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Adele Jackson

@adelespencil.bsky.social
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Welly illustrator and garret dweller on Cuba Street. Lending a hand in The Wellington Writer’s Studio. #MyAuntHonor illustrator. Aotearoa New Zealand Ngāti Tūkorehe/Tangata Tiriti 🌱

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Adele Jackson @adelespencil.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Nau mai, haere mai Welly folk. Art on the Landing 18th of Dec. In the Writers Studio 145 Cuba St. There will be ceramics, wood block prints, photography, paintings, collage, books, hand-written framed poetry, pop art and drawings for sale. We will have tasty bites and some beverages. Karakia at 6.
A poster showing fragments of artworks. It advertises a show of artwork called Art on the Landing  at 145 Cuba St Wellington on December 18th at 5.30 pm
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Adele Jackson @adelespencil.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Visibility on Te Ahumairangi was pretty poor and Hauraro was whipping the blossoms off the trees this weekend so I picked all my remaining tulips and brought them inside to brighten up the day.🌱🇳🇿 #AotearoaGardens
A blossom petal is stuck to a wet window and outside everything is wet and covered in grey cloud.A vibrant bunch of red, pink, lilac and bicoloured yellow and scarlet tulips sits in a ceramic jug on a windowsill. Outside it is raining and grey with low cloud and almost no visibility.
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Beckie @fitkiwi.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Rhetorical question, why do we keep re-electing stale, pale, male, conservative mayors and councillors? I'm over it 😬😕
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Adele Jackson @adelespencil.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Oh FFS. The usual fossil councillors are back Te Whanganui a Tara… plus the dreadful icecream man got in to council. What a mixed bag. But Yay! @lauriefoon.bsky.social and @rebeccamatthews.bsky.social are in!! So pleased for you both!
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Adele Jackson @adelespencil.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
The bargain barrow tulips are beginning to pop! Loving the peony tulips - so Floofy! 🇳🇿🌺🌱
A collection of brightly coloured mixed tulips in a raised garden in Aotearoa.
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Adele Jackson @adelespencil.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
#Aotearoabirds 🇳🇿🦜 We have a kaka who comes to visit our deck and garden bird feeder most days. Last couple of days it’s started to tap on the window and lick it to get our attention. ‘Please, kinI’ve some apple? I knows you’re in there’…
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Adele Jackson @adelespencil.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Turns out you can do a mix of Seville and Navel oranges in a Seville orange marmalade. I only had to add 3 to make up the weight too. Jars of sunshine! 🥝 🇳🇿#Aotearoafoodies
Jars of home made marmalade on a kitchen bench.
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Adele Jackson @adelespencil.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
OK Seville Marmalade makers. Please share your best Seville marmalade recipe that doesn’t start with ‘first boil your oranges for 2 and a half hours’. But also, can I sub in some Naval oranges if I don’t have enough Seville’s? 🍊🫙🫙 #preserving #foodies
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Adele Jackson @adelespencil.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
When Wellington busts out a sunny day but you’ve got a killer dead arm from your Shingrex vax, the right thing to do is sit in the sun and eat lemon sherbet doughnut right? #TGIF 🇳🇿
A lemon sherbet doughnut sits on a tiny table on Ghuznee St Welly in the sunshine.
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Adele Jackson @adelespencil.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Hello Aotearoa Gardens 🇳🇿🌱 Here’s a pic of my early tulips for your Sunday joy.
Lipstick pink tulip early flowing tulips covered in rain drops in my garden.
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Stephen Clarke @stephenclarkenz.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Dr Hilary Stace Historian and Disability Advocate Extraordinaire 1954 – 2025 💔
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Adele Jackson @adelespencil.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Moe Mai Rā Maurice Gee. Thank you for ‘Under The Mountain’ - probably the most gripping and creepy book of my childhood. www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3607...
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Writer Maurice Gee has died
The prolific and unassuming writer died in Nelson.
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Adele Jackson @adelespencil.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Broken pipe dream
A broken pipe somewhere in Pōneke with a tape graffiti that reads ‘broken pipe dream’
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Adele Jackson @adelespencil.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Need a good cry? Mozart’s requiem sung by Supertonic choir will be just what we need. 17 May Tickets through Humanatix. 🇳🇿
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Adele Jackson @adelespencil.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Here’s my friend Bob Kerr’s latest piece (with his own illustrations) for the Spinoff. How do we get this level of public health care back again? thespinoff.co.nz/society/05-0...
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An Act to provide: the birth of our nation’s public health system
How a small medical practice caring for its working community led to the public health system we have today.
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Adele Jackson @adelespencil.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Do we need an Aotearoa baking feed? I think we might @dreddieclark.bsky.social Here are our London Fog Cookies by Sheri Silver with Earl Grey tea and lavender infused butter. #AotearoaBaking 🇳🇿🧁
A plate of sugar cookies called London Fog sits in a table looking very edible, beside a teapot and milk jug.
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Gillian Torckler @gilliantorckler.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
This is my latest children’s book illustrated by the wonderful @adelespencil.bsky.social. Once again Fanshaw narrates the funny, rewarding, and highly skilled antics of an RNZAF squadron in the 70s to the 90s. #HenryFanshaw #75Squadron #NZAuthor #RNZAF
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Gillian Torckler @gilliantorckler.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
With @adelespencil.bsky.social and Megan Woods MP and featured character Butch Boyce at the Air Force Museum in Wigan to celebrate the launch of our picture book. Such a joy filled day.
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Adele Jackson @adelespencil.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Off to Otautahi today to launch our book ‘Henry Fanshaw Takes Flight’ with @gilliantorckler.bsky.social and this scruffy loveable bear at The Air Force Museum 2-3pm Come see us if you’re in the
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Adele Jackson @adelespencil.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
And here it is. The tiny Feijoa tree that could. Go little tree! 🌱🇳🇿 #WellingtonCityCouncil #urbanfruittrees #loveWellington @rebeccamatthews.bsky.social
Tiny 1 year old Feijoa tree bearing 3 fruits growing outside the Sojourn Hotel in Ghuznee St Welly.
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Adele Jackson @adelespencil.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
An appreciation post for this tiny feijoa tree that the lovely #WellingtonCityCouncil gardeners planted in Ghuznee St just 1 year ago. Two thumbs high but sporting 3 fruits this year. Thanks so much for replanting the fruit trees WCC - urban fruit is the best! @rebeccamatthews.bsky.social 🌱🇳🇿
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Adele Jackson @adelespencil.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Went for a walk through the Botanical Gardens today. Recommended medicine for these times. 🌱🇳🇿 #Aotearoagardens
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Adele Jackson @adelespencil.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Autumn flowers in the late afternoon sunshine. 🌱🇳🇿
A shino glazed pottery vase sits on top of a cast iron fireplace. It is filled with bright pink cactus dahlias, Miss Miley rusty red dahlias, apricot cosmos and Kauri branches. Cast shadows behind in the late afternoon light.
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Adele Jackson @adelespencil.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
It’s been a bit of a week. The Shingrex vax is a good one but I had quite a bold reaction to it. Maybe it’s from having shingles in the past? Anyway today I picked myself some Autumn flowers and had an afternoon kip. Hope you all did something nice for yourselves too? 🌱🇳🇿 #Aotearoagardens
A small pottery vase on a table in a pocket- sized capital city in Aotearoa is bursting with Lavender, Jasmine and Japanese Anemones.
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Adele Jackson @adelespencil.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Not the Saturday lie in I was expecting. #eqnz
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Adele Jackson @adelespencil.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
The Spinoff has published this little essay when by my studio mate fellow illustrator and painter Bob Kerr. It’s beautifully observed with a light touch. Have a read #Aotearoa/NewZealand 🇳🇿 thespinoff.co.nz/society/15-0...
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The Spinoff Essay: Sunset Limited
Two nights, five states and one train journey along the border, pencil and paper in hand.
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Adele Jackson @adelespencil.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Up in my veggie garden there’s an old seat settled amongst a profusion of wild mombretia irises and a jumble of summer flowers. Intentionally chaotic, it’s my favourite thinking place. #AotearoaGardens 🇳🇿🌱
An old wooden garden seat hidden amongst a profusion of weeds and wild flame coloured iris flowers. In front of the seat are hot pink cactus dahlias, blue corn flowers, orange and peach coloured calendulas, lavender, and a rusty red Miss Miley dahlia.
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Adele Jackson @adelespencil.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
So this happened. Very little seeds and tomato jelly but was juicy and delicious on crackers - almost more like a fruit than a tomato. Yes, it was a conjoined triplet!
A strangely heart shaped black/red tomato striped with green called Rebel Starfighter tomato rests in a hand.A plate containing a sliced ripe red/black tomato showing its inside flesh the colour of dried blood. It has hardly and seeds and despite that was very juicy and tasty to eat!
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Adele Jackson @adelespencil.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Giving my Rebel Starfighter Prime tomato some time in the sun today so these amazing tomato fruits can ripen. #Ididntkillit #rebelstarfightertomato #conjoinedtomatoes 🇳🇿🌱
A green and black striped heart shaped tomato ripening on a tall tomato plant outside on a deck. Exciting!!
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Adele Jackson @adelespencil.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Like the cheese, good things take time right? It’s been six or seven years waiting for this nutso Red Buttons Hoya to flower at our place but she’s finally done it! 🇳🇿🌸
A close up view of a single velvety burgundy flower cluster from Hoya Red Buttons, growing over a wooden toy on a shelf.
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Adele Jackson @adelespencil.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
When your Wellington summer garden finally starts to look like you imagined back in the depths of winter when you ordered your seeds.
A selection of violas in antique peachy  shades in a sunny front garden with the stalks of hybrid sunflowers just visible behind.A beautiful mulberry viola with antique peach violas in the background and flowering thyme behind.Rosemary, seaside daisies, violas in shades of peach and mulberry, flowering thyme, small lemon tree and a tussock grass.The best foxgloves we’ve ever grown! An abundant mass of apricot foxgloves against an elderly fence with happy bumble bees inside them.
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Adele Jackson @adelespencil.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
For what it’s worth this is my submission to the Treaty Principles Bill. I’m no writer, but it is heart felt and at least I’ve done it. 🇳🇿
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Adele Jackson @adelespencil.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
And green beans are Go! First up are the Kaiapoi Red dwarf beans from Heritage Food Crops in Whanganui. 🌱🇳🇿
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Adele Jackson @adelespencil.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Just another family walking off Christmas lunch on the beach. As you do. 🇳🇿🪿
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Adele Jackson @adelespencil.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
@kats-garden.nz My 12 Jersey Benne’s gave me 3kg of delicious, decent sized potatoes. So stoked! One of my 3 bags produced spuds with warty skins. Anyone know what that is? I wondered about psyllid damage?
Bumpy skinned new potato held in a hand.3 kg of new potatoes on a tea towel.
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Adele Jackson @adelespencil.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Bless. Back fence family’s kids got recorders for Christmas. #AotearoaChristmas
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Adele Jackson @adelespencil.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
To the man next door mowing his cm long grass at 9.15am on Christmas morning. Who’s going to judge your lawns today?
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Adele Jackson @adelespencil.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
“Cannibal capitalism” e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-...
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We underestimated the scale of the attack | E-Tangata
“While we underestimated the coalition’s willingness to sacrifice life for profit, we also believe that the government has underestimated how potent a coalition of shared interests to defend Te Tiriti...
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Adele Jackson @adelespencil.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Finally a day still enough on my side of the hill to plant out my sunflowers, cosmos and snap dragons. Might be a bit sore tomorrow. 🌱🇳🇿
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Adele Jackson @adelespencil.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
#AotearoaGardening 🌱🇳🇿 Looks! This is my first home grown potato from my first potato plants. I can report we divided it in 3 pieces, smothered it in butter and salt and it was small but epic. Can’t wait for Christmas now!
A pot of water on the stove holding a single new potato.A small but flourishing west facing hillside  vegetable haven (garden) with bright pink thrift flowers in the foreground and a shade cloth fence. Growing in the garden are sugar snap peas, Shiraz peas, kaipoi red dwarf beans, zucchinis, oregano, and three felt bags of jersey benne potatoes.
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Adele Jackson @adelespencil.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Dr Bex pointing out the wide ranging result of defunding the social sciences in the Marsden Fund shake up. The ramifications are chilling and another way this Govt is silencing dissenters. Defunding the social sciences open.substack.com/pub/drbex/p/...
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Defunding the social sciences
A way to silence dissent
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Adele Jackson @adelespencil.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
#AotearoaGardens 🇳🇿 my tomato plant has gone curly and droopy and basically looks fucked. I put it outside last week for an hour of sunshine and the merest zephyr of breeze. I think I’m death to tomatoes! Is there any hope?
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Emma Neale @emenspace.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
#pukapuka #books #nz newsroom.co.nz/2024/12/02/e...
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Epic fail at RNZ
A stinging report on RNZ's failure to uphold its charter obligation to support local writing
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Adele Jackson @adelespencil.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Light relief for your Sunday. 🇳🇿🥝
A woman in a golden yellow 60’s ensemble of jacket and shirt dress, with a Jackie O hair-do decorating a tower of green foliage with masses of large pink King Prawns in the style of a Christmas tree.
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Adele Jackson @adelespencil.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
🥝🇳🇿 Home made Eccles cakes for the win. Testing out our Christmas baking. These hit the spot with a slab of aged Linkwater cheddar and a glass of port.
A wire cake cooler with eight Warm-from the-oven Eccles cakes on it. Currants and peel and mixed spices ( no cinnamon plenty of cardamom and allspice)  enrobed in flakey puff pastry with crunchy sugar topping. We need I-smell to fully appreciate!
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E-Tangata @etangata.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
“Let’s not allow US neo-authoritarianism to be the next in a line of hegemonic imports that we embrace without skepticism. Let’s be a bit more discerning.” — Melody Nixon.
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Resist US-led politics while we still can | E-Tangata
"Let’s not allow US neo-authoritarianism to be the next in a line of hegemonic imports that we embrace without skepticism. Let’s be a bit more discerning." — Melody Nixon.
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Adele Jackson @adelespencil.bsky.social · 02/11/2024
#Kikorangi Yesterday my husband and I visited the Ceramicus exhibition and pottery market. We stopped at the Herb Garden and sat a while in the pagoda. The only other people were a young couple by the pond. In that quiet moment he dropped to one knee and we watched his proposal from a distance 💕
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Adele Jackson @adelespencil.bsky.social · 26/10/2024
John Toogood playing acoustic guitar from his solo album Last of the Lonely Gods at Meow in Welly tonight. Thanks for an excellent concert Dude!
John Toogood leads singer from NZ band Shihad artistically framed by heads in silhouette, singing a heartfelt song into a microphone and playing acoustic guitar in a venue lined with old books.
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