esterday wasn’t all about the elections (the less said about the results of which the better). After I finished my shift at the polling booth I walked down to Hands and stocked up on a few* supplies for a class I’m going to with MrsGwilk on Tuesday. Then, as predictions of rain had been proved…
‘m possibly breaking the law by posting this picture, while there’s still half an hour to go until the polls close, but I think I’m allowed to as long as I don’t include the name of the candidate or say the words “party vote…” in conjunction with it (so clean out your brains of the…
oday marks 121 years since women were granted the right to vote in New Zealand – the first country to attain universal suffrage. To mark the day, the union hosted a women’s breakfast, and invited Christchurch Mayor Lianne Dalziel to talk to us. It was pretty informal – although she started off with a prepared…
y blog is no Whaleoil, but apparently it still gets the attention of the politicians 🙂 – after I mentioned the other day about James Dann asking if I’d host a sign supporting his candidacy, James himself left a comment on the post. I’m impressed – that sort of thing is an excellent example of…
ne of my favourite parts of a Toastmasters meeting is the Table Topics section. That’s when speakers are given a prompt (sometimes it’s a topic, sometimes a question, or sometimes something completely different) around which they have to create an impromptu 2-minute speech. It’s incredibly challenging, but can be lots of fun, and definitely teaches…
I said yes. My fence is getting ever-more political. At least I’m not as bad as the house I saw down on Riccarton Road the other day that had signs for five different (and wildly opposed) political parties on its fence. I imagine a family that have really intense debates around the dinner table… But…
lection day is looming, and the campaigning is hotting up. I had five pieces of mail in my letterbox when I got home this evening, and they’re all from political parties. Most went straight in the recycling bin as junk mail, but one I’m considering – a letter from James Dann, the local Labour candidate,…
uckily, the rain stopped during the night, and it turned into a lovely day today. Which I was very glad to see, because I had a lot of walking to do today, seeing as I’d promised to deliver those flyers for the Greens, and today was my last chance to do so (the election is…
fter a week of lovely spring weather, even managing to reach the low 20s for a couple of days, it’s back to being cold and wet and miserable again. I’d planned on going out to deliver those flyers today, but it was just too wet, so I’ll have to do them tomorrow – the forecast…
he thing about 4 September being such a significant date for Christchurch is that these days I forget that only a week later is a significant anniversary for my American friends. It’s the 12th here, which of course makes it the 11th for you, and the anniversary of that horrible horrible day. Remembering 22 February…