I find it hard to accept women choosing to wear clothing that limits their physical freedom, whether that is a chador or high heels. Similarly, it seems a pity that women will choose not to go swimming because of how their hair will look post-swim. Are there any men out there who feel the same way?
Whanau – a Māori word now in common general usage. To me it has connotations of a broad concept of family, beyond the sense of a traditional western nuclear approach.
Rising house prices and unaffordable housing – a decadal problem in New Zealand (and much of the world) that appears intractable to the economic policy approaches governments use to solve it.
Hope is sold in many forms – at container stores, through politicians promises and by vaccine companies. Let’s hope Pfizer’s promises are more robust than Trump’s.
Why does the voting in the US election differ substantially from the poll results? Could be the polls were wrong. Or it could be the polls influenced people to act differently.
In New Zealand we are travelling while, in the rest of the world, people are in lockdown as COVID cases spike. Right now things are good as people to have money they aren’t spending on international travel to put into art, domestic travel, and moving house to somewhere outside Auckland.
Jacinda Ardern’s quote, “They are us”, was spoken in the aftermath of the Christchurch mosque attacks and resonated around the world. In contrast, Trump was been selected as the most divisive US president ever in 2017 – he prefers ’them’ to ’us’. I know which country I would rather live in.
The concept of chewable chunks applies to COVID as much as cycle touring. Here are our strategies for breaking a 1300km cycle tour into chunks of a size we can cope with.
Cycling and cycle touring are two of my all time favourite activities. I don’t remember a time when I didn’t love cycling.
New Zealand has dropped down its alert levels, though Auckland remains at 2 where the rest of the country is at 1. In Europe, cases are climbing but there’s resistance to any further hard lockdowns. And how are things looking for the Swedish experiment?
