Posts by Grace Dalley
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Great post Emma, thank you!
And Craig:
My father was a forty nine year old Maori Anglican widower who married a white Catholic woman quite literally young enough (27) to be his daughter.
Now, there are plenty of people who find inter-racial, or inter-faith marriage distasteful -- the latter is still quietly discouraged by the Church. Some certainly weren't shy in expressing their opinion that it was somewhat vulgar of my my father to marry a much younger woman just over a year after the death of his first wife.
The state, however, had no legitimate interest in any of the above.
Well put.
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I just don’t get all this hostility toward the Nanny State. I’ve watched several variations of the always-popular Nanny programmes on TV. In each case, the sensible nanny rocks up to a house with a couple of delinquent, out-of-control brats and gets them to sort their shit out so they can bring their children up properly. End result is a house full of model citizens. What's not to like?
All this hate for Nannies and love for Boot Camps suggests to me some kind of fetish…
Oh that's so funny. And brilliant post Keith.
Hell, if we all get to live past the next ten or twenty years, I think it's worth getting over such absurd pettiness as worrying what kind of lightbulbs we're allowed to use...
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If this is true, I'm sure she'll do a fantastic job.
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"Honey, we're having a vertebrate!"
What a delightful piece, you've made my day.
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About this word, "home-maker", I think housework definitely is part of it, but I think it also covers taking responsibility for anything that needs doing in the house or for the household.
There appears to be an almost intangible spiritual angle to it though - like the difference between 'house' and 'home', so I'm sure it must be more than just tasks.
Well I think maybe that's because "homemaking" can include "personal assistant" and "facilitator/mediator" as well as "maid" - it's includes doing things (like remembering other people's birthdays) that go so far beyond mere housework.
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I've obviously come to this discussion late, when it's suddenly all about food...but to get back to the original topic, I think being in a marriage-type relationship is definitely a job of work. Maintaining the relationship takes a lot of courage and perseverance. Of course, I think the work should be shared equally!
About this word, "home-maker", I think housework definitely is part of it, but I think it also covers taking responsibility for anything that needs doing in the house or for the household. It's a buck-stops-here sort of title. (no problem too big, or too small!). In the house it might include cooking, cleaning, cleaning-up-after, tidying, organising, beautifying, gardening, home maintenance, doing shopping, budgeting, paying bills, doing laundry, repairing clothes and sewing on buttons and name-tags, making clothes, organising activities and co-ordinating schedules within the household. These things aren't really covered by "parenting".
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While I find Britain's CCTV surveillance disturbing, I think the registration of your name and address when you buy a cellphone is necessary, and I wish NZ had a similar system. I am one of many many people in NZ who has been troubled by obscene and/or threatening text messages sent from an unregistered prepaid phone. And surely some robust form of ID, such as a passport, is required to stop some people giving false details.
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This is completely irrelevant...but I saw this Toto video over at the Fundy Post: "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPT_3PEjnsE"
and I was struck by the singer's resemblance to a young Russell Brown....