Yeah I think communal art making is a pretty different experience.
This thing has all these stations with different supplies and adult helpers, and it's part of a bigger art festival. They even get to make pottery.
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Actually yes I did, I was taken to a local festival and saw this tree.
It's really cool, all day they let all the kids do free art and craft activities and display the results.
Come to think of it when I lived in Wellington I hardly saw any.
They grow quite big and their fruits are small, about the size of a 20c piece, so people probably don't notice them unless their brain already has them filed away as a food source. The last lot I had were from the side of the road.
Turns out Aucklanders are not allowed to plant them any more!
That's interesting about drinking the seeds. Wonder if it's nice.
Ah that looks really yum. I must say this convo has given me a real desire to try banana juice.
I wonder if some of the Asian shops have it? I quite like some of the drinks like cold chrysanthemum tea.
That's really fascinating!! Cool that you had your own supply.
I was going to say weird about them not eating feijoas but Ithink loquats are like that in NZ, especially in Auckland. There are heaps of loquat trees that no one harvests. I used to eat a lot from them in my student days.
Good movie, but still. I want it to be about either cars or a type of diving off wharves.
Sorry to burst your bubble but New Zealand has one of the highest per capita rates of cat ownership in the world.
Also, only 6% of New Zealanders keep their cats inside and 30% of them are opposed to keeping cats inside.
Just realized your username is about cars!
I would idolize Avasarala if it wasn't for S1E1.
That's part of it but as I understand it they are meant to fund a lot of little services to stop people falling through the gaps e.g antetatal care (young Maori women have disproportionately less access to antenatal classes and care, and thus disproportionately die in childbirth).
They only got funding two years ago and have been underspending a bit but this page gives you an idea. Everything from early childcareand meningicoccal screening to home insulation to breast and prostate screening to accessible vaccination programmes to alcohol treatment and social work.
I had the impression they're kind of like Whaunau Ora, which as far as I could tell was behind establishing a lot of those little communuty trust type charities you only hear of if you're ill or disabled and/or have elderly parents who need extra help or are otherwise falling through the gaps.
Despite the spin coming out of Epsom electorate types, you don't usually have be be Maori to benefit from this stuff (it's no more segregated than the main health system, just Maori-led and uses Maori values). You just have to be in the area/rohe and need the help. My pakeha mum had a really wonderful person looking after her each week. When there was a storm coming once she phoned my mum and invited her to stay over.