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Caffeinated Hypermediated Photographer. Sad devotion to Nikon, typefaces, Everton, Canucks, UK indie & NZ roots music. Results may vary depending on caffeine & alcohol intake. Toitū Te Tiriti. 323ppm paullecomtephoto.nz

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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 1h
Splitting mum’s old tree into fire wood. This is a mighty fine splitting axe that splits anything. It has met its match. It’s f-ing BOUNCING OFF THE WOOD. Never seen anything like it.
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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 3h
I mean, make it stop! #NZPol 💚💚 💚❤️ 💚🖤
Underutilisation rate in NZ has hit 13.4% after years of decline & a sharp decline in the final term of the last labour Govt.
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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 17h
I'm more of the shuffling Nomads - Forever Now
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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 16/10/2026
This is fucking phenomenal tomfuckery from Minister Simon Watts. The $9m councils spent on following the Govt's very serious ultimatum was all on the councils apparently. Unforgivable bullshit www.nzherald.co.nz/rotorua-dail...
"You made us do it."
That was the message from some delegates as Local Government Minister Simon Watts fronted a room of mayors, councillors and council staff frustrated over the Government's reform programme.
But Watts insisted the recently paused Head Start programme was voluntary and that councils would not be reimbursed for money spent on proposals.
Head Start, the Government's local government reform programme, gave councils three months to develop reform proposals. Councils that did not advance proposals faced a future Government-led "backstop" process.
The programme was put on hold last month when ministers delayed decisions on the 18 proposals they received until after the election, saying more analysis was needed.
Despite the pause, Watts was unequivocal when asked about the potential for compensation for councils when he spoke at this week's Local Government New Zealand SuperLocal Conference in Rotorua yesterday.
"No," he said, when asked by host Rebecca Wright if a reimbursement was possible.
At the end of the day, the decisions around what investment councils have made in
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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 15/10/2026
Movie length pilot of one of the greatest shows ever #dueSouth youtu.be/a6AbyZL7TpY?...
Paul Gross as Constable Benton Fraser of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in a hit TV show due South
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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 15/10/2026
As a kid who grew up in poverty, this hits fucking hard.
A woman looking for food in an empty cupboard for food, weeping.  The kid saying to his mother 'Don't Cry mum' 

"survey finds, one in three households struggling for food" News

https://www.nzfoodnetwork.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/NZFN-Hunger-Monitor-2025-Digital.pdf
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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 14/10/2026
Jamie's old NJCAA DIVII teams are ranked 2 & 5 nationally in the US. He really did land on his feet his first 2 years on scholarship in the states. Currently he's on the coaching team at Madison College until his big announcement is offical 🤔👀❤️⚽
United Soccer Coaches national rankings of Men's & Women's Junior College soccer teams.

Northeast Community College in Norfolk Nebraska where he started is #2 in the nation. He then went on to Madison College in Wisconsin & they are currently 5 in the nation.
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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 14/10/2026
Ohhhhh Green Wing Resuscitated book 2 had dropped on Audible. True to the original & with most of the cast returning. That's my listening pleasure sorted on my 19th trip to ChCh this year to sort mum & dad's house out today! www.audible.com/series/Green...
Audible books of a crazy bonkers British comedy Green Wing, with original cast members & writers returning - absolute brilliant audio books
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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 14/10/2026
Turns out you can have too much Cliff stuff
VHS of Cliff Clips from tv all around the world Cliff posters & boxes of VHSCliff tapes The Young Ones & Cliff 45 single
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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 14/10/2026
Ohhh Green Wing is on #PlutoTV The best TV
DVD cover of the completely off the hook British comedy show Green Wing
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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 14/10/2026
Kinda tempted to keep the discontinued IKEA wine racks we bought back from Vancouver 2011 trip that I gave to my parents. Crazily they are a popular buy when put up for sale.
'vintage' brushed stainless steel IKEA modular wine racks - holding 4 each
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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 14/10/2026
Lady Muldoon
Lady Muldoon speaking to Mob members as if they're human
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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 14/10/2026
Dead cert funniest thing you'll see all day Laura Loomer attempted to disrupt a hearing, Missouri Rep. Bill Long(R) began calling a fake auction to drown her out until she was escorted her out. (dark grey suit guy in the front seats this end, his reaction is gold)
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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 14/10/2026
Shaw... And to say Greens are all in with Labour condition free is once again seriously disingenuous to say the fucking least. Actually ignorant & not true. Greens if you remember were NOT part of the last Govt they gave supply & confidence ONLY but got wins with Ministers.
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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 14/10/2026
There's an injured Leopard Seal on Macandrew Bay beach (& sadly peeps are getting too close). Probably a close encounter with an Orca in the harbour. Making the most of my 400mm lens & being 3x further back than everyone else I got these. #WildDunedin Ōtepoti Dunedin NZ #Nikon
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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 14/10/2026
www.my9films.com #My9Films I'm super high brow don't you know
My 9 films

Quadrophenia 
Ferris Bueller's Day off
The Philadelphia Story
It's A Wonderful Life
Helvetica
Stripes
Die Hard
Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels 
Van Morrison, The Concert
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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 13/10/2026
Oh dear, poor The United Stand (Frank Ilett) has to reset the count to 0/5 after Man United's loss this morning. If United won the hair was coming off & charity would have been the winner. Now day 739 of not cutting his hair until United win 5 games in a row.
Frank Ilett yesterday looking hairy but hopeful, then today in the shower wet & hair covering his face

On 5 October 2024, Ilett cut all of his hair off and began his video series on Instagram, posting himself everyday of not cutting his hair off until his favourite football club Manchester United F.C. wins five games in a row. According to BBC Sport, he expected that the club would win within three or four months, stating that "it was meant for a laugh, and then that would be it".[11] His video series gained popularity, garnering over 1.5 million followers on Instagram.[12] Aside from his video series, he helped raise money for The Little Princess Trust, a children's charity.[13]

Wiki
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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 13/10/2026
Wow, #f1 is going back to Africa (finally) www.formula1.com/en/latest/ar...
Banner for African Grand Prix confirmed for Rwanda
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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 13/10/2026
You can see the moment the weather turned from 26°C NW to 17°C SSW on the harbour water. 1 hour timelapse from Company Bay looking west back to Ōtepoti Dunedin
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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 13/10/2026
Inspired by the Miniature of Health's mean graphing skills (as shared by @publicaddress.bsky.social ) here's today's insane temp swings in Ōtepoti Dunedin
Cool foggy start to the day, hot NorWester, cold wet SW end
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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 13/10/2026
Teachable geography moment (who can resist). Look at this PERFECT NorWest set up with frontal cloud & clouds forming east of the main divide over Canterbury. It's gotten really blustery here now
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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 13/10/2026
26°C & it's getting DARK out west!
Map of Dunedin with temps across it from 27°C to 21°C
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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 13/10/2026
Happy Canadian Thanksgiving to all my Canadian buddies eh!
Concrete silos on Vancouver's Granville Island with large murals on them
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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 13/10/2026
Bloody tempted!
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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 13/10/2026
Pls take 10 seconds of your life & sign this. Thank you petitions.parliament.nz/02bdeb53-767...
Baxter here - thank you immensely to everyone involved with last night's benefit gig; I'm totally humbled by the support and love from you all. Plese post any vids of the gig as it sounds like I'd have loved it. Hopefully I heal enough by next year to be able to sit on a bar stool at the mighty Crown again. Thanks greatly all involved one again - you rock.
PS - please sign my petition if you haven't already, so no else is put in the position I have been.
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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 13/10/2026
I've also been thinking about the online responses to this by the likes of NZ First followers in particular. I don't get it, & I try to get into their head space. The best I can describe it is a cult. But I think this does a better job than my prejudices towards NZF followers.
Even very intelligent people, when faced with doubt about their roles in society, will involve themselves even more in the doubted activity rather than withdraw into reflection.INVITATION
SOCIOLOGY
A HUMANISTIC PERSPECTIVE
PETER L. BERGER
1963
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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 13/10/2026
I mean thank goodness for @greens.org.nz Arts & culture is 10x larger fiscally to the economy & employee 2300x more people... #NZPol
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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 13/10/2026
45mins is a long time in meteorological history. welcome to Ōtepoti Dunedin the NorWester 😂😬
& just like that the influence of the warm foehn winds across the South Island bring a breath of warm air across the motu
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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 12/10/2026
24°C they said...
Just fuck off, it's 14°C not 24°C 

FARKS SAKE
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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 12/10/2026
Cheers Ōtepoti
Sunset over a harbour Setting sun
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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 11/10/2026
Big Aurora over next 24hrs. Could be visible in North Island too. Sitting in my deck chair.
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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 11/10/2026
yeah just on the hot plate itself - the burn beautifully
Burnt wood chips on the hot plate. The chicken is above them on a rack.
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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 11/10/2026
Age yourself with a childhood crush
Kirsty McNicol looking like my wife's doppelgänger
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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 11/10/2026
Sticky bourbon bbq sauce & slow smoke (mesquite wood) chicken. Stunning day on Otago Peninsula & freshly mowed lawns.
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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 11/10/2026
Sunday spring BBQ Ōtepoti #Dunedin
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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 11/10/2026
Ohhhhh I have about a 1/5th of this set
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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 11/10/2026
The top reply! 😂🔥
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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 11/10/2026
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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 11/10/2026
#FreePalestine
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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 11/10/2026
taps sign
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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 10/10/2026
Who’d have kids eh.
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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 10/10/2026
But mum I want to play.
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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 10/10/2026
Mum trying to get some rest. Annoying teen has other ideas. Muaūpoko Otago Peninsula, Ōtepoti Dunedin #WildDunedin
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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 10/10/2026
2nd proper spring day.
Clear skies & calm harbour
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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 10/10/2026
Rounding off my9albums.org Blues
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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 10/10/2026
my9albums.org Big Beat Royale
Some cracking big beat & electronica albums
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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 10/10/2026
my9albums.org Jazz
A selection of just some Jazz albums in my top 100
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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 10/10/2026
my9albums.org Cool Britannia
Stone Roses
The Farm
Carter USM
INspiral Carpets
The Charaltans
The Beta Band
Soup Dragons
Wonder Stuff
Verve
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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 10/10/2026
my9albums.org Mod
Small Faces -
The Who
Cilla Black
The Creation
Manfred Mann
Paul Jones
Sandie Shaw
The Tremeloes
The Kinks
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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 10/10/2026
my9albums.org Early Uni days
Smashing Pumpkins - Gish
Nirvana - Nevermind
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Pearl Jam - Ten
Sugar - Copper Blue
Pixies - Doolittle
Sonic Youth - 100% 
Weezer - Blue Album
Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
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