Nothing left to say

Last clinical day of the year. Woke too late to head out for a sunrise photo, and anyway I was a little less motivated than usual for a morning run. Paid some bills (isn't online banking great?) and went to the office.

Had great pleasure in seeing a young woman who had been "dismissed" (discharged from the services unless she behaved herself) because she was deemed naughty. Treatment for Bipolar Disorder has changed her and her family's life. Today, after her active involvement in her managing own care, we have got through a period of "roughening" without an episode.

Finished the last report I had to do, and got it into the Post Office for Courier Post to deliver overnight. S collected me, and we collected the Christmas puddings (imported from England; Hessons), got home and I went out for a quick blip finding run.

I knew where there were some Thoughts, having seen them on the way to the airport last week. Before I got there, however, I saw this one on a black concrete block wall of the Golf Warehouse; built 30 - 40years ago as a very big liquor store. Didn't need to keep looking and anyway it appears that at least some have been removed in the last eight days.

It is likely that non New Zealanders will not know what is TPPA. This is the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement, on which we humble citizens of our own country are not allowed an opinion. Our Government intends to make an agreement on free access into New Zealand for large (mainly) US based multinationals who will have the right (if previous such agreements are a guide) to sue the New Zealand Government, meaning the New Zealand people as the politicians will own no personal liability, whenever they feel their right to screw us provide all those wonderful things we want from them is infringed.

We are told to trust them. This thoughtful gnome puts it very clearly as to why we should not trust them. Nø 21 in the Local Thoughts series

I apologise for being relatively absent from everyone's journals recently. Heading into three to four weeks of not working, I had lots to finish. It is now done, and I can enjoy catching up over the next days. Tsuken and family arrive on Monday to spend two weeks with us at the Beach House. Do I know how to relax?