Saturday is International Cat Day, so celebrate your cat with 20% off the entire Kat's Nip range until Sunday. This year I've got felting needles for toy repairs, and felting kits to make your own cat toys on sale too.

Kat's Nip: New Zealand's Dankest Catnip and Cat Toys

Kat's Nip is Aotearoa New Zealand's premium catnip. Grown fresh and harvested by hand, Kat's Nip is the dankest 'nip available for your feline pal.

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Glad I'm not going off the property today. The Far North whines like anything at the slightest frost. I grew up in Rotorua, and a decent frost never fails to delight me. It means more fruit, and less bugs.

Want to grow kūmara this summer? You can get your crop started now from a supermarket kūmara. This video unexpectedly getting some extra love on the book of faces, so figured I'd share it here too.

I notice Kings Seeds have added chia to their seed catalogue this year. If you're thinking of buying and growing it, then I just want to point out that you probably have chia seed in your pantry. I grew chia from my pantry last year. It works.

Won $100 of fuel vouchers today from Vet Post and I am utterly thrilled.

Mole check time 😬 first one since gardening became my job.

🌨️ Theres been a flurry of excitement here with some snow falling in central wellington! Do you have any pictures to share?

We treat kids like shit in this country. We treat women and queer people like shit. We don’t provide social safety nets for families or people experiencing violence at home. Happening in an ableist society during a mass-disabling event. Why is anyone surprised that we are seeing low birth rates?

After perhaps a dozen chips, one of them crapped out and cracked the windscreen this month. Which means I finally got to cash in on my windscreen insurance replacement. So today's small but stupid joy is a chip-free windscreen. Hopefully that situation remains true until at least the WOF in Nov.

Well.

Investigated bulk-buying my favourite gardening glove and it's cheaper per pair to buy them one at a time from Mitre 10 than to buy 120 from the NZ supplier.

All hail pseudoephedrine. Been raw-dogging a cold and R brought me home a packet of proper Sudafed today. Now I'm not sneezing every 3 minutes and I can keep my eyes open.

Police appeal for sightings of woman missing in Bay of Islands

Police appeal for sightings of woman missing in Bay of Islands

Police are appealing for sightings of a woman who went missing in the Bay of Islands two weeks ago.

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My least-favourite mailing list is back in my inbox. Last year, I thought 'I feel like I'm unsubscribing from this one a lot?' so I kept notes. I unsubscribed every fortnight for 6 weeks before I reported it to the DIA. Then it stopped. It was great! Until a familiar name landed in my inbox today.

Probably a good time to point out that after cuts to services like our bio-security under the last National Govt, M.bovis was able to breach our borders and infect our farms. It was the next Labour govt that managed to eradicate it and set up a 10 year plan to monitor its situation long term.

Given I probably won't be making any more this year, these will possibly be the last available. There's less than a handful left. paullecomtephoto.nz/products/Cha...

Charcuterie / Bread Boards

Recycled NZ native timber charcuterie / bread boards. These long grain boards are individually hand made & no two boards are the same pattern, coming in roughly 37x25cm +/- There's Rimu, Matai, Kauri,...

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I have the option to pay for something in a range of currencies, but not $NZD. It's more than NZ$4 cheaper to pay for it in $CAD than the most-expensive option which is British Pounds.

If you've been following along with our Sinking Gully problem, today I published an update on what we've been working on, and how you can help if you want to.

Planting poplars : Kat's Garden

Using poplar branches pruned off our driveway, we make a start on this year's planting and restoration project.

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Live your life as a New Zealander such that your passing results in the entire Kiwi internet exclaiming in sadness.

Horizon An American Saga: Man Takes Off Hat

ALT: Horizon An American Saga: Man Takes Off Hat

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If you've been following along with our Sinking Gully problem, today I published an update on what we've been working on, and how you can help if you want to.

Planting poplars : Kat's Garden

Using poplar branches pruned off our driveway, we make a start on this year's planting and restoration project.

kats-garden.nz

Dear leggings companies: make the feature photo of all products a (preferably curvy) woman putting a phone in the pocket. Tell me it has pockets or not before anything else. It's my main requirement. I shouldn't have to scroll 4 photos AND watch a video to spot them. Heck, add it to the title.

Beautiful frosty morning in the Far North and at work today I am pruning trees with my collection of chainsaws. A colleague scoffed at the idea we had enough material to justify a chipper hire. I am motivated by the desire to quietly prove him quite wrong. My piles are very large hahahhaha

New Zealanders have resoundingly said NO to the Gender Definitions bill! 💅🏳️‍⚧️💅🏳️‍⚧️💅🏳️‍⚧️💅🏳️‍⚧️

"Purple" 😂 Better than expected tbh

Kat 👩‍🌾@kats-garden.nz · 4w ago

Vaguely considering dying my hair purple.

Vaguely considering dying my hair purple.

Reminder that you can sign off emails today with: Kia pai te tau hou (Have a good new year) Kia pai to mutunga wiki roa (Have a good long weekend) Ngā mihi o te tau hou (Greetings for the new year)

Apparently I got an anonymous gift from a reader today (it's at Richard's work, and I am at home), so if that reader follows me on Bluesky, thank you, that's wonderful. and it's totally going in my gratitude journal.

Today I had a doctor who thought I was a bit intense but she ordered all the blood tests I want to better understand my PMOS (it was a long list) and I'm just glad that wasn't a fight.

Recently realised our dogs get leguminous nicknames like "mung bean", "peanut", and "sweet pea". This was not planned, but while we were listing their 'additional names', pattern recognition kicked in.