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Megan Farr @meganfarr.bsky.social · 1h

I got it on prescription when my asthma went haywire one spring due to hay fever. They put it in my repeat.

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Megan Farr @meganfarr.bsky.social · 13h

And I can’t even complain because one of my friends once did it with 3 kids under 5!

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Megan Farr @meganfarr.bsky.social · 13h

Let me tell you about the time my 7 year old watched Frozen on a loop from Glasgow to Dubai and then Dubai to Auckland and DID NOT SLEEP.

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Megan Farr @meganfarr.bsky.social · 13h

If you’ve got 8 hours instead of 9 hop on the metro and head into the city centre.

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Megan Farr @meganfarr.bsky.social · 15h

Fexofenadine is great stuff. It’s available and not expensive at supermarkets.

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Megan Farr @meganfarr.bsky.social · 21h

We had the same and Rua is doing the same but also hiding under the sofa.

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Megan Farr @meganfarr.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

I've loved seeing NZ through someone else's eyes every day, though its made the homesickness worse. After 32 years away I always get homesick at this time of year and its been 4 years since I have been back.

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Megan Farr @meganfarr.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

This was my childhood playground. My grandparents lived there until I was a teen and we stayed with them every school holiday. We used to slide down the north slope of Takarunga on bits of cardboard. Parts of the Netflix East of Eden were filmed in Cheltenham and there's some epic pohutukawa in it!

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Megan Farr @meganfarr.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

I grew up in NZ and they did the opposite. Auckland went from many small local authorities in the 80s to 4 city and 3 rural councils in 1990,then a single council with a population of 1.8 million people in 2010. Not recommended That model has been rejected by Christchurch (2nd biggest city).

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Megan Farr @meganfarr.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I’m sure they didn’t used to make it so clear that the players were returning to their “individual accommodation”. Has there been hints of impropriety?

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Megan Farr @meganfarr.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I was just pleased that after almost 30 years out of IT I didn’t have to just hand it over to the 21 year old.

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Megan Farr @meganfarr.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

The good news was that bit all worked perfectly - restarted all the switches and the network ran the other way round. Apparently I can switch to mesh and not have this problem but this works with just a few light bulbs to reconnect. All our portable devices connected to both anyway.

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Megan Farr @meganfarr.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Similar here - we have ethernet and a wired in wifi extender because this house has had multiple extensions. But I went from Virgin, whose cables run under the street out front to Plusnet via Openreach who connect from a pole at the back. So the router and extender swapped places.

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Megan Farr @meganfarr.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

If Dublin City Council covered all of what most of us would think of as Dublin, there might be an argument. But it doesn't. If they live in Blanch or Dun Laoghaire or Tallaght what's the problem?

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Megan Farr @meganfarr.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Ah yes, I had this a couple of weeks ago when a provider change also meant the router and wifi extension swapped places. Still don't have all the smart bulbs working again.

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Megan Farr @meganfarr.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Chilly couple of days in the city of sails by the look of it. When we have a bad summer in Scotland is to check whether its actually warmer in Auckland, where it is winter, and often it is.

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Megan Farr @meganfarr.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Correction - population is 65k. The county is 100k. FWIW the town is Horsens. Its about 40 minutes from Denmark's second city Aarhus. There's also more industry there than there was in 1991, rather than less.

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Megan Farr @meganfarr.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

There's new big box stores, mostly adjacent to the town centre and more supermarkets but they are dotted around the town. More of the villages around about have the Danish version of a Scotmid but they are well stocked with fresh food. Quite the contrast to Falkirk.

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Megan Farr @meganfarr.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I was in Denmark recently, visiting the town (pop ~100k) I lived in as a teenager in the early 90s. The high street is not half empty. In fact a small shopping centre has added stores and parking; there are more restaurants and cafes. It was busy and vibrant even on a wet Tuesday.

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Megan Farr @meganfarr.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

This is better than my son who was demoted from narrator to shortest king for talking too much.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

He's with the Angles now

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Megan Farr @meganfarr.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

We saw a kea in a zoo in Europe one time and a lot of time had clearly been spent creating a habitat that resembled its normal territory. However they had not figured out the enrichment activities. It needed a few wiper blades to keep it bust. Auckland Zoo do loads of enrichment with their kea.

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Megan Farr @meganfarr.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Whenever I have heard about Bennu on the radio I just end up thinking of the character Benny (pronounced Bennu) from Danish TV show The Julekalender and/or Benny from Abba.

Benny is a balding, thin white man wearing a grey suit. As he is in his alter-ego as a nåså or evil elf, he has big teeth and ugly glasses. A Danish Christmas hearts and a small stuffed bird wearing an elf hat are in the background.

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Megan Farr @meganfarr.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Every few years I knit christmas baubles with that pattern for my friends. They are referred to as "Killing Balls".

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Megan Farr @meganfarr.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I read a series of books in which James VI & I was a Catholic.

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Megan Farr @meganfarr.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Many people talk about young people socialising in very similar ways. A group of "youths" hanging around near a shop is anti-social behaviour. Benches are removed to prevent teens having around. ASB orders were always just a way to criminalise behaviour which is not in itself criminal.

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Megan Farr @meganfarr.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Maybe he misunderstood the whole red diesel terrorist thing.

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Megan Farr @meganfarr.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The stickers on my laptop were asked at a recent ministerial roundtable. Though I’m not sure cat lady is quite the professional image I want to portray even though I love them.

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Megan Farr @meganfarr.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Ha! Of course it’s The Villages. I have family there. I’ve visited. Never mind news stories (the development company controls the local paper anyway). You could do a PhD on that place.

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Petra Boynton @petraboynton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Babyloss Awareness Week starts tomorrow. Some of us will be marking the week in varying ways. Some will decide to give it a miss. Some might not know anything about it and will join for the first time. However you choose to approach it, there's support and information here www.sands.org.uk/blaw

sands.org.uk

Baby Loss Awareness Week | Sands - Saving babies' lives. Supporting bereaved families.

Join us to remember babies, raise awareness and support bereaved families during Baby Loss Awareness Week

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Megan Farr @meganfarr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The town I lived in as a teenager in Denmark has a similar story about the German commander during the occupation, who eventually got his wish to stay at Horsens Fængsel (prison).

The gate house of Horsens Prison in Denmark, a mid 1800s building with towers at either end, with the main block, built in the early 1900s, behind.

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Megan Farr @meganfarr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Number 1 benefit of listening to the radio via Alexa. I can make the switch to Radio Scotland s soon as I wake up without even disturbing the cat.

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GT 🫪 @granitetide.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

the common belief that so-called "back office" roles in the public sector are unnecessary is predicated on an understanding of the world of work that's no deeper than "when mummy hides her face she isn't actually there anymore"

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Megan Farr @meganfarr.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

We were just saying that - back in the day we would have been wandering from shop shop going "have you got one of these". Or having to fill and redrill the door.

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Megan Farr @meganfarr.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I'm into week two of renovations here and we've just discovered that every single door (there are 5) in the old part of the house (built 1908) has a different length tube mortice latch. 15 minutes ago I didn't know they were called that.

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Megan Farr @meganfarr.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Let us know when they are listed!

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Megan Farr @meganfarr.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Oooh, a sign for a candidate for Te Tai Tonga. Still can't get my head around Te Tai Tonga including Wellington.

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Megan Farr @meganfarr.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I was going to say you were getting near the low flying tea room in Mangaweka but apparently it’s not there any more. But I hope you saw the low flying McDonald’s in Taupō.

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Megan Farr @meganfarr.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Oh yes and the boysenberry lumps (not chunks!) were amazing but sadly limited edition. I tried to bring some back for the office and they all got squished in my case so I had to eat them myself.

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Megan Farr @meganfarr.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If we're extending to Aussie chocolate - my favourite is a Cherry Ripe.

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Megan Farr @meganfarr.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I suspect we made the woman in the dairy's day as I tried to convince him the ice cream came first.

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Megan Farr @meganfarr.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Other Whitakers options exist. Whitakers created a chocolate bar based on an iconic NZ ice lolly - the Jelly Tip. Except my Scottish kid knew the chocolate first (I order it from the NZ shop in London). So on a visit to NZ he says "hey look Mum they made an ice cream based on that chocolate".

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