Dodgy!
OPINION: If you believe Maori Party president John Tamihere’s claim that “nothing dodgy” occurred at Manurewa Marae during the last election, the Hound has a bridge to sell you.
Your canine crusader had to giggle when receiving one of those pesky emails/adverts suggesting possible gifts for Mothers’ Day. One particular email from a rural retail supplier offered an alluring array of gifts for mum.
The choices were a pair of woollen gloves, a rain jacket, a set of thermals and a nice, new pair of gumboots: all excellent ways of keeping hard-working mum out on the farm in the cold weather. This old mutt is not sure if any bloke in the rural hinterland was brave enough to buy one of these ‘practical gifts’, but suggest these ideas would have gone down about as well as giving the good lady an ironing board or a vacuum cleaner for Mothers’ Day. Practical ideas but very, very stupid.
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