Labour Day commemorates the struggle for an eight-hour working day. New Zealand workers were among the first in the world to claim this right when, in 1840, the carpenter Samuel Parell won an eight-hour day in Wellington. Labour Day was first celebrated in New Zealand on 28 October 1890, when several thousand trade union members and supporters attended parades in the main centres. Government employees were given the day off to attend the parades and... Read more
Problem, I have a bountiful supply of buttons. I don't know why. I think it is just one of my random things I find myself coming home with after visiting secondhand stores. Maybe I should join a button collecting society, they do exsist. There is a whole Wikipedia page devoted to button collecting, and there are even button conventions, and 'tray competitions' where you get all your buttons and put them on a tray... Read more
The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we have is now.
Bill Crosby
