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Abbie Jury 🌱 @tikorangi.bsky.social · 6h

That was the biggest quake I have ever felt.

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Abbie Jury 🌱 @tikorangi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Today's flowery indulgence from the Avenue Garden.

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Abbie Jury 🌱 @tikorangi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

At New Plymouth airport which is not busy. But no escape from National’s advertising budget.

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Abbie Jury 🌱 @tikorangi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A pity National didn't decide vote splitting was stupid before John Key gifted Epsom to ACT. We might have escaped David Seymour had he not set up vote splitting for mutual benefit.

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Abbie Jury 🌱 @tikorangi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

One day after my late brother's birthday and 5 days before his death day. Still a poignant week for me. I just wish he had lived longer. Snap frozen, as we say, on Mt Makalu in the Himalayas. Aged 32, he had been seen as invincible. Until he wasn't.

I think this may have been the summit Mount Tasman.

Bill Denz standing in front of his much loved cottage on Margate Ave in Broad Bay, Dunedin.

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Abbie Jury 🌱 @tikorangi.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Mark likes to talk about when trees dance - when there are so many tui in a tree that it looks as though the branches are dancing, even on a calm day. The tui don't stand still for us to count but there are times we must have over 20 in the kowhai.

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Abbie Jury 🌱 @tikorangi.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Him Here is critical of the role of the morepork in A Remarkable Place to Die tonight. Both scenes had it fully alert during daylight hours. And when it flew off, they added sound effects of noisy wing flapping when, he tells me, they are silent in flight.

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Abbie Jury 🌱 @tikorangi.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I am still chuckling at the vid of my 3 year old granddaughter- French papa, NZ mum, Sydney born and raised - declaring categorically “I don’t want to be French. I want to be a penguin.” Penguin/kiwi -close enough, kiddo.

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Abbie Jury 🌱 @tikorangi.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Oh look. An invitation ftom Toddy to visit their gas site on the farm across our bottom road to admire their pride and joy - Big Ben as they call their rig. I can think of many, many things I would rather do.

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Abbie Jury 🌱 @tikorangi.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Even by NZ First's standards, selecting Murray Chong as their candidate for New Plymouth is scraping the bottom of the barrel.

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Abbie Jury 🌱 @tikorangi.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Dog vs possum this morning. Dog won but 3 questions remain. Why was the possum on the ground under a hedge in broad daylight? Was it unwell, likely poisoned by Lucretia Borgia next door? And where has the dog buried it in the time between the fight to the death and me calling for back up?

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Abbie Jury 🌱 @tikorangi.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I particularly dislike colour enhancement on flower photos. AI versions of magnolias, though, are Something Else. I have to laugh.

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Abbie Jury 🌱 @tikorangi.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

When will analysts and media link high fuel prices not just to Trump attacking Iran but also our abnormally low dollar, engineered by this government? High pump prices are a cost borne by most NZers to indirectly prop up exporters and farners.

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Abbie Jury 🌱 @tikorangi.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Last time I looked, parents have democratically elected boards of trustees at each and every school.

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Abbie Jury 🌱 @tikorangi.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I have a really bad cold and I can't remember when I last had a cold. Maybe 10 or 15 years ago? I feel like I don't know what to do. I guess the first step should be to do a Covid test.

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Abbie Jury 🌱 @tikorangi.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I just heard Shane Jones talk about “catastrophisation” and I have to admit some awe at his confident verbiage.

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Abbie Jury 🌱 @tikorangi.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

First pick of asparagus for dinner. Just 10 stems but the start of many. Mark planted 11 different varieties to extend the season of our favourite veg.

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Abbie Jury 🌱 @tikorangi.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Part of our lives here is assessing new cultivars from Mark's breeding programme. There are a couple of rather nice yellow magnolias in flower today. However, it is a very long way from first bloom to selection. If you think you have not seen a magnolia like these before, you are right. .

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Abbie Jury 🌱 @tikorangi.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Q: Why do we hear next to nothing about the impact of the low NZ $? A: Look who benefits. The farming sector, exporters and those who derive income from overseas. The cost of living, however, for those who live and work here continues to rise, along with inflation.

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Abbie Jury 🌱 @tikorangi.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Some of us are old enough to recall the polio survivors wearing calipers in our school days. More recently, when I started teaching, deaf units were the norm. German measles vaccine rendered those redundant.

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Abbie Jury 🌱 @tikorangi.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Ralph just caught a huge hare. As he can usually only run down small rabbits, quite how he managed to run down a full grown hare is a mystery to us. Mark was walking with him and heard the furore but by then he had already despatched it across the rainbow bridge.

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Abbie Jury 🌱 @tikorangi.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Had to walk past Paul Henry campaigning in the street outside Michael Hill this morning. Couldn’t come up with something cutting enough to say so I feigned disinterest and walked on briskly.

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Abbie Jury 🌱 @tikorangi.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I, for one, will not miss the roar from the Methanex plant we hear when we get a cloud inversion layer. Can't close soon enough for me.

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Abbie Jury 🌱 @tikorangi.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I, who had never even heard of Macklemore and whose life was untouched by Ed Sheeran, find myself riveted by the furore. And heartened. Maybe we have reached the turning point at last. #FreePalestine

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Abbie Jury 🌱 @tikorangi.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Quite pleased that my small production of damson jelly and grapefruit jelly are both clear and set.

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Abbie Jury 🌱 @tikorangi.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The rockery currently looks like a spring meadow. Though there is nothing easy-care or serendipitous to this picture. Rockeries are like the microsurgery of gardening.

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Abbie Jury 🌱 @tikorangi.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Kereru has taken up residence in Magnolia Honey Tulip.

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Abbie Jury 🌱 @tikorangi.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I will do garden flowers for the coffin, I said, for a good woman who was an acquaintance more than a friend. I had forgotten how stressful it was, me being a gardener not a florist. Still it only has to last til mid afternoon

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Abbie Jury 🌱 @tikorangi.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Cute fundraiser tea towel from my grandson's primary school. A bit of work went into collating that.

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Abbie Jury 🌱 @tikorangi.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Imagine dealing with the hole in the ozone now. NZ First: the hole is a myth ACT: the hole is greatly exaggerated and taking action will harm The Economy Nats: yes we care but we haven't made the hole. Bigger countries should act first and we may follow. In 2050

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Abbie Jury 🌱 @tikorangi.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Just donated to the Greens. Because I can afford to and I support them.

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Abbie Jury 🌱 @tikorangi.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I must have led a sheltered life. I have never met a bailiff before. Very pleasant man serving papers on a neighbour. But imagine going to work wearing a stab proof vest and always parking your car so you can get away quickly if need be.

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Abbie Jury 🌱 @tikorangi.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Was David Seymour's objection to public art an attempt to get in early and suck the joy out of Aucland's CRL? I notice there seems to be a policy of making those new stations visually striking with art and sculpture.

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Emathion 📯 @emathion.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The French made a short film about what could happen after all immigrants would follow the ‘white, angry old man’s’ advice to go back where they came from.

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Abbie Jury 🌱 @tikorangi.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

It is hard to convey the glory of magnolia season here.

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The Capybaron @thecapybaron.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

There once was a gunman who dealt In blood in the land of the Celts From Stockholm he flew, But alas, never knew, The importance of wearing seatbelts

Swedish man killed in Limerick crash was on his way to carry out contract killing

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Abbie Jury 🌱 @tikorangi.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Lugubrious Lou 'apologizing' for everybody else who is at fault in her department. Not her. Never her. The fault lies with others and for that, she is sorry.

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Abbie Jury 🌱 @tikorangi.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Dropped my friend Fiona Clark at the airport. She has been invited to exhibit at the biennale in Lyon and is on her way to France for the opening. I am in both awe and envy.

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Abbie Jury 🌱 @tikorangi.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

First shining cuckoo of the season arrived early. Usually Sept 23, this year it was Sept 9

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Abbie Jury 🌱 @tikorangi.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

NZ First going full throttle xenophobic as Winnie's swansong. What a legacy.

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Abbie Jury 🌱 @tikorangi.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The dog. The dog is not tiptoeing through the tulips. He is thundering over bluebells in pursuit of bees. I failed to catch him airborne. And on a red petal carpet.

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Abbie Jury 🌱 @tikorangi.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

First camellia Mark ever named - Fairy Blush. We call it one that got away on us. We did not realise its commercial potential internationally and failed to keep ownership of the IP on it. An opportunity missed but it is still a pretty thing. And scented.

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Abbie Jury 🌱 @tikorangi.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Elder daughter in Canberra sends us the most thoughtful care packages- sourced from a New Plymouth deli.

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Abbie Jury 🌱 @tikorangi.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

4 bay woodshed nearing completion. All this started because we reroofed the packing shed and had both corrugated iron and wooden poles on hand.

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Abbie Jury 🌱 @tikorangi.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Achievement unlocked. A man (of course) on FB just described me as a speculating soothsayer(!) and a miniscule fringe anarchist. Not a member of a very small group of fringe anarchists, just a very smol fringe anarchist, it seems. I thanked him nicely and said I would dine out on these descriptions

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Abbie Jury 🌱 @tikorangi.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

For over 40 years, we have fed successive dogs on possum. Skinned and cut into joints, it is the main breakfast item. Enter Ralph. The largest, scruffiedt dog we have ever owned. Rescued from the pound. Ralph does not like possum, does not eat joints of possum. We have tried for 4 years.

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