ginger cat sits in a record box

Taika hasn't been home since Tuesday - new to Macandrew Bay, Marion St area, if you live around here can you check garages sheds etc?