Merry Christmas Day from GMT+13 on a summers day in the other hemisphere #Christmas #Aotearoa

Merry Christmas Day from GMT+13 on a summers day in the other hemisphere #Christmas #Aotearoa

@FediTips I'm surprised at the "today" in your post - it's 05:40 here in #Aotearoa, not too many other places on the planet where it's already the 25th - are you based in tha "prisoner island hidden in the summer for a million years"? 😀

I don’t know if anyone else who wants one has not bought an #Xmas tree yet, but if you want to copy or take inspiration from what we do:

Every third year my family buys a living fruit tree to decorate which goes in the garden afterwards, and one of the thirds we buy a living #AoNZ #native #tree, and the final third we buy a pine tree (just for nostalgia once in a while).

This year is the fruit tree year and we’ll get a lemon tree, which we don’t have yet in our garden.

With the prices of dead pine trees, why not spend the same money on a living plant which will take up carbon rather than release it as it rots after Xmas? And also it’ll continue to give you joy after the #holiday season.

It gives more variety and we get to keep a whole lot of trees for our #garden!
#gardening #christmas #NewZealand #aotearoa

Edit to update: We ended up getting three fruit trees since they were cheap: A Lemon, a Lime and a Plumcot.

Will post pics once they’re decorated, follow to make sure you see them, if you wish to :)

Edit to add link to photo toot: https://mastodon.nz/@SimonCHulse/115727556441493344

A bit of an inspiring story for your Friday vibes:

An indigenous led project up north, in Whangaruru, aiming to restore balance in marine ecosystems. 🌊

Maara Moana: The First Ocean Garden
https://oceanographicmagazine.com/features/maara-moana-the-first-ocean-garden/

#protectTheOcean #oceans #aotearoa

A reminder;

For as long as the majority of kiwis do our social networking and access media via DataFarming platforms, owned and controlled by US technofascists, our democracy will be distorted by the effects of those platforms. So any kiwi who cares about the independence of our country, and our freedom to be self-governing - as a whole, as communities and as citizens - needs to start caring about digital sovereignty.

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#Aotearoa #NZ #DigitalSovereignty #DataFarming

A reminder;

For as long as the majority of kiwis do our social networking and access media via DataFarming platforms, owned and controlled by US technofascists, our democracy will be distorted by the effects of those platforms. So any kiwi who cares about the independence of our country, and our freedom to be self-governing - as a whole, as communities and as citizens - needs to start caring about digital sovereignty.

(1/?)

#Aotearoa #NZ #DigitalSovereignty #DataFarming

I don’t know if anyone else who wants one has not bought an #Xmas tree yet, but if you want to copy or take inspiration from what we do:

Every third year my family buys a living fruit tree to decorate which goes in the garden afterwards, and one of the thirds we buy a living #AoNZ #native #tree, and the final third we buy a pine tree (just for nostalgia once in a while).

This year is the fruit tree year and we’ll get a lemon tree, which we don’t have yet in our garden.

With the prices of dead pine trees, why not spend the same money on a living plant which will take up carbon rather than release it as it rots after Xmas? And also it’ll continue to give you joy after the #holiday season.

It gives more variety and we get to keep a whole lot of trees for our #garden!
#gardening #christmas #NewZealand #aotearoa

Edit to update: We ended up getting three fruit trees since they were cheap: A Lemon, a Lime and a Plumcot.

Will post pics once they’re decorated, follow to make sure you see them, if you wish to :)

Edit to add link to photo toot: https://mastodon.nz/@SimonCHulse/115727556441493344

Currently on the Northern Explorer train going from Wellington to Auckland 😃
Such a beautiful journey.
#Aotearoa

Heading off to #Aotearoa for a few weeks.
Any friendly Kiwis fancy meeting for a beer in #Wellington or #Auckland?

Drop me a DM 😃

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/06/meeting-my-fedifriends-afk/

A bit of an inspiring story for your Friday vibes:

An indigenous led project up north, in Whangaruru, aiming to restore balance in marine ecosystems. 🌊

Maara Moana: The First Ocean Garden
https://oceanographicmagazine.com/features/maara-moana-the-first-ocean-garden/

#protectTheOcean #oceans #aotearoa

Another crimson pohutukawa at Taipa Beach yesterday. #photography #aotearoa #pohutukawa

@kristiedegaris

If you live in Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand and you want to read this (and I highly recommend that you do) there are three copies in the local library.

#Wellington #Aotearoa

Heading off to #Aotearoa for a few weeks.
Any friendly Kiwis fancy meeting for a beer in #Wellington or #Auckland?

Drop me a DM 😃

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/06/meeting-my-fedifriends-afk/

Cable Bay this morning with the first flush of pohutukawa flowers providing a crimson tinge. #photography #aotearoa #doubtlessbay #pohutukawa #beach

It's absolutely clear that #Aotearoa / #NewZealand could do far more to meet our #climate change commitments. Our current government has substantially reduced our efforts and it's time to pick the baton up off the track and start running again. #climatechange #nzpol
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/578698/climate-change-minister-defends-weakened-methane-emissions-target-ahead-of-cop30

Cable Bay this morning with the first flush of pohutukawa flowers providing a crimson tinge. #photography #aotearoa #doubtlessbay #pohutukawa #beach

@mattblaze We're already late in the day on Dec 3 here downunder in #aotearoa

Another crimson pohutukawa at Taipa Beach yesterday. #photography #aotearoa #pohutukawa