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#superExcited2beaDad, love new public health (less for the old), love Auckland (ambivalent about the cars sharing the city). #LoveMyEbike @dadslife.bsky.social
Jan 29, 2023 5 tweets 2 min read
So today I helped out some beautiful souls move house.. By bike. I went along cause they're lovely & I wanted to help, but also for the novelty & adventure. It was a great experience but also a magic lesson on the importance of community. Somewhere between 10 an 15 folks descended on this event, some total strangers also keen on the novelty. I spent today deepening connections with some very cool people, learnt some great insights to cargo transport on bike, met some awesome new folk, had some fab kai..
Feb 8, 2022 9 tweets 3 min read
Appreciate there's a tension in my view here, but I really believe this base education of tau iwi, or at least the heavy lifting needs to be done by senior or experienced tau iwi from the sector, not Māori. It needs Māori governance to ensure the pace and direction is right, and The voice of Māori should be from Māori but do we seriously expect the effort and energy for decolonisation to come from those most impacted by colonization? #BeGoodTiritPartners
Feb 4, 2022 13 tweets 7 min read
So I thought that this was a great question but I had more that I wanted to say than would fit in a Tweet reply, so sorry Shawn (@swampy_kiwi , here's the long version. So we dipped out toes into the cargo bike world with a Ezee Roadrunner, a version of an Xtracycle that, while an entry level, was a well designed workhorse that transformed our lives..
Feb 4, 2022 4 tweets 1 min read
PSA: Boys everywhere, play with dolls! This is good for you in many ways but aside from that a percentage of you may one day be parents, and some of that group will be parents of kids who regardless of expectations and attitudes will want to play with dolls and will want you to.. Play with them. And it's then that you'll realize you haven't developed the skills to improvise and imagine in the way necessary to make a valuable contribution to this activity. And when you have to tell your child you don't know how to play this game, and they look at you like