Monday warm and sunny, with Euthanasia

Last night I went to a tangi at the S and M bar on Cuba Street. A trans girl, only 58, gone too young, a famous drag Queen in Brisbane and whose ashes were returned to the bar where she had been one of their most famous Queens when younger, a beautful girl Yvette, who had a lesbian wife and was also a father to boot. Life is never simple for the trans people. Photo of her as a young drag below.

Amazing how the bad news always makes the headlines, it seems a specialty of the Kiwi newspapers. 

Call centre in Auckland,begun by an entrepreneurial Aussie, crashes with two thousand jobs gone just before Christmas!

But not at the Memphis...

Always with smiling Parras!

Another experienced climber lost for good...

Kiwis loses to Aussies....again. What is it with these aggressive bloody Aussies?

Today I am doing all the preps to leave tomorrow. This evening with Interfaith I am attending what could be a very interesting forum on Euthanasia and Assisted Dying. Have made some well stuffed asparagus rolls to take for supper. Nothing like roil before dying, assisted or not.

Nasturtiums decorating my asparagus rollsthe table is not yet full.

Luckily I was home earlier to receive an impassioned but sad email from dear friend Malcolm in Woy Woy. He has had a crisis with bf D who was recently badly attacked at work and it has affected him in the longer term. His Pakastani Psychiatrist has told him he is going through a bad relationship and it is dead. So D tells M it is over, just to make M fall into a serious panic attack of not breathing. This man is not a good shrink and should in my opinion be struck off fhe roll. D reaffirmed later that he still has his love for M and now all is in a state of turmoil. Who knows who loves whom? I will be there on Saturday week to speak to them happily, but I hope things may have improved somewhat by then .

Yvette, aka Chris Langloislooking beautiful.