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Written By: Shanreagh - Date published: 8:51 pm, July 17th, 2026
May not be able to do the puzzle but it can be sucked and bashed onto something and that can be a useful distraction, probably better than the car keys that were lost in our family (see below)Written By: Shanreagh - Date published: 8:49 pm, July 17th, 2026
Used to be car keys in our family as the ultimate distractor until one day they could not be found in the shop where she had been propped up playing with them.....and never more were found! Ever!Written By: Shanreagh - Date published: 4:36 pm, March 4th, 2026
Another point is that possibly/hopefully the paydate will have been agreed with Management by the Union members/delegates*. As one of these* in a previous life we aimed to get new bands and back pay into members hands asap. Often these fleetingly high ...Written By: Shanreagh - Date published: 10:56 pm, January 11th, 2026
Yes I'm getting a bit of a beating there around some of my posts on Twitter....I was told that the ICE agent had told her she was under arrest and I now read that ICE agents have no right of arrest for US citizens so I don't know. She was going relatively ...Written By: Shanreagh - Date published: 10:14 pm, January 11th, 2026
Tim was around at Auckland Uni when I was in the early 1970s, a couple of years older than me. One of the larger than life characters around there then. He had a big lovely German shepherd whose name I cannot remember now. He lived in Grafton near Carlton ...Written By: Shanreagh - Date published: 3:00 pm, December 22nd, 2025
Weka, I don't have anything else to say except to thank you for your thoughtful post. Thank youWritten By: Shanreagh - Date published: 11:08 am, December 22nd, 2025
Here is an extract from the Waikato Times about the issue. https://www.waikatotimes.co.nz/nz-news/360921323/retired-waikato-couple-frustrated-over-pushed-back-deadlines-owed-holiday-pay?cx_testId=4&cx_testVariant=cx_1&cx_artPos=2&utm_source=waikato_times_ ...Written By: Shanreagh - Date published: 11:42 pm, December 18th, 2025
Well as a former HR/industrial relations person from an employers perspective experienced in both manual and computerised pay roll, with some health sector experience, & former union rep I would say it needs 1) a person dedicated to investigating and ...Written By: Shanreagh - Date published: 12:52 pm, November 25th, 2025
I can't work out if this is sarcasm or for real. As a Wgtn resident I'm hopeful it is sarcasm. She is going to Melbourne and that is a good place for her to be. She was hopeless as a Mayor.Written By: Shanreagh - Date published: 8:06 pm, November 18th, 2025
The cat with teeth like human teeth sort of horrified me. But it would probably not deter me from looking at the book or buying it as I would think that is had something to do with the book. Even having a BFA I could not have 'told' that the images were AI ...Written By: Shanreagh - Date published: 10:26 pm, September 27th, 2025
I agree Visubversa. The author has chosen a strange group to illustrate his theory. But if he had to illustrate by referring to a group who else could he use? (sarc) Race, religion, ethnicity, disability don't seem to be a factor. Women as a group are ...Written By: Shanreagh - Date published: 9:46 pm, September 27th, 2025
Hegseth’s Bronze Stars were meritorious service, not valour, awards for his roles as an instructor and civil affairs officer. Far out. Have you not heard the phrase 'An army marches on its stomaches' meaning that without support staff there would be no ...Written By: Shanreagh - Date published: 11:21 pm, September 10th, 2025
In the WCC model co-opted people have a right to participate including voting. These are people who have not been elected. If expertise is required on a statutory board or local Authority then it can be bought in as an advisory role to the Council. In the ...Written By: Shanreagh - Date published: 11:07 pm, September 10th, 2025
I've got no problem with co-option for expertise. I do have a problem with unelected or co-opted people, no matter who they are then having a right to vote to make decisions, as if they were fully elected councillors. I have not heard of another council co ...Written By: Shanreagh - Date published: 12:23 pm, September 10th, 2025
I actually have no problem with co-opting expertise to get said expertise or broaden the outlook. My view is that co-opted people should not have voting rights on any committees. We could double up on the number elected in a Maori ward to get specific ...Written By: Shanreagh - Date published: 12:09 pm, September 10th, 2025
The 'unelected' comment is, I believe, directed at the Wellington City Council, again. (We could do a series of lectures on how badly this Council has been run/governed over the last few years....) Wellington has one Maori ward: Wellington city is divided ...Written By: Shanreagh - Date published: 5:47 pm, September 9th, 2025
Wellington is a special case and should be studied for how not to do things for a long time into the future. WCC has one of the highest rate rises in NZ and has abysmal approval ratings. These two things need not be linked. Over the years WCC has flown in ...Written By: Shanreagh - Date published: 3:00 pm, August 24th, 2025
I find Brooke van Velden as scary a person as I used to find Gerry Wall. In their respective 'interests' (or impacts on all of us) of worker non rights and anti any abortion and their inability to see, at least publicly, a lesser or milder view. Such ...Written By: Shanreagh - Date published: 4:49 pm, July 28th, 2025
To coin a phrase, ha, ha. Wot Weka said. FWIW, I think immigration should prioritise refugees, family from the Pacific, people with skills we urgently need, and do so alongside building long term work/job stability for people who are committed to their ...Written By: Shanreagh - Date published: 12:41 pm, July 22nd, 2025
5.1.1.1.1.1 Drowsy M Kram's and Weka's responses make me proud to be a reader/part of this site. Thank you, you two! An invitation to expand, tick done, and then a careful reflection made by Weka with some additional points. Could be used as a model....... ...Written By: Shanreagh - Date published: 11:08 am, July 21st, 2025
Really good points Incognito. I think so much of what currently passes as research is based on a 'charming hypothesis looks for a home' approach. I think the information that has gone before which is sometimes explained and sometimes not, is itself ...Written By: Shanreagh - Date published: 10:39 am, July 21st, 2025
Yes the deferment. If this can be done why not build it as the policy. Why do we need to have these pay as you go arrangement/expectation? Why not caste it the other way...deferred unless a tax payer wants to pay as you go? I can see that some taxpayers ...Written By: Shanreagh - Date published: 10:26 am, July 21st, 2025
Yes I like that too and I always keep forgetting to mention that.....I think a series of smaller taxes like sales tax on sales of property, estate tax and financial transcations tax is the way to go.Written By: Shanreagh - Date published: 3:45 pm, July 20th, 2025
Yes I like these ideas. Much better to "To work together rather than abandon', and allow for time and improvements to work through before we throw any scheme, homes or people away.Written By: Shanreagh - Date published: 3:42 pm, July 20th, 2025
Yes I think there are good bits from both, though less keen on some of The Greens. If a future of where the taxes might go could be painted it might be a go-er and less able to be made a choice between two left parties.Written By: Shanreagh - Date published: 3:38 pm, July 20th, 2025
Not really about the threshholds or what things will buy or what things are valued at*- more about how, what and when these taxes come into play. I like the Labour one better for its nuanced approach. I also like taxes to come at logical and therefore less ...Written By: Shanreagh - Date published: 1:44 pm, July 20th, 2025
I get where you are coming from KJT. As I said I voted for her as an Independent. She later came out as representing The Greens. Had I known this I would not have voted for her as I do not believe in politics in local government I don't listen to talkback ...Written By: Shanreagh - Date published: 12:14 pm, July 20th, 2025
So 'I'm doing good for me', go away and here is the name of my lawyer!Written By: Shanreagh - Date published: 12:10 pm, July 20th, 2025
Agreeing with Drowsy requiring dairies to hold cash seems prudent. Though the dairy thieves .....will this lead to more hold-ups even if the cash is not held in the tills?Written By: Shanreagh - Date published: 12:07 pm, July 20th, 2025
That Bwaghorn is why I don't use these dairies. Tax avoidance through understating income is blatant. My dad being an accountant, was used to all the tricks about palming, cash handling showed this in practice in one of the Interisland ferries years ago. ...
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