Crafty Gardener NZ

Hello there, I'm a Gen X small business owner and lifestyle blogger. I mostly share my crafting and gardening adventures in Dunedin, New Zealand.

I have a PhD in Plant Biochemistry, and a certificate in Horticulture.

My Personal Blog: https://www.craftygardener.co.nz/
My Personal Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/craftygardennz/
My Hearth and Oak Store: https://felt.co.nz/shop/hearthandoak

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2026-02-12 20:39:38 GMT

If you're a Dunedin friend, and you're after some flowers to give a loved one for Valentines Day, please drop by Frankies Flower Farm truck set up on Highgate Road today and tomorrow.
You'll get to see my dahlias, zinnias, and other bits and pieces in her bouquets :birdheart: 💐

2026-02-11 21:32:20 GMT

In this week's gardening blog post I share the soil testing I did in my garden, as part of Floret Flower Farm's Flower Farming Workshop.
I had a lot of fun digging holes and also doing bucket chemistry in our garage.
#blog #blogging #gardeningblog #gardeningnz #soiltesting #gardening
https://www.craftygardener.co.nz/?post_id=184&title=soil-testing-in-my-garden

2026-02-03 22:31:04 GMT

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I am both very excited and also very scared to cut into this fabric 😬

2026-02-03 22:24:06 GMT

I just made the score of the century 10 meters of vintage velvet for $80 from a local opshop. It’s going to make an amazing medieval cloak for the wedding I’m going to in June.
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2026-01-21 04:03:37 GMT

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FYI, one of the books recommended is: How to Grow More Vegetables: Than you ever thought possible on less land you can imagine by John Jeavons.
It's a great resource for maximising growing vegetables (and fruit and flowers) in a small space using various techniques.

2026-01-21 03:58:27 GMT

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I think the reason why I'm thinking about seed sowing is because I'm full time studying with the Floret Flower Farm workshop for another 4 weeks.
It's talking about plants for 8 hours a day. I'm dreaming of planting thousands of sweet peas and opening a sweet pea posy business 🤣

2026-01-21 03:46:37 GMT

I'm already starting to think about sowing seeds for autumn and winter 😬

2026-01-20 22:07:15 GMT

There's a new website in NZ called OK Bouquet, where you can search in your local area and see if anyone local is selling flowers from their gardens. There are quite a few flower farms/florists on there, but there's also local people who make bunches of flowers from their gardens.
I put a jar of Floret zinnias up on there to see what happens. Who knows if anything will come of it, but it's an interesting concept.

2026-01-12 22:20:47 GMT

I'm currently writing my blog post on the soil testing I did on my garden, and I can't wait to show you all the fun I had digging up soil samples and testing them using a soil test kit, and also composition tests from my horticulture course.
#gardening

2025-12-26 20:52:50 GMT

The weather set up for today is exactly the same as yesterday.
Sunny morning followed by thunderstorms in the afternoon.
We've had so many thunderstorms in the afternoons this December. Usually we might get 2 - 3 in the whole month, but so far this month we've had at least 10??? With 2 - 3 each week?
It's good that it means we've had more rain than usual for December, but it's seriously cutting into my afternoon gardening time...

2025-12-17 21:39:08 GMT

In the last blog post of the year I share with you all the new rose bushes now flowering in my garden.
#blog #blogging #garden #gardening #nzgarden #nzgardening #aotearoa #rose
https://www.craftygardener.co.nz/?post_id=178&title=new-roses-flowering-in-the-garden

2025-12-12 01:54:25 GMT

Well the new ESTA application proposal sure is a doozy 👀

2025-12-09 21:26:59 GMT

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it’s a comic written by unearthedcomics.com
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2025-12-09 21:24:18 GMT

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um let me see if I can find it...

2025-12-09 21:23:59 GMT

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There may be more than you think hiding under leaves 🤞

2025-12-09 20:24:31 GMT

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I'm leaving the aphid problem to the ladybirds to handle. They can eat up to 50 aphids a day each, and I've seen over a 100 of them in my garden.

2025-12-09 20:22:11 GMT

I have a big aphid problem in the garden at the moment, but also I have a big population of ladybirds. They're everywhere, and eating the aphids like they're candy.
All I can think about is that comic about the ladybirds 🤣
#gardening

2025-12-08 22:41:15 GMT

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Dahlia 11: Mystic Sparkler from NZ breeder Keith Hammett
One of my all time favorite dahlias as she is just fluorescent and a bee magnet. I’ve had this plant for 10 years. She is hugely prolific over the summer.
#dahlia #dahlias #DahliasNZ #BloomScrolling
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2025-12-08 03:15:25 GMT

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Dahlia 10: Aporo Road Strawberry dahlia. This dahlia has been bred in New Zealand and the color is completely stunning it’s like a warm strawberry pink color mixed with cream. It makes the perfect cut flower dahlia for weddings I think.
This dahlia is very similar to the Strawberry and Cream dahlia (which I also have) but I think AR strawberry is prettier.
#dahlia #dahlias #dahliasnz #bloomScrolling
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2025-12-08 03:06:39 GMT

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Dahlias 7, 8, and 9: more seedling dahlias.
Dahlia 7: another lemon single dahlia SR no 5
Dahlia 8 : a single magenta dahlia from Keith Hammett NZ gardener seed giveaway no 4
Dahlia 9: a red and yellow possibly an anemone dahlia from floret bees choice seeds no 5
#dahlia #dahlias #DahliasNZ #BloomScrolling
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2025-12-07 23:28:40 GMT

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Dahlia 6: Floret Bee’s Choice number 9. Another single dahlia but the color shading is pretty.
#dahlia #dahliasnz #BloomScrolling
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2025-12-07 23:18:23 GMT

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Dahlia 5: Floret Bee’s Choice number 4. A plain single lemon dahlia. Good for bees but not for breeding.
#DahliasNZ #dahlia #BloomScrolling
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2025-12-06 06:22:31 GMT

Sorry if I haven't been around much, and haven't replied to anyone.
Hubby came down with some sort of sickness on Thursday, and I'm currently playing nurse Crafty Gardener to hubby who is masked up and living in our spare bedroom until he is well. At least his covid and flu tests are negative.
I have an important GP doctors appointment on Thursday that I've been waiting 3 weeks to see him, so I can't get sick from hubby's lurgy.

2025-12-05 03:14:06 GMT

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Dahlia 4: Zahra, a white anemone dahlia I purchased this year from Mount Mera Botanical.
She wasn’t quite fully flowering but I wanted a photo of her before the north westerly wind got to her.
If you look carefully you can spot Patches the cat having a nap in the background.
#dahliasnz #bloomscrolling
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2025-12-04 18:44:37 GMT

Holy cow, things aren't going well at the Eurovision special meeting to deal with the Israel situation.
The following countries have pulled out of 2026 Eurovision:
* Spain
* The Netherlands
* Slovenia
* Ireland
* Belgium
And also possibly Iceland, they're waiting to have a meeting at home next week to confirm.
This is huge news, Spain and the Netherlands are in the top 6 countries financially paying for Eurovision.
I wouldn't be suprised if more countries followed.
#eurovision

2025-12-03 03:10:36 GMT

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Dahlia 3 for 2025: Julie-Ann, my own favorite seedling dahlia from last year.
I love the pink and tangerine stripes in the petals. It flowers prolifically all summer and is a favorite with bees and butterflies. Dahlia purists don’t like single dahlias but I love them.
Yes I named it after myself 🤣
#BloomScrolling #dahlia #DahliasNZ
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2025-11-30 04:56:17 GMT

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Dahlia 2: Polka, a stunning and unusual anemone dahlia with cranberry and cream petals and a golden center. I have so many breeding plans for this dahlia.
#dahlia #dahliasnz #BloomScrolling #nzgardening
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2025-11-28 02:21:36 GMT

Dahlia 1: Tanita, a decorative dahlia I got from Mount Mera Botanical is the first dahlia flowering this late spring.
#DahliasNZ #BloomScrolling #nzgarden #nzgardening
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2025-11-17 21:50:26 GMT

It looks like I'm going to be in NZ Gardener's December issue with the article about growing your own sugar. They just asked for my address to send me a free copy of the magazine.

2025-11-12 06:37:14 GMT

It's so light in the evenings now that nautical twilight doesn't end until 10.02 pm for us.
It's just way to late to make the trip out to take aurora photos, since we have to go to work in the morning.
Full night doesn't start until 10.53 pm for us now.

2025-11-12 03:12:30 GMT

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Mmm tasty 🤣

2025-10-24 21:25:09 GMT

Two of my frost predictors are predicting a frost for Tuesday morning, I'm very happy to believe them and pause planting out my vege garden this weekend.
I can spend this weekend weeding en masse, and repotting the last of my seedlings.

2025-10-23 01:14:06 GMT

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Dunedin Ice Stadium has lost part of its roof.

2025-10-23 01:02:23 GMT

Trees down around Dunedin blocking roads.

2025-10-22 23:18:07 GMT

Um, so the Dunedin regional forecast is showing snow to 300 m on Monday 👀
That's going to mean frosts afterward 😬
So glad I decided to push back planting stuff out in the garden to the first week of November...

2025-10-09 00:10:26 GMT

A very rare dahlia tuber in NZ is on Trade Me, the current bid is at $150. That's how cut throat dahlia growing is, my guess is that commercial dahlia growers are fighting over it, a home gardener wouldn't pay that much for it.

2025-10-08 21:24:58 GMT

In this weeks gardening blog post I took some time to photograph the varieties of daffodils currently flowering in my garden at the moment.
https://www.craftygardener.co.nz/?post_id=164&title=daffodil-days
#blog #blogging #garden #gardeningblog #gardeningnz

2025-10-03 02:07:38 GMT

The Unwind Fibre Retreat Program in Dunedin March 2026 is now out!
If you've ever wanted to learn how to spin, the workshop "Learn to Spindle Spin with Frances Stachl" is the way to do it. This workshop is what taught me to spin back when I lived in Wellington. My favorite drop spindle is one of the rimu ones she made for the workshop.

2025-09-19 23:42:55 GMT

South Island friends, the weather is about to get very very windy. Please go and check Metservice's weather warnings and get prepared for tonight.

2025-09-11 23:19:26 GMT

If you’re after a reference book for dahlia growing and propagating and breeding, this book by Santa Cruz Dahlias is really great.
#dahlia #books #bookstodon #gardening
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2025-09-10 22:24:16 GMT

This week's gardening blog post is all about the two year process it took to grow my own sugar beet plants so that I could collect seeds for my own garden in the years to come. Sugar beet seeds are no longer available to buy for home gardeners in NZ.
https://www.craftygardener.co.nz/?post_id=162&title=harvesting-my-own-sugar-beet-seeds
#blog #blogging #garden #gardening #gardeningnz #gardenblog #seedsaving #aotearoa

2025-09-03 00:20:49 GMT

I just resprayed liquid frost cloth on my citrus plants. The spray needs a couple of hours of sunlight to fully work as a frost cloth for the next 6 weeks.
We are also due for wind this afternoon, so I wanted to do it while it was still calm.
This acts as a backup for nights when it may be very windy when we go to bed and can't put frost cloth on, as it would blow away. But then it calms down just before dawn and we may get a light frost 🤞

2025-08-21 22:54:51 GMT

Our local garden centre has wasabi plants in stock, so you know what I'll be doing today 🤩
I have very fond memories about wasabi plants, when I was doing my PhD in plant biochemistry with Crop & Food research, I got a chance to visit a field of it in Southland with my PhD supervisor. The farmer dug some of it up for us, and we got to eat some of it straight off the plant. It was a wonderful taste that often think about when I eat sushi.
Absolutely nothing can compare to fresh wasabi, it's nothing like the rubbish green coloured horseradish sushi places sell as 'wasabi'.

2025-08-17 21:49:32 GMT

Gardening is getting done today, but not by me 🤩
Our hedge trimmer is feeling better, and is here to trim all our hedges. Just in time too, as the local bird life are preparing for nest making and making babies. Our hedges are premium nesting spots for sparrows, blackbirds, starlings, and Tauhou.

2025-08-10 01:26:54 GMT

Yes I joined the world wide pansy obsession.
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2025-08-09 04:28:23 GMT

I spent the afternoon sowing hardy seeds, and also tomatoes and capsicum seeds which live in our dining room for about 6 - 8 weeks.
I've made a small dent, but so much more to do before Wednesday.

2025-08-06 21:57:06 GMT

First miniature iris and big daffodil of spring. #BloomScrolling #spring
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2025-07-20 05:04:10 GMT

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Getting the first two garden beds in place are an urgent job to do before my last cataract surgery mid-August.
I need to get the strawberry plants back in the ground, and also transplant my natural dye plants into their new permanent bed.
Because as soon as I'm allowed to get back into the garden at the beginning of September, it's seed sowing season.

2025-07-20 05:00:08 GMT

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I came inside very filthy and tired, and jumped straight into the shower.
Now just very tired. Have another slab of concrete to move next weekend, and then I can start installing macrocarpa sleepers for the garden beds.
First I need to work out the maths to see how many I can fit in, along with paths in between. And also pay for them and get them delivered this week 🤔

2025-07-20 04:56:35 GMT

I spent the afternoon in the old aviary space.
All the weeds are out, dug out rotten boards underneath the ground. Dug trenches along the back fence line and dragged edging wood we managed to recover from the aviary up against the back fence. Filled in an empty section of rail way sleeper edging. Weeded a square of pebbles where the worm farm is.
Moved a heavy section of concrete slab a couple of meters using physics, a spade, and my legs 💪

2025-07-04 01:28:17 GMT

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it really is they are short staffed of nurses and doctors today. And I’m surrounded by people sick with Covid and the flu 😬😞

2025-07-04 01:22:33 GMT

I’m sitting in ED with my Dunedin bestie. She was brought in by ambulance at 6.30 am. She’s had her vitals taken but still hasn’t seen a doctor.
She can’t leave because she is too ill. But is stuck in a no man’s land with 5 other people in the hallway triage area.
I’m so angry at the government right now for cutting services.

2025-06-25 23:56:13 GMT

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I finished weeding two small vege garden beds, and gave it a good rake to kill any seeds sprouting.
This weekend hubby is going to add in compost to both of them, and then dig them over for the winter. The potatoes will go into them in spring.
Except I now have 5 different varieties of potatoes to sow, but there's only space for 4 in that bed. I managed to find a place selling Victoria seed potatoes, and preordered a 6 pack. They're our favorite potato variety for making chips and roast potatoes.

2025-06-25 23:14:05 GMT

Right it's time to go outside and do some gardening.
I'm easing back slowly into gardening by doing small jobs over the day between work stuff. Otherwise I'll go crazy and do to much gardening in one go, and end up spending too much time upside down which is bad for eye pressure.

2025-05-18 02:05:15 GMT

So Estonia was only 2 points short of becoming second in Eurovision this morning. #eurovision
Also Italy gave Estonia votes from both the jury and the public, which is unusual as the Estonia song was about the Italians as a joke entry.
The in depth looking of numbers now begins.
https://eurovision.tv/event/basel-2025/grand-final

2025-02-16 20:21:34 GMT

In exciting news my sugar beet plant seeds have started to be ready for harvest. You can’t buy them for home gardening anymore since King Seeds stopped selling them a couple of years ago.
It’s taken two years of growing my plants to get to this point so I’m super excited, and I have some people who have contacted me for some for their own gardens. #aotearoa #NZTwits

2025-02-12 22:02:59 GMT

I need to hype myself up to do a messy, dirty, and boring job...
Today is the day I finally get around to removing all the seed heads from my flax/linen plants 😬

2025-02-12 21:59:31 GMT

In this week's gardening blog post, I bought lots of pretty ranunculus seeds after I saw a post on Instagram 😆
#garden #gardening #blog #blogging #gardenblog
https://www.craftygardener.co.nz/?post_id=125&title=ranunculus-seeds-from-buds-and-bloom-and-a-new-gardening-tool

2025-02-07 04:09:10 GMT

Hmm, maybe Chelsea sugar should pay for lead testing for most of NZ's population 🤔
How did they even think that transporting raw sugar in a ship that had previously transported metal sulphides, was a good idea 😬
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/541233/chelsea-sugar-fined-over-2021-lead-contamination

2025-02-04 01:33:40 GMT

Our local garden centre still has seed potatoes. I'm kind of tempted to get a bag and grow them in the glasshouse over winter 🤔

2025-01-31 00:25:53 GMT

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A loss of hospital beds in the new hospital. Not good, but they could've been worse by trying to retrofit the old hospital.
The only good thing to come out of the announcement was watching the hospital protestors peacefully surrounding the ministers car and heckling him as he left.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360565685/dunedin-hospital-announcement

2025-01-30 21:55:54 GMT

I'm really dreading the Dunedin Hospital announcement at 11.40 am. I can think of no announcement that will be good for Dunedin at this stage.
I'm pretty sure the only outcome will be a reduction of medical services for the Otago and Southland regions.

2025-01-17 03:18:44 GMT

Am very tired. Spent all of today at my sister's helping her get her vege garden and glasshouse in order.
After the floods the weeds grew up to waist height in their garden during the time they were out of the house for repairs.
I'm also very filthy and covered in dirt, so I'm off to have a shower.

2025-01-13 23:02:36 GMT

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😭

2025-01-13 18:46:35 GMT

Coldest morning of the year so far, we got down to 4.6˚C at 6.30 am.
Happy summer I guess 🤔

2025-01-12 19:12:11 GMT

Just finished reading the first two books of the year.
Book #1 is "Pirone's Tree Maintenance: Seventh Edition".
I found this copy at a second hand book store in Oamaru (it's right next to TOTE). I paid $60 for it, but it's worth the price as the book is out of print. This is the ultimate tree maintenance book for the tree enthusiast, and I recommend tracking a copy down if you get the chance.
It's going on my reference shelf, and comes in at a huge 545 pages.
#books #bookstodon

2025-01-08 20:29:41 GMT

My first blog post of 2025 is now up. I recently distilled rose water and essential oil from my Damask roses I harvested from my garden in November.
#blog #blogging #garden #gardening #gardeningblog #harvest #rose
https://www.craftygardener.co.nz/?post_id=112&title=processing-damask-rose-flowers-for-rose-water-and-essential-oil

2025-01-08 04:00:06 GMT

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Ego maniac is gonna ego maniac 👀

2025-01-08 03:00:51 GMT

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Good, I hope it really pisses Diddy off 🤣

2025-01-08 02:04:57 GMT

My Inkt order is here, my new Light Rose Lamy Safari pen is super pretty 🤩
Also the Visconti The Starry Night fountain pen ink is a beautiful dark purple/grey, and is a nice almost black, but not black.
#fountainpen

2025-01-03 02:46:45 GMT

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😭

2025-01-02 22:00:50 GMT

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Yeah, you know how I've been taking prednisone for years to help with many sinus infections...well apparently high doses of prednisone makes you a high risk of getting cataracts.
Guess what they found at my Specsavers appointment yesterday...

2025-01-02 02:43:38 GMT

Am not in a good head space today for a couple of reasons.

2024-12-29 04:48:36 GMT

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Dahlia Cafe Au Lait Rosé. The biggest dahlia flower I’ve ever grown #dahlia #BloomScrolling
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2024-12-29 04:47:01 GMT

Dahlia Brown Sugar #dahlia #BloomScrolling
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2024-12-28 01:00:16 GMT

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I've started using Natio Mist Sunscreen the last couple of weeks on my face only, and it's the first sunscreen that doesn't end up giving me acne from daily wear.
I use the Cancer society on the rest of my body, but it's just too greasy for use on my face.

2024-12-28 00:52:28 GMT

The house is clean, the food shopping is done, the washing is out, now all I have to do is put a tonne of sunscreen on, and then I can go out into the garden...

2024-12-24 19:23:22 GMT

I introduced one of my sisters to My Neighbour Totoro, and she's been obsessed with the movie ever since.
Her Christmas present from her husband is Totoro and Cat Bus themed 🤩 🤣

2024-12-23 22:40:06 GMT

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I know right! I've been searching for this book in NZ for ages 🤩

2024-12-23 22:32:04 GMT

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I'm super excited to read What the River Knows.
"The Mummy meets Death on the Nile in this lush historical fantasy set in 19th century Egypt, filled with adventure, a rivals-to-lovers romance, and a dangerous race."

2024-12-23 22:29:01 GMT

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And it’s here. I also finally got a copy of What the River Knows by Isabel Ibañez.
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2024-12-23 22:20:06 GMT

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The other bonus is their shipping cost is $5.90 for as many books that you order.

2024-12-23 22:19:01 GMT

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Unlike Mighty Ape now who have very few books in stock, and they now have many weeks of wait time for your book order to ship.

2024-12-23 22:18:05 GMT

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This was my first time trying Book Hero, which is a new independent online bookshop which opened in October this year. It's owned by the former owner of Mighty Ape, who wanted to get back to their roots, and all the books they sell are in their warehouse.

2024-12-23 22:15:55 GMT

It's a Christmas miracle. On the 22nd at night time I ordered a replacement copy of A Discovery of Witches from Book Hero in Auckland, and it was picked up at lunchtime yesterday.
It went through the new NZ Post mail processing center at Wiri at 5 pm last night. It arrived in Dunedin this morning, and it's on the courier today. It didn't even pass through Christchurch, which is what usually happens.

2024-12-23 06:33:11 GMT

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Here in Dunedin today, sunset is 5.46 am, and it sets at 9.31 pm. At the winter solstice our sunrise is at 8.22 am and 5 pm. So it looks like we get more time at the end of the day, and then lose it more at the beginning of the day.

2024-12-22 22:30:29 GMT

I'm so over the weather. For over a week it's either been misty and cloudy, or super cloudy and super rainy. And the humidity is very uncomfortable.
It's reminding me a lot of the summer that Dunedin didn't get a couple of years ago 😭

2024-12-18 03:59:54 GMT

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But speaking of cats, we tried introducing Nancy and Rosie, but it didn't go well. Nancy is about 4 times the size of Rosie, and both were terrified, Rosie ran for it.
This situation is very temporary, so we think it might be best for our cats and Nancy have different times of the day to have the house to themselves, like a time share, with little to no interaction.

2024-12-18 03:57:16 GMT

It's been a day 😩
Hubby and I spent the day looking after our nephew and niece. Our nephew was easy, just point him toward hubby's lego space, and let him play happily. My niece is very emotional, and if anything at all totally doesn't go her way, it's drama and tears. We are very tired now, and reminded greatly why we don't have kids on our own. Cats are much easier...

2024-12-12 00:48:43 GMT

FYI Dunedin friends, Bin Inn now stocks 5 kg and 20 kg bags of various flours from Farmers Mill in Timaru.
We got a 20 kg bag of high grade bread flour for $37.

2024-12-05 22:43:32 GMT

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Nah, it'll be fine.

2024-12-05 22:43:22 GMT

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It looks amazing.

2024-12-05 22:41:28 GMT

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Some of mine are looking like that at the moment. I just give them some seaweed fertiliser and good watering.

2024-12-05 22:36:07 GMT

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Dahlia Mystic Sparkler
#BloomScrolling #dahlia #dahlias #dahliaseason #nzgardening
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2024-12-05 22:32:18 GMT

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Self-Seeded Mystic Sparkler seedling #nzgardening #dahliaseason #dahlias #dahlia #BloomScrolling
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2024-12-05 22:30:18 GMT

I thought I’d start a dahlia thread of each one in my garden as they flower:
Missis Miley
#BloomScrolling #dahlia #dahlias #dahliaseason #nzgardening
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2024-12-03 21:27:36 GMT

Crafty and sheepy people, Spotlight is selling large christmas sheep decorations and they're currently 50% off.
I saw them as set dressing in a shop window, and I had to find out where they got them.
https://www.spotlightstores.com/nz/christmas/christmas-decorations/christmas-home-decor/christmas-ornaments/bouclair-christmas-urban-holiday-sheep/BP80642027-black-white

2024-12-01 19:08:24 GMT

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I can't get over the fact though that Sutton Foster was the woman Hugh Jackman was having an affair with while he was still married to his wife 😠

2024-11-21 19:42:49 GMT

Hubby got me a t-shirt for my birthday which features gardening and a black cat and a quote from game of thrones. It basically ticks most of my hobbies 🤣
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2024-11-20 05:44:44 GMT

First homegrown strawberry of the year. But I can’t eat it because of stupid oral allergy syndrome 😭 #OAS
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