Saun Yeo is again on the money. https://www.odt.co.nz/opinion/cartoonists-view-yeo-70

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 For the last 48 hours I've had the worst hay fever I've ever experienced. It started after Richard started work in the garden. This may be coincidental but, strangely, the hay fever only seems to be a problem when I'm at home. When I've biked into town or to the supermarket, or yesterday when we were taking visiting friends for a tour of Whanganui, it abates dramatically.

I'm struggling to manage it at home, all the same. Any suggestions most welcome. 

 Refurbishment of the Dunedin Railway Station is complete, and very lovely she looks too.

All that's needed now are some trains.

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 All religious fundamentalism locks women in a socially and economically defined prison. This is as true of the Taliban in Afghanistan as it is of "Biblical" Evangelicalism in the USA.

Here's what five Afghani women have to say about their lives under the Taliban. https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/young-women-in-afghanistan-on-the-taliban-your-arrival-transformed-my-dreams-into-nightmares-a-b1b137f4-cc12-4c9b-8b8b-74d4fb4b155c