I have been trying and largely failing to grow lettuce and other veg for the last several months 😭

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You'll be able to appreciate the difference more when you cook it again tonight 😄

Love Lan Lam from Techiquely, she teaches me so much

I just watched this yesterday and am planning on trying it tonight

I hope my neighbors remember to tie down their trampoline...

A poll from Stuff. The question: what's the best thing New Zealand can do to reduce reliance on foreign oil? The 4 responses are: 1. Drill and mine for our own fossil fuels. 2. electrify rail. 3. subsidize electric vehicles. 4. big renewable energy projects like dams and windfarms.

Hey Stuff, I see what you're doing with this poll - having one doubling down on fossil fuels answer, and 3 different non fossil fuel answers to split the vote

you need to do ALL of the last 3.
No point just having one, they don't work without the others

Might have just cooked my seedlings because I didn't check the temp of the garden hose before I watered them and it turns out it was very hot 😭💔

A black and white cat caught red handed munching on the young seedlings in the garden bed

A black cat sits in a garden bed. He is pressed against the small stakes used to mark where the seedlings have been planted

Thought I'd plant a cover crop in this garden bed to prep it for planting and to protect my seedlings, and have inadvertently made a nice place for the cats to sit and squash my beetroots

Overheard my civil engineer flatmate in a work meeting and she's talking about introducing a stiff member?!? 🤣

A black circular pot tray with 3 sets of 3 small seedling pots within. Each set is filled with a seed mix and covered in glad wrap.

Yet another attempt at raising seedlings
Also chucked a handful directly into the garden and crossed my fingers

I'm sure one of these days I'll crack the code and be a seed raising genius

There’s soo many things to drag this govt on I can’t believe they are still around tbh:
-Cost of living: like they did nothing
-Tax cuts: no one has seen them
-Childcare rebate: ditto
-THE FERRIES WTF
-Pay equity
-Unemployment
-Voter suppression
-Climate crisis inaction: EV, Solar etc

Epic fail.

A glass jar is 2/3 filled with chopped feijoa, skins on. The fruit is suspended in a sugar syrup which is not yet fully dissolved

Making feijoa cheong!

A bowl of round green feijoa fruit

Tis the season to gorge ourselves on feijoas!

What is even the point of asking me for my preferred method of contact if you're just going to ignore whatever I put and ring me regardless?

New modelling shows renewable electricity can meet NZ’s future demand – without importing gas New Zealand could meet its electricity needs through renewables and avoid power shortages during dry years by combining battery systems with pumped hydro schemes.

#NZpol From a few days ago: New modelling shows renewable electricity can meet NZ’s future demand – without importing gas

- doubts the logic of “imposing a levy on electricity to fund an LNG terminal”, “because New Zealand also has a goal to achieve 100% renewable electricity generation by 2030,”

Laughing at the McDonald's vid with the CEO eating the product

Everyone in the comments wondering how anyone could greenlight that video

Guys, have you seen how many memes there are of it??

They know what they're doing

Annoys me when people at work ask for a "final draft" of something

What do you want? The final approved version or a draft?

Does it need to be formatted?

WHAT DO YOU WANT

So far this corner of the garden has claimed: a Camellia tree, 2 kākābeak bushes, 3-4 blueberry bushes (separate occasions), and nearly took the kōwhai tree (it made a miraculous recovery despite being convincingly dead)

A mostly dead blueberry bush, with dried up and curled brown leaves

Why does everything I plant in this corner of the garden always die?! 😭

RIP blueberry bush

Pet peeve: when auto correct changes the correctly spelled word I was actually trying to type into a similar but more common word

YES - I've been feeling this a lot lately

And all the books I've been reading haven't felt like complete books. I'm surprised when I'm suddenly at the end and need the next one

It's like the author wrote one big story and chopped it into 3 segments without any thought to pacing or anything

“Privatisation of state housing land is a bad idea,” says Vanessa Cole, spokesperson for Public Housing Futures. “ Selling off land to investors and land-bankers will only deepen the housing crisis by reducing the land that could be used to build more state housing.”

A warning to all: if chopping ghost chilies - wear gloves

Learn from my folly

The burn. It is unyielding.

It's been 12 hours and still, she burns 😭

Thanks 😁

I always see your posts and think about all the bonsai I am neglecting 😂
Love your trees, they look amazing

A small kowhai bonsai in a blue rectangular pot. It has slender branches and small leaves

Finally got around to putting my kowhai into a bonsai pot, after leaving it to it's own devices in a training pot for years

Now it's starting to actually look like a proper little tree!

I saw bitter melon at the supermarket today and because I'd never tried it and it looked interesting I decided to buy and cook it

I will not be trying it again.

Neo says ace rights

WOW 🤯

The number of times a State of Emergency has been declared this year in New Zealand ALREADY matches the 2025 total.

It’s February.

This is what the Climate Crisis looks like.

Risotto rice frying in a pressure cooker. A glass of wine is held in the foreground

A glass for the risotto and a glass for me 🍷

With fresh herbs and tomatoes from the garden - heaven

A smiling pakeha woman wearing a large white floppy hat with a rainbow ribbon tied around it. She's wearing dangling feather earrings, and a tran supportive singlet

I'm ready for the Big Gay Out 🌈