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Happy Birthday Caro
Topic Started: Nov 11 2014, 11:01 AM (1,027 Views)
dai Cottomy
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<happybirthdaycaro> <candlescake>
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waiting4atickle
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Belated birthday wishes, Caro - I guess it's already the morning after where you are.

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Mobson
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<happybirthdaycaro> Better Late Than Never

...Happy Birthday Caro... <magic>
Edited by Mobson, Nov 11 2014, 04:53 PM.
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rumbaba
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RUMBABA Happy Birthday to you!
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Caro

Thank you all very much. I have been away for a few days where we took in the most important harness racing meeting of the year. (Trotting is much commoner amd highly regarded in NZ than in Britain.) So everyone was dressed up to the nines, though in young-people fashion which at the moment is very short skirts or short shorts, and clunky very high heeled shoes. They don't match very well. Or look great when a little drunk and limping with very sore feet.

And this week I turned 65 and I received my first superannuation payment! So here I am now receiving $560 a fortnight just for being. And in another fortnight I will receive another $560 a fortnight because my husband will also be 65. When the pension age was first brought in at 60 life expectancy was 58, I gather. So to be on a par our pension shouldn't kick in till we are nearly 80. However the present PM, ever one for popularity (and managing that very nicely indeed), has said it will not rise while he is in power. Wouldn't have affected us if it had been put up - there would surely be a point at which the present pension age was honoured.

We did have to go to the Work and Income offices and be guided in by a security guard (only used since we had two WINZ staff killed by a client recently at a small-town office), and then produce birth and marriage certificates signed by a JP and fill in forms. And we each to sign the others saying we were spouses. All this for us law-abiding citizens and then we find one of our prisoners, who had been in jail for 17 years after murder and child abuse, has managed to escape from his three-day release (which no one was monitoring), get a passport in a birth name which he never used and flit away over the skies to Brazil. He wasn't out long because some staff member in a backpackers managed to recognise him and report him, which seems quite incredible to me. (He had money because he was running his business from prison. All this has made the public blink a bit.) But still, it is quite encouraging to know that, when it feels like we are monitored to within an inch of our lives with CCTV cameras and terrorist laws and god knows what, people can still get round the rules. Personally I (and some others judging by the letters to the editor) felt that Brazil was welcome to him.
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Yes , Happy B'day, Caro ...........
Edited by caissier, Nov 16 2014, 11:53 PM.
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