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Impressive budgeting and recipes for feeding a family on $100
Hamilton mum feeds family of four for a week for $100
https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/life-style-top-stories/121724943/hamilton-mum-feeds-family-of-four-for-a-week-for-100
I note Hamilton stay-at-home mum Kathrine Lynch really knows how make her dollars stretch at the supermarket. What about the working Mum who gets a bare minimum wage and has only $50 per week to feed a family of four, which budget advisors would say they see happening a lot. Or an article on how far a Foodbank carton can stretch for a family of four, including a disabled husband.
One article that caught my fancy was how to make a nourishing school lunch for only $3.60, so if you had three children, it would be over $10 a day, or $50 a week. Haha. It had a little pottle of yoghurt and lovely sandwiches. If Mum gets in from work at KMart after midnight, does she have time to drag herself to the bench and make school lunches before she goes to bed, or wake up in the morning in time to make them and send them off to the bus at 7.30am? Does she have a reliable partner who will do it? What if he has to go to work at 6 am if he is lucky enough to be working? If he lives in Auckland, if he goes then he might beat the motorway traffic.
The government doesn’t care about the welfare of ordinary people as a rule. It would be nice if the lockdown had given them time for intro-spection or reading a book called ‘How to Love All the Citizens who Don’t have all your Advantages and Opportunities’.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/418352/miniature-horse-star-s-attacker-jailed-for-2-point-5-years
I have been interested in theiscase of the man who felt driven to stab a miniature horse 41 times. And wondering what defence he will put up. And also what can be done with someone who is so obviously off his head, all the time or erratically. Put him in jail for a while and then let him out so he can start on a new crime of hurting somebody or something else? Have him in home detention with expensive visiting care. People who commit violence don’t always repeat it. But having desires to hurt animals tends to be connected to desires to hurt other vulnerable creatures and children can be included. These are my thoughts before I read the item.
Now I have read the report the sentence is as I feared. What a useless bunch of crap most of our justice system is. And I don’t care if they say sorry, that is just a foolish ploy thought up by some dreamer. Sorry is not the hardest thing to say, twisted people like acting and putting one over the Court.
This is how it was for the owner of the horse.
It affected her ability to work as she grieved deeply for the horse the family had owned for most of his life.
Ozanne visited the scene of the crime after the attack, Mayhem-Bullock said.
“I saw him standing at the horse’s paddock frequently – it made me feel sick.”
The length of time to get an arrest added to her pain and anxiety, as she feared “some unseen danger”.
“Everyone was so tense and scared and worried,” she said…
Ozanne’s lawyer, Deborah Henderson, said her client’s initial not guilty plea was because on the night of Star’s death he had consumed a bottle of home-brew whiskey and could not remember the offending.
Bloody alcohol, bloody booze, that is just no excuse for anyone. Yet the governments have always encouraged
boozing – at one time booze could be sold 24 hours. It just ruins people’s minds and self-control and takes money they need for living good lives as responsible people to family and friends.
We need life sentences spent on a prison farm with reasonable conditions for those who can be contained and would like to be settled and do real practical work. Could be very therapeutic for those who would stick at it. Having more crimes committed by people whose minds are broken, put in jail, serving a sentence okay and being released does not mean the community is safe. Too often violence is repeated by those whose habits are shameful, and who attack ordinary people who are trying to live good lives.
We who are not violent and show respect for others are just sitting ducks in this country. Prisoners who have proved that they have no controls, no values, are jailed and come out worse from the horrible conditions they have in prison. The police often show they think of everyone in the community as potential criminals and many have no goodwill for anybody. They are as much to be wary of as crims to the minds of many who have watched their behaviour of recent years. What a sad and sorry country; it just has an appearance of niceness but it doesn’t go deep.
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