Dr Bex
@drbex
Pākehā | Tāngata Tiriti | Waikato | Aotearoa
Ngl I love me a reward sticker chart 🤣 a dream for my mum who only had to draw up a gold star sticker chart and et voila! Chores done 🤣
Had an unexpected visitor this morning 👀💕 poor thing was quite hungry - and very friendly. The girls would have kept him in heartbeat 🤣 fed and watered him while we waited for the lovely chap from dog control to arrive. No microchip 😪 hopefully the pound will find whoever he belongs to.
One has to wonder if the PM would have been quite so condescending and patronizing if it had been a male asking the same question 🤔🤔🤔 FTR Melanie Short is the very capable and competent head of the Rotorua Business Association.
It is a colossal failure by National, NZFirst, and ACT to understand how scientific discovery works and progresses. Instead they're more focused on removing opposing thought, reducing dissenting voices, squeezing out Māori, and "weeding out the woke" from research.
The spin of this govt is just ridiculous. They have significantly reduced research funding and narrowed the criteria to access what is left
If one is genuinely interested in upholding the rights of mana whenua, this article deep dives into this topic at Maungatautari. The mountain was fenced off, and aerial poison bait drops cleared invasive predator species - cats, rats, stoats and possums. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
This is a great blog by an American visiting our country and posting about the experience, and how conservation in this country means trapping and killing introduced predatory animals like rats, stoats, and weasels arocha.org.nz/blog/killing...
This is also a thoughtful piece on the need to hold the tensions of conservation and killing of introduced predators destroying native flora and fauna pupurangi.com/blog/predato...
Bought some IKEA flat packed items for teenagers room Got them delivered. Paid eldest son to put it together. Cheaper than quoted IKEA price, items nicely put together, eldest has $$ in his pocket, teen has needed storage. Win win all round I say!
Hai it me, heading into the Social Services and Community Select Committee to speak on the DSS Bill. A whole 5 minutes lol but better than no minutes
Let me present to you, the scientist creator of insulin, who did a "piece of science" and gave it away, for free, to save lives:
This is me paying a stupid amount of $$ in Montreal for an ebike tour 😁 there were plenty of bike lanes! It is such a good way to see the city, 100% recommend! I do think that NZ cities are losing out on these very cool and very easy tourism opportunities bc of our weird opposition to cycle lanes.
Hai it me, hiring an ebike to cruise about Stanley Park in Vancouver. Dedicated bike lanes, considerate car drivers, and stunning summer weather = a boon for ebike operators. Biking is surely the future, and it deffo brings economic value, judging by the sheer numbers of folk hiring ebikes here.
Oh, look, the law is quite clear and unequivocal - information received by a Minister is part of the public record. The PM and his Cabinet know this. They are deliberately flouting the law to avoid public scrutiny of their shady shenanigans aka cronyism and corruption. bsky.app/profile/rich...
National MPs, with their six figure salaries, who claim accommodation supplements that are more than some state housing occupants earn in a year, stripping away accomm support for state housing tenants is some next level hypocritical cruelty. www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360... #nzpol
Wāhi Kōrero have a new project "I have provided care for someone. These are the thoughts and feelings I keep to myself." They use the stories shared to advocate for better support and policy. Share your story about care, anonymously, via this link:- wahikorero.co.nz/projects/i-h...
What would you ask a room full of pediatric ophthalmologists? I am in Queenstown for the RANZCO Conference - this is the NZ Scientific Conference for ophthalmologists, ophthalmic nurses, registrars, techs, etc. So, while I'm here, what should I ask about?
Secondly, silverbeet and rice. Apparently, silverbeet can be grown in plastic bags of dirt on your balcony. Never mind that the plastic might leach into the soil, or that you might not actually have decent soil for growing leafy green veggies in.
Let me present, my new occasional series, Dr Bex's Recipes for the Miserable and Malnourished. First off, nasturtiums.
Anytime I write about backyard gardens being no solution to food insecurity I get a barrage of furious comments disagreeing with me. I guess some things never change.... My fave is the one about foraging nasturiums 👀 www.facebook.com/share/p/18RJ...