Archive for November, 2008
I don’t eat organic lentils but I did vote green
On Saturday 8 November, just four days after US citizens voted in Obama in as their new President, New Zealanders too went to the polls to vote in their preferred Government for the coming three years. Now I generally don’t consider myself to be an organic lentil eating, vege patch growing, tree hugger. However, this [...]
Ripped off by the Discount
Even at 4pm on Saturday afternoon Borders was packed (okay, so I’m exaggerating just a little – this is Wellington, New Zealand after all). Pushing our 6 month old boy in the buggy in front of me, I slowly navigated the isles, while my wife and daughter sat reading books in the children’s area. Why [...]