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Be aware Sensitive Topic (assisted dying)

I am no stranger to death, you can point to my Catholic upbringing, my large extended family. My parents had 20 siblings between them, and I have many cousins. I have experienced it up close and personal… Read more I have written before about death, suicide and related topics. I shall make a list of these posts presently. On many dating apps, one of the questions is What is your social media…

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Let Them Have Cups (if they can't afford rags)

ACT MP Simon Court says women should buy menstrual or moon cups if they cannot afford other products.if . This is the face of ACT. I have no problems with being open about menstrual products. I do remember as a 12 year old cringing when we went down ” that” aisle, in the supermarket or being sent to the dairy for panty hose.  The Modess pads being wrapped in brown paper at Simmons Chemist in…

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Words that Scare me

Over the years I have had friends turn up or phone out of the blue. Can I pop around and see you? Sure I have said, then they started. It was in the 80s and I was invited to an event, woo hoo, I forget the pitch however it was Amway. A bunch of people with glazed eyes wanting to draw the circles. I almost fell in.There was Tupper ware, Avon, some other cosmetic business, all promising riches. All…

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Is Christopher Luxon a liar or deluded?

Will Luxon resign if rents don’t stop rising? No! What a crock of crap. What happened when Student allowance went up by 50.00 per week? https://www.stuff.co.nz/a/nz-news/350211394/pm-christopher-luxon-argues-renters-will-be-grateful-interest-deductibility?lid=m8nx4u1zsz2r&utm_source=newsletters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=two_minutes_of_stuffLandlords almost universally lifted their rents when…

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A Dollar In My Pocket

I was talking with someone today, they had pair of vintage dungarees accidentally disposed of. I know the back story and even helped trying to find such a pair. I understood, empathised and advised how to put it into perspective. I have lost some things in my life that at the time were quite devastating. It reminded me of how small things can seem huge. I was off shopping for Christmas presents…

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Beware Tiredness Lives Here

Over the last 5 years, I have lived with an almost constant perfidious, strength-sapping, motivation-stealing tiredness. I have been involved in a voluntary capacity with a number of community groups however along with my seemingly unending tiredness, intolerance like a cancer has grown. My capacity to engage with people, especially idiots in a respectful and meaningful way has crumbled to a…

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Beware Here There Be Idiots

Dumbo’s Friend Who can remember the name of the mouse that was Dumbo’s friend in the movie about the flying Elephant? Well as it turns out I can. I regularly do a Newspaper Quiz, I average around 12 out of 15, sometimes even ace it. Memory is a funny thing. I incurred what is described as a minor traumatic brain injury (I think it was about 4 years ago). I was hit in the head by a rock the…

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Moral dilemmas,

I have been through a few, some I have failed at, others well I have managed to stand true. I am fortunate, I have a place to live, food to eat, even some toys. I am living week to week at the moment but I still have choices and I can improve my lot. Some time ago I bought a small boat, not a lot of money, however enough. I have been out fishing three times. I want to fish more but needed to…

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Hamlet, Really? Yes!

“To be, or not to be, that is the question:Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to sufferThe slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,Or to take arms against a sea of troubles…” https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/56965/speech-to-be-or-not-to-be-that-is-the-question . Most recently I wrote a message to my beautiful daughter, she provides administrative services online and can work virtually…

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Gloriavale (Not all Heroes wear a Cape)

Hopeful and Victory Disciple, remeber those names. They are two of a long list of people who have escaped the clutches of the cult called Gloriavale. If you are not from New Zealand follow this link here which can give you a potted hostory of Gloriavale.https://teara.govt.nz/en/video/28133/gloriavale. Think well I don’t know how to compare them but a cult they are. Similar to the Exclusive…

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Teen Angst to 60 Year Old Satisfaction (Almost)

Recently a 3 year old boy was in the news because no-one turned up for his party however socail media came to the rescue, https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/wellbeing/parenting/133203054/familys-plea-after-nobody-shows-at-3yearolds-birthday-brings-community-to-beach. Birthdays for me that I am cognisant of in my teens were les than humdrum, more boredome. It doesn’t help when your birthday is in…

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Scribo Ergo Cogito (I think therefore I write)

Hallelujah or really? I have started to write again, it has been a long slow progress, getting my writing mojo going again. Lots of reasons why such a legnthy hiatus however they can be … oh I know blog posts. Highly personal, sometimes offensive, potty mouthed at times however authentic, a reflection of me if you wish, so lets start at the very beginning of the decline as it were, (as good as…