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I think it’s spring cleaning but I’ve been in the bathroom and laundry this morning doing lots of fiddly cleaning jobs in corners and crevices etc. I hate it but it should be done.

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MonzaGT 🇳🇿 @monzagt.bsky.social · 20h

Wright Family donates to the H of S which is a charitable trust. One donation was specifically to enable resources to be translated into Māori. Suzy Wiles is an ambassador for the trust. Not sure where the bad is unless it’s fundy science or super high salaries. I guess Wrights do some good. 🤷‍♂️

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MonzaGT 🇳🇿 @monzagt.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Daughter had a go at rowing after work today. 7 newbies and 1 experienced rowed 4kms on the Avon. I’m impressed.

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MonzaGT 🇳🇿 @monzagt.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You know it’s Spring because the bio security contractors have set up their fruit fly traps in our backyard fruit trees. Third year they’ve done this.

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MonzaGT 🇳🇿 @monzagt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Today’s doing God’s work: woman patiently herding mallard duck and babies across Stanmore Rd, through the supermarket carpark, away from the doors and around the corner in the general direction of the Avon.

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MonzaGT 🇳🇿 @monzagt.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I’ve just read this. Feel like people need to ask Williams’ family Megan Williams (mum) and Catherine Murray(sister) why they use their professional skills and company (the HR Department) to enable and cleanup after his disgusting misogyny.

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MonzaGT 🇳🇿 @monzagt.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Yet another woman’s pain dismissed by medical professionals. This case is so shocking it makes you wonder who they select and train for doctors. www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3610...

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‘Catastrophic’: Terminally ill Timaru mother told pain ‘all in my head’

Faced with a terminal diagnosis, Kat Stevens wants to make the most of the time she has left with her family.

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MonzaGT 🇳🇿 @monzagt.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I mean it’s aspirational innit? Corporates have got crap food into schools, hospitals and prisons, next challenge is human rights abuse around punishment and restraint. Start with prisons, move on to schools and finally hospitals. Lots of fun to be had for a price.

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MonzaGT 🇳🇿 @monzagt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I’d say the MSM coverage I’ve read so far has quickly platformed Farrar and Williams, has trotted out past Hager history and the scalps he’s claimed and has been dismissive of the book because he hadn’t made any big reveals this time. They won’t like his criticism of how compliant they have been.

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MonzaGT 🇳🇿 @monzagt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Lot of schadenfreude about the nation today. Gloriavale no longer a charity, David (Gun City) Tipple being prosecuted by Ecan for draining a protected wetland and Jordan Williams and TPU under an uncomfortable spotlight. May it continue. Here’s to the investigators!

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MonzaGT 🇳🇿 @monzagt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Someone on our our neighbourhood FB page has posted about a parrot hanging about in their garden. We’ve had wandering chooks in ours and were referred to a local “chook lady”. Is there a local parrot person I wonder.

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MonzaGT 🇳🇿 @monzagt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Brought this today. Read the whole Jack Aubrey series 20 or more years ago, thought I’d revisit. Kind of a companion read to the world of Jane Austen. Love the cover. First edition but with tea? stains on the edges.

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MonzaGT 🇳🇿 @monzagt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Love how social media has produced two good possible titles for Nicky Hager’s book. Dirty Work, a follow up to Dirty Politics and Dirtea Politics where he has pivoted to a cosy crime format 😂

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MonzaGT 🇳🇿 @monzagt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Hillbilly Elegy keeping company with Homeland Elegies on the $5 shelf at London Street Bookshop today.

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MonzaGT 🇳🇿 @monzagt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Spring goodness. Trip to Lyttelton to meet friends for coffee, some book and pie buying and home via Linwood Avenue whose daffodils are at peak and look so wonderful.

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Sharon Murdoch @domesticanimal.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

PM Christopher Luxon, Green Party co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick, and the groceries. My SST #cartoon today #NZpol #CostOfLiving #Supermarkets

Cartoon. Title: “Work it!” The Dancing Cossacks from the 1970s National Party ad, with PM Christopher Luxon as one of them, carrying two supermarket bags, labelled Pak’NSave and New World. Green Party co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick in the background, clapping and saying, “Dah! Dah! Dah! Go, Comrade Luxon!”

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MonzaGT 🇳🇿 @monzagt.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Since we got fibre we’ve had some internet issues so J has got on the case with One NZ. He’s dealing with someone “very thorough” and has spent the morning geeking over our house technology.

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MonzaGT 🇳🇿 @monzagt.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Neighbour has been crashing about in his woodpile this morning and has now fired up the log burner. Must be real bad wood,heaps of smoke and we of course have windows open! House smells well smoked. He stacked his wood in summer and covered it but must have got wet in parts 🤷‍♂️

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MonzaGT 🇳🇿 @monzagt.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Escaped the city for a day under the big skies of inland Canterbury. Beautiful Lake Heron. Perfect day.

Lake Heron with snow clad Southern Alps in the background and reflections.

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MonzaGT 🇳🇿 @monzagt.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Visit to the small but well stocked community library at Mount Somers. You’re bound to find an interesting read.

The old Post Office Library Mount Somerset.

Insid with cheerful volunteer librarian.

Write your name in a he book when you borrow something

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Sharon Murdoch @domesticanimal.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Act leader David Seymour carries on his campaign. (Those are quotes from DSeymour about the Tribunal) My #cartoon today #NZpol #WaitangiTribunal #Māori

Cartoon. Title: “The Campaign” Image show Act leader David Seymour talking to the media, with a Waitangi Tribunal document under his arm. He is saying, “Activist! Ideological! Expansive! And an affront to every New Zealander!” In the background PM Luxon is walking away, and looking back nervously, saying, “Gawd! What’s he talking about now?” And Nicola Willis is saying, “The Act Party”

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MonzaGT 🇳🇿 @monzagt.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

We’ve had our EV for two years and we’ve had two punctures in that time. One fixable, one not. A nail and a screw. $300 plus for new tyre. Thank you streets of Christchurch.

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MonzaGT 🇳🇿 @monzagt.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

From the punmeister in our house “A turd rate solution”

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Hayley @writagal.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

“They are terrified that regular people will turn up & turf out this government. So it’s important that regular people turn up & turf out this government - because we can have a politics and an economics that works for all of us.” Swarbrick shows more nous in 50 secs than this govt the whole term.

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MonzaGT 🇳🇿 @monzagt.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This made me go to the Le creuset website and I have to say the goth pumpkin styling is giving Addams Family vibes. www.lecreuset.co.nz/en_NZ/p/cast...

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MonzaGT 🇳🇿 @monzagt.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Handy dad has just been transported away by the family to play pinball and eat fancy ice cream. Happy father.

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MonzaGT 🇳🇿 @monzagt.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

It me. Doing gardening in bursts, have to stretch and rest the old back.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

David Rowe, International Financial Review

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MonzaGT 🇳🇿 @monzagt.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I had a minor heart attack 7 years ago and ended up in North Shore A&E. Weirdly I have no memory of being there, J says it was for a few hours. I can remember clearly the ambulance trip and the two wards I was in over the next few days. Shocking how bad things are there at the moment.

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MonzaGT 🇳🇿 @monzagt.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

This has got to be a metaphor for something. J cut this out of the depths of our prolific lime bush. He says it is root stock. The thorns are horrible.

Gloved hand holding a long bare branch with very spiky thorns. It’s from a long me bush.

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MonzaGT 🇳🇿 @monzagt.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Terrific thread. Among other things it is a classic case of using the UK as an exemplar instead of a dire warning.

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MonzaGT 🇳🇿 @monzagt.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Daughter couldn’t open her washing machine after a load this morning. After much drama and a couple of you tube vids she sorted it. Child lock accidentally activated! So proud she didn’t just pick up the phone and call handy dad.

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MonzaGT 🇳🇿 @monzagt.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Thinking of my boomer childhood where I had measles, chickenpox and mumps, usual colds plus ongoing ear, nose and throat infections until my tonsils and adenoids were removed. How many weeks off school, my poor mum who had part time work etc.

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MonzaGT 🇳🇿 @monzagt.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Yummo. Resident chef made his first mussel chowder last night and we had leftovers for lunch. It’s a keeper.

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MonzaGT 🇳🇿 @monzagt.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Listening to Dolly Parton this arvo, Trio with Emmy Lou Harris and Linda Ronstadt and then the McGarrigle Sisters. So many great singers and songs but so sad. I’ve been tearful I can tell you.

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MonzaGT 🇳🇿 @monzagt.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Definitely a walk the dog day in Christchurch. Beach, cafe, garden centre. Put your wee dog on the lead and away you go. Sumner at its best.

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MonzaGT 🇳🇿 @monzagt.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

J has a stonking great dental bill and he just cheerfully told me he found two 50c coins while vacuuming. It’s a start.

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MonzaGT 🇳🇿 @monzagt.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Driving the backstreets of Sydenham and I see a sign Battle Axe Throwing. I wouldn’t cut it says the resident punster.

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MonzaGT 🇳🇿 @monzagt.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Beautiful calm, sunny morning in Otautahi. While hanging out washing the air rent by chainsawing and a wood chipper at a nearby house. Tbf they have some big trees that need work and a massive ivy growth on the fence. Hope it’s selective, not destructive.

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MonzaGT 🇳🇿 @monzagt.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Yes! Repeat repeat repeat until people get the message.

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Rod Emmerson @rodemmerson.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

In today’s Weekend Herald

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MonzaGT 🇳🇿 @monzagt.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Sorry to the salesman who sold me some sneakers this morning, Luxon still there. We both agreed he was a waste of space, without ever declaring our political allegiance. #voxpopuli

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Bob Davidson @wa7iut.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

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MonzaGT 🇳🇿 @monzagt.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Big ups to J (house geek) who solved a problem with the TVNZ+ app so I can watch it while on the treadmill. 👍

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MonzaGT 🇳🇿 @monzagt.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Phone rings. Which daughter needs handy Dad? Nope it’s handy mate required. Our friend requires regular tech support from J. Today it’s mouse not charging. He’s good at phone consults and knows her setup.

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