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seawall, 5 months ago to random

This is just one of many studies now, showing that monitoring and filtering IAQ not only improves student health, but also test scores!!!

Demand this already! #COVIDIsAirborne #CleanTheAir #IAQ

https://www.vox.com/2020/1/8/21051869/indoor-air-pollution-student-achievement

seawall, 3 months ago to random

The kid is now saying the new carer can't come back tomorrow, even though he agreed yesterday. Breakfast was just a fruitless frustrating argument.

I'm back in bed, weeping, just completely overwhelmed.

seawall, 1 year ago to random

Sweated blood yesterday and today trying to fill out just two more pages of necessary paperwork, and took several breaks in between to cover our freshly-mown front lawn with cardboard as the first step to grass replacement.

The latter was definitely more satisfying, and easier to measure the progress of. #Dopamine #KillYourLawn

Unfolded cardboard boxes weighed down with rocks over a grass lawn, with white woman's hand in foreground flipping off the remaining visible grass

seawall, 10 months ago to random

Haven't said this in a bit, so

ahem

Indoor air quality (#IAQ) is the water sanitation of our time.

Schools, workplaces and hospitals should all be properly monitored and ventilated/filtered.

At the VERY least.

That is all.

seawall, 9 months ago to KindActions

It became devastatingly clear to me, with the removal of mask mandates and no move to monitor and improve #IAQ that the NZ govt had abandoned us. The choice to drop mandatory isolation rules only reinforces that. All we have now is, essentially, community defense and #MutualAid.

Find your local Covid-conscious folks, stock up on masks, and continue to fight (as frustrating as it is) for schools and workplaces to recognise #COVIDIsAirborne.

#MaskUp #CleanTheAir #WeKeepEachOtherSafe

seawall, 7 months ago to NewZealand

Because my memory is barely better than Dory, if I do anything less often than once a week, I basically forget how to do it and have to relearn it.

So, I'm looking up how to vote again, lol. #nzpol

I thought we got ballots in the mail, but maybe that was just that one time back during lockdown?

Also, I don't think we got any Easy Vote packs? Maybe they got blown out of our mailbox by the high winds this weekend, lol

seawall, 3 days ago to random

The existence of the term "con crud" really should have been a greater indicator of how spaces are constructed and managed to exacerbate or mitigate the spread of illness.

I'm glad @kiwipycon and #PyConUS have been #COVIDcautious and doing things about it, but what other #conventions organisers are?

seawall, 7 months ago to wellington

Attn #Poneke #TeWhanganuiATara #Wellington #NZTwits

Talk on what to do about the #ClimateCrisis while #NACTional is at the helm, tonight and tomorrow.

Plz boost for reach

seawall, 1 year ago to random

Question for parents, caregivers, or people who remember relevant details from their own childhood:

What tips and methods seem to work best for introducing the concept of money, savings and #budgeting to young kids?

Our six-year-old is very smart, advanced at reading and getting better than average at math, but he's also impulsive*, so not sure about the jar advice.
https://www.thebalancemoney.com/teach-kids-to-budget-money-454012

*he's likely #ADHD as well as #autistic

seawall, 9 months ago to random

@Ghet hey, @stephen said you'd be one to ask about rose care. I've inherited a bunch of well-established roses from the late former owner of our new house. Got any advice? https://mastodon.nz/@seawall/110920546730150548

seawall, 4 months ago to random

Thinking I would like to go spend an hour or two somewhere out of the house, nice and cool indoors because it's hot today, with some tea, snacks, and a book...

Buuuuut post-holiday COVID cases are what they are, sooooo I guess instead I'll get takeaway and find somewhere in the shade to park my car. 🙃

#CovidIsNotOver #CleanTheAir #publichealth

seawall, 1 month ago to random

Friends, help. Since the start of the panny d, my movie viewing has declined sharply (and will stay that way until IAQ is addressed, long story short).

The few I've seen and enjoyed: EEAAO, SMILE, THE MEG 2, BARBIE, and STRANGE WAY OF LIFE.

Anything amazing that I've missed out on? 📽️

seawall, 3 days ago to random

Oh yeah, my Moodles from Furmoo arrived a bit over a week ago!

Postie trackpants also upping the cozy factor

seawall, 8 months ago to random

Shocking news today. One of husband's childhood friends died suddenly in hospital. He'd been taking acetaminophen for some ongoing aches and pains, and must have crossed the safe dose, because his liver failed. Fuck.

Remember to be careful even with over-the-counter medications, friends. 😔

seawall, 3 months ago to random

40 teaching staff out with COVID, forcing school closure in Rangiora.

But it's "not about COVID", somehow. 🤦🏼‍♀️

Can we start seriously discussing clean air in classrooms, yet?

#COVIDIsAirborne #CleanTheAir #IAQ #iaqschool

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/rangiora-high-school-shuts-amid-covid-19-outbreak-nearly-50-staff-experience-symptoms-following-teacher-only-day/TYNMTUGCYNEK7M4LPLU5PE7YG4/

seawall, 9 months ago to random

Have determined that the only variance in my emotional state these days is how openly anxious or depressed I am about living through a pandemic/climate/fascism polycrisis.

Soooo, more yoga, I guess? 🙃

seawall, 10 months ago to random

People are apparently eating possum here in NZ as meat prices rise.

I'll try anything once, but the scientists and the food safety guy quoted in here make me think it's a bad idea.

TLDR: NZ possums likely harbour bacteria, poison bait, and possibly TB! YUM!

https://i.stuff.co.nz/life-style/food-drink/300927252/kiwis-are-throwing-possum-on-the-barbie-in-a-cost-of-living-crisis-but-is-it-a-good-idea

seawall, 6 months ago to random

Oof, forecast high of 25°C today, and it's already 20°C out. Time to fill the wading pool, perhaps.

seawall, 8 months ago to random

#NZTwits #nzgardeners I'd like to get some raspberry and blackberry bushes in my backyard, but I know from last year's attempt at blueberries that blackbirds will get under netting somehow, even if staked from the fence to the ground. I've heard of "berry cages" or frames you can tack netting to, can y'all share pics and tutorials about such things?

Pls boost for reach

seawall, 3 months ago to random

My kid has been asking what the weather forecast for "the Little Kingdom" is.

If you're not familiar (aka not a parent of young kids who watch BBC programs), he means Ben & Holly's Little Kingdom, which was a series created and voiced by much of the same team behind Peppa Pig, but with a woodland fantasy setting populated by elves, fairies, gnomes and dwarves.

seawall, 1 month ago to random

Doctor appointment at 2 today, plz hope for some relief from this annoying constant sinusitis, headaches and earaches I've been dealing with. 🙏🏻

I might need antibiotics, or possibly HRT, because yes, perimenopause can present with SINUS ISSUES.

Freakin hormones, why??

seawall, 1 month ago to random

Quince custard cake for breakfast, because why tf not, have you SEEN the world lately

seawall, 21 days ago to random

Slightly mortifying question: how skillful a cyclist do you have to be to tow a kids trailer on your bike?

Someone has offered to lend us a trailer, and I am still at the absolute beginner stage of learning, but anything that helps us travel with our kid, who is still boycotting travel by car or bus, would be nice.

seawall, 4 months ago to random

Omg, please, this would be epic 😂

seawall, 1 day ago to random

Good news, everyone!

I have terrible news.

The multi test for COVID, flu A/B and RSV was briefly available from Life Pharmacy, but out of stock now.

Maybe if enough of us email Life Pharmacy beseechingly they'll restock soon.

https://www.lifepharmacy.co.nz/home/shop-by-category/health/home-health-devices/other-home-health-devices/healgen-covid-19-4-in-1-rapid-antigen-diagnostic-test/