Darby

@dashingdarbs.bsky.social

He/him. queer small town werewolf. Aotearoa. old punk plant nerd into weeds, conservation, foraging, brunch, coffee, cargo bikes, loud music. Sensitive but not very deep. Still in love with the world & angry about it.

Just out the other side of an astounding weekend. An unbeatable 3 day 50th birthday which included multiple banquets, raving babies, many dogs, much music, hot tub, bonfire, waterslide, napping, great coffee & old & new friends. An incredible mob of people, it makes me homesick for north Otago.

Oh the glory of committing a sick burn on my National voting mother, who thought she was being clever. On the family channel, so my sister & bro in law are now cackling.

Ah yes Invercargill, the only place I can just about be guaranteed a professional misgendering by bar staff. Although it may be my poncy purple floral Ben Sherman button up & black jeans, when every other guy is wearing check shirts and moleskins or rugby shorts.

Caught up with a FWB mate. Really good to see him again. Not so great was his news about the big C. Treatable at this stage. Fuck this grown up shit, luckily there was black humor.

A bluebird day driving down the west coast from Lake Mapourika. Stopped at Ship Creek and botanised a cool patch of coastal podocarp forest being encroached by stunning pingao dominated dunes. Now chilling in a motel in Alexandra, washing me smalls and watching Cowboy Bebop

Car camping (fancy talk for sleeping in my Subaru outback) at Lake Mapourika. It is very dark, the moon and a planet (Venus?) are hanging out together. Ruru are calling and I have a cup of tea and gingernuts

Spent twenty minutes looking for a code in my email, went online and decided getting gear together to go down south needed doing. Maybe next year InternetNZ agm.

I have a friend recently from the US, and I keep having to translate "NZisms". Just told them about the cultural importance of Bad Jelly the Witch to Gen Xers, and Spike Milligan and the Goons, and that's why I called my cold a "Lurgy"

I've been looking at possible routes on foot between Poneke and Kāpiti in the event of a big earthquake. Challenging. I think for anyone who works in town & has to head north it's worth having a paper map in your bag.