Andrew Frame
@napierinframe.bsky.social
Dad, Husband, Writer, Local Issues Commentator, Cricketer, Umpire, Bay Buzz magazine Columnist, Champion of all things Hawke's Bay. Napier, New Zealand.
If "NZ's best journalism" is, apparently, Ryan Bridge soft-balling questions to NZ's least liked leader in generations the industry is REALLY broken & needs to reevaluate & start again.
It's sure as shit not even Hawke's Bay's "best journalism" despite it being cut & pasted onto NZME's HB masthead.
It's sure as shit not even Hawke's Bay's "best journalism" despite it being cut & pasted onto NZME's HB masthead.
November 24, 2025 at 3:32 AM
If "NZ's best journalism" is, apparently, Ryan Bridge soft-balling questions to NZ's least liked leader in generations the industry is REALLY broken & needs to reevaluate & start again.
It's sure as shit not even Hawke's Bay's "best journalism" despite it being cut & pasted onto NZME's HB masthead.
It's sure as shit not even Hawke's Bay's "best journalism" despite it being cut & pasted onto NZME's HB masthead.
Hounded out by WHOM, Verity??!!
Can you think of any NZ media outlets who were particularly venomous towards Tory...?
Can you think of any NZ media outlets who were particularly venomous towards Tory...?
November 24, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Hounded out by WHOM, Verity??!!
Can you think of any NZ media outlets who were particularly venomous towards Tory...?
Can you think of any NZ media outlets who were particularly venomous towards Tory...?
Yet more Napier schools are telling Erica Stanford to Harae Atu with her white supremacist bullshit cant.
Tautoko, Ahuriri kaiako!
Tautoko, Ahuriri kaiako!
November 21, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Yet more Napier schools are telling Erica Stanford to Harae Atu with her white supremacist bullshit cant.
Tautoko, Ahuriri kaiako!
Tautoko, Ahuriri kaiako!
Although, the helmets do help explain Stormtroopers' terrible aim:
November 20, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Although, the helmets do help explain Stormtroopers' terrible aim:
Absolutely nothing?
Setting fire to household budgets and savings?
Conspiring with corporates to make costs even higher?
Setting fire to household budgets and savings?
Conspiring with corporates to make costs even higher?
November 20, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Absolutely nothing?
Setting fire to household budgets and savings?
Conspiring with corporates to make costs even higher?
Setting fire to household budgets and savings?
Conspiring with corporates to make costs even higher?
Dodgy framing here.
The sub-headline about reducing a "farm's capacity to produce food" is a quoted opinion by the losing party.
As printed it makes it look like the court went against logic.
‘Win for nature’: Court rejects Ruataniwha groundwater appeal www.nzherald.co.nz/hawkes-bay-t...
The sub-headline about reducing a "farm's capacity to produce food" is a quoted opinion by the losing party.
As printed it makes it look like the court went against logic.
‘Win for nature’: Court rejects Ruataniwha groundwater appeal www.nzherald.co.nz/hawkes-bay-t...
November 20, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Dodgy framing here.
The sub-headline about reducing a "farm's capacity to produce food" is a quoted opinion by the losing party.
As printed it makes it look like the court went against logic.
‘Win for nature’: Court rejects Ruataniwha groundwater appeal www.nzherald.co.nz/hawkes-bay-t...
The sub-headline about reducing a "farm's capacity to produce food" is a quoted opinion by the losing party.
As printed it makes it look like the court went against logic.
‘Win for nature’: Court rejects Ruataniwha groundwater appeal www.nzherald.co.nz/hawkes-bay-t...
From Shits to Giggles?
November 20, 2025 at 12:40 AM
From Shits to Giggles?
Question: Answer
November 20, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Question: Answer
I don't think its the place of someone whose balls haven't dropped to have any say on what happens to others' nether regions.
November 19, 2025 at 6:48 AM
I don't think its the place of someone whose balls haven't dropped to have any say on what happens to others' nether regions.
So Poutaka is throwing them out on the streets...
I wonder if his relations call him "Uncle Tama", or "Uncle Tom"?
These pricks really are the worst, most amoral, corrupt, disgusting government New Zealand has ever had.
I wonder if his relations call him "Uncle Tama", or "Uncle Tom"?
These pricks really are the worst, most amoral, corrupt, disgusting government New Zealand has ever had.
November 18, 2025 at 7:56 AM
So Poutaka is throwing them out on the streets...
I wonder if his relations call him "Uncle Tama", or "Uncle Tom"?
These pricks really are the worst, most amoral, corrupt, disgusting government New Zealand has ever had.
I wonder if his relations call him "Uncle Tama", or "Uncle Tom"?
These pricks really are the worst, most amoral, corrupt, disgusting government New Zealand has ever had.
Made Persian Love Cake for wife's birthday tomorrow.
First time I've had a crack at it and I'd call it a success!
Rose water, pistachios, rose petals..
First time I've had a crack at it and I'd call it a success!
Rose water, pistachios, rose petals..
November 17, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Made Persian Love Cake for wife's birthday tomorrow.
First time I've had a crack at it and I'd call it a success!
Rose water, pistachios, rose petals..
First time I've had a crack at it and I'd call it a success!
Rose water, pistachios, rose petals..
Yet more old garage stuff:
November 16, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Yet more old garage stuff:
Erm... what is John Campbell doing playing for the West Indies!?
November 16, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Erm... what is John Campbell doing playing for the West Indies!?
That fish must have done some BAD SHIT!!
November 15, 2025 at 3:07 AM
That fish must have done some BAD SHIT!!
Riding in on their hate-fueld hobbyhorse to save Princess Plunkett?
What a farce.
What a farce.
November 14, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Riding in on their hate-fueld hobbyhorse to save Princess Plunkett?
What a farce.
What a farce.
Will have to try this:
November 14, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Will have to try this:
A dream?
HOPE!?
This is the same lottery that has six people win First Division (traditionally $1mill for one winner), giving them a mere (by comparison) $166,667 each, while a thoroughly unrealistic $40mill Powerball prize went un-won yet again, jackpotting untouched.
HOPE!?
This is the same lottery that has six people win First Division (traditionally $1mill for one winner), giving them a mere (by comparison) $166,667 each, while a thoroughly unrealistic $40mill Powerball prize went un-won yet again, jackpotting untouched.
November 14, 2025 at 12:47 AM
A dream?
HOPE!?
This is the same lottery that has six people win First Division (traditionally $1mill for one winner), giving them a mere (by comparison) $166,667 each, while a thoroughly unrealistic $40mill Powerball prize went un-won yet again, jackpotting untouched.
HOPE!?
This is the same lottery that has six people win First Division (traditionally $1mill for one winner), giving them a mere (by comparison) $166,667 each, while a thoroughly unrealistic $40mill Powerball prize went un-won yet again, jackpotting untouched.
Has Stuff been taking lessons from Viva on how to sound like a parochial, big city ponce?
November 13, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Has Stuff been taking lessons from Viva on how to sound like a parochial, big city ponce?
Has any headline not made Shayne Currie sound like a catty little &itch?
November 13, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Has any headline not made Shayne Currie sound like a catty little &itch?
Valentines / Cyclone Gabrielle Day 2026
November 13, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Valentines / Cyclone Gabrielle Day 2026
Ignoring 98% of submissions?!
Abhorrent, racist fucks.
Abhorrent, racist fucks.
November 13, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Ignoring 98% of submissions?!
Abhorrent, racist fucks.
Abhorrent, racist fucks.
First day of redundancy and we went for a walk up Sugarloaf in the Taradale hills.
Not a bad view!
Not a bad view!
November 12, 2025 at 5:22 AM
First day of redundancy and we went for a walk up Sugarloaf in the Taradale hills.
Not a bad view!
Not a bad view!
"Raindrops on Roses and Whiskers on Kittens..."
Hi, my @secretsanta.nz #SecretSantaAoNZ!
If you are stuck for ideas here are some of my favorite things:
Hi, my @secretsanta.nz #SecretSantaAoNZ!
If you are stuck for ideas here are some of my favorite things:
November 11, 2025 at 5:31 PM
"Raindrops on Roses and Whiskers on Kittens..."
Hi, my @secretsanta.nz #SecretSantaAoNZ!
If you are stuck for ideas here are some of my favorite things:
Hi, my @secretsanta.nz #SecretSantaAoNZ!
If you are stuck for ideas here are some of my favorite things:
Replace the word "officers" with "ministers", Ms Attourney-General, and get back to us, eh?
November 11, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Replace the word "officers" with "ministers", Ms Attourney-General, and get back to us, eh?