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Ruth McMonagle @ruthmcmonagle.bsky.social · 1d

I'm a creature of habit.
Hubs❤️ asked why I still getting a particular type of bread.
I have to go out of my way to buy this bread.
It's because it is the only bread, one of the urchins could eat without issues.
Urchin hasn't lived at home for 4 years. 🤦‍♀️ 😀
I don't need to do this anymore.

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Ruth McMonagle @ruthmcmonagle.bsky.social · 2d

That is so awesome!
Mine have been in the cars since... August I think.

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Ruth McMonagle @ruthmcmonagle.bsky.social · 3d

Tried to sleep between midnight and 5am, sometimes had a "nap" in the afternoon when I got tired, or when there was fog/ grey weather.

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Ruth McMonagle @ruthmcmonagle.bsky.social · 3d

Here's the science. Old NASA images showing the exceptionally strong winds that blow downslope from the Trans-Antarctic Mountains across Terranova Bay. These fierce katabatic winds drive the sea ice eastward. The lines across the water were the “ice dunes”.
#Polynya #Antarctica #RossSea

NASA image 2007 showing Terra Nova bay polynya. The lines are the "ice" dunes, the black is unfrozen sea, cause the wind is too strong for the sea to freeze.

NASA image 2007 showing Terra Nova bay polyna. The lines are the "ice" dunes, the black is unfrozen sea, cause the wind is too strong for the sea to freeze.

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Ruth McMonagle @ruthmcmonagle.bsky.social · 3d

Here's the science. Old NASA images showing the exceptionally strong winds that blow downslope from the Trans-Antarctic Mountains across Terranova Bay. These fierce katabatic winds drive the sea ice eastward. The lines across the water were the “ice dunes”.
#Polynya #Antarctica #RossSea

Nasa satellite image from 2007 showing the polyna of Terranova Bay. The dark black is unfrozen sea, cause the wind is too strong for the sea to freeze.

Nasa satellite image from 2009 showing the polyna of Terranova Bay. The black is unfrozen sea, cause the wind is too strong for the sea to freeze. The lines are the frozen sea being blown eastwards.

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Ruth McMonagle @ruthmcmonagle.bsky.social · 3d

Hubs❤️ made a delicious brownie for "bring a plate".
I managed to have some of the offcuts with a glass of milk, for my afternoon tea.

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Ruth McMonagle @ruthmcmonagle.bsky.social · 3d

Here are some more of the "ice dunes".

These don't have icebergs for scale, but it felt surreal watching the waves, as they looked like sand dunes.

The katabatic winds moving the pancake ice freezing the sea.

Taken between 10pm - 1130pm 20/2/2024.

Terranova Bay, Ross Sea, #Antarctica 🪶🦋🌿

A landscape that looks like a beach with sand hills, but it is pancake ice golden in the late night sunlight.

A landcape that looks like a desert, with golden brown sand dunes, but it is pancake ice moving waves in a semi freezing sea. The late night sun turns the ice sand brown.

Another landcape that looks like a sandy desert. In the foreground the pancake ice is visible. The late night sun turns the pancake ice brown, adn the waves create shadows like dunes.

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Ruth McMonagle @ruthmcmonagle.bsky.social · 4d

When I was in Antarctica 2024, I captured this iceberg cruising along, in the pancake ice forming on the sea.
The wind howling along at 170kph+ the ship on a huge lean, the all night sun made it feel it was sand dunes, not partially frozen sea.

Terranova Bay, Ross Sea, Antarctica. 🪶🦋🌿

What's an iceberg doing in sand dunes? What looks like sand dunes is partially frozen sea, made up of pancake ice, but it's not "white" as the sun is a low angle, making the waves look brownish. In the distance is a tabular iceberg. The clouds are grey and moody.

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Ruth McMonagle @ruthmcmonagle.bsky.social · 4d

Sometimes a grey Spring day needs a little caramel popcorn.

A pot full of popcorn with caramel mixed over.

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Ruth McMonagle @ruthmcmonagle.bsky.social · 4d

Last week I watched "big tūī" chase off 8! rosellas out of her kowhai tree. It was so noisy, and I didn't think she would be able to do it.
🪶

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Anne Zablocka @tubb1977.bsky.social · 5d

Does anyone in Pōneke know where I could take a dead Kererū (flew into our window 🥺😔) for someone to make use of its feathers?

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Theresa @cookingtheresa.bsky.social · 6d

Saw the best No Kings quilt on reddit (not my work)

Cc: @hcrichardson.bsky.social

www.reddit.com/r/quilting/s...

From the quilting community on Reddit: Finished!

Explore this post and more from the quilting community

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Ruth McMonagle @ruthmcmonagle.bsky.social · 6d

Pirate comes into the kitchen, makes some raw biscuit / cookie dough.
Takes the bowl away, to eat it all with a spoon.
Doesn't share.
Pirates!
#cook #halloween #food #pirate 🍜🍰🧁

Teenage boy dressed as a pirate, wearing a blue striped apron. In front of him is a red bowl and an electric beater mixing some biscuit dough. The skull and crossbones are visible on the back of the black coat.

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Ruth McMonagle @ruthmcmonagle.bsky.social · 7d

I have family oral stories of trade of the maori with australia. They would use the waipa river to move the items to a larger waka. The Waipa was a major crop growing area. Te Rangi pa (Paterangi) features in the stories. That's why the British wanted the land and invaded the area.

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Ruth McMonagle @ruthmcmonagle.bsky.social · 7d

Lots of questions. How can they steal the rocks from another penguins nest if it is ice and not rocks? Is their "nest" ice, or does the egg fit in hollow created by the penguin warmth? Is this an adaptation for nesting? Is a food source closer than where the rock colonies are?
Fascinating.

Ruth McMonagle @ruthmcmonagle.bsky.social · 8d

50% The people really don't like him.
#NZPol
@foxylustygrover.bsky.social

Screenshot of the Stuff poll w"Who do you think should lead National into the next election". Luxon on 12%, Someone else on 50%

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Ruth McMonagle @ruthmcmonagle.bsky.social · 8d

Was thinking this too, wouldn't it be great that Mr "I'm entitled to the entitlements" doesn't get the life long entitlements of a PM.

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Ruth McMonagle @ruthmcmonagle.bsky.social · 10d

Looks fabulous, and great lines. Love the fabric.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 10d

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

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Ruth McMonagle @ruthmcmonagle.bsky.social · 11d

It’s a wet day so I have been upstairs playing with fabric. Came down to cook a cake.
There are Feijoa leaves and sunflower seeds all over the bench. 😆 culprits are ignoring me. 🪶 #cockateil

Scattered leaves and discarded sunflower seed shells littering a bench. A grey pumpkin sits at the back left calmly denying any involvement. “I know nothing!”

Two grey and white cockatiels ignoring me at the top of cream kitchen cabinets. “What mess?”

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Ruth McMonagle @ruthmcmonagle.bsky.social · 13d

Is ready made caramel sauce a USA thing? Please can you suggest a recipe that I could build to substitute. Thanks.

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Ruth McMonagle @ruthmcmonagle.bsky.social · 14d

"...the warmth of relationships is genuinely present"

This is a similar feel I get with the early Ao/NZ cluster invite era, as well as adding in the newer ones from #secretsanta.

Boris @bmann.ca · 14d

Very interesting write up by @moja.blue about the early adopter Japanese cluster on here, in contrast to Twitter style battle mode or IG fake nice.

The Nightmare of Eternal Spring: Why Social Media Can't Survive on "Niceness" Alone - Nightflight

plurality.leaflet.pub

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Ruth McMonagle @ruthmcmonagle.bsky.social · 14d

Look at the bug belt! 😍

Swoon.

🐜🐝🐛🦋

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Ruth McMonagle @ruthmcmonagle.bsky.social · 14d

Universal. Seen them in Europe, Asia, and don't joke about anything USA.

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Ruth McMonagle @ruthmcmonagle.bsky.social · 15d

Hmmmm… sounds like one of the neighbours urchin is learning a big brass instrument.
Looking forward to hearing the improvements that come with lots of practice. Looks like his Mama sent him outside to practice 😄

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