'I'm gonna Gok you' she said----scarry eh

One of my colleagues told me she will Gok me and that if I wear my soon to fall off jeans to work on Monday that she will take them off. I said, 'Lucky I don't go commando then eh.' My kids at school also told me to go shopping for new clothes, jeans at least, so I did after school. It feels so much better now, being able to get into normal sized jeans; ones that don't have a 40 involved and I am talking inches of course. Damn, does that mean I also have to buy tops----Nah, I got them sitting on coat hangers in my wardrobe, GOING DOWN DOWN DONW. Maybe I can used to this new minus 25kg 'me.' Of course I shall need to buy even smaller jeans in about 3 months or face the wrath of my 'collectives' at work. Hell, I have never worried about cloths before. It was simply going onto a shop and asking for whatever fitted. Choice is a wonderful 'feeling.'

K2 may be gone but already the next product is for sale!

WE will not see any laws with teeth until August 2013 to stop the sale of Synthetic drugs so it is time that we all took a stand against these shops in our community who are 'preying' on our people, particularly our young people. This Saturday from about  11am, go to Manurewa where a shop is selling this stuff and make your point. OK, I am not saying that we should break the law but there is nothing wrong with making alot of noise and letting the landlord and owner of the business know that we do not want this stuff on our streets. There have been reports that high school students have been smoking it on the street nearby. OK, we all know that such sales will go 'underground,' but it is important that we at least take this step to stop shops from selling it. That will take one point of sale from the equation. Where do you go to make your point?----206 Great South Road, Manurewa!   Lets do it and send a stgrong message.

First Brendan Hora and now Aaron Gilmore. INDEPENDANTS!

What can I say? Is the New Zealand Parliament going to be loaded up with independant thinkers and will we see a time when Mps will  have a real say in the futrue of NZ, without the constraints of belonging to the 'party hack machinery?
Don't be silly. What we are seeing is the ramifications of two men who behaved badly and now they are wanting to pin their political futures on the mast of 'independant thinking.' Hell, if they had actually embarked in a bit of 'thinking' they would not be in this position. Both of them will disappear from the political landscape and no one will even remember them in the very near future. In the meantime they will keep their snouts in the Welle-trough' and continue to draw their salaries and enjoy the other fringe benefits of belonging to that institution we call Parliament. There has to be a better way of dealing with erant MPs, particularly the ones on the 'List.' We need to find a balance where people can speak out and not slavishly hold to the party line, but when there is a serious indiscretion, then a way to have them leave Parliament must be found. Any party can have members who fit this description.
Of course we could always hope that the two 'new friends on the outer' could see the lght and simply piss off!

I am going quietly for a while as I catch up with being back at work.

I am back at work and catching up  with all the the events and 'happeninsg' during my 5 week absense. Go back and read up on my many blogs until I get up to speed again. I am tempted to write one about the imminent demise of 'synthetic cannabis' sales in corner shops (we call them dairies in New Zealand), but I shall wait and see what happens over the next few days.

Grrrrrr----it's cold outside---Whats a girl gotta do?

I know, It's sartorial elegance, but it does the trick. Yeah the rugs are from the Warehouse and not exactly Kashmir, but who cares. It's pissing down outside and there's a warning about more wind and rain. Hell, I'm not going outside. If I need a wee-wee, I shall just have to hold it until morning when I can go for a walk and use the street. Just in case you think this is Neil; think again. It's Perdy.  Yum, those chicken necks were nice for dinner. Now----what's next?  Oh hell, I'm not getting up.

Will you please turn the damn light off and while you're at it, turn the TV down too!

Neil will have to bring them to me!

I wish we could give Gilmore 90 days to vacate his position in Parliament!

It seems that bully-boy Gilmore has a 'unique ability' for asking people he comes into contact with about their knowledge of who he is and what he does. The answer should always be easy for those asked, because all they need to say is--'stuff all, mate,' judging by your past and recent history. But that answer is not likely because most people 'don't know' who he is and don't care. It is not the NZ way to use one's position in the manner he does. He is a bully and needs to look for another occupation, before the National Party places him so low on the 'List' that he will need to see his party achieving about 70% of the vote at the next election. I am sure that Mr Key is hoping that Gilmore will just resign, but that too is not likely. Gilmore needs to have his snout in the trough in order for him to  throw his inflated sense of importance around the country. I suppose as long as people are not hurt or put out too much, at least he provides us with some entertainment. With the publicity he is achieving, those he targets will have the support of the nation. Hey Aaron, Mrs Brown says its time to feck off!

Charter Schools are simply a front to enable more of the education dollar being syphoned off into the hands of National's friends!

Take a look at who is supporting the idea of Charter Schools and almost inevitably you will see the friends of National and ACT lining up to take advantage of this shift in resourcing. The CS initiative is nothing more than an attack on free public education and the growing realization amongst entrepreneurs and big business to get their greedy hands on more of the public purse. They have dragged along self-seeking groups who have been kidnapped by the hype in the belief that they too can stick their snouts into the trough. With  the unholy alliance between ACT and National and along with the misguided support of the Maori Party, we have the makings of a completely changed face for education in New Zealand. Those supporting this groundswell of selfishness have completely failed to take head of overseas research. We are dooming a generation of New Zealand children to having to endure what will rapidly fall apart, apart from the few who will benefit from the C S movement, because many students will be cast aside as being 'too difficult to handle.' Those kids will be left out of education as the public system grinds under the burden of a sector that will receive less and less funding. Doesn't that formula sound familiar?
It is time for NZers to wake up and state clearly that they will not let their kids suffer from the State funded greed of  groups who are kow-towing to the National/Act/Maori Party alliance. The damage done with  the roll out of CS is going to take a generation to fix. We have seen this scenario so many times under National Governments. A nation that does not take good carte of the children and their education is one that does not care. Profits are the only underpinning philosophy re CS. It is dressed up as something else but the bottom line is giving more to the friends of National, nothing more, nothing less!