Posts by Hebe
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Up Front: The Kids are All Right, in reply to Emma Hart,
What they're having to grapple with is over-connectivity, the invasiveness, the lack of privacy.
Absolutely. We haven't really had to deal with that until the last year, and I am so glad that their previous school actively discouraged indiscriminate cellphone use, ipods etc for under-14s. There was a ban on cells at their primary/intermediate school until the quakes, when the ability for instant contact became a blessing. Use of, and appropriate disclosure on, for Facebook etc has become a regular conversation and topic of negotiation in this house.
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Up Front: The Kids are All Right, in reply to BenWilson,
Very wide :-)
Not to mention waaaaay better dressed than we ever were.
And better teeth.
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This current bunch of teens are actually pretty damn great, I think. We Gen Xers raised us some kids who are more liberal, more questioning, and less risk-taking than we were at their age.
1000 per cent agreement. I know lots of seriously amazing teenagers who stun me with their insights, humanity and general "people" literacy.
It'd be a start, I think, if we asked "young people" (that being an amorphous blob, like "the gays") why they aren't voting. They're not idiots, they know.
A week ago our just-turned-16 son stunned his parents with "I'm writing a blog for Bomber." Pardon? "That guy on the Daily Blog asked me if I wanted to write a blog so I've done it. Wanna look?" And it was on this topic, so I'm reposting because every part of this is Finn's own work, his passion, his action that made it happen.
http://thedailyblog.co.nz/2014/03/22/guest-blog-finn-jackson-teenage-lobotomy/
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Up Front: Floodland, in reply to Geoff Hill,
Go to one of the natural hazards meetings about the district plan (see CCC website) and ask. What area? Flockton plans seem to be well under way; Heathcote River area zilch that I know of.
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I have always found KDC's appeal mystifying. But then I'm not the target market, so it doesn't matter. The whole KDC saga has always read like an Auckland story with a lot of knotted knickers about sfa to this provincial nobody.
Now he owns a top-of-the-tree collector's rarity by history's pre-eminent monster.... well yuk.
It's all a gift to National: class A distraction.
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From Tuesday next, fortnightly, from ours to yours, small but regular. Insights, interestings, angst-ings and Capture and the people: PAS makes our world better.
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Up Front: Floodland, in reply to Lilith __,
That’s an interesting and rather terrifying article.
John McCrone did a great job putting everyone's point of view.
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Capture: Getting closer, in reply to Nora Leggs,
That's horridly fascinating Nora.
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Cooool,. Armadillo slaters are truly odd.
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Cor! Thanks for the detail Jos. The photos are great to peer at. My family think I'm mad going round the garden taking pictures of tiny things, with outbreaks of swearing. The tripod does seem essential--mine keeps slipping cos the camera is too heavy (cue swears as I catch it). I've recently discovered the essential-ness of a separate flash, so saving up for that too. The Raynox macro filter I bought dirt cheap on Trademe needs both those things to resolve the problems I've had. The results so far are technically rubbish -- but I'm enjoying them.
This is a tiny drip on the centre of a nasturtium leaf, converted to black and white and one of the few photos I have retrieved from a software meltdown.
