Friday 5 April is Gumboot Friday. WEAR YOURS!
Hi Neighbours,
Exceed supports mental health awareness in NZ and is getting behind Mike King’s – I Am Hope gumboot challenge.
Wear your gumboots this Friday 5th April 2019. Upload a photo of yourself wearing your gumboots to your Facebook using #exceedgumbootchallenge and tag our FB page @exceedfranchising. We will donate $1.00 to the GumbootUpNZ for every photo received (capped at $2,000.00 total donation).
Alternatively, you can donate directly to the Gumboot Friday Kiwibank Account via internet banking. Simply log into your internet banking and as a payee. You'll find the bank account in the “company” list by searching for “Gumboot Friday Appeal” or “I Am Hope”. Alternatively, you can make a donation in person at your local Kiwibank and PostShop branch.
#gumbootupnz
GOODBYE THE POST - NOT QUITE.
Finally joined the large throng of former The Evening Post, The Dominion and DomPost home and office delivery subscribers and cut out a delivered newspaper. Well almost.
This follows in the footsteps of the Upper Hutt Leader being scrapped from weekly delivery.
Now I am among those who receive a digital copy of The Post on a computer and smart phone and a delivered Saturday- only copy of the same. The savings in costs is close to $800 per year. But that is not the real reason for my cancelling delivery.
The delivery wrapped-up newspaper (which can occur as early as 11pm) was being thrown either onto the driveway and skidding onto flowers lining the driveway or direct hits onto the sunflowers.
The Post has become a shell of a major capital city daily newspaper. It is almost not and local regional news - especially sport - is usually non existent.
The name is not good. Google The Post and you get a host of NZ Post sites which are entirely unrelated. The Post is a featureless name. The Dominion (or The Dom for short) had character as a name and a history as a newspaper in Wellington.
Just a thought: The Harvey Norman News Bulletin sounds relevant.
The Evening Post at its zenith and even with the competition of the morning paper (The Dominion) was NZs best selling newspaper with a relative huge home delivered demand.
But where I have lived for the past 4 years or so, I may have been the sole resident receiving The Post in a radius of 300 metres of housing north, south, east and west.
Poll: Would you rather: Christmas in summer forever or winter forever?
Just a bit of a fun poll to get you thinking.
If you had to live out your Christmas days, would you prefer it was a summer Christmas or a winter Christmas?
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62.8% Summer
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35.7% Winter
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1.4% Other - I'll share below
We're talking new year resolutions...
Tidying the house before going to bed each night, meditating upon waking or taking the stairs at work.
What’s something quick, or easy, that you started doing that made a major positive change in your life?
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