With the days getting longer it was time for a trip to Orton Bradley. Not too far from ChCh and while the nicer separated camping area isn’t open until January, it’s still a nice place to get away to. Maaike biked out on the Saturday and I biked back from ChCh on the Monday (it was a public holiday). Actually, that’s one of the nice things about being an employee again – it forces me to take public holidays (I’d generally just skipped them in my previous contracting role).
I took Anna along to a beach cleanup with Sustainable Coastlines and we spent an hour or so collecting trash along the coast and then free ice-creams. Bargain.
On a more political note, we have a right-leaning government in power, and they’re trying to skip around the treaty of waitangi and basically trying to go “we’re all equal now”.. completely ignoring the century+ of inequity in NZ. There has been widespread peaceful protests which I was very happy to attend. I really hope with all the inflation and widespread economic downturn that NZ doesn’t move too far to the right and ACT get voted into oblivion at the next election. One can but hope (and vote)
And the absolutely wonderful protest in parliament.
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