How not to transport sand.
Beautiful plumage - was it real?
Val writes: "I am absolutely positive I saw a peacock walking along the footpath of St George St (between Holy Cross School and Video Ezy) in Papatoetoe between 8 and 8.30am, before it went up a driveway and out of sight. Does anyone in the area know someone with a peacock for a pet? I didn't get a photo and I am now starting to think I was hallucinating."
A job going as a security guard might've been clearer
Worst internet things
1. Person who types "wow" or "wow. Just wow" in front of retweet.
2. Atheists who love to argue.
3. All discourse about bacon.
4. Facebook rearranging your feed.
5. Women being asked things then their answers being corrected.
6. Follow-up emails from PR people.
7. Hate following people on Twitter. (Like hate watching reality TV.)
8. Anyone who starts things with "Sorry folks".
9. New parents on Facebook.
10. Kickstarters for weddings.
(Via sbnation.com)
Welcome sign
Scott Abercrombie took a photo of this sign at the entrance to a property on the Coromandel Peninsula. "Great to see the welcome signs coming out early for Easter," he says. "Not sure what else is included in his catch- all clause at the end."
Priorities: a restaurant meal v caring for sick kids
"There are a lot of restaurants within walking distance of Starship hospital," says a reader in response to the suggestion a caregiver meal should be provided. "A good walk may do you a power of good after being cooped up in a hospital ward all day. You never know, you may work up an appetite for real food, not greasies." Another reader replies: "And while the parent is having a 'good walk', their child is alone in a strange place, sick and/or in pain, being poked and prodded by strangers. Doing yourself a 'power of good after being cooped up in a hospital ward all day' is not exactly a top priority when your child is in hospital. Parents don't leave Starship to get food from restaurants nearby because they're caring for their kids. Children's wards expect you to stay with your child overnight to help care for and calm them -- they'd need to hire more staff otherwise. If it comes down to feeding a parent a few times a day, or hiring more nurses/social workers, the first option is considerably cheaper."
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