Gareth @grenow.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Apparently everyone is doing this on the socials, so here's mine. Number nine is my current hot pick. 110
Gareth @grenow.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Said spherical concretion. A bit bigger than a basketball, so no boulder. 020
Gareth @grenow.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Here's a bit more of the beach - one of the finest and least visited in North Canterbury, with nice sand and interesting rocks and fossils. If you peer closely at the foot of the clay cliff on the right you can just see a spherical concretion emerging. 130
Gareth @grenow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026...until I deployed my defences. Which do at least stop him from leaving beak marks in my helmet (which can be seen below). 050
Gareth @grenow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Evil little bugger. Left beak marks in the back of my bike helmet... 270
Gareth @grenow.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Buried at the bottom of Berkeley Earth's just released August temperature update: [There's] a 93% chance that 2026 will become the warmest year on record, driven by the strengthening El Niño and the exceptional ocean warmth of recent months. berkeleyearth.org/august-2026-... 120
Gareth @grenow.bsky.social · 24/09/2026If we're going to do blossom, here's something a little out of the ordinary: tagasaste, or tree lucerne, Chamaecytisus proliferus var palmensis. Introduced from the Canary Islands well over a hundred years ago. A legume, so nitrogen fixing. Good as a nurse crop, and as fodder in dry periods. 120
Gareth @grenow.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Nekk minnit… the mower engine expired. Such are the joys of spring in a large garden. 030
Gareth @grenow.bsky.social · 05/09/2026The first of our “summer” truffles presented itself for disinterment today. Not ripe, but ripening, in what is our first week of spring. #tuberaestivum 261
Gareth @grenow.bsky.social · 01/09/2026This young bird is a really persistent helmet banger. Time to turn the helmet into a hedgehog with some really long cable ties. #cyclinginspring 010
Gareth @grenow.bsky.social · 01/09/2026To round out your library, you need to add... www.foragingnz.com/book 130
Gareth @grenow.bsky.social · 30/08/2026In 2003 Antonio and Priscilla visited Limestone Hills along with a bunch of chef/cook luminaries from NZ and the world after a foodie weekend - Savour NZ - and after he’d cooked porcini for the group he was kind enough to sign our book. 010
Gareth @grenow.bsky.social · 30/08/2026From An Introduction To Italian Cooking, Michael Joseph, 1986 111
Gareth @grenow.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Italian roast chicken. A Carluccio recipe from the mid-80s, and a family staple for 40 years #sundaylunch 130
Gareth @grenow.bsky.social · 26/08/2026To thrive or not to thrive, that is the question... richardjmurphy.substack.com/p/do-we-want... #nzpol 043
Gareth @grenow.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Bee Bumble and the Blossoms The wild plums are turning the valley white 010
Gareth @grenow.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Fog blowing away as the southerly begins to pick up #waiparagorge 000
Gareth @grenow.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Our melanistic pīwakawaka is a real poseur... #rAhipidurafuliginosa 1195
Gareth @grenow.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Melanistic piwakawaka/fantail posing for pictures #rhipidurafuliginosa 031