Posts by Islander
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Hard News: Sick with Anger, in reply to Ross Mason,
Neat eh?!
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Hard News: Sick with Anger, in reply to Islander,
I am severely visually disabled.
I also happen to be quite obsessive about a lot of matters.
Which does not stop me being an excellent cook & fisher, a truly great librarian in my own library(and any others people will let me in to), and a pretty good daughter/aunt & great aunt...in other words, I hold my own and more than just work my own way-cheers! -
Hard News: Sick with Anger, in reply to Sacha,
‘disabled’ is a pretty good term.
nothing ‘special’ about it.I am severely visually disabled.
The special aids I have (implanted lens/ocular lens/2 kinds of glasses)
are necessary for me to function as an adult.
Because 'disabled' - for me & mine- refers to a range of disabilities, from visual to mental to hearing to bowel to kidney- I'm fine with it. -
Up Front: Good Friends, in reply to Raymond A Francis,
ou want to help but it is not about you and advice is only helpful when it is asked for
In my (large) whanau, there are people who will immediately ask for help, and some who never quite will.
With the latter, the protocol - huh!~ What we do- is be in the vicinity and send small gifts of food and/or drink/flowers/plants.
With the middle people? Ascertain whether they'd like a visit (or their dog walked, or something of that ilk) and then be a quiet listener-
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Hard News: Sick with Anger, in reply to Lilith __,
really how is a kid going to learn how to catch eels if they can’t play in the creek?
As soon as we could swim competently, we were allowed anywhere - Avon River, Moeraki reefs, the kaik' creeks- and- as Lillith wrote "long as were home for tea & bed" the adults let us run loose-
My mother had 6 of us under the age of 11 when my father died -so it was the only pratical *and* responsible thing to do. Her brothers taught us fishing & hunting, and none of us came to serious grief-
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Cracker: Lundy and Me., in reply to Matthew Poole,
I believe it’s a 30km radius from the courthouse
Ahh! Thanks...the nearest court house being in Hokitika (2 hours' drive, roughly 190k from my door) means I am not liable for jury duty. Nor would any South Westlander, south of Ross.
Which is a bit of a shame: I'd like to sit, listen, & observe a trial...
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Cracker: Lundy and Me., in reply to Kyle Matthews,
Thanks for that update Kyle!
I think the remote location bit still applies (while Whataroa had a courthouse, it didnt, but that courthouse is now closed.)
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Cracker: Lundy and Me., in reply to Chris Waugh,
Chris, I dont know whether the jury-duty rules have changed, but it was certainly
the case when I did 2 years of an Ll.B at Canterbury waaaay back in the late 1960s. -
Cracker: Lundy and Me., in reply to Russell Brown,
This is *always* the case with high profile court cases.
I do not think our jury system is inadequate : I do think the qualifications should be redrafted (e.g as an ex law student living in a remote area, I am ineligible for jury duty-) -
Hard News: When a riot went on, in reply to Martin Brown,
Never really got any 80s nostalgia that goes around periodically,
I HATED the 1980s -aside from Muldoon & the Labour Party reneging on it’s roots-
it was just a bloody ugly time…
EXCEPT
it was also the time Maori started the long journey to reclaiming our place – ae! Even in the South!I talk with my nieces & nephews these days and they say “Nah – cant’ve been like that” so I send them to my mother – for some of them, their great grandmother to learn just how it was, in 1917 & before-