LAST YEAR the ACC paid out over $74 million on covering the almost 74,000 kitchen related injury claims. The highest numbers and associated amounts in five years. “Pretty much anything in a kitchen can hurt or even kill you” commented chef Martin Bosley.
BRITAIN HAS become an electricity exporter, last year exporting electricity worth 3.1 billion pounds to Europe by undersea cable. The power surplus has been made available by the impressive expansion of numbers of wind and solar power stations.
“IT DOESN’T feel like I’m truly home for the holiday until I’ve taken my parent’s phone and said “here let me show you” at least twenty five times.” Seen on Twitter
‘ALSO ON the rise is public concern at what the Wellington City Council call ‘casual independent personal fundraising’ – more commonly referred to as begging. – The Wellingtonian.
THE FORMER Irish magazine, with the intriguing title Walker’s Hibernian Compendium of Entertaining Knowledge, suggested two possible New year resolutions, suggesting that Dentists pledge ‘very moderate fees’ and politicians promise to ‘have no other object in view than the good of their country’ – Greg Dixon ,The Listener.
DATA FROM the Accident Compensation Corporation shows that the best bet for a safe Christmas and New Year’s Eve was to stay sitting or lying down. Although a new study reveals that sitting is also bad for you and you should get up a do a little walk.
“YOU DON’T learn from successes; you don’t learn from awards, you don’t learn from celebrity. You only learn from the wounds and scars of mistakes and failures”. – Jane Fonda
THE COST of making a pavlova has risen from $ 11.19 in 2021 to $13.08 in 2022.
* Based on 6 eggs, 300gr sugar 300ml cream 200gr Kiwi fruit and 250 gr strawberries. – NZ Dept Statistics
FRANK WOOLWORTH opened his first ‘Five and Dime’ store in New York. This was not a success, however a second store in opened in Pennsylvania on 22nd February 1879 was warmly received leading to today’s world wide company – which includes NZ’s Countdown supermarkets
‘THE INHERENT vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries’ – Winston Churchill
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