Kate Upsidebackwards

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Kiwi in Canberra, living on Ngunnawal Country. Maths, crafts, chocolate, Wellington Phoenix.

Neill was New Zealand's biggest international film star, yet was a modest man who shied from the media spotlight. He was born in Northern Ireland to a British mother and a New Zealand father stationed there with the British army. The family moved to New Zealand when he was 8, and it was at school in Christchurch that he first took the name Sam.
A baking tray lined with paper towels holds golden fry bread (parāoa parai). Half a dozen of them are coated in cinnamon sugar - these ones are filled with Whittaker's dark chocolate
Jordy Bos' wikipedia page: Jordan Jacob Bos (born 29 October 2002), universally known as the one and only Lord of the wingback, is an Australian professional soccer player who plays as a left back for Eredivisie side Feyenoord and the Australia national team.
A Sydney Morning Herald headline: Family who refused to give up on shark victim not expected to live
Two news alerts: Sydney Morning Herald: A council manager told a colleague she used AI for a company director course assignment, ICAC hears [ICAC is the NSW anti-corruption agency] RNZ: Replacing public servants with AI may come with hidden costs, critics warn
View of a stage from many rows back & up.
ABC headline: New data reveals 4.719 Tasmanian homes are short-stay rentals
View down a highway towards clouds of smoke across the horizon, under a blue sky
A Sydney Morning Herald headline: King's head investigated over second incident.
A hot air balloon in the sky above trees starting to turn yellow & red for autumn
A hot air balloon floats in the distance, over a hedge and power lines
A brightly coloured small parrot in a bush
A headline on the ABC news "just in" page: Matildas learn next opponent as Taiwanese fans grapple with team name
Two trays of Finnish quarg buns (rahkapiirakka), cardamom-flavoured sweet buns with a creme fraiche custard topping. They are glazed with apricot jam which gives some of them a more orange-looking top.
A caramel tart and a cup of tea on a cafe table
Steve, a decent-sized huntsman spider, on a wall just above a double doorway with closed glass sliding doors. Steve is perhaps 10cm across including the legs.
View across scrubby bush to a long white sand beach and turquoise to deep blue water. There is a peninsula with mountains in the background. There isn't a cloud in the sky. Friendly Beaches, Tasmania, Australia.
Pascall's Explorers for sale in a supermarket in a small town in Tasmania
A sign at the Wineglass Bay lookout warning people of the 1000+ steps down to the beach and that climbing back up them is actually the easiest way back to the carpark from the beach.
Wineglass Bay, Tasmania, seen from the lookout which is a (roughly) 200m climb over 1.5km with 400+ steps from the carpark.
Cape Tourville lighthouse, a modern-looking white tower (not very tall) on a concrete & stone base. On the Freycinet Peninsula, Tasmania.
A box containing two pieces of fish and a decent portion of chips sits on a picnic table with a container of tartare sauce and two water bottles. The view from the picnic table takes in some boat shed roofs, a bay, then mountains (the Hazards) rising from the shore on the other side.
A glass jar with a black lid, containing a delicious brown paste. The gold/brown label says "walnutter toffee walnut butter".
A small alpine lake under an overcast sky
Two wallabies grazing, one is a typical brown/grey and the other looks white
A lake surrounded by steep rock walls. The surface of the lake is reflecting the view almost perfectly
A wombat in high country tussocky grass. It's a smallish brown lump in the middle distance.
A female tasmanian devil making her opinion known - she is black with a few small white markings and pink/red ears, and has her mouth open.
A small (joey?) probable pademelon, lightish grey-brown, sits on a boardwalk a couple of steps in front of the photographer, wondering how on earth to escape the people. It eventually figured out that hopping off the boardwalk was a good way to go.
Bennetts (red-necked wallaby) by a boardwalk in Tasmania
A mother and joey wombat in grass by the side of a road in Tasmania, Australia
The base of a large King Billy pine at the top of the King Billy walk at Cradle Mountain, Tasmania. This tree is said to be over 1,000 years old.
A probable pademelon looking more like a brown lump with a tail at this angle It hopped off before I could get a different angle.
A river and a rocky bank. A red circle indicates a thing in the water, I swear to you this is a platypus. It was swimming and splashing around, just doesn't show well in the photo.
A bollard in Penguin, Tasmania, Australia. It is painted to look like a penguin with a bow tie
A fibre cement statue of a penguin, with a Norfolk pine and the sea behind
Close up of a dracaena tree at Geelong Botanic Gardens, showing each branch rising almost vertically from the trunk and bifurcating a few times (and getting denser) before leaves appear at the top
A regional road in Victoria, Australia. A sign on the left-hand side announces that we are approaching Johnsonville (which is also the name of a suburb in Wellington NZ)