"Nice to know after months of road closures while the council were installing our new cycle lanes that they have also improved the drainage in Memorial Ave," writes a reader. "And supplied Mt Roskill with a new community swimming pool."
Previous generation parenting
1."We had a Volvo station wagon and dad let us ride on the roof holding on to the luggage rack! (And now he flips out if my kids are not buckled into car seats before we start the engine)."
2. "My parents moved out and left me to live in the house when I was 16. We had exactly one conversation about it, whereby they asked if I wanted to move to another state with them and I said no ... I wasn't allowed to heat the house up much, so I always wore a snow jacket inside, and basically just came home to sleep. But now that I'm older, I realise that it's more on the line of child abandonment ... oh well."
3."Got my first pair of four inch heels when I just turned 12 years old. Shiny black patent mules. I mean, I begged for those shoes, but as an adult - ew. By 15 I'd worn high heels so much that my tendons shortened and it was painful to walk in flat shoes or even bare feet. Thankfully I'm no longer an idiot and have accepted my short-arsed-ness."
