"When is a crossing not a crossing? When it's outside Oratia School and Kindergarten."

Love is ... doing everything together.

Spotted in Hahei.

Nutella is a popular bread spread, but a photograph is putting people off all over again

Surely they meant gazpacho?

Looks as if someone is going to lose a finger shortly.

It would only take the next rainstorm to wash most of this into the ocean.

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'Thought recycle my bin needed a hug now his skinnier sidekick is around fat shaming him.'

When those running the exhibition don't understand the art.

"Buy my nice Sally Lunn, the very best of Bunn, I think her the sweetest of any ..."

What to do with that dent ...

"The Invercargill, Australia, Pizza Hut is the closest to the South Pole."

A reader spotted this alarming sign on the southern motorway

Perfect souvenir for those that bravely withstood missile 'attack'.

It must be a relief to see this when getting wheeled out of a real ambulance.

It's good to have goals for the year.

How to read it right.

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The T-shirt reads: destroy capitalism.

Not everyone likes swimming pool.

New cafe Tides at Bucklands Beach, aptly named ...

Funghi has got all the feels.

Demarcated cycleway appears to have become a safe haven for bins.

Playing chicken at Macca's drive through. Kentucky fries with that?

Sick pedant burn, right there.

Redband gumboots — a farmer lives here.

Holiday sock drying, spotted in Whangarei.

Spotted in Glen Innes by Doug Dallimore, of St Heliers.

And sun and wind dry them out.