Looking for volunteers
Can you spare two hours a week strengthening our Upper Hutt community? You will have a good/fun time too. The Red Cross Upper Hutt Branch (18 Princes St. - Upper Hutt downtown) is in need of volunteers administration assistants for two hours a week, from 11 am to 1:00 pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays. You will need to welcome people, answer phones, provide basic admin support to the MOW coordinator and the Branch. If interested, please call our office at 528-9162 (Monday to Friday from10:00 am to 1:00 pm.) Join the largest humanitarian organization in the world that has been working for the past 90 years in our Upper Hutt Community and have a most rewarding enjoyable experience with this group of fantastic volunteers.
$50 garden centre vouchers!
Our winners this week have won $50 to spend at a local garden centre.
Congratulations to:
Cassie Arauzo from Cockle Bay
Elizabeth Williams from Hillcrest
Luke Shamy from Hornby
Mitchell Hopping from Wallacetown
Get in touch with our helpdesk team here if you're on this list! If you're not a winner, check back next week just in case.
Same Again Dan
Who else besides me has gotten annoyed well before now with TVOne weather presenter, Daniel Corbett constant use of the term: SAME THING AGAIN.
Dan uses this term at least two-three times on any evening he is doing the weather presentation. A year ago and it wasn't in his vocabulary.
Ok, NZ is not a huge country and therefore the weather region by region, city by city can be pretty similar. But to use the same terminology when there is either no need to or many alternatives, rankles me anyway.
His weather colleagues have never used this Corbett habitual three worded expression.
Another thing Dan does with so much more repetitiveness of late is the frimmp, woosh, voomb sounds of noise he makes to describe rain, wind, impending climatic conditions or whatever.
Come on Dan. You weren't doing or saying these things in the UK.