Sometimes as we sit around at the Management Meeting we are bemused about the range of things we end up having to discuss.
This week the topics included toilet paper and riots!!
1. Toilet Paper.
The toilets at work are horrific....no seats, no soap, often no water, no toilet paper but plenty of odour!!! You have to bring your own loo paper from home but not everyone plans ahead so all sorts is used!!!!
Anyway even for the hardy it got all a bit much this week...so a plumber has been called in. I ended up buying 48 rolls of loo paper for my teams but of course you can't just put it out for use as it will walk...... we now have toilet paper monitors!!!
2. Riots
After a month of no majority government ( and 3 different Ministers of Finance!!!) and the PM doing all he can to keep the Parliament from sitting to avoid a vote of no confidence, we think they may be sitting next Thursday. The numbers are very tight with the kingmaker(to use a Winstonian term) being Sir Alan (our Savo Island Host) who has just been sentenced to prison for 5 months for inciting arson!! Apparently even in prison he is eligible to vote so will get transported from prison to parliament by police!!! Sometimes is is hard to believe what happens as everyday stuff.
Anyway everyone is on riot alert..plans in place....just is case...At the Ministry of Finance buildings we are high risk as the Prime Minister shares our compound. Will be interesting to see what eventuates..hopefully any change of government will be without event. This country could well do without another clean up job after the Tsunami and Riots of last year.
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Hello Sharon & Carl
Have just been catching up on
your blogspot. Sounds like you're
enjoying life there. We have just had the weekend at the beach in Takaka with all the family to celebrate my "special" birthday. Great fun with kayaks and the biscuit behind the boat. Hear you are headed for Brisbane soon. Happy Christmas...Ross & Helen
Merry christmas to you all
from all your friends at Hinemoa Kindergarten
ps we enjoy reading your blogs - sounds like life in Honiora is treating you all well. We love seeing the photos, especially the ones of the children - they have grown soooo much!!
Cathy, Robyn, Bay and Jos
well the constant moaning at work over the soap not being smooth enough seems rather petty after no loo paper and interesting odours!
Martin and sam have finished for the year and Sams successfully completed yr 11 (school C and passed well!) even without exam results!
Sarah kindly bought Sam a puppy for Christmas a lab/retreiver x. We have asked whats happening to him when we head away she assures us shell have him and as Andrews heading home to finish more study he can help with him hes a cutie I must admit parents both duck hunting dogs (hence 11 pups so close to the end of hunting season!)Can you send me your mums postal address so I can send some stuff there for you guys cheers and safe travels suzymart sam n sarah n jet
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