A good friend of mine has been running a shop on Dominion Road for the last ten years and as you can imagine, has seen it all. Dominion road is one of the more colorful neighbourhoods in Auckland with a good mix of people including a few undesirables, the weirdos, funnies, friendlies and everything in between.

I’m sure she thought she had seen pretty much everything that Dominion road had to show her by now but on Wednesday, in came someone that tried her patience in a totally new way!

My friend runs a recycled fashion boutique and said customer had come in to sell some shoes. Just as this potential customer arrived though, said friend was in the throes of…

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I saw this news come across the wire yesterday from TuDiabetes.

The kit sounds really useful, here is the outline of it:

Written by people who have type 1 diabetes, the Toolkit is an essential “how-to” guidebook about living with the disease. It offers information and advice on a plethora of topics, such as how to deal with the diagnosis and day-to-day management of diabetes, how to tell friends about the disease, and how to juggle the demands of diabetes at work. It describes how diabetes affects physical and psychological health, relationships, and parenting. It gives tips for approaching things like diet, exercise, travel, and work and explains how to educate others about type 1, especially on what to do…

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