I have been cooking recipes from different country’s cookbooks each month and been surprised by which have been easy to recreate, and some near impossible!
My absolute favourite thing is that since the first day we brought her home, when she needs a feed at night she very gently but deliberately presses her fist into my chest. It’s both the quietest and most unmistakable little signal. My heart ❤️
Im curious if anyone’s cracked the code on a lighter SPF for a toddler who basically lives outdoors? Just face really as body is covered up in winter!
We’re in NZ and use Skinnies in sunburn season which is great and reef safe etc but feeling a bit over the full greasy sunblock face in winter
I’m from New Zealand and was already gagged that our girl(s) are competing with the likes of Michael Marouli and M1ss Jade So. If anything I would have had respect for Raven coming to Down Under to genuinely showcase her drag.
Instead we got the mean girl vibe of - the twist is that I’m not on your level! You really thought I would be! Ha!
Anyway I’m curious if the “will she, won’t she” of Raven actually got you to tune in to the first episode or two if you otherwise wouldn’t have.
What do you reckon? Bubblegum white chocolate doesn’t sound like a winner for me
Ive just done mine. It took under five minutes.
Even if you have never made a submission to parliament before, if you feel any type of way about this I encourage you to make your voice heard. It might only take you five minutes.
(Here is a submission guide if you are against it and don’t know where to start.)
I’m in a phase of life where I can’t get out for weeknight classes and late nights anymore. I’ve been browsing local studios and community spaces to see what’s out there but I’m sure there will be spots that i’ve missed! Open to any style aside from dance fitness or ballet / contemporary. Something like west coast swing maybe? anything Latin? or even Bhangra?
Any location but ideally central / west.
Amongst all the fast-tracked changes that have been made and proposed in this governments term, I feel those that affect the environment have a biggest potential to affect NZ’s standing globally and send us as a country spiralling way, way down.
We enjoy a privileged position in the world compared to our size, because we pull above our weight in exports: dairy, meat, seafood, horticulture, and tourism. I think we don’t always appreciate that our collective quality of life could be far, far worse.
The Gene Technology bill is proposing to end NZ’s ban on using genetic technologies and gene editing. It would take us from one of the strictest countries to one of the least regulated. It would mean our exports can no longer be guaranteed as “GE free”. One of the reasons NZ products are sought after and highly regarded overseas is because they are perceived as cleaner and better, and the GE free status is part of that.
If we lose that image, the desirability of NZ products drop and we lose a huge market overnight. Our marketing campaign on “clean green NZ” is doing a lot of the heavy lifting but if we outright ditch our GE free status I can’t see how that isn’t going to have a massive hit on our desirability to international markets and our economy.
Then theres the dissolution of the ministry of environment AND the conservation amendment bill, which is proposing to make 60% of public conservation land eligible for disposal and development.
My question is, without environment, what do we have left?
I barely have the time and energy to keep up with all the legislation changes that are going through, but I can’t see how these collective changes aren’t going to irreversibly fuck up our land and our economic future.
I've been on the bone broth buzz lately after I realised I can ask my butcher for beef bones. I use it as the base for heaps of meals or sometimes just have with noodles. It feels like super low effort high reward kind of meal. Less than $10 all up, super nutritious and makes heaps.
Do you have any favourite low effort (or cost) and high reward recipes on your rotation at the moment? Or any cuts of meat you ask your butcher for that aren't typically out on the shop floor? I'm keen as for some new ideas.
Does anyone remember singing this song in primary school?
I have a memory of a white middle aged dude coming into our school assembly and teaching it to us, then leaving. My cynical ass kid self decided he was a sales rep trying to get the kids to do his advertising for him. But my parents said that the restaurants in the song weren’t all under the same brand so my conspiracy was off.
It came to mind because my kid came home singing “A Ram Sam Sam” from daycare recently which I hadn’t heard before. So not only were we fed a song about takeaways but they ripped off the rhythm from a genuine Moroccan kids song.
I’m going for an ADHD assessment today as an adult / parent and I’m trying to distill my experience into words.
One of my constant experiences since childhood is that I can’t do simple tasks methodically, for example flossing my teeth or mowing the lawns. Every time I start, I harden my resolve and hype myself up and be like this is the time I’m going to do it. I am going to follow the obvious, logical pattern of flossing one tooth then the next until they’re all done, or mow the lawn in stripes one at a time. Then at some point (I don’t notice when) I *always* end up going off in random directions everywhere, taking five times as long and missing spots. I try every single time and I have never completed either task methodically. And that applies to basically every task in my life.
I’m not looking for medical advice or a diagnosis here obviously but wondering, Does anyone here with confirmed ADHD think this sounds relatable or like it could stem from that?
I think I assumed this was everyone’s experience ? Is it not ?
