Rachel Barrowman @rachelbarrowman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Luxon's becoming pissed off. Not a good look, Christopher. 040
Rachel Barrowman @rachelbarrowman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Of course Christopher Luxon calls the Pacific Islands Forum 'the pif', the man who refers to the WHO as 'the who'. 061
Rachel Barrowman @rachelbarrowman.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Just clicked on the RNZ link to Luxon's post-cab press conference (I've no idea why) in time to hear 'sunshine' and immediately turned it off. (This was in reference to Hipkins, not the weather.) 350
Rachel Barrowman @rachelbarrowman.bsky.social · 22/06/2026psa: Meyer’s Matariki gouda is out and about 000
Rachel Barrowman @rachelbarrowman.bsky.social · 18/06/2026@rebeccamatthews.bsky.social @geordierogers.co.nz Fourteen votes to three is a disgrace, but thank you for being among the three. 020
Rachel Barrowman @rachelbarrowman.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Ah yes, thought I felt the building give a little sway. A wee quake. 010
Rachel Barrowman @rachelbarrowman.bsky.social · 10/03/2026@dimsie.bsky.social I feel you will appreciate this 030
Rachel Barrowman @rachelbarrowman.bsky.social · 15/02/2026Every time it goes quiet and I look up and the rain is no longer lashing the windows I think, oh yay, it's easing off. More fool me. 110
Rachel Barrowman @rachelbarrowman.bsky.social · 07/02/2026I do enjoy the Guardian style guide: start up verb; startup noun (as in business startup); star tup top-performing ram 1143
Rachel Barrowman @rachelbarrowman.bsky.social · 27/01/2026I would love to have read Saramago on Trump. (José Saramago, The Notebook, 2008) 031
Rachel Barrowman @rachelbarrowman.bsky.social · 26/01/2026It seems I've become the kind of person ('elderly lady') who tells off the young dudes who've been smoking in the stair tower of my apartment building and leaving their cigarette butts and empty drink bottles lying around. 040
Rachel Barrowman @rachelbarrowman.bsky.social · 25/01/2026@apocalypseelf.bsky.social This will interest you, I'm sure. (I haven't read it, but I will.) 021
Rachel Barrowman @rachelbarrowman.bsky.social · 25/01/2026@apocalypseelf.bsky.social How's Harry Winston? 001
Rachel Barrowman @rachelbarrowman.bsky.social · 21/01/2026Time for my annual new season apples! post (Oratia beauty) 000
Rachel Barrowman @rachelbarrowman.bsky.social · 18/11/2025@fergusthw.bsky.social Zoom in for La Parisienne 020
Rachel Barrowman @rachelbarrowman.bsky.social · 31/10/2025The beautiful weather and promise of summer is nice and all that but there is a large fly in my apartment and how dare it. 010
Rachel Barrowman @rachelbarrowman.bsky.social · 17/10/2025@apocalypseelf.bsky.social something you might like 0100
Rachel Barrowman @rachelbarrowman.bsky.social · 15/10/2025Duh. Accidentally turned off the power switch for my modem. At least I was still on hold with Spark when I realised and didn't have to suffer the embarrassment. 120
Rachel Barrowman @rachelbarrowman.bsky.social · 25/09/2025I know this is trivial and ad hominem but Jason Walls has a very annoying voice. 020
Rachel Barrowman @rachelbarrowman.bsky.social · 18/09/2025Today I came across the phrase 'odd as a jar of sausages'. Highlight of my day. 160
Rachel Barrowman @rachelbarrowman.bsky.social · 08/09/2025They've found the other two children. Thank god. 1281
Rachel Barrowman @rachelbarrowman.bsky.social · 06/09/2025Kākā flying overhead in the early morning, the sun lighting up their red underwings 040
Rachel Barrowman @rachelbarrowman.bsky.social · 02/09/2025Credit to Hipkins for actually saying on national television that Luxon is full of himself. 020
Rachel Barrowman @rachelbarrowman.bsky.social · 25/08/2025That feeling of quiet embarrassment when you go to reserve a book at the library and find you already have. 170
Rachel Barrowman @rachelbarrowman.bsky.social · 24/08/2025@foxylustygrover.bsky.social fyi www.textpublishing.com.au/books/the-mu...textpublishing.com.auThe Mushroom Tapes: Conversations on a Triple Murder Trial, book by Helen Garner, Chloe Hooper and Sarah KrasnosteinThe Mushroom Tapes brings together three renowned writers of true crime: Helen Garner, Chloe Hooper and Sarah Krasnostein.For this extraordinary book, the lone wolves became a team. Garner, Hooper and... 010
Rachel Barrowman @rachelbarrowman.bsky.social · 14/08/2025Today in bushwalk adventures, a kākā twice tried to land on my head. (Mistook me in my brown cardigan for a tree, I guess.) 180
Rachel Barrowman @rachelbarrowman.bsky.social · 13/08/2025slightly diminish a band: Young Pumice Giants 031
Rachel Barrowman @rachelbarrowman.bsky.social · 28/07/2025Nice to see the media are still putting up their most flattering shots of Luxon. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...rnz.co.nzChristopher Luxon defends voting changes after Judith Collins raises problemsReports say Attorney-General Judith Collins has found 100,000 people could be disenfranchised by the changes. 020
Rachel Barrowman @rachelbarrowman.bsky.social · 24/07/2025Yeah, this is scandalous. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...rnz.co.nzSame-day election enrolments to be scrapped in electoral law overhaulThe government newly proposed legislation also contains other changes in a bid to overhaul electoral laws. 130
Rachel Barrowman @rachelbarrowman.bsky.social · 18/07/2025So Luxo's been on leave for something like two weeks and on TV just now he looked totally wrecked. 120
Rachel Barrowman @rachelbarrowman.bsky.social · 15/07/2025This is good: 'It’s actually quite hard to get a recession in New Zealand, but since 2000, we have had the Global Financial Crisis (GFC), the COVID-19 Lockdown, and now Hon. Nicola Willis.' craigrenney.substack.com/p/its-not-19...craigrenney.substack.comIts not 1931, but it feels like itEconomists aren't often given to feeling hope. 020
