Posts by Abbie
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Even if this mother of eight has been smoking meth, there are eight children involved here, all still living with her, I think I heard. Surely some wrap around care and support can be justified on so many levels - not the least being to give those children the best opportunity to choose different paths in the future. But rather than supporting the mother, no, she must be punished and of course it is then deemed to be her fault that the children are punished as well.
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Oh god, I sympathise. Raised 2 of my 3 with relatively severe eczema and the 3rd developed it later. Pinetarsol baths were the order of the day, never any soaps or scented washpowders. Always trying to minimise the use of steroid creams and trying alternatives like calendula ointment. As adults, they have learned to manage but aqueous cream is the order of the day. Still, they never use soaps and facecreams, sunblocks and moisturisers remain an ongoing exercise of trial and error with frequent discards as allergies develop. Told by the skin specialist at the time that it sits on the same gene as asthma and migraines. I have always thought severely asthmatic children would have been worse to cope with - life endangering, whereas eczema affects the quality of life, not life itself.
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Speaker: Waitara and the perils of…, in reply to Sacha,
"She said chief executives might take an objective view of whether information should be released "if the approach to them was not like a rottweiler on heat. Frankly it's the relationship you establish with the chief executive." GOOD GRIEF!
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Speaker: Waitara and the perils of…, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
Yes please! All help gratefully received. https://givealittle.co.nz/cause/supportthewaitara3/ The case was already lost on appeal - on the same technicality. So legal avenues have been exhausted. Which is why public opinion has become so important instead, to send a message.
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Speaker: Waitara and the perils of…, in reply to st ephen,
You ain't wrong there!
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Since writing this, the sum demanded has been confirmed as $$22,598.40.
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As one who takes a desultory interest in rugby at best - just tell me the final score - I have watched with interest how manly all this is. And look at the commenters on this thread - almost entirely male. I am not saying that NO women take an interest in rugby, but I think you have done a splendid job, Russell, at capturing the magic of the ABs for menfolk, mainly. I doubt that it is coincidence that at a time of saturation coverage of the most manly of sports and the unabashed fawning from the PM, there have been two other threads through my social media - domestic violence and the rise of new age feminism. Personally, I find the dominance of male values in rugby (and in ill tempered Aussie sledging) distinctly offputting.
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Capture: Peak Pohutukawa, in reply to Russell Brown,
Seriously, yes. Refused to receive community deputation. Refused to receive second deputation "because they had refused the first request". Refused to hear a deputation of kaumatua. Refused to receive petition signed by over 1000 people. That is democracy Taranaki Regional Council style.
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I promised him faithfully that I would not embarrass him with this photo - hence the indifferent quality - but the man to whom I am married has a zero online presence so he will never know. Doing his yoga stretches beneath a pohutukawa at the back of the viewing area by Auckland airport, to recover from longish drive north before flying to Australia on December 19. They blooms were finished when we returned yesterday.
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By what I think is East End Beach in New Plymouth. Near Strandon, anyway.
