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regeneration FTW @fernly.eurosky.social · 31/05/2026

It is exceedingly fun to be sitting on one of these seats :D First time I've come across this config! And cracking open Elwin Cotman's anthology "Weird Black Girls". Real paper, from a real library :D #bus #publictransport #nerdlyf #booksofbluesky

A single bus seat at the front of the bus (this one is just behind the driver: I am on the opposite side, as I prefer pavement side to centre line side), suspended OVER the arch of a bus's front wheel, with a nifty baggage holder set behind it, similarly suspended. LOVE high seats - awesome window viewing action! Also I just like height.

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regeneration FTW @fernly.eurosky.social · 26/05/2026

"No, it's bad for your teeth. None for you." "I DEMAND." Reader, she is not winning, but not for lack of trying. #dogsofbluesky

Head of ginger dog smooshed onto raised knees of human, who is protecting her popcorn, while she watches And Then There None (BBC miniseries; Agatha Christie story; ALL the actors) on Kanopy.

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regeneration FTW @fernly.eurosky.social · 25/05/2026

NOT sleeping _on_ me for a change <3 For now... #dogsofbluesky

A ginger dog sleeping on pale woollen blanket and pillow, on a grey couch, her cute round bum facing toward camera. Her back legs are tucked forward to reach her nose, which is tucked under her front legs and feets. She has her ears up - a sign she's super relaxed.

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regeneration FTW @fernly.eurosky.social · 25/05/2026

2/2 ...I noticed they had amazing turquoise / indigo / violet colouring inside their arms. Also lovely yellow mandarin colouring on their outer arms :D And very round belly, with mauve accents <3

Very shy praying mantis on my clothing NOT wanting to return to garden, arms all tucked up in the manner of "eep!".

Image of praying mantis now on plants, showing the colours mentioned (main insect is always green) in the posts.

Different angle of said green praying mantis, showing lovely round belly :)

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regeneration FTW @fernly.eurosky.social · 14/05/2026

Current view...in two seconds she will SPRING up, DragonYawn, dandelion-shake and we shall brave the cold for walkies and frolics.

Ginger dog lying next to her human, on a pink and white checked woollen blanket, Making Beans To Be Spent Shortly. Ken Liu's incredible "Broken Stars" anthology has just been moved by her AGAIN.

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regeneration FTW @fernly.eurosky.social · 08/05/2026

Squeeee! www.nzsq.org.nz/event-detail...

Photo from front row of venue showing empty stage, shortly before performance.

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regeneration FTW @fernly.eurosky.social · 28/04/2026

ALSO. Alt text: we fucked. 2024 was it.

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regeneration FTW @fernly.eurosky.social · 23/04/2026

Doggo sulking / warming her snoot (because I stopped playing with her briefly - she does love her morning thrash / kick her hooman / make funny sounds time :P).

Ginger mid-sized dog lying in a human bed, head mushed into pillows, duvet kicked back down to her back feets due to Thrashing Silliness.

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regeneration FTW @fernly.eurosky.social · 25/10/2025

I love the way this yucca has decided to fuckit on the whole vertical thing and at about 170ish cm decided instead to sprawl languidly over the length and width of this barrel, including hanging a bit down the side. Can relate.

An array of 4 wooden barrels in a metal gantry-type structure, with the pot of said yucca to the bottom right of the top left barrel, and its spiky head at the front left of said barrel, having made itself Very Comfortable. A skylight shines in the background, a couple pf stories up (we're in a warehouse with some comfy couches. The one on which I'm sat is a classic 70s one also upholstered in stripey green.). Doggo lying at my feet. New book. Good pint. Heaven :)

Location: Three Boys brewery, Ōtautahi.

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regeneration FTW @fernly.eurosky.social · 23/08/2025

The pretzel's back feets consistently make my head asplode with cute.

Ginger dog sitting on her haunches on mint bedlinen and her pastel pink / yellow / blue / green woollen blanket - only feet and tummy (white floof) shown. Front feets are displayed normally but back feets have heels under her backside and then feets splayed out, one curled around a front law.

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regeneration FTW @fernly.eurosky.social · 11/08/2025

I am a universe. My car is a cityscape :)

Drying pattern on the driver side of a grey car looks like the silhouette of a cityscape (more steepled than flat roofs for the tallest buildings, so an older / ancient city, which feels on point for dog's and my souls) :)

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regeneration FTW @fernly.eurosky.social · 09/08/2025

Just spotted - first blossoms! On a particulary wintry day in Ōtautahi :)

Pale blink blossoms on a fruit tree, backdropped by green grass and a grey sky.

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regeneration FTW @fernly.eurosky.social · 11/07/2025

My head did NOT correctly read either name or tagline correctly the first time.

Picture of a shop window sign for XERJOFF (ERBA PURA) perfume.

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regeneration FTW @fernly.eurosky.social · 07/07/2025

Bowl stuck in pot :( Have tried getting water underneath it and then boiling it - no dice. The bowl is very slightly fatter at the bottom, and so rocking it up on one side also doesn't help. It was fine when the pot had water in it (washing up pile). Ideas? (Other than breaking bowl...)

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regeneration FTW @fernly.eurosky.social · 06/06/2025

ORLY. a) DOGE cost a great deal more than it saved (a very, very, VERY great deal, and much of it irrecoverable), and b) what risk? OF RIDICULE? I mean, yeah, but meh. What's the line? "Men are afraid women will laugh at them. Women are afraid men will kill them*." [* including for laughing]

A tweet by Eln0, about the smol-souled tragic bill: "It more than defeats all the cost savings achieved by the @DOGE team at great personal cost and risk"

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regeneration FTW @fernly.eurosky.social · 05/06/2025

Even doggo was agog listening to him :)

Doggo on her Study Bed resting her head on a desk crossbar. In the photos she’s looking at me and starting to raise her head because I pointed a camera at her (which always results in a LessGood pic :P).

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regeneration FTW @fernly.eurosky.social · 04/06/2025

Took this, which resulted in the morning flails / thrashes starting :P Just a wee one though! (Although I did just get punched inna face lol.)

Ash the ginger noodle lying tucked up in her lovely woolen blankie (gentle pinks / creams / greens / whites) mere moments before the sound of the photo being taken meant she erupted into minor chaos :P

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regeneration FTW @fernly.eurosky.social · 26/05/2025

Update - some now across the path. I think this may be their final flight to the flowers in the sky…it’s genuinely sad and moving and beautiful. * sniff *

Some of the Monarch butterflies now lying across the dark grey concrete path, surrounded by matching fallen leaves.

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regeneration FTW @fernly.eurosky.social · 26/05/2025

Just walked past this group of monarch butterflies next to a path, their russets the same colour as the fallen leaves, and one with a sticker on its wing. MBNZT mb.org.nz WAL 129.

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regeneration FTW @fernly.eurosky.social · 25/05/2025

Absolutely gorgeous moment as the sun picked out this sprig fallen green and browning oak leaves surrounded by already brown single ones on the dark earth :)

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regeneration FTW @fernly.eurosky.social · 24/05/2025

Wandering Hagley and just spotted these cheetah-marked mushrooms. Turns out (yay iNaturalist’s Seek app!) they’re poisonous and endemic to Aotearoa :) Philiota glutinosa.

P. Glutinosa mushrooms - yellow with brown spots, covering more towards the crown, nestled in a single vertical line, in a tree trunk.

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regeneration FTW @fernly.eurosky.social · 05/04/2025

My study is a bit of a Forest, including this very thirsty, very happy, constantly-making-new-flowers (they only last a day or two) hibiscus :D

The hibiscus that lives at my right shoulder. Image shows current bloom - they’re generally shades of salmon pink shading out to a gentle dusk orange.

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regeneration FTW @fernly.eurosky.social · 05/04/2025

What a haul! It's the autumn market at the Phillipstown community hub, and I walked away with5 amazing jars of goodness ($5 for 4, and one free), AND this wee octopus, as we know I adore them and they're TOO cute and, as I thought, sit perfectly on my head :D [Also $5...] Preserve source in alt txt.

5 jars of preserved goodness! From left - spicey rhubarb, spicey eggplant, spicey onion, cherry chutney (did get to try that one, but betting it's amazing), and strawberry peach sherry jam (sooooo sumptuous) :D And a green knitted octopus sitting proudly in front :) Preserves are from Katherine's Kitchen, on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/people/Katherines-Kitchen/100083391398285/.

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regeneration FTW @fernly.eurosky.social · 24/03/2025

And then she harrumphed and cuddled more :P

Doggo lying full-length against me, ears sticking up on her happy / relaxed / asleep position.

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regeneration FTW @fernly.eurosky.social · 24/03/2025

We iz having a wee brief cuddle :)

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regeneration FTW @fernly.eurosky.social · 22/03/2025

Anyone have any thoughts on why my water lillies aren’t happy? Fewer and fewer leaves :( There are at least snails so the ecosystem’s doing ok! But interestingly, pondweed’s also decreased itself…

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regeneration FTW @fernly.eurosky.social · 22/03/2025

So, my giant sunflower made the usual huge yellow bloom (most of the seeds from which have now dropped), and then sprung all these smaller secondary flowers…do they normally do that? #nzgardens

Giant sunflower plant with one huge bloom and a number of smaller ones.

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regeneration FTW @fernly.eurosky.social · 01/03/2025

For real. Lemme see if I can find a few… Alt txt: bumblebee butts with giant sunflower, borage, (mumble), borage :P (I have also managed to get one or two of honeybees but even more difficult!)

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regeneration FTW @fernly.eurosky.social · 14/02/2025

I don’t really do stickers on my laptop (I have only one, because it’s very special to me), and this will be the second. The whole series is great, including the artworks themselves! This was an extra special treat because $ :) Also I wanted to be very careful that I supported, not appropriated.

The Aumangea / Resilience sticker, which is a striped orange and white traffic cone with Tino Rangatiratanga (the national Māori flag) placed in the top thereof. Artist: the samantha room.

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regeneration FTW @fernly.eurosky.social · 09/02/2025

A dog who finds humans being upside down / hanging off stuff Not Ok :P (She gets weirded out when I’m doing sit-ups, lol.)

Ash on the Uprising mezzanine brimful of consternation :P

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regeneration FTW @fernly.eurosky.social · 08/02/2025

So, I can’t speak more lovingly about London Canteen if I tried. The plants! The food! The coffee! The pond! (And the prices are incredible. This tasty breakfast below is $17. And the Basque cheesecake? $7.5. And trust me - perfection, and I don’t generally do cake because not worth it.)

Tomato, mushroom, perfectly poached egg, incredible potato, bacon, Cumberland (!!) saussie, actually tomato-baked beans, and some tasty shoots. (And for me obvs heaps of hot sauce, not shown.)

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regeneration FTW @fernly.eurosky.social · 04/02/2025

And spotted this, at the Eco Hub next to the Ōtakaro community orchard and garden :D (And the foods are home-made, organic and very well-priced (for these days’ horrendously high prices).)

Modified ‘70s home-made horse float, in orange and yellow and blue, with a sign saying “Coffee Float” and a painting of a horse :P

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regeneration FTW @fernly.eurosky.social · 03/02/2025

It's not just one #beebuttoftheday, it's TWO! [And indeed, two pics as well, so FOUR! Or, as Pterry would count it, MANY.] #nzgardens

A bumblee in the centre of a large sunflower, against a bright blue, cloudless sky, with a second bee in flight above the sunflower, having just taken off, wee wings whirring.

Two bumblebees in the the centre of the sunflower, huzzah! (The second one came back :))

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regeneration FTW @fernly.eurosky.social · 02/02/2025

One of my favourite indoor spots in #Ōtautahi: the gorgeous conservatory garden (and outdoor pond section too) at London Canteen <3 Oh! And it’s Table Bloom so the patisseries are AMAZING, as is the coffee (and all very reasonably priced). #nzgardens

A table surrounded on three sides by lush vegetation. My spot for today :)

More of the indoor conservatory, complete with lovely stables and chairs, stunning huge indoor vegetation and flowers and more (there are also couches and a raised dais with kids’ toys).

This isn’t the lovely outdoor pond area, but an indoor pool (fenced), complete with selection of rubber duckies sitting on an edge. Beyond it, more tables etc. This is also a licensed restaurant :)

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regeneration FTW @fernly.eurosky.social · 01/02/2025

So many yellows and oranges have cropped up in the wildflower patch! And yep, that’s a sunflower. No idea how it got there - perhaps self-seeded from 2023 :P

All the colours of the rainbow in my wee wildflower patch, but especially yellows and oranges :)

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regeneration FTW @fernly.eurosky.social · 21/01/2025

For them as don’t know it: that triffid is a wild radish. They grow very fast and get very huge and make many more all the time. And as brassicas they’re entirely edible :)

A wild radish. The ones with white flowers tend to have spiny stems, whereas the light pink-flowered ones don’t. It’s about 1.5m high and almost as wide, and they’re very easily knocked over by feckless winds / dogs / spinsters :P

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regeneration FTW @fernly.eurosky.social · 21/01/2025

Yep. They definitely haven’t quite figured it out yet :P Wrong side wee buddy! Got the leg-wiping down but, er, yeah :P

Teensy bumble bee on the outside of a borage flower having a go. Bless.

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regeneration FTW @fernly.eurosky.social · 20/01/2025

Ok, it’s not #beebuttoftheday (although sitting and watching heaps as we speak), but gosh darnit bergamot flowers are beautiful! #nzgardens

Brilliant scarlet multilayered - and leveled, heh, in ways which remind me of Dr Seuss) bergamot flowers, and heaps of other leaves and flowers in fore- , side- and background :P And yep, their leaves look mint-like, as a friend pointed out, and turns out they’re part of the mint family! Hilarious given they’re right next to various mint types :)

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regeneration FTW @fernly.eurosky.social · 20/01/2025

🌱 If you see this, post something pink 🩷

Stripey pink godetias, two different shades of pink cornflowers, something my phone says is scarlet flax but I don’t believe (tiny, incredibly vivid pink flowers), and the other wildflower colours incl white, blue, purple, yellow, orange, and green :)

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regeneration FTW @fernly.eurosky.social · 20/01/2025

🌱If you see this, post something orange 🧡

An orange California poppy in my wildflower patch, ft shoofly leaf and various other orange and yellow California poppies, and other pinks, crimsons, blues, purples and greens :)

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regeneration FTW @fernly.eurosky.social · 20/01/2025

#beebuttoftheday Damnit! I promise they do actually use the other flowers (caught a bumblebee napping in a yellow California poppy recently, bless, but it flew off when I brought the camera out and closed in)… #nzgardens

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