A friend, who notices these things, said to me recently that we aren’t having much rain these days. She trawls through the weather forecast and her eyes light up as she reads about rain being predicted. Each time I just hope she’s wrong, as I’ll get wet on my bike. She’s almost always wrong. So’s … [Read more...]
Shamubeel Eaqub:
I really enjoy Shamubeel’ s thinking. So, it was interesting to read this article this week in Stuff from Shamubeel Eaqub commenting on the pros and cons of lockdowns. He stated: Level 2 restrictions did not have a big impact on the economy, but level 3 reduced economic activity by around 30 per … [Read more...]
Ignore radio talk back on Covid 19:
It’s fascinating the empty nonsense we hear on radio talkback is promoting that we follow Sweden which supposedly has more liberties than we have. In recent comments talkback radio host Ryan Bridge wrote, "It’s becoming abundantly clear the Prime Minister’s sworn mission of stamping Covid-19 out … [Read more...]
This is a brilliant analogy of how we are careless about saving cents and causing millions of costs:
In this article Eric Crampton tells the tale of the faulty O-ring which caused the explosion of one of the Space rockets and the death of all the astronauts inside. It was a simple, in fact cheap, fitting which failed and destroyed everything everybody had been working on. In this article … [Read more...]
Stan O’Keefe:
This week one of our good friends, Stan O’Keefe, died. Stan and his wonderful wife, Lynne, ran Warners Hotel in the Square with their daughter Sarah and staff. Stan was a classic publican. He forever was changing his bars and he had customers who had followed him from pub to pub. I remember one … [Read more...]
In Conclusion 25 August 2020
Sir John Hansen Chair of CDHB 18 August 2020
CDHB Chat Questions/Comments 18 August Tuesday Club with Sir John Hansen, Chair of Canterbury District Health Board ///// what do you know about the CDHB WorryingI am disappointed by Meates leavingTa Mark is on the boarddismayed at the departuresIs the CDHB now getting its full population … [Read more...]
Garry writes about housing…
I have written many times about housing. It’s because I think we should all be passionately committed to housing for all. It is a human right to have a home and we could, in this country, achieve this goal. If we had a will. There are many aspects to the housing market, and who provides these … [Read more...]
Last Week Dr Ruth Spearing on the CDHB
We had an inspiring session last week, led by Ruth Spearing, a recently retired specialist at CDHB. Ruth highlighted the issues which CDHB has been facing and there was a lively discussion which followed. The discussion attracted wide interest as it has been viewed over 2500 times in the last week. … [Read more...]
This Weeks Speaker Sir John Hansen
This week we will have the Chair of the CDHB, Sir John Hansen, speaking on the Board and how it proposes to address the massive challenge they have right now with 5 key senior staff having resigned. Two temporary appointments to key positions were announced on Friday. After our last session I … [Read more...]
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