Endings can also become beginnings. And as we head into 2021 we’re closing Kiwiboomers simply because it’s time to move on.
We’ve published KBs for twelve years but now in the confronting glare of computer screens sight dims (oh for typewriters!), and technology outpaces us with among other things, its unending updates.
So, thanks to our many contributors and readers over the years - we hope you have shared the fun we have had producing Kiwiboomers.
Paul and Melita Smith
The first time I heard an audience stand and applaud a film, it was for Michael Moore’s Bowling for Columbine, an indictment of a mass shooting and America’s gun laws.
The second time I heard it was last week at the first screening of his film, Which country should we invade next?
Here are some questions I would like answered about this begging bylaw business.
Isn’t poverty the cause of begging? So why not just ban poverty?
This week CYF social workers will be muttering, ‘another bloody review.’ But they’ll take it in their stride because new directions have become so characteristic of the department that old timers don’t even count them anymore. (I sometimes wonder if public service departments with a high political content would be better off if run by a version of Pharmac).
From Max Cryer‘s book ‘Is It True?’
The distress call ‘mayday’ is English for the French term m’aidez.
Using the word ‘mayday’ dates from 1923, when a senior radio officer at Croydon Airport was asked to think of an easily understood word which could indicate distress.
Day 1: Slightly lost. Ask an old derro if the 277 bus goes past here.
“No Sevens here!” he shouts and I move away just a little. “No mate, not here. Only Sixes come past here” he yells.
Watching the Government defend the indefensible is often more comedy than drama. Revenue Minister Michael Woodhouse tells Newshub that New Zealand has ‘a sound tax system on par with the rest of the world’; Health Minister Jonathan Coleman tastes woeful hospital fare at Dunedin hospital after a blizzard of complaints about its quality but only after barring media…. So for all we know, the good doctor might well have dined on caviar.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself “I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along. You must do the thing you cannot do.”
Been out of your comfort zone lately? Can you recall how you reacted how it influenced making the right decisions?
She runs a computer and gizmo repair business in a Central Auckland Mall. When I visited with my lame duck cellphone which didn’t seem to want to re-charge, she diagnosed the problem immediately. Mould, or at least something resembling that at the end of the charger line.
Hmm” she said, casting for the word. “Wet…”
“Damp” I said, thinking it would help.
1971 – the summer I was sixteen. We’d moved from the Waikawa Bay farm to Kapowai Bay on D’Urville Island a couple of years before and my parents ran launch and Land Rover transport, baches for hire and fishing trips.