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🐶🐾Megan🍓🌻 @meganisalanis.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely, enjoy the salon, all the best for surgery and recovery 🙏

🐶🐾Megan🍓🌻 @meganisalanis.bsky.social · 1d

Please consider signing. Backing early childhood education for all is an important consideration - the earlier any intervention can happen, the higher the chances of successfully supporting young people and their families to make and sustain positive changes.

action.nzei.org.nz/petitions/ba...

Back education that works for all tamariki

All tamariki deserve an education where they can learn, feel included and access learning support when they need it.  However, the Government is taking public education in the wrong direction an...

action.nzei.org.nz

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🐶🐾Megan🍓🌻 @meganisalanis.bsky.social · 2d

I discovered over morning tea that one colleague thought proverbs were only religious, from the Bible - part of a book of proverbs.

The students particularly liked 'Strike while the irons hot', linking with Minecraft I think

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🐶🐾Megan🍓🌻 @meganisalanis.bsky.social · 2d

#TwoDegreesOfSeparation

#NewZealand

What is it in other countries?

🐶🐾Megan🍓🌻 @meganisalanis.bsky.social · 15d

Only in #NZ
I flew to Auckland on Wednesday ... I randomly knew two families and another person on the same flight!
Today, heading home - I didn't see anyone I knew - went to the supermarket and ran into someone I worked with years ago, visiting from Japan, who saw me on the flight from Auckland!

🐶🐾Megan🍓🌻 @meganisalanis.bsky.social · 2d

Thankfully being able to put this as a poll on #Mastodon, I got some great engagement.

It's been a fun week introducing 9-11 year olds to proverbs and helping them realise how many they actually have heard before ✅️🤩

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🐶🐾Megan🍓🌻 @meganisalanis.bsky.social · 2d

Too early - or my glasses/eyes need checking... should say nutbars (auto-cucumber strikes again 😆)

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🐶🐾Megan🍓🌻 @meganisalanis.bsky.social · 2d

That's insane, glad he was a failure! Wow, too many numbers out and about huh...

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🐶🐾Megan🍓🌻 @meganisalanis.bsky.social · 2d

Oops... nerd!

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🐶🐾Megan🍓🌻 @meganisalanis.bsky.social · 2d

Yip, I am a voting need- got my 18yo daughter to listen and vote this year 👍🤩

All the best for you too ✅️

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🐶🐾Megan🍓🌻 @meganisalanis.bsky.social · 3d

Calquhoun Park in Palmy - pronounced 'Calhoon' I think 🤔 😅... actually, perhaps I sound like the tourist and have said it wrong since forever??

🐶🐾Megan🍓🌻 @meganisalanis.bsky.social · 3d

Saw Palmy is about the same.

Hopefully lots waiting for the postage system to catch up...

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Reuters @reuters.com · 3d

Unplanned haka halts New Zealand parliament after MP's speech reut.rs/3IVIgp5

Unplanned haka halts New Zealand parliament after MP's speech

New Zealand's parliament was suspended for a short period on Thursday when people in the public gallery broke into a haka, a traditional Maori dance, after the newest member of parliament for the Maori party finished her maiden speech.

reut.rs

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🐶🐾Megan🍓🌻 @meganisalanis.bsky.social · 5d

#MathsToday

First say with a student in my class today, he went about working out 7x5 by saying that'll be 2 lots and 2 lots and 1 more lot.

He got 28 quite quickly but then went to add 14 more.

I mentioned that I can teach him some other ways. Looking forward to tomorrow!

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🐶🐾Megan🍓🌻 @meganisalanis.bsky.social · 6d

There's that bit where he tells us that we should feel proud!? Umm... yip w⚓️

🐶🐾Megan🍓🌻 @meganisalanis.bsky.social · 7d

Mm, that's different - I'll have to listen out again and see if I can spot the similarity

🐶🐾Megan🍓🌻 @meganisalanis.bsky.social · 7d

Mōrena koutou 🙂
It's definitely grey and wet... no wind here (miraculous!),one keen dog who's done waiting for walkies - we're out there in 5...

🐶🐾Megan🍓🌻 @meganisalanis.bsky.social · 7d

And lots at Pekapeka Beach over the weekend!

A friend taught me a couple of years ago their call resembles a slightly sick rooster - spot on!

One flew across the road in front of us as we were heading to Longbeach for dinner Friday night 🤩

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🐶🐾Megan🍓🌻 @meganisalanis.bsky.social · 7d

My son (now 20) used to say 'I'm mumished' for finished, happy memories 😊

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🐶🐾Megan🍓🌻 @meganisalanis.bsky.social · 7d

Really?! Talk about not reading the room. We don't want to become more like The States! Our coalition of chaos has been giving signs that we do... and telling us to feel proud about it.

I'm proud of precisely nothing they are doing.

#OneTermGovernment

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KnitMeAThneed @thneed.bsky.social · 11d

Sent this to a friend yesterday, who had never heard of it, so re-upping for other Ōtepoti Dunedin folk who are finding the whole voting thing a bit overwhelming.

Mark Baxter @tartanperil.bsky.social · Sep 11

#Dunedin peeps - my Leftie-progressive DCC-ORC Voters Guide is finally completed and live....
Please feel free to share far and wide if you find it helpful (because, with suspicious timing, I've been blocked from my usual platform it gets good distribution on 😢 ).
tinyurl.com/BaxtersLefti...

Baxter’s Leftie/Progressive

Baxter’s Leftie-Progressive DCC & ORC Election Guide 2025 V1.1 Last Updated: 11/09/2025 No idea which of the seemingly 100s of candidates lean to the Left or Right? Or who won’t flog off our asse...

tinyurl.com

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RNZ News Feeds @rnzrss.bsky.social · 7d

Te Pāti Māori MP Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke named by Time as one of the world's 'most influential rising stars'

Influential news magazine Time said she followed in the footsteps of ancestors who sustained Māori language, traditions and culture.

www.rnz.co.nz

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🐶🐾Megan🍓🌻 @meganisalanis.bsky.social · 11d

His emphasis on the 'Ms' is triggering... I shall try and work out why?!

Patronising, yuck

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🐶🐾Megan🍓🌻 @meganisalanis.bsky.social · 11d

Stupid enough it seems... 😢

🐶🐾Megan🍓🌻 @meganisalanis.bsky.social · 11d

And proud apparently...

🐶🐾Megan🍓🌻 @meganisalanis.bsky.social · 11d

I'm feeling very accomplished today - I supported our 18.5yo with her first ever vote. We have three envelopes ready to go 👍

I initially got the usual 'aw mum...', I said I'd explain it in 120secs or less, done ✔️ 😂

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