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Robyn Nuthall @robynnuthall.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Thank you Bernard Hickey for sharing Electoral Commission voter enrolment data..... Showing the low enrolment levels of young folks.... But also there are more people over 70 enrolled to vote than are eligible!! #NZPol #Aotearoa #NewZealand

Bar chart showing four bars for each of six age groups. The first bar is estimated total number eligible to vote in that group; the second bar is those enrolled on the general roll, the third is those enrolled on the Māori roll, and the final of the four bars is total enrolled in that age group.

For those aged 18 to 24 it looks like only just over half are enrolled to vote.

For those over 70, the total number enrolled to vote is taller than the total eligible voters.

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Robyn Nuthall @robynnuthall.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

When you buy a plant tunnel and, although you've read the length, you didn't read the height or width and it's way bigger than you thought! It's a two row vege shelter! Bonus!! #Gardening #VegeGardening

Vege patch showing a row of small tomato plants dwarfed by a black frame ready to cover with bug cloth. A much lower and narrower plant tunnel is behind.

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Robyn Nuthall @robynnuthall.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

A stray common garden katydid arrived in our living room in Mawhera!

Green leaf-like insect sitting on a wooden table. The katydid has six legs with the last pair much larger than the rest.

An image from above of the green leaf-like like katydid insect showing the long ovoid body with a very sharp pointed end.

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Robyn Nuthall @robynnuthall.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 02/07/2026

Loving Rachel Clare and Tryphena Cracknell's book, "Aotearoa in Bloom". It took about three months to get it from the library, so I think I'm not the only one! They explore the Māori, Latin and common English naming, art, history, cultivation, stories about every […] [Original post on mastodon.nz]

Book cover of "Aotearoa in Boom" subtitle: The history, culture, and practical uses of New Zealand's flowers. By Rachel Clare and Tryphena Cracknell.

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Robyn Nuthall @robynnuthall.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 22/12/2025

Finally retirement is starting to pay off in the vege raising department... Tomatoes, lettuces, courgettes, silver beet, white cabbages, calendula flowers. And what are known as Māori potatoes... Also beans on the way, a little late. I've been brave and planted carrot seeds! #Gardening #Vegetables

Picture of a vege garden with rather crooked rows. The biggest plant is the courgette, the smallest are potato plants and young silver beet/ chard.

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Robyn Nuthall @robynnuthall.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 19/12/2025

Who pray tell at te warewhare thought it was a good idea to tightly glue the wrapping paper together??

Roll of wrapping paper torn badly from trying to prise it open.

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Robyn Nuthall @robynnuthall.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 15/12/2025

@joncounts Now I'm wondering if we have pohutakawa or northern rātā not southern rātā. They were grown in Sheffield, Canty.

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Robyn Nuthall @robynnuthall.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 15/12/2025

On these dark times, I'm delighted that our rātā bushes have bloomed for the first time in eight roughly) years! #rātā #SouthernRātā

Scarlet flowers (made only of anthers) on a rātā bush.

A hand lifting a branch with a cluster of rātā flowers on a rātā bush.

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Robyn Nuthall @robynnuthall.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 26/11/2025

Sydney Wearable Art Gala (SWAG) was indeed glorious last night. It's on again tonight, so only one spoiler photo! #SWAG #Sydney #WearableArt

Woman clothed in a short strapless blue dress adorned with pink tulle, arms outstretched dancing across the stage.

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Robyn Nuthall @robynnuthall.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 20/11/2025

Aha, ok. I'm gonna have to take care when using this particular kupu.... #TeReoMāori #KupuHou

Definition of the reo Māori word, hika. It has three meanings:
1. An exclamation meaning heavens, whoa! Or similar.
2. A mate or friend, with no particular gender attached
3. The pudendum.

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Robyn Nuthall @robynnuthall.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 15/11/2025

Ata mārie ki āku hoa pākete! Good morning to my pocket friends! There's something beautiful about a paper wasp nest ..... And also uncomfortable! Especially since it's on one of your sliding door frames!

A papery looking hexagonal comb with an half obscured wasp underneath and behind it. Although the surface it's on looks grey, it's actually black aluminum.

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Robyn Nuthall @robynnuthall.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 08/11/2025

OK, this is new to me, but only 706 years old news.... Medieval courts tried insects. Thank you to the author of An Insect a Day, Dominic Couzens, and columnist Agnes Stamp.... #Cockchafer #AnimalTrials

Article from Country Life magazine, May 14 2025 by Agnes Stamp which references the book. Includes a close up of the cockchafer beetle showing antennae with fan structures on the end, about the same size as the face. Excerpt from the article: " It flies with a hum and bad steering, may clatter into almost anything, whereupon it often falls to the ground on its back, legs flailing. ....in a court at Avignon, France, in 1320, local may bugs were commanded to retire to a designated area on pain of death, an example of the bizarre medieval practice of animal trials."

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Robyn Nuthall @robynnuthall.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2025

Sending great good wishes to those on the mega strike today. It's a grand tradition. #MegaStrike #NZPol #Workers

Union leader addressing a general strike in Cathedral Square c1970. Banners visible are the names of the unions present with some additional ones insulting the then Minister of Education.

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Robyn Nuthall @robynnuthall.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2025

Just leaving this here....my 67 year old partner dressed in something Phoenix like having run a steep mountain race involving beer! Ok yes! #MountainRun #TrailRunning #Marathon #Phoenix #Arrancabirra Date: 10/11/2025 Distance: 18km Elevation: 1410 Location:Italy

Mmm how to describe this....two people wearing running shoes but dressed in shiny jumpsuits splaying out cardboard red orange and yellow cardboard feathered wings as they look to the finish line. A white "feathered" character is to the right. A cardboard winged dog crouching down.

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Robyn Nuthall @robynnuthall.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2025

#Suffrage #Vote #NZPol To all Aotearoa New Zealand adults.... don't forget to vote today!! You've got three hours! .....and don't @ me with that all politicians are crap nonsense! Leaving the local future with everyone else to determine is just plain stupid […] [Original post on mastodon.nz]

A meeting of National Council of Women, addressed by Ada Wells, July 1901. Margaret Sievwright and Lily Atkinson are seated next to the speaker, on her left; Kate Sheppard occupies the chair at the end of the room.

Women are in Victorian dress, about 15 of them are sitting around a large table. The person speaking (Ada) is standing. Date is likely after 1896, maybe around 1900.

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Robyn Nuthall @robynnuthall.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2025

#BloomScrolling #Spring #Kōanga The AoNZ native tarata aka lemon wood or Pittosporum eugenioides has beautifully scented florescences every spring. It's one of my favourite spring scents!

Yellowy green florescences nestled among glossy green leaves.

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Robyn Nuthall @robynnuthall.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2025

#BloomScrolling #,NZNatives Plagianthus regius - known as Ribbonwood - spring florescence....These AoNZ natives seem to do well in an urban setting.

A florescence of tiny green flowers about the size of a small fist. Background is many more on the tree.

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Robyn Nuthall @robynnuthall.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2025

#Cherries #CherryBlossom #GardeningDilemmas I have regrets! I failed to prune the cherry tree over two winters. Those branches which grew out of the netting are now covered in blossoms and there's few blossoms inside the netting. So all the cherries are going to […] [Original post on mastodon.nz]

Photos looking down from above at the top of a netted frame with a cherry tree mostly inside the netting. Blossoms laden branches are sprouting out through the netting

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Robyn Nuthall @robynnuthall.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2025

#BooksOfMastodon #BookScrolling Very much enjoying Nature's Mutiny. Fascinating history, rich, well researched, interesting ideas that the Little Ice Age, a change in climate, changed society permanently. Amusingly he quotes a contemporaneous writer, dissing historians. LoL.

The cover of the book, Nature's Mutiny by Philipp Blom. Subtitle is "How the Little Ice Age Transformed the West and Shaped the Present."

Snap of some text from the book. "While poets can hardly be regarded as credible witnesses, the historians tend to be worse." It's from Pierre Bayle I think in 1680.

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Robyn Nuthall @robynnuthall.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2025

Apparently this is a solar eclipse....I imagine you need a proper camera and filter to do this right!

Image of two orbs in a blue sky over trees. One large orb to the left, a much smaller orb with a green and pink halo around it.

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Robyn Nuthall @robynnuthall.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2025

#NZPol This government seems one of the most stupid and inept outfits Aotearoa NZ has had since Muldoon. Cancelling ferries by text, costing $500M....and here we go again....

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Robyn Nuthall @robynnuthall.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2025

OK.... I've baked muffins to give the piano teacher today, as the lesson's going to be dire....7 weeks without practice for a beginner turns out to be a very bad idea!! #BeginnerPiano #AbsoluteBeginner !

Old hands playing a version of the C chord on an electronic piano.

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Robyn Nuthall @robynnuthall.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2025

#Morena koutou! I've been periodically photographing this black swan and their five cygnets since May. The cygnets are now quite large and grey.... They'll soon be fully grown. #iNaturalist #Wāna #Kakīānau #BlackSwan

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Robyn Nuthall @robynnuthall.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2025

Well, I've recently completely blown my Carbon budget, and travelled from NZ to the UK and Europe for 7 weeks or so. Bought some Carbon offsets, but nevertheless it wasn't best. However, I'm afraid I have no other regrets. Saw tens of friends and family and had […] [Original post on mastodon.nz]

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Robyn Nuthall @robynnuthall.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2025

#BooksOfMastodon #UltraProcessedFood #UPF Just finished Chris van Tulleken's book about ultra processed food. I'll never look at the ingredient 'emulsifier' the same way again. ....or any UPF.

Book cover titled 'Ultra Processed People, Why do we eat stuff that isn't food... And why can't we stop'

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Robyn Nuthall @robynnuthall.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 27/06/2025

#NZMusic #MarlonWilliams #Tīwekaweka Wow! What a night in the Ōtautahi Christchurch Town Hall. A packed diverse joyous crowd welcomed Marlon Williams' te reo Māori concert with roaring acclaim. No spoilers, but he had tremendous support.

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Robyn Nuthall @robynnuthall.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 26/06/2025

Black swan update....and there were four cygnets. But cute cygnets!

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Robyn Nuthall @robynnuthall.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 20/06/2025

Manawatia a Matariki e hoa mā.... Yay for Matariki, the Aotearoa New Zealand new year celebration.....and cygnets! #Matariki #BlackSwans #Wāna

Two black swans and their cygnets on a small lake surrounded by New Zealand native plants on the outskirts of Christchurch, NZ

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Robyn Nuthall @robynnuthall.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 04/06/2025

👀 Look look 👀 I found porcini in Poneke! No didn't pick it, left it there for someone with more confidence in their foraging identifications.

Nice juicy porcini mushroom growing from pine needles showing the fleshy underside.

The same porcini from above with a beige-brown cap and white spots.

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Robyn Nuthall @robynnuthall.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 11/05/2025

#NZPol AoNZPol #Women'sRights Recently the New Zealand right-of-centre Government passed legislation under "urgency" to scrap years of work to achieve equal pay for women (which is being used as a model in the rest of the world). The picture below is my Great […] [Original post on mastodon.nz]

And older woman (Ada Wells) sitting in the foreground, with three young women around her. She is holding a large sheaf of papers. They are in Edwardian dress.

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Robyn Nuthall @robynnuthall.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 18/04/2025

Apologies....but... I have discovered on this trip to Australia...... ....that there is a political party here called.... ....The TrUmPeTer of PaTrIoTs!! ,

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Robyn Nuthall @robynnuthall.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 29/03/2025

Love the pou organised by Waka Kotahi and Ngāi Tahu. Artist Ross Hemera said the mahi toi paid homage to our tīpuna rock art tradition and was a celebration of that ancient artwork that could still be admired in the region. Ātaahua! […] [Original post on mastodon.nz]

Looking up at a large steel sculpture with two very tall steel legs leaning together and joined by figures reflecting rock art folks.

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Robyn Nuthall @robynnuthall.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 12/02/2025

#Gardening #GrowingPotatoes Well well, I've never grown potato fruits before...they look like baby chits! ...and indeed I didn't mean to grow these! PS the largest potato from this plant was enormous!

Green potato plant with fruits on it. They look like miniature purple potatoes and have tiny green shoots growing from them.

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Robyn Nuthall @robynnuthall.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 08/02/2025

#Sydney #InnerWest Spotted something good in Marrickville, Sydney.

Street signs: one directional blue sign says "Royal Rehab Hospital", one green street name sign says "Addison Rd", and one red street sign-like sign says "#racismNOTwelcome".

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Robyn Nuthall @robynnuthall.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 31/01/2025

#SimplePleasures #RocketSeedHeads Mōrena ki a koutou! Here is your timeline cleanser with a simple trick to amuse us all.

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Robyn Nuthall @robynnuthall.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 20/12/2024

#pohutukawa Before I embark on another Christmas day prep day....here is a New Zealand Christmas tree, the Pohutukawa! Meri Kirihimete ki a tātou!!

Scarlet flowered green tree. Showing the tree top.

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Robyn Nuthall @robynnuthall.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 19/12/2024

#Christmas #ChristmasTree When your partner assists with roadside wilding pines!

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