26-10-2022, 02:32 PM
(26-10-2022, 12:56 PM)Oh_hunnihunni Wrote:(26-10-2022, 12:37 PM)alpha111 Wrote: Well Paula Bennet had a daughter at seventeen and John Key was brought up in a state house. Often it's now "I'm on board so pull up the gangplank to keep others out". Or do these exceptions prove the rule?
I was living in Taupo when PB was having her teenage angst ridden years. My husband worked for her Dad at Smith and Brown till the money lure of Fletchers drew him in. The media never really picked up on the real story she lived back then, but then, maybe our youth shouldn't be fodder for the gossip columns. Her Dad was an interesting man, I now live quite close to his once mistress who had his son, another very successful businessman raised in a single parent home. Bob has dementia these days but lived well, obviously had good genes, his surviving children have done well for themselves.
Aotearoa is a very small town at heart.
New Zealand is a very small town at heart.
Despite the high cost of living it remains popular