Kerry Ferrand

@kferrand.bsky.social

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Yet another tedious GenXer on yet another social media app, yay.. Collects way too many books and reads too few of them.. Ōtautahi/Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zealand youtube.com/@kferrandCRB mastodon.nz/@kferrand pixelfed.social/@kferrand2

3 small black rectangular signs with white text in the same style as official Christchurch City Council signage mounted on the outside of a building.
An advertising video screen on the side of an old 80s vintage building shows an image of an orange cat wearing sunglasses and holding a bottle - the text says ‘Did you drink water today?!!’ (it looks like AI slop)
A bespectacled chubby faced man holds up a copy of “Worlds Beyond Time: Sci-Fi Art of the 1970s” by Adam Rowe
A chubby faced bespectacled middle aged man holds up a trade paperback copy of “The Bookshop Detectives: Murder and Mojitos” by Gareth Ward & Louise Ward.
Cathedral square looking north and the sun
A chubby-faced middle aged man in glasses holds up a paperback copy of David Sedaris’ “The Land and Its People”
Buildings and Seagull on Manchester Street, Christchurch on Sunday morning June 14 2026.
Somehow I photographed this on Mother’s Day @ The Canterbury Memorial Gardens where my Mother’s ashes lay. A red rose looking glorious in the morning sunlight.
Signage near one of the Stadium entrances
An elaborate mural showing types of marine life in the ocean adorns the side of a commercial building.
Pioneer Stadium entrance with book sale sign
The sun shining through the green leaves of trees in a park like setting near the river Avon. A statue of a WW1 soldier looks small in the distance
Me again, in front of some signage at Arty Bees
Signage for The Ferret Bookshop on Cuba Street
Exterior of Pegasus Books - Left Bank, Cuba Street, Wellington.
The author waits for Unity Books to open on Saturday morning
Chubby-faced middle-aged man holds up a copy of the 40th anniversary edition of “Mid-Century Ads” from Taschen.
Holding up an iPad with an ebook copy of “I Deliver Parcels in Beijing” onscreen
Chubby-faced middle aged man holds up a copy of “The Martians” by David Baron
Newly shaven-headed, chubby-faced middle aged man holds up a copy of Junji Ito’s Cat Diary: Yon & Mu
Chubby-faced middle aged man holds up a copy of “Going South” by Colin Hogg and smiles at the camera with a neutral background
Mural painted on the side of a building depicting a contemporary pacifc island girl(?) wearing a hat, denim jacket and skirt. Pasifika style patterns form the background. Her legs are in water up to above her knees. City buildings are waterlogged on either side of her. A message about climate change is in the lower left.
A black and white photograph from the 1940s showing a young girl (my Mother) trying to hold a large tabby cat.
A street art mural on the side of a commercial building depicting a young woman holding up a mobile phone in her right hand as she emerges or submerges from a sea of text below.
Chubby-faced middle-aged man holds up the book “The Mad and the Brave” and an iPad Air tablet with the cover of “Heavy Light” displayed via the Kindle app..
An elaborate street art mural painted on the side wall of a shop - it features cartoon style and semi-realistic images of dogs, a boy and exaggerated lettering
Chubby-faced man holds up an iPad on which can be seen the cover of Cory Doctorow’s book “Enshittification” via the Kindle app…
Chubby-faced middle-aged man in a green t-shirt smiles as he holds up a copy Of Saga Volume 12
2025 Bookshop Day promo material
Chubby faced middle aged man holds up a copy of Chris O’Leary’s book “Ashes To Ashes: The Songs of David Bowie 1976 - 2016”
A traffic light pole tilted over at close to 45 degree angle
Chubby faced middle aged man holds up a copy of Mick Heron’s latest Slough House novel “Clown Town”
Chubby-faced middle aged man holds a stack of paperback books up tonthe camera