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Dr Siân Robyns

@drsian.bsky.social

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PhD Literary Translation Studies; freelance editor; reader; occasional writer; translator, A Tale of Love/ Conte de l'amour bifrons by Linda Lê (Mākaro Press); knitter, mad, mad knitter.

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Dr Siân Robyns @drsian.bsky.social · 13h

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Dr Siân Robyns @drsian.bsky.social · 21h

Smart is the perfect word for Parry’s stuff!

Dr Siân Robyns @drsian.bsky.social · 21h

#pukapuka Today’s finds: Natalie Morrison’s ‘Pins’ (fab cover, @toddatticus.bsky.social!) and H G Parry’s debut bookish fantasy, ‘The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep’. Wellington lit contains multitudes.

Two books from Wellington writers, face up, side by side. On the left is Pins, a slim volume of poetry from Natalie Morrison, featuring a packet of pins on a background I think of as duck-egg or maybe cerulean, but which the Former Public Servant says he calls teal. Let’s call it grue and let your native language decide for you.

And on the right, H G Parry’s novel featuring an image of a bookshelf of leather-bound tomes, in tones of black, red and brown.

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Dr Siân Robyns @drsian.bsky.social · 22h

Shockingly, the alleged offender has shown himself to be a more principled person than the Dep PM.

(In truth, it’s not shocking at all, but I thought it was time to practise feigning outrage and disappointment. Why should the right get all the fun?)

Huia Sue @huiasue.bsky.social · 1d

2. Hudson told Stuff his client ( #Burglar ) wanted to be clear that he was not part of any #protest activity outside #WinstonPeters’ house

www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

Man accused of burglary at Winston Peters’ house pleads not guilty, keeps name secret

The man pleaded not guilty and is not allowed to go within 1km of Winston Peters’ home.

www.stuff.co.nz

Dr Siân Robyns @drsian.bsky.social · 22h

Fab frock. Equally fab shoes!

Dr Siân Robyns @drsian.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, Cath! How frightening for you.

Dr Siân Robyns @drsian.bsky.social · 1d

#kai Lunch is one of my favourite light meals: a bruschetta-ish thing of butternut hummus, spinach and exploded cherry tomatoes on top of Woolworths purple wheat and pumpkin seed sourdough. The squirt of balsamic glaze was an experiment that won’t be repeated.

A brightly coloured lunch: two rectangles of bread topped with bright orange hummus, deep green spinach and slightly charred, very soft ‘strawberry’ tomatoes. (I prefer the traditional name – pigeon-heart. The rest of you are wusses.)

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Potato enthusiast @br3nda.bsky.social · 1d

We got our central library back. There's proper pipes down Taranaki street now. No sewage dripping down Cuba street and Lambton Quay. There's a much safer cycle routes between city and airport, and the basin. The buses aren't cancelled every day

What a difference from Wellington three years ago.

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Dr Siân Robyns @drsian.bsky.social · 1d

Not to mention the tired old ‘well, what about all this other stuff then’ tactic. Grr.

Dr Siân Robyns @drsian.bsky.social · 1d

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Dr Siân Robyns @drsian.bsky.social · 1d

It was just right for today. And nice to be reminded that keeping things simple can be the best strategy.

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Dr Siân Robyns @drsian.bsky.social · 1d

#kai Dinner: it would have been much fancier, but I felt a touch of the hangries coming on… Chicken livers and eggplant in a teriyaki marinade, served with quinoa and grilled asparagus and a reduction of the remaining marinade with splashes of beef stock and Shao Xing cooking wine.

A very brown dinner plate: eggplant and chicken livers over quinoa and asparagus.

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Dr Siân Robyns @drsian.bsky.social · 2d

Delicious! But sadly, not quite as sustaining as my usual savoury breakfasts.

Dr Siân Robyns @drsian.bsky.social · 2d

#kai Bircher-style muesli with blueberries, apple, maple syrup and black tahini. Breakfast of champions of a certain age.

A deep bowl holds a serving of creamy muesli blobbed with black tahini and edged with apple slices. Also visible: a pool of blueberry juice and trickles of maple syrup.

The bowl’s rim is decorated either a band of forget-me-nots and butterflies.

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Dr Siân Robyns @drsian.bsky.social · 2d

Penblwydd hapus! 🎉🎂🥳

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Dr Siân Robyns @drsian.bsky.social · 2d

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Dr Siân Robyns @drsian.bsky.social · 2d

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Julie Blommaert @drjulieb.bsky.social · 3d

If Nicola Willis thinks we “shouldnt be so precious that we can’t use metaphorical speech” can we go back to why Chlöe Swarbrick was punished so heavily for her comments on the government’s spinelessness?

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Sharon Murdoch @domesticanimal.bsky.social · 3d

The Govt wants to cut Health NZ staff working on alcohol harm & end its research & social marketing campaigns. Sixty five organisations have signed an open letter to the PM, calling for alcohol industry to be excluded from policy making.
My #cartoon today #NZpol #alcohol #Health #PublicHealth

Cartoon. Title: “Sponsored by the Alcohol Lobby”. Mental Health Minister Matt Doocey and Assoc Justice Minister Nicole McKee, drinking together. McKee hands her beer to Doocey and says, “Hold my beer” “I’m going to sort out these Public Health boffins. Lower right it says, “Govt ignores expert advice on alcohol”

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2covet @2covet.bsky.social · 3d

#nzpol Local Body Election voting deadline is looming. Don't let bad weather/apathy win. Please get out and vote and remember to support retaining Māori wards. Don't let the racists win. 🫶💪

A.J. Ponder @ponderbooks.com · 3d

11 October 2025 at 12 noon Election day – voting closes midday

- it's too late for mail so pop your vote directly into one of the orange voting boxes

Violet Blue® @violetblue.bsky.social · 13d

Postcards from Wellington, Aotearoa NZ, near Cuba St.

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Dr Siân Robyns @drsian.bsky.social · 3d

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Dr Siân Robyns @drsian.bsky.social · 3d

Wow!

Dr Siân Robyns @drsian.bsky.social · 4d

He was a great cat.

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