Stealing my broadband

Every year we have a flurry of welcomed backpackers staying with us, they work for us and we look after them, they are heaps of fun…but…
We got home from holiday yesterday and the workers arrived today in their $300 van.  Hubby went out to get them started on work only to find them talking to [...]

Holiday Time…

Cool…had some time off in Rotovegas.  Did the traditional family get together at the Blue Lakes (if you can call four years in a row a tradition) and all the whanau got repeatedly fed an watered and watered and fed.  After years of hard work the younger generaton can slalom and wake board and….while the [...]

Biosecurity and Bees

Just putting the finishing touches to a brief article on the National Beekeepers Association illustrious win over Biosecurity New Zealand and their (BNZ’s) agreement to import honey from Oz.
The NBA took BNZ to the appeal court and won on the fact that honey contained a bacteria that NZ doesn’t have AND hence, approval for importation [...]

Biosecurity Review

I have been putting this off, but the time has come.  While the furore over the EFB continues, this little gem has raised its ugly head.
http://www.biosecurity.govt.nz/files/strategy/consultation/joint-decision-making.pdf
More commonly known as BiosecurityNew Zealand’s “Joint Decision-Making and Resourcing for Readiness and Incursion Responses”. (You still awake?)
This is the discussion document that shows how a government can create two [...]

Yippeeee it’s raining

Watch out for farmers dancing naked outside today
 P.S. don’t be afraid

David Round – What?

In this article by David Round he asks where all the protestors are
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4311797a1861.html
 and then states…
I tell a lie when I say that no- one is protesting against the bill. In Christchurch, about 200 people demonstrated last Wednesday. It was a quiet and civilised protest. Too quiet, perhaps. Decency can be a disadvantage. To overcome our [...]

Medal thefts

Utter scumbags….enough said. Well not really I have read people asking what all the palava is about.  They are just bits of metal.
WHAT?
Has our society come to that? Is the value that we put on something based solely on the value of its raw materials.  Would it be worth more to these people if they [...]

DVD Debarcle

Come on guys…please don’t snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory.  If that happens I’m out of here and I don’t wanna be surrounded by Australians.

Baby dies after mum leaves hosptial early

Firstly, it isn’t the mum’s fault.  I feel the headline indirectly implied it is but then I may be a bit sensitive.  You see my son, who is now 14 & 6ft 3″, was one of the rare babies that got really sick after the ‘designated time’ that he ’should if he was going to’.  [...]