A plate stacked with french toast

It's @kelsy.co.nz's birthday today! We're having a nice breakfast of french toast, greek yoghurt, fried banana and peach jam. #kai

Great tip! Thank you I will do this 😁

That's good to know, thank you! Much easier than double glazing the thing

Output from infrared camera showing lots of heat loss from the roof of our conservatory.

Infrared camera showing cold air coming in under this window

Infrared camera showing our porch goose

Infrared camera showing cold air coming in by this door

Got a cheap thermal camera for my phone and have great fun this morning discovering all our heat loss areas.

Defend the Dotterel: The Southland Times launches project to help protect pukunui from extinction With little more than 100 left in the wild, the pukunui/Southern New Zealand dotterel is facing the very real threat of extinction.

With little more than 100 left in the wild, the pukunui/Southern New Zealand dotterel is facing the very real threat of extinction.

Penguin baby boom: 994 chicks fledge in standout Ōamaru breeding season Ōamaru Penguins, which manages both the town’s popular visitor colony in Ōamaru and a separate non‑visitor control site, says the result is a significant conservation milestone and a testament to decades of sustained effort.

Ōamaru Penguins, which manages both the town’s popular visitor colony in Ōamaru and a separate non‑visitor control site, says the result is a significant conservation milestone and a testament to decades of sustained effort.

New homes sought for public garden aviary birds. Forty-eight birds in two public gardens aviaries seek caring homes.

#nzbirds Jimmy the sulphur-crested cockatoo is being rehomed. We walk past him every day and will be sad to see him go!

Hopefully someone can give him a good home.

Whoops! Yes sanguine peach 😂

An enamel dish filled with chopped apple and stewed sanguine peaches. It's partially topped with a crumble, the rest of which is waiting in the food processor.

Making apple and sanguine pear crumble for dessert 😋 #nzkai

A bakery tray loaded with sanguine peaches cut in half and the seed removed.

Picked up a bucket of sanguine peaches from a lady in town, time to freeze them all so we can make crumble all winter 😋.

Going to throw all the seeds down the back of the garden and hopefully start our own tree.

#kai #nzgardening

Bread trays lined with newspaper are holding single layers of walnuts. There is a fan behind them blowing air to speed up the drying time.

The stacking and drying begins. #kai #nzgardening

A wheelbarrow full of walnuts, we have so many more to pickup and the tree is still loaded.

We're only half way through picking up the walnuts that have dropped SO FAR. #kai #nzgardening

A red crate sits on a lawn with a wire doofer looped over one long side. Inside the crate: walnuts. Prob 15kg so far and a small fraction of what's so far come off the tree (and eek a smaller fraction of what's yet to come off the tree!!)

My boots, walnuts on the grass. Their husks are laying around too in varying colours from green to brown to black.

Wider shot across the lawn, many walnuts visible and damnit MORE invisible amongst the grass

Bonus.. I'm wearing a woollen knitted colour work hat which is cream and variegated purple and more bucket shaped than beanie. It has penguins on it.

Welp. Tis the season I guess. #nzkai

Hey there #nzbirds team - anybody know where we could find a schematic for a kākā nesting box like they use in Prince O.W. park in Wellington?

Yes haha! Only spent 10 minutes trapped before they freed me 😅

The staff managed to free me thankfully! At least it's a pretty nice one as far as public loos go

Involuntary haha. The screwdriver was from the garden staff trying to break me out.

I tried taking the lock off but it didn't help 😂

Spending the morning locked in a public toilet. How's your morning going? 😂

A man wearing a short sleeve collared shirt is holding a large wooden tray. A silver tabby cat is standing on the tray, smooching his arm with her tail up in the air.

Toni let me pick her up on the tray! My arms got tired before she got sick of the ride 😅.

#aotearoapets 🐱🇳🇿

Flatbread, hummus, garlic paste, tabouli and chicken

Greek feast for dinner tonight! Flatbread, hummus, garlic paste, tabouli and chicken 😋. #kai

7 jars of quince jelly

8 cups of quince jelly! 😋 #kai

Jelly is ready to jar 😋

Red quince jelly bubbling in a pot

Nearly ready!

We collected some quinces from the tree in the public gardens this morning and I'm turning them in to quince jelly and paste today.

The jelly is starting to turn red, and the foam is getting pink. Once that's done I'll take out the remaining fruit to turn into paste.

#kai

A golden pheasant that lives in the Ōamaru Public Gardens aviary. He has a wonky leg and always hops around clumsily.

"I was sure there was a step here!"

#aotearoabirds 🪶🇳🇿

First shore plover fledgling born on Pitt Island in 150 years

📢 Feral cats eliminated the shore plover population on Pitt Island, as well as the mainland of New Zealand, in the 1870s.

A seagull is approaching

Getting closer.....

These photos were taken seconds before he stole a chip and flew away triumphantly 😂 #kai

Does anyone else aggressively press the Enter key when they are committing code? 😅