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Hi HomeMakers,
Spring has sprung and with it my plants are waking up ready to grow and change from the bare twigs to beautiful plants. I love mother nature and her beautiful creations. I struggle to understand people who hate plants. My next door neighbour was an avid gardener for many decades and had a beautiful garden full with many beautiful and unusual plants. Unfortunately old age caught up with her and she moved. My new neighbours seem to hate anything green with a vengeance. They took a bulldozer in to rip out all those beautiful plants only to replace them with concrete. Now I feel sad every time I look at the barren concrete next door. The ironic thing is I think they believe they have increased the value of their home?
I have had to change the HomeMaking Forum so that you need a user name and password now. I did not want to do this, but I have had far too much unwanted spam from people trying to promote their various business (some of which I disapprove of greatly.) Please do not let this put you off. It is a great opportunity for discussions and problem solving.
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"Being broke is a temporary situation. Being poor is a mental state."
Money doesn’t grow on trees but food does.
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THINGS A MOTHER WOULD NEVER SAY
* How on earth can you see the TV sitting so far back?
* Yeah, I used to skip school a lot, too.
* Just leave all the lights on ... it makes the house look more cheery.
* Let me smell that shirt. Yeah, it's good for another week.
* Go ahead and keep that stray dog, honey. I'll be glad to feed and walk him
every day.
* Well, if Timmy's mom says it's OK, that's good enough for me.
* The curfew is just a general time to shoot for. It's not like I'm running a
prison around here.
* I don't have a tissue with me. Just use your sleeve.
* Don't bother wearing a jacket - the wind-chill is bound to improve.
THINGS A FATHER WILL NEVER SAY
* Well how 'bout that? I'm lost! Looks like we'll have to stop and ask for
directions.
* You know Pumpkin, now that you're thirteen, you'll be ready for non-chaperoned
car dates. Won't that be fun?
* I noticed that all your friends have a certain "up yours" attitude. I like
that in a young person!
* Here's a credit card and the keys to my new car. GO CRAZY!!!
* What do you mean you want to play football? Figure skating not good enough for
you, son?
* Your mother and I are going away for while. You might want to consider
throwing a party.
* Well, I don't know what's wrong with your car. Probably one of those
doo-hickie thingies - you know - that makes it run or something. Just have it
towed to the mechanic's and pay whatever they ask.
* No son of mine is going to live under this roof without an earring. Now quit
your belly aching and lets get to the mall.
* Whaddaya want to go and get a job for? I make plenty of money for you to
spend.
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I was saddened to hear of the death of Steve Irwin. He was a man with great passion and drive who helped educate many people about animals while helping animals.
I was disgusted at Germaine Greer’s sour comments about such a positive person. What astounded me further was on voicing my disgust with Germaine I found she actually has some people who agree with her stance. When I took the time to talk to these people in depth I discovered that the did not actually know much about all the good works Steve Irwin had done and were believing Germaine’s comments without taking the time to investigate them.
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Animals use sound to communicate with people. When hungry my goldfish wait until they can see me then they swim to the top of their bowl and make a loud “kissing” noise at the top of the water to catch my attention.
One of my cats has decided that we don’t pay much attention to her when she meows to be let out but when she scratches on the furniture we immediately respond by showing her the door. She has worked out what items make the loudest sound when scratched hence get the quickest response.
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Criminal behaviour and breaking the cycle.
As our prisons are overflowing with prisoners several thoughts really strike me.
1) Punishments need to suit the crime to be effective in bringing about changed
behaviour. You see this in children all the time.
2) Consider TVs “Super nanny” and her ability to turn “naughty” children around.
How many criminals would not be criminals if their parents had the support and
help required to teach them how to turn around their difficult children?
3) Who is responsible for children that grow up to become criminals?
According to Britain’s Office for National Statistics, “A typical working
parent spends just 19 minutes a day looking after their children” (Daily Mail, )
The Office for National Statistics studied nearly 4,950 people in a “Time Use
Survey,” tracking how much time each person allotted to individual activities
throughout the day. According to the study, the top three activities included
sleeping, working and watching television. At the bottom of the list, as
presented by the Daily Mail, were activities like reading at 10 to 24 minutes
per day and spending time with children at 19 minutes per day.”
4) What sort of example do the leaders of our society provide?
Just look at the behaviour of our politicians and celebrities. Are they really
as bad as they seam or does the newsworthiness of their misdemeanours paint an
unbalanced view of their behaviour? Certainly the examples of behaviour we hear
most about should not be looked at as good ways to behave.
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With all the money and energy spent on encouraging people to be active why does our local school take down their basketball hoops over the weekend. Surely allowing people free use of such a comparatively inexpensive resource would be beneficial. From NK
I quite agree with you NK.
Kia Ora Diana, As a worker for a Maori Health organisation I am appalled at the "Parting Thought" article You wrote in regards to Maori Health. Maori have had to adapt to a lot over the past 200 years. The addicition that has come as a result of the introduction to tabacco, alcohol, sugar etc has not been something that we as a people would have wished for. Before the European settlers came and introduced these substances to us we were a healthy people, living off the land and eating natural foods instead of a lot of the processed foods that have since been created. We have to accept that along with the good came the bad and the genetic make up of any indigenous people in any country of the world has to be given time to evolve. If you are too narrow minded to see this then maybe you should do some more research before you voice such racist comments about a people you obviously have no connection too.
Tina Harbers
Hi Tina, Thanks for your feed back. The "Parting Thought" is designed to get people thinking about things from an alternative perspective. Granted last months thought was somewhat racist. Many people from many races suffer health problems from too much processed food alcohol and tobacco. The point of the article was more about how the NZ Government is being blamed for a health problem that has arisen due to individuals bad choices and asking, would we as a society that is condemning this particular action, be more incensed if the resolution of the issue was removing a persons individual choice? Who is responsible for the health of your body you or the government? I believe people need to take responsibility for their own actions. As a part Maori from the East Coast, I feel I have a reasonably good understanding of Maori issues and I believe that the best way forward for any person is to look for the positive and concentrate on working on building a better future, not dwelling on past injustices, as this never does ANY person good. People need to be encouraged to take responsibility for their own actions.
Sometimes the firewall is a little too enthusiastic and denies access to just about everything. I have letter 22. It seems in England we share many of the same frustrations regards the slavery of families to the pound. I worry about the generations being brought up in 'care' as this is what continued child care provision amounts to, as well as the lost and lonely children who are home alone. From S.
Thanks ‘S’ for your shared concerns. I also share your frustration that peoples firewalls and spam filters Prevent HomeMaking Monthly getting through. Please remember you can always read it online here: http://www.HomeMaking.allwaze.com
You can also use the HomeMaking forum anytime. Check out the interesting posts and it's totally FREE.
My eMail address is diana@allwaze.com and I’d love to hear from you.
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Nothing new to report this month.
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Salads.
Salads are a healthy and delicious way of eating fresh vegetables. Unfortunately when you are making them for others you need to cater for different individual tastes. I know people who simply add what they like then find their children won’t eat any salad and they just let them have no vegetables with dinner!
I find the basic lettuce and grated carrot salad or coleslaw is best with all
the other ingredients in individual bowls beside your salad so peoples can add
what they like to their salad.
When making salads for your family this way will quickly show you what
ingredients everybody likes and which ingredients need to be kept separate
permanently.
Be careful when watching cooks on TV make delicious looking salads often their ingredients are expensive, or taste nice in an unusual sort of a way, but aren’t suitable as a staple diet as a more boring salad would be.
The following list of ingredients are appreciated by some as additions to a
salad or coleslaw:
Cheese, cucumber, spring onion, chives, finely diced onion, herbs: parsley,
sorrel, borage flowers, marjoram, oregano, thyme.
Asparagus, capsicum, tomatoes, raisons, nuts, croutons, sliced fruit, dried
diced fruit, eggs, bacon, salmon, salami, ham, cooked chicken.
Let me know if you have any other items you like to add to your salad.
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Does an apple a day really keep the doctor away? Apples have long been believed to confer health benefits to people, now there has been much research to back up the claims. Among the various health benefits apples are meant to provide are the following:
Prevent cancer and heart disease. Help with weight loss and improving age related memory problems. Lower blood cholesterol, improved bowel function, plus:
“A number of components in apples, most notably fiber and phytonutrients
have been found in studies to lower blood cholesterol and improve bowel
function, and may be associated with a reduced risk of ischemic heart disease,
stroke, prostate cancer, type II diabetes and asthma. Preliminary research from
Finland indicates diets with the highest intake of apple phytonutrients were
associated with a 46 percent reduction in the incidence of lung cancer. Findings
indicate that two apples a day or 12 ounces of 100% apple juice reduced the
damaging effects of the “bad” LDL cholesterol.”
- Interpoma 2002 Conference, Bolzano, Italy- Dianne Hyson, Ph.D.,
M.S., R.D., University of California-Davis
To find out more about the health benefits of apples try these sites:
http://www.bestapples.com/healthy/index.html
http://www.nutritionj.com/content/3/1/5
http://www.gopherglen.com/benefits.html.
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Do multiple possessions reduce our values? Consider we now buy more but enjoy what we have less. We have bigger houses but smaller families, more convenience but less time, more degrees- less sense, more knowledge- less judgement, more medicine- less wellness. Are you better off?
Until next month take care of yourselves, count your blessings, enjoy life.
Kindest regards,
Diana.
P.S. Moving? Changed email accounts? Please drop me a note with your updated address. Every month I get hundreds of “address not found” replies.
To contact me please email me at diana@allwaze.com
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