Tag: hobbies

WANT!

I remember, this was the first Zoid I fell in love with. I was at the Warehouse and the first Tomy Zoids I had ever seen were in store. There were other cool Zoids, like the red Blade Liger, as well as less cool ones, but the moment I laid eyes on the König Wolf…

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Garden Bragging Nov 2021

Its been a year since moving into the new flat, and that meant that I was able to get gardening much earlier. After harvesting the last of the peas and pumpkins and removing the dead or dying remains of the plants I neglected the gardens for the winter. September I weeded the hardy winter weeds…

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Being more eclectic

I was thinking about the purpose of my blog and why I have one. I came to the conclusion that it is similar to the reason behind why I’m a teacher; because I want to share with others the things around me which bring me enjoyment (well, maybe not all parts of all teaching subjects…

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Garden bragging

Last year I moved flats in late spring and the new flat that I’m in has some small garden beds. Sadly they had plants already growing in them but my landlord said I could have free reign over them as long as I left their cumquat tree alone. So I went at it!

Sticky!

Its about time that I made another post, so today I’m introducing the resident stick insect, affectionately known as Sticky.

Isolation day 33: Gendered Hobby Stereotypes

I have lots of different hobbies, some of which I spend more time doing than others. However, there are some of my hobbies which are stereotyped as ‘for women’ or ‘or men’. While I may be an introvert at heart (as shown by many of my hobbies being individual rather than group activities), and I…

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Isolation day 14: Wow, has it really been 2 weeks already?

This morning my partner and I were discussing what we missed most while New Zealand is under the Level 4 Response level to COVID-19. He misses fast food, particularly sushi, and we are down to our last 4 frozen pieces of KFC chicken. I, on the other hand, have been relishing this isolation after a…

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