Jono
@jonocarpenter.bsky.social
Archaeology, banjos, Taitokerau, preschoolers and teens, lack of executive function, second chances, mental exhaustion, well-toasted bread, banjos. Not the real-life Indiana Jones, more a dwarfish sort of Evelyn O'Connell
Just absolutely squandering that new mortgage lending cashback.
...Don't tell Cook, Holm, or Venuto.
...Don't tell Cook, Holm, or Venuto.
November 10, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Just absolutely squandering that new mortgage lending cashback.
...Don't tell Cook, Holm, or Venuto.
...Don't tell Cook, Holm, or Venuto.
I never knew this was what I wanted to come home to.
November 10, 2025 at 10:04 AM
I never knew this was what I wanted to come home to.
We are home. Powhiri and hakari done. Blessed and welcomed by the hau kāinga. Done tika.
Only leaving in a pine box.
Only leaving in a pine box.
November 6, 2025 at 4:43 AM
We are home. Powhiri and hakari done. Blessed and welcomed by the hau kāinga. Done tika.
Only leaving in a pine box.
Only leaving in a pine box.
Translation may be a bit ropey
November 5, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Translation may be a bit ropey
This will do, all they had at Bob's
November 5, 2025 at 7:59 PM
This will do, all they had at Bob's
Ahhh the good old days, in corridor to the shopping centre toilet.
There is an A1 corflute wash hands/wear mask/track and trace sign on its side behind the benches at the indoor cricket place where 4 does Playball Kids and I think I am just gonna liberate it for my office. It's a wicked artefact.
There is an A1 corflute wash hands/wear mask/track and trace sign on its side behind the benches at the indoor cricket place where 4 does Playball Kids and I think I am just gonna liberate it for my office. It's a wicked artefact.
November 5, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Ahhh the good old days, in corridor to the shopping centre toilet.
There is an A1 corflute wash hands/wear mask/track and trace sign on its side behind the benches at the indoor cricket place where 4 does Playball Kids and I think I am just gonna liberate it for my office. It's a wicked artefact.
There is an A1 corflute wash hands/wear mask/track and trace sign on its side behind the benches at the indoor cricket place where 4 does Playball Kids and I think I am just gonna liberate it for my office. It's a wicked artefact.
Archaeology Bluesky and flaked historic glass/lithics peeps, reckons please?
Ricketts patent #1922 bottle, purposely flaked or no?
Ricketts patent #1922 bottle, purposely flaked or no?
November 5, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Archaeology Bluesky and flaked historic glass/lithics peeps, reckons please?
Ricketts patent #1922 bottle, purposely flaked or no?
Ricketts patent #1922 bottle, purposely flaked or no?
Could be Astley in Shropshire lol. I was best man at a wedding there 20 years ago. RAF helicopter major lives in the middle cottage in the illustration, I stayed in his mates house on this side of the church. Took him 14 years to get planning permission because ya know, Tudors.
November 4, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Could be Astley in Shropshire lol. I was best man at a wedding there 20 years ago. RAF helicopter major lives in the middle cottage in the illustration, I stayed in his mates house on this side of the church. Took him 14 years to get planning permission because ya know, Tudors.
A few days ago 4 found this while 17 was packing.
Now he sits in an armchair with it, singing Grand old Duke of York to himself. Appears he made the association on his own*
*We are not a martial people, more marshmallow IDK
Now he sits in an armchair with it, singing Grand old Duke of York to himself. Appears he made the association on his own*
*We are not a martial people, more marshmallow IDK
November 3, 2025 at 9:49 PM
A few days ago 4 found this while 17 was packing.
Now he sits in an armchair with it, singing Grand old Duke of York to himself. Appears he made the association on his own*
*We are not a martial people, more marshmallow IDK
Now he sits in an armchair with it, singing Grand old Duke of York to himself. Appears he made the association on his own*
*We are not a martial people, more marshmallow IDK
Boxing up the kids inheritance
November 1, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Boxing up the kids inheritance
Anyone still playing Poleconomy in 2025?
October 31, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Anyone still playing Poleconomy in 2025?
Community halloween at Tutukaka last night. Four and I in the vanguard at 4.30 and by the time we left the kids disco at the game fishing club at 6 there were 3-400 kids and parents floating between the participating venues. Impromptu dance party when we got home, shared 2 beers with Dr MB. Nice!
October 31, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Community halloween at Tutukaka last night. Four and I in the vanguard at 4.30 and by the time we left the kids disco at the game fishing club at 6 there were 3-400 kids and parents floating between the participating venues. Impromptu dance party when we got home, shared 2 beers with Dr MB. Nice!
My view while 800 Yards is playing. Great contrast.
Now I feel bad tho, because I am still on the shitty streaming platform. Moving house next week and once in I will address that!
Now I feel bad tho, because I am still on the shitty streaming platform. Moving house next week and once in I will address that!
October 31, 2025 at 10:00 PM
My view while 800 Yards is playing. Great contrast.
Now I feel bad tho, because I am still on the shitty streaming platform. Moving house next week and once in I will address that!
Now I feel bad tho, because I am still on the shitty streaming platform. Moving house next week and once in I will address that!
Post something random or you'll have an awful November
October 29, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Post something random or you'll have an awful November
Cleaning up a little bin pit with a bunny burrow and fondly recalling a screaming match 25 years ago between my MA supervisor (academic, cruising to emeritus) and wizened contract archy (vigorous, dry), both in their sixties, because latter was brushing and former wanted "a cut fucking surface!"
October 29, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Cleaning up a little bin pit with a bunny burrow and fondly recalling a screaming match 25 years ago between my MA supervisor (academic, cruising to emeritus) and wizened contract archy (vigorous, dry), both in their sixties, because latter was brushing and former wanted "a cut fucking surface!"
"Friends" is a beloved American sitcom that aired from 1994 to 2004, following six young adults—Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe—living in New York City. The show explores their friendships, romances, careers, and personal growth over ten seasons.
October 23, 2025 at 6:37 AM
"Friends" is a beloved American sitcom that aired from 1994 to 2004, following six young adults—Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe—living in New York City. The show explores their friendships, romances, careers, and personal growth over ten seasons.
Gemini, show me Polynesian horticultural adaptation to a steep2rolling volcanic environment prone to summer aridity and drought with occasional boughts of torrential cyclonic rain.
Oh, a reticulated network of channels catching water below habitation sites on high points and spreading it about.
Oh, a reticulated network of channels catching water below habitation sites on high points and spreading it about.
October 22, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Gemini, show me Polynesian horticultural adaptation to a steep2rolling volcanic environment prone to summer aridity and drought with occasional boughts of torrential cyclonic rain.
Oh, a reticulated network of channels catching water below habitation sites on high points and spreading it about.
Oh, a reticulated network of channels catching water below habitation sites on high points and spreading it about.
Look at the state of it.
Digitising epic Janet Leatherby and Peter Morgan (1982-1983) map of archaeological features at Pouerua. Lines are horticultural drains, black polygons are platforms, terraces and storage pits, black blobs are stone mounds or outcrop.
Trying to fit a new house in.
Digitising epic Janet Leatherby and Peter Morgan (1982-1983) map of archaeological features at Pouerua. Lines are horticultural drains, black polygons are platforms, terraces and storage pits, black blobs are stone mounds or outcrop.
Trying to fit a new house in.
October 22, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Look at the state of it.
Digitising epic Janet Leatherby and Peter Morgan (1982-1983) map of archaeological features at Pouerua. Lines are horticultural drains, black polygons are platforms, terraces and storage pits, black blobs are stone mounds or outcrop.
Trying to fit a new house in.
Digitising epic Janet Leatherby and Peter Morgan (1982-1983) map of archaeological features at Pouerua. Lines are horticultural drains, black polygons are platforms, terraces and storage pits, black blobs are stone mounds or outcrop.
Trying to fit a new house in.
Eight.
Eight goddamned lids.
In the plastics cupboard.
And no matching goddamned containers.
Eight goddamned lids.
In the plastics cupboard.
And no matching goddamned containers.
October 21, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Eight.
Eight goddamned lids.
In the plastics cupboard.
And no matching goddamned containers.
Eight goddamned lids.
In the plastics cupboard.
And no matching goddamned containers.