Posts by Hilary Stace
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Sacha - first thing I checked out. There is a good ramp there to the front door but you can't quite see it till you get close up. Building will hopefully be exemplary from an accessibility point of view.
Craig - the old High Court has been nicely restored too behind this new building and part of the same complex, but I think it was too small by itself for today's purposes. -
Wellingtonians were were a bit resentful at losing the park on Lambton Quay where the new court building is and we have watched the bronze spiderwebby thing evolve. But sparkling in the sun and the centre of attention today, it looked innovative and local - like our new supreme court of Aotearoa/New Zealand should be. And you can look in from outside and see the judges doing their judging.
So now tourists have three buildings to photograph while rotating at the cenotaph - the Beehive (which I'm a fan of), the Old Government Building, and now the court.
By the way there is a buzzy bee on a post pointing at the Beehive next to the OGB.
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I once asked my son if he could buy any illegal drugs at school at lunchtime. 'Of course not,' he replied, with a look that said parents are so stupid, 'they don't sell them at the canteen'.
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This is a bit of a thread jack, sorry, but a few months ago there was a lot of discussion and advertising on PAS about Powershop (Meridian Energy's innovative way to address power pricing and supply) and there seemed to be widespread approval. If so, this report is about a disturbing intrusion by a minister into an SOE's operational matters.
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Many years ago I helped facilitate ante and post natal groups. At the antenatal class we (the 'experts' who already had a small child each) talked a lot about post birth things like breastfeeding and getting enough rest. When we had the post birth reunions many of the new mothers asked us why we didn't tell them about how difficult and painful breastfeeding is to get established, what sleep deprivation and fluctuating hormones do to you, but most of all how the baby is a whole new fascinating,absorbing and unique person.
We did, but I think as first time parents they were so focussed on the birth itself that the rest didn't register.
At post natal groups there was always a lot of angst from mothers who felt they hadn't done the birth 'properly' ie baby popped out in a couple of hours with no pain, pain relief or stitches, and within hours smiling family is at home ready for the admirers, with a happily breast fed baby sleeping peacefully.
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I've heard there are regional variations, with caesarians more likely to happen in tertiary hospitals (big hospitals in main cities) where they are set up to do them, and not so likely in smaller places. Anyone know if this is correct?
I do know that childbirth is one of the most personal and political topics there is, and every birth is different. It would be good if we could support mothers to give birth where and how they choose, without setting up some expectation about how it should be.
And then celebrating the new little human regardless of circumstances, genetic inheritance, mild imperfections or whatever.
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Sorry, should it be construed?
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While on the topic of social constructs.
Russell, your use of the words spazz out and spazz-o-meter - are they teenage boy linguistic denigration from a similar source to 'retard'? In which case they could be constructed as offensive to certain people . -
Thanks to Sacha for alerting me to this manatee story of love (kindness and concern) in the not-so-warm waters of Florida
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The love thread is languishing. Sad, when we need love more than ever, especially as a basis for public policy.