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Annette @annettle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Successfully gave blood (the pesky haemogoblins were behaving themselves today) and Felix made his first donation too 🥰🩸

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Annette @annettle.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

This was a lovely read 💗 I was charmed by Freya and I desire a Cabbage Destroyer!

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Annette @annettle.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Once again, my throat feels like I’m getting sick but I actually just led a 90-minute workshop. How do people talk all day?! Taking a vow of silence for the evening. Silence and soup.

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Annette @annettle.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

We have a new cat, and two days after joining us she curled up on my chest and went to sleep with her tiny soft head pressing into my neck. I think that might be what I needed to fix me. Thank you Maple.

A calico cat stares at you with wide eyes.

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Annette @annettle.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

One of the valuable family services @jsr.com provides is that if something happens on the Internet and I don’t have time to figure it out I can say “hey babe, what’s up with the goose?” and I will be Enlightened.

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Annette @annettle.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

“Which diacritic is most suitable here?” muses our son as he shitposts about the cat. Apples, trees, etc.

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Annette @annettle.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

You’re right but I don’t like it 😂

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Annette @annettle.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Those “my cat: does nothing / me: delighted” memes really hit different when your cat is 19. We genuinely congratulate him for continuing to stay alive hour by hour. YOU’RE STILL BREATHING! GOOD WORK BUDDY!

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Annette @annettle.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

I may be in a state at the moment but look at this beautiful garden eel card from my kid, I am very lucky 🍀 (I LOVE GARDEN EELS.)

A Mother’s Day drawing of an orange strips garden eel saying “YOU ARE MOTHER!”

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Annette @annettle.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Took the time to make myself a slightly elaborate lunch and feel much better about the day.

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Annette @annettle.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Good scissors, an iron, pins. That will get you through basic beginner projects. There’s a lot of gadgets for specific uses but don’t buy until you actually need one!

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Annette @annettle.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

True Autumn is when the butter left out on the bench for spreading is no longer spreadable 😭

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Annette @annettle.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Oh I didn’t see it was MacOS too - that might work!

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Annette @annettle.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Made apple and berry crumble, chocolate tiramisu, banana spice cupcakes, cheesy potato gratin, and onion and potato soup. Reckon that’s time to sit down.

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Annette @annettle.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

The urgency of your tone compelled me to action, alas my poor elderly phone cannot handle it 😢

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Annette @annettle.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

I don’t want to be a thousand years old but I just ordered takeaways for two people (I’m not even having anything!!) and I cannot BELIEVE HOW MUCH THIS COSTS 😭

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Annette @annettle.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

I know how to spell knuckle yet my brain insist this must be called peanuckle.

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Annette @annettle.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

I’m a lil stinker but apparently married an appropriately stinker-appreciative spouse 😘

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Annette @annettle.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Pro tip get your milk from the Indian supermarket - our local has 2x2L for $6.50 (also they’re very nice, shout out Super Spice & Grocery in Wairau)

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Annette @annettle.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Over the past week our neighbours have chopped down a lot of tall trees and hedging between our houses, on their side of the boundary so fair enough, but now I feel very self-conscious when I stand in the driveway yelling Baby baby who’s a baby? Oh look, big boy big boy, who’s the biggest boy?

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Annette @annettle.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Post-lunch depression (I ate my lunch and now I can’t eat it again).

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Annette @annettle.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Put raspberry essence in my coffee to feel something new; can’t really recommend.

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Annette @annettle.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Failed at blood donation 😰 Haemoglobin, I do not have it.

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Annette @annettle.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

The wind is winding so hard the whole house is shaking 🌬️ I have to go out soon! (Luckily not across the harbour bridge.)

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Annette @annettle.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Christmas Eve is probably not the best day to Revenge Bedtime… I was staying up to mind the pav but the oven went off 20 minutes ago 🙈

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Annette @annettle.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Oh my god do not drive anywhere the traffic the traffic

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Annette @annettle.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Ohhhhh hello Findley! 🥹🥰

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Annette @annettle.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

The streets around it are just not going to cope, Sylvia Park itself is bad enough! I’m staying well clear of the entire motorway system next weekend 😫

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Annette @annettle.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Visiting one of my favourite food stores (Davis) because they’re just around the corner from IKEA and once that opens on Thursday I won’t be able to cope with the traffic for… forever? 😰

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Annette @annettle.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

You can always check the numbers based on the size you’re making since they give the stitch count after the repeats are done - each set of rows 1-24 adds six stitches so take your starting number and add six for each repetition for your size, you should get that size’s end number.

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Annette @annettle.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

No, I’d say they mean repeat 1-24. It doesn’t really “follow” from round 8, that’s just the increase round and you do the same thing to increase every 8th row (on 16, 24, then once you go back to the start on 32, 40, 48 etc).

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Annette @annettle.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Yes! Let us know when you’re around!

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Annette @annettle.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

My favourite sort of dog is medium brown, medium coat, medium size. The absolute middle sliders dog.

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Annette @annettle.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Hey man, I am sorry to hear this xx

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Annette @annettle.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Got an MMR booster because I’m in the age range that only had one dose as a kid. Easy and free! Let’s not let measles make a comeback please 🤞

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Annette @annettle.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

We fitted our Dyson with a converter to use the Ryobi batteries and they last many times longer. Super annoying to have to modify an expensive appliance but it’s usable now - would recommend.

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Annette @annettle.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

If it’s true that travelling helps you discover your true self, I have discovered I am never happier than when I see a cat in an unexpected place and eat an unusual ice cream.

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Annette @annettle.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

On the ground in Hong Kong! Flight was smooth, now to stay up as late as I can to get used to the time difference ☺️

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Annette @annettle.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

On Friday I get to eat TWO AEROPLANE MEALS and then I’ll be ON HOLIDAY how good is that?! (I’m too busy and overwhelmed to really think beyond the plane meals yet 😅)

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Annette @annettle.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

It’s SO sweet, even speaking as myself (a human hummingbird)… good though 💜

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Annette @annettle.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

The entire week @jsr.com and the kid were away I was worried that Naboo was being distant and withdrawn bc he never joined me in bed and didn’t want to hang out much, but since they got home last night he has been glued to JSR like a surgically attached koala. Guess we know who’s the favourite 😳

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Annette @annettle.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Sending you all my thoughts, may AK depart gently and knowing the love that surrounds him. Thank you for sharing him with us 💗

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Annette @annettle.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

I drank an extra coffee, for my agonies. Now I have different agonies.

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Annette @annettle.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

ESPECIALLY when it’s something like exercise where every random drive-by person will have some irrelevant opinion. (I know, I know, just talk to people in real life. Don’t even get me started on how hard that is these days.)

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Annette @annettle.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

There needs to be an accepted etiquette for “I just want to comment on something about my life but I’m not looking for advice” 🥲

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Annette @annettle.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Our current family thing is to be aggressively loving to each other so we will enter the room and yell “GET LOVED, NERD. GET ABSOLUTELY VALUED AND CHERISHED.” (I figure at least we’re giving the kid prime memoir material.)

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Annette @annettle.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

That was all in between running my Saturday errands, keeping up with Courtney and Ruth running UTMB and finishing a knitting project. I will try and take it easy tomorrow though 🥲

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Annette @annettle.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

I baked banana choc chip cupcakes, peanut butter brookies, frosted London Fog biscuits, garlic focaccia, sandwich bread & sourdough. (Well, I prepared the sourdough dough, I’ll bake it off in a day or so.) HAPPY.

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