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A great actress has gone. I used to love watching "Murder, She Wrote". Her legacy will live on!

A bit of entertainment from a tyre kicker on one of our TM listings turned into quite a Q&A saga. This real live Karen ended up getting pretty abusive so has now been blacklisted (not sure of what that includes to be honest but at least her questions have stopped.)

The reaction to this is mainly the traditional one of blaming their parents - that much loved refrain of 'shouldn't have kids if you can't feed them', completely ignoring that circumstances can & do, change & that the greed based Neo liberalism imposed here brutally & swiftly without warning, is sadly still with us & largely responsible for this situation where we have  hungry kids looking for food scraps.
That there are always going to be some parents who are incompetent, neglectful & uncaring goes without saying but there are also those who struggle to feed their kids, sometimes going without in order to do so.


https://www.odt.co.nz/star-news/star-nat...C0PlMSyzSo

"Two small children on the street, unsupervised, looking for food scraps in a rubbish bag.

It's the kind of scene you might expect to see in a third-world country, not the streets of modern-day New Zealand.
Yet that's exactly what Kaitaia resident, Stacey-Lee Ropiha, came across last Thursday.
As it was her study day, Ropiha explained she had dropped her kids at the movies and gone to Awanui with her sister for a kai (feed).


"We ended up having so much food left over we took it home."
On their way home, Ropiha said she saw something she'll never forget.

"We were driving along when I saw something strange. I actually thought I was seeing things and remember thinking, 'it can't be!'"



But her eyes had not deceived her, she had spotted two small children picking out food scraps from an open rubbish bag.

"I drove really slowly up to where they were to see what was going on and then spun around to double-check. I said to my sister, 'Can you see what I'm seeing?' She just started crying."

Ropiha said they pulled up to the children - a girl (believed to be around 5) and a boy (who looked about 2).

She asked the children if they were okay and eventually the little girl explained their dad was away and mum was in the house sleeping.

"I asked if their mum knew they were outside and then asked if they wanted to have the rest of our chicken and chips and tubs of paua," Ropiha explained.

"The little girl didn't say anything, but I could tell she really wanted it and she asked to make sure we had finished eating.

"I told her there was plenty and when I gave it to them, the little boy got straight into it.
"It just broke our hearts and all I wanted to do was take them home and give them a shower and a feed."




She also posted on Facebook about what she had seen in the hope of spreading more awareness about the issue.
"I just want everyone in our community to know what's going on out there and to realise there are kids really struggling," Ropiha said.

"They're not just tutu kids trying to find trouble, they're literally struggling at home and hopefully we can get on to this as a community and do better."

Ropiha explained that after posting to Facebook she had received several private messages from people offering food and support for the wh─ünau.
She said a few people had also alleged they knew the children and had reported the issue to authorities, but that nothing had allegedly happened."

https://www.1news.co.nz/2022/10/11/live-...ions-plan/
This is going to be devastating, its such a crock of shit its not funny.
Like our small percentage of "emissions" is causing "extreme" weather events.
Jacinda openly says here that carbon neutral products will demand a higher price.
All ways to bribe farmers that this will be beneficial to them.

Who pays? YOU!

Expect more valuable farmland converted to shitty invasive pines.
Expect higher grocery prices.

What they dont tell you is that growing veges is just as "damaging" with fertilizier applied to the soil and all the constant years of turning over the soil, in fact its probably even worse.

They are even going after sheep farmers, its such BS its so hard to believe they are even wanting to do this.

For a democracy its essential we get more people voting, especially for local elections which has been a sham for decades now.
Otherwise, we will just see local candidates elected by their mates. Sadly its a popularity contest for many and thats why so many councils are poorly run.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/local-elec...D3DRWES24/

My daily TV fix is to watch Jackson Galaxy (Eden 3pm). TBH I didn't like him much at first, but was interested in the cat behaviour issues he demonstrates. And now that I've seen a lot of it I get where he's coming from and have learned so much about cats and what makes our cat tick.

Yes, the programme is American and they keep cats inside. We will probably move in that direction too but for conservation reasons rather than for the safety of the cats. The other night when our guy was running full speed across the lawn playing I thought how unhappy he would be if he had to be shut in. And he has had no real impact on our urban bird life. He does catch some, mainly blackbirds, but we still have at least two successful clutches a year in the garden. And he always catches any rodents in the compost before they come inside.

This is at Maungati inland from Timaru, & brings the grand total of monuments marking the contribution of women during both world ward to a massive two. The other is the Nurses chapel in CHCH which at one point was under threat of being demolished; the resulting outcry came as an apparent surprise to some -  the plan was dropped & it still stands.


https://www.stuff.co.nz/timaru-herald/ne...rld-war-ii


A bronze sculpture commemorating the largely unsung womenÔÇÖs heroes of New ZealandÔÇÖs World War II effort has been unveiled in rural South Canterbury.