How times and attitudes have changed so rapidly…

Photo of TRM’s assistant laundry staff on a paddling instruction course before Waitangi Day a few years ago. It must have spooked the ancient spirits. The next day, the big day, on Waitangi Day, for the ceremonial arrival, the canoe was swamped and sunk. So we have never been back in case I was recognised and blamed…

SWMBO was completing job interviews with some other local characters at Waitangi. Their astonishing reaction could have been predicted after hearing about the hours She expected them to work to match Her laundry assistant…