secretsantaaonz

Tip that I just thought of for #SecretSantaAoNZ: follow as many people as possible using the hashtag so you can follow your giftee without them guessing it’s you.

Struggled with trying to hide last time I did it so I didn’t follow giftee but manually searched them out periodically. Which do y’all think is better for maintaining anonymity?

I’m just going to try spamming the follow button this year ;)

CC @donkey @pipesunlimited @Phil_Tanner @phil_stevens @Orthanc @witchnwords

Clues for my #SecretSantaAoNZ 2025:
1. I’m a dad to two under fives; a 1 year old boy and 4 year old girl.
2. I love D&D, I have a growing collection of polyhedral dice (the kind with all the different shapes of dice in pretty colours). Favourite colours are blue, green, yellow and purple (but not all four at the same dice set 😉)
3. My wife @MichaelaKHulse and I love gardening, particularly growing food plants and natives. She is also playing this game.
4. I’m a big consumer of whole bean coffee, we have a grinder and an espresso machine. Also like caffeine-free tea sometimes in the evening. Rooibos is usually my go to but I do branch out.

Dislikes: Socks as gifts. I have a neurospicy thing where I need all my socks to be the same and I’ve found the set I like and buy ‘em in bulk once in a while.

#SecretSantaAoNZ is this thing on?

Donkey is my nickname (after the annoying talking animal in #Shrek). Kāihe is #TeReo for donkey, or ass.

Things not listed in my bio/pinned posts, I’m a fan of:
• #Firefly
• #DoctorWho
• #Pixar Movies (the earlier ones, really)
• #Capybara (my spirit animal)
• #StarTrek (#StarWars is fun, but - if I had to choose just one - it’d be Trek. All of them except Enterprise)
• #Jacinda’s politics of empathy

Ummmm … not sure what else to say - it’s been a while since I last did #SecretSantaAoNZ back in the old days when the bad place was the good place.

Okay. Time to make a thread ... of threads.

If you're playing #SecretSantaAoNZ, or any other version, and you're here sleuthing me, this should (hopefully) be worth it's weight in gold (given this is all electrons, that's still not very much...)