Jemma Morris02:00, May 25 2021
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Jemma Morris, manager of Rotorua s McLeods Booksellers.
OPINION: McLeods Booksellers is a 77 year old independent bookshop in the heart of Rotorua. Owned by David Thorp and Lynne Jones, the business has survived a world war, a major recession, and now a Covid pandemic. When New Zealand moved into level 4, the shop was unable to physically operate, but we kept in touch with our customers via email, social media and received web orders too, which we aimed to fill as soon as the country moved into Level 3. During this time, we were supported by Booksellers NZ who sent advice regarding the wage subsidy and any updates they felt would help us out, as well as linking booksellers together in a WhatsApp group chat which was a great way to support each other.
Wise, insightful, modest, honest, sensible, informed, mature.those are some of the adjectives that spring to mind when describing David Thorpe. Micro 4/3 users will no doubt be familiar with some of his many camera and lens videos. If you don t.
One of the best-located places to eat in Cambridge, the two-Michelin-starred
Midsummer House on the banks of the river serves up a contemporary British dining experience led by award-winning head chef, Daniel Clifford. If you are able to get your hands on a sought-after reservation, dive headfirst into the tantalizing seven-course tasting menu with accompanying wine for an experience you won’t forget. Catch the last of the oyster season at
Trinity Bar, enjoyed with a glass of sparkle from the bar’s extensive champagne menu. Taking its moniker from the college of the same name, the bar’s British menu offers up meat of the ‘pan-fried pigeon’ variety, too.
B.A., Tufts University
Nathan leads U.S. PIRG’s Right to Repair campaign, working to pass legislation that will prevent companies from blocking consumers’ ability to fix their own electronics. In 2009, while working with the network’s Digital Team, he mobilized so many people to deliver online comments to then-California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in opposition to cuts to the state parks budget that they crashed the governor’s email servers. Nathan lives in Arlington, Mass., with his wife and two children.
Right to Repair campaigns aren’t only making progress in more than two dozen states, they’re also underway across the world. The European Union has already enacted reforms to make it easier to fix appliances and Australia is ramping up efforts to allow independent repair people and people like you and me to fix things ourselves instead of having to get help from the companies that made our broken products.