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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 · 5h

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Dr Siân Robyns @drsian.bsky.social · 9h

Sounds great!

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Exhales gently and slowly in undiagnosed.

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That’s a great colour!

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Hurrah! Well done, that lad!

Dr Siân Robyns @drsian.bsky.social · 16h

This is so pretty! Did it start out as the rolags (is that the word?) you posted recently? And what colour will you dye it?

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Dr Siân Robyns @drsian.bsky.social · 17h

🐦‍⬛🇳🇿And chortle, burble, gargle, gurgle, the tūī said.

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

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

Ooh …

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

Peppery, dammit.

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

#Kai an absolutely delicious olive oil from our local Middle Eastern grocer. Light, citrusy with a sharp little property afterkick.

The label of a bottle of Turkish olive oil. The top half is given over green text in a beige background. The lower half features a drawing of on olive branch above a mountain village.

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

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

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

Smart is the perfect word for Parry’s stuff!

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

#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 · 3d

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

Fab frock. Equally fab shoes!

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

Oh, Cath! How frightening for you.

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

#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 · 3d

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 · 3d

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