Tag: New Zealand
Joke Of The Day: Air New Zealand
How To Go Grocery Shopping With A Baby
A New Zealand father demonstrates how to go grocery shopping with a baby.
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With help from his adorable little daughter, How to Dad creator Jordan Watson of Auckland, New Zealand demonstrates how to go grocery shopping with a baby. We’ve previously written about Jordan and his helpful parenting advice.
Amusing Fact: Jerningham Wakefield
Jerningham Wakefield, was the only son of Edward Gibbon Wakefield. As such, he was closely associated with his father’s interest in colonisation. He worked for the New Zealand Company and later was a member of the Canterbury Association. He was active as a politician in New Zealand, both at national and provincial level, but became an alcoholic and died penniless in an old person’s home.
Because of his increasing alcoholism his behaviour was very erratic and he was an embarrassment to his supporters. He was one of the MPs sometimes locked in small rooms at Parliament by Whips to keep them sober enough to vote in critical divisions, though in 1872 this was defeated when political opponents lowered a bottle of whisky down the chimney to him. Gradually over the next few years he dissipated his wealth and substance and destroyed his health.