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Britta water filter and cartridge. Has had little use. As new but is missing the little flap over the spout.
How can I get my 89 year old husband a Covid passport? He has had his 2 vaccines and he has the same details as me. My covid passport was easy to get we had our vaccines on the same day and were not given any "card" at Waikanae Beach medical centre as they had run out. My husband … View moreHow can I get my 89 year old husband a Covid passport? He has had his 2 vaccines and he has the same details as me. My covid passport was easy to get we had our vaccines on the same day and were not given any "card" at Waikanae Beach medical centre as they had run out. My husband doesn't drive or travel., We had an old passport and an out of date driving licence they are rejected by the website. Also as he was born in 1932, that was too late to use the birth certificate we have. He has a Myheath account but that also doesn't work!!!
We are told we have to provide up to date Password, Driving licence, or birth certificate, but 1932 is too old to be accepted. We don't have those bits of identification and he don't need them. He wouldn't get a licence anyway. I have emailed Ministry of Health Covid line. No answer yet. Has anyone else had this experience? If so could you give me some suggestions so my husband can get his passport and travel around the district easily and freely.
THIS WEEKEND'S PROGRAMME SCHEDULE ON Coast Access Radio 104.7FM
* Saturday 8.30am: "Ratbag's Racing Show" - a repeat of yesterday's picks from Nigel Hopkins and Chris Craddock 🐎
* Sat 9am: "Conversations" - Todd Zaner chats with Jordan Harcourt-Hughes … View moreTHIS WEEKEND'S PROGRAMME SCHEDULE ON Coast Access Radio 104.7FM
* Saturday 8.30am: "Ratbag's Racing Show" - a repeat of yesterday's picks from Nigel Hopkins and Chris Craddock 🐎
* Sat 9am: "Conversations" - Todd Zaner chats with Jordan Harcourt-Hughes (cards pictured), see separate post...
* Sat 9.30am: "Lets Talk Gambling" - Join Graeme and Josh and Andrew Brown from PGF.
* Sat 10am: "The Blues Train" - TOOT TOOT! All aboard this groovy hour of jazz and blues accompanied by Ryan's dulcet tones...
* Sat 11am: "Coastguard Catch-up" - Tanya Jayne Ellis catches up with Coastguard Kapiti's fundraising officer, Pete Woodward.
* Sat 2pm: "NZ Music" - Tanya Jayne Ellis presents half an hour of her ecclectic picks!
* Sat/Sun/Mon 3pm: Rob Walker's NZ Retro weekly Top 40 - This weekend with music from November 1978...
* Sunday 7am: "Suzy and Friends" - Big and little kids! Join Suzy and the crew for fun, sing a longs, stories, jokes, shout outs and loads more!!!
* Sun 9am: "Children's Story" - Vivienne Bailey is back in the studio with awesome stories from Ōtaki's 'Books and Co.' (pictured).
* Sun 12.30pm: "Local Architecture Now" - Rosalind Derby chats with Suzanne McNamara from "Uptown" Auckland...facinating!
* Monday 7pm: "HOT Topic" - Peter Grindrod catches up with HUHA's Carolyn Press-McKenzie.
For more on our extensive range of programmes, head to Coast Access Radio's website. Have a great weekend!
Hi there! This Saturday morning at 9am on our "Conversations" programme, on 104.7FM (an online live, and via podcast) Breakfast Host Todd Zaner speaks with Ōtaihanga local and all 'round busy, creative woman Jordan Harcourt-Hughes.
Jordan works full time in her own communications… View moreHi there! This Saturday morning at 9am on our "Conversations" programme, on 104.7FM (an online live, and via podcast) Breakfast Host Todd Zaner speaks with Ōtaihanga local and all 'round busy, creative woman Jordan Harcourt-Hughes.
Jordan works full time in her own communications businesss, was an artist feature in this years Kapiti Art Trail, has written two science-fiction genre books, with another in the late editing stages, runs several different communications courses and has also led a 6month course in2021 called, "168 Days of Magic" out of her Ōtaihanga studio! Phew!
Learn more by tuning in tomorrow morning or listen to the podcast at your conveniece, just go to our website and look for "Conversations" under "Programmes"; it'll be available from later on tonight.
Jute is a natural fibre with golden & silky shine, and hence nicknamed as The Golden Fibre.
Jute is one of the most versatile natural fibres that has been used in raw materials for packaging, textiles, non-textile, and agricultural sectors.
Jute is a vegetable plant whose fibres are dried… View moreJute is a natural fibre with golden & silky shine, and hence nicknamed as The Golden Fibre.
Jute is one of the most versatile natural fibres that has been used in raw materials for packaging, textiles, non-textile, and agricultural sectors.
Jute is a vegetable plant whose fibres are dried in long strips, and it’s one of the cheapest natural materials available; together with cotton, it is one of the most frequently used.
The plants from which jute is obtained grow mainly in warm and humid regions, such as Bangladesh, China, and India.
Jute can be grown year-round and is harvested every six months. It can take decades to produce the same volume of wood fibre and it requires much larger tracts of land to cultivate.
The woody core of the jute plant, called hurd, has thousands of potential industrial and commercial uses. As an alternative to wood, hurd is capable of meeting most of the world’s demand for wood and wood products. Using hurd and jute fibres means that the level of deforestation to meet the current demand for paper and wood could be significantly decreased if they were used as an alternative.
Jute is 100% biodegradable (it degrades biologically in 1 to 2 years), low-energy recyclable, and can even be used as compost for the garden. It is clear in terms of reusability and recyclability that jute bags are one of the best options available nowadays.
Jute fibres are tougher and more resilient than paper made from wood pulp and can withstand prolonged exposure to water and weather. They can be reused many times and are thus very environmentally friendly.
The application of jute is a significant step in combating the use of different materials containing toxic wastes. Jute bags cut down the employment of plastic bags, which have now been effectively banned in many countries due to their harmful components. Jute seems to be one of the best alternatives to it.
We hope you enjoyed learning about Jute as much as we did, we would love to hear your comments! We have more interesting reads on our blog: www.curtainclean.co.nz...
We have two small lamp shades that are too small for our lamps. Measurements are, 140mm height, 190mm width.
The pictures of the protest at parliament this week were concerning. Trump masks, Trump flags and coded messages dismissing Joe Biden seem to have little to do with our situation in New Zealand.
Below is a piece by Nicky Hager, courtesy of The Spinoff, that I wanted to share with you. Please … View moreThe pictures of the protest at parliament this week were concerning. Trump masks, Trump flags and coded messages dismissing Joe Biden seem to have little to do with our situation in New Zealand.
Below is a piece by Nicky Hager, courtesy of The Spinoff, that I wanted to share with you. Please feel free to share it with other friends also.
Nicky Hager: My message to friends who joined this week’s protest
Nicky Hager | Guest writer
Opinion
Are these really the people you want to align yourself with?
Dear vaccine hesitant friends,
I know you feel worried about vaccines. I understand you feel picked on for not getting the vaccine. But I am feeling disturbed that quite a few good, principled people I know took part in the November 9 anti-vaccine march on parliament. It has impelled me to write.
When people I know march down the road with white supremacists, Trump supporters, fundamentalist Christians, people who are pro-guns, anti-UN, anti-immigrant and anti-Jewish, people who believe a powerful “them” want to kill millions and enslave the earth, things have got totally out of hand.
On Tuesday, this was what you were part of:
1. Many of the prominent people on the march were espousing exactly the same extreme and confused views before the Covid pandemic began. Their current campaigning is exploiting the vaccine issue to push those prior-existing beliefs. They were using your presence at their protest to promote dangerous, marginal ideas.
2. Another set of people in the protest came directly from the anti-1080 campaign, the sadly mistaken idea that Department of Conservation staff are recklessly poisoning human water supplies and trying to kill or mind-control the population. Notice how easily they transferred these ideas to a totally different context of a virus pandemic and vaccination. Remember that anti-1080 people have been willing to threaten other people’s lives if they disagreed with them.
3. Then there is a whole package of Trumpian ideas about the government and news media being enemies of ordinary people. It was in pro-Trump protests in the US that resistance to and denial of Covid were first used as a rallying point for far-right ideas. That is where the political model being seen here began. Do you feel comfortable being part of this?
4. The Trumpian politics have come with the US ideas about “freedom”, meaning freedom of the individual to do what they like and stuff everyone else. In New Zealand, the dominant values are much more about community and caring for each other. Freedom sounds good, but it’s a slogan for deeply conservative and unattractive ideas that deny or avoid the responsibility we have for others.
5. On top of all this, I strongly suspect the Covid resistance is being actively used by some on the right of New Zealand politics to try to destabilise Jacinda Ardern and the Labour Government. Already it has familiar fingerprints all over it. Notice how the recent farmer protests (on entirely different issues of environment policy) use the same extreme anti-Jacinda and anti-Labour script about communism and lies. There are strong signs of orchestration with the rural protests as well.
6. But the most the repellent part of the Covid protests is the constant hatred and violent, misogynist threats directed at Jacinda Ardern as a woman prime minister and at many other women in positions of authority. What on earth are liberal, enlightened people doing in the company of these violent, racist, anti-women people?
We’ve seen these elements in New Zealand before. But the current toxic brew is strong and brings all these parts together at once.
I hope all this will blow over. I hope that few years from now it will be hard to find any normal person who wants to admit they took part in this madness. But in the meantime, something ugly and dangerous is occurring and you should not be part of it.
As Toby Manhire wrote on Wednesday, “reasonable New Zealanders who wish to protest the vaccine mandates have an urgent responsibility today: to actively, vocally disavow and denounce the violent cheerleaders they find themselves marching alongside.”
This includes you, reasonable New Zealander friends: please actively, vocally disavow and denounce the violent cheerleaders. Please realise that your concerns are being exploited for other agendas. And never, ever join or support this kind of fascist protest again.
When it comes to homeware trends, the cactus is a perennial favourite. Create some super-cute and affordable cactus-themed crafts with Resene paints.
Find out how to create your own.
Hi! I have a 9am FREE haircut opportunity for tomorrow morning. The Salon is Lifestyle Hair. Address is 7 Seaview road Shop 12 Copperfield Village, Paraparaumu beach. If you’d like the spot please let me know so I can book it. You don’t need to bring anything as the appointment is free of … View moreHi! I have a 9am FREE haircut opportunity for tomorrow morning. The Salon is Lifestyle Hair. Address is 7 Seaview road Shop 12 Copperfield Village, Paraparaumu beach. If you’d like the spot please let me know so I can book it. You don’t need to bring anything as the appointment is free of charge. You’ll receive a consultation, hair wash in our spa room, cut and blowave. This is all to help my skill development. Everything is over seen by our award winning trainer. 😊
Let’s Get Wellington Moving is looking for your feedback on four transport options that will change how Wellingtonians get around and ensure we’re ready for the future.
Your trips of tomorrow could include an enhanced Basin Reserve, with new cycleways, walkways and green spaces for everyone … View moreLet’s Get Wellington Moving is looking for your feedback on four transport options that will change how Wellingtonians get around and ensure we’re ready for the future.
Your trips of tomorrow could include an enhanced Basin Reserve, with new cycleways, walkways and green spaces for everyone to enjoy – take a look at the options and have your say today.
The Kapiti Pakeke Lions Club are running their usual playhouse raffle with a closing date of 12 February 2022. First prize is the playhouse, second prize a 30 minute scenic flight and third prize is a Kitchen Wiz. Go to kapitipakekelions.org.nz... to purchase your tickets online.
All proceeds go to… View moreThe Kapiti Pakeke Lions Club are running their usual playhouse raffle with a closing date of 12 February 2022. First prize is the playhouse, second prize a 30 minute scenic flight and third prize is a Kitchen Wiz. Go to kapitipakekelions.org.nz... to purchase your tickets online.
All proceeds go to the Life Flight Trust and local charities
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Mum's cat Suzie has gone walk about from the Council flats in Arnold Gr,Paraparaumu Beach - again.
The flats back onto Kena Kena School.
She took off when the council mowers turned up yesterday morning - the cat,not Mum 🤣
She was wondering whether Suzie may have been locked in a shed or … View moreMum's cat Suzie has gone walk about from the Council flats in Arnold Gr,Paraparaumu Beach - again.
The flats back onto Kena Kena School.
She took off when the council mowers turned up yesterday morning - the cat,not Mum 🤣
She was wondering whether Suzie may have been locked in a shed or garage.
Last time Suzie disappeared,she was gone for about 6 days.
It has been put on Facebook as well.
Suzie is a black and white "big boned" cat.
She is microchipped.
Have attached a photo.
If anyone has seen her, could they please contact mum on the following numbers :
Noeline
049055798
0211326924
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