January this year we published an article based on an interview with a midwife after she was ‘fired’. Vicky, her husband and four young girls reluctantly sold up and left for Mexico.
Author Archives: Eliora
Love having a natter over a well-made flat white and amazing NZ café food with family or friends. Born a fourth-generation kiwi, (lived for ten years in the UK recently) with forefathers and mothers from Celtic backgrounds. Urbanised living now but from farming stock. Values, gained from God-given personality and learned behaviour of hard work, reliability, loyalty, organisational skills and an initiator. Family, faith, friends, church, and people, in general, are priorities. Worked in health.
At primary school, a teacher told me I was going to be a writer. I didn’t know what he meant. As a recent amateur writer for the BFD, maybe my teacher’s prophesy is being realised. Busy, but wonderful parenting years with teenagers and an open home, were mostly fun. Have great delight in seeing ‘redemption and lift’ when someone does well after living poorly. Pulling together a large function, socialising, growing fruit trees, flower gardens, books, walks on the beach, and the BFD are the norm.
Benefits can be a lifesaver, but I struggle when they become a lifestyle. Always voted conservative, believing in freedom, and personal responsibility.
