Sideswipe: Gorse with a view

Great view, shame about the gorse. Spotted on a walking track to Cathedral Cove. Photo / Supplied

A reader writes: "Last Saturday, I was at the People's Park across the road from Fuze Cafe in Te Atatu Peninsula. I was with my three children aged 7, 3 and 1 years old who were happily playing in the park, but I was desperate for a good coffee.

"I knew that I would be battling the traffic with the kids on the main road and would struggle to keep them entertained while the coffee was made if I ventured across the road, so I decided to give the cafe a call and see if they would deliver a coffee to me in the park. A few minutes later, lo and behold, a staff member with coffee in hand appears."

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Under the British Government's Local Housing Authority, Essma Marjam, age 34, unemployed and the mother of six, is entitled to rental assistance for a five-bedroom home, and the only suitable one she could find is in an exclusive London suburb in which her neighbour is Sir Paul McCartney. (Source: Daily Mail)

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Is there such a thing as an Easter grinch, asks a reader.

"We decided to take our granddaughter Ashlee to the garden centre near the Hamilton Lake. When we arrived we noticed an Easter egg wrapped in its foil on the ground just inside the gate. We gave it to Ashlee to hold and went in to order our coffee and a fluffy. I then said to the woman behind the counter that 'we found this Easter egg just inside the gate'. The woman leaned over and took the Easter egg off Ashlee and said 'that must have got dropped after our party last night' and put it behind the counter."

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To the bookshop/child minding service: "If you're sure the parents are in the supermarket ask the supermarket to broadcast a message with 'abandoned child found in bookshop, owner please come and collect before the police are called'. After a couple of times of doing this no more kids will be left in your shop."

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Briscoes was right not to give the women two receipts: you can return an item twice with two dockets, says Les Tom from Remuera.

"Dishonest customers will return the original item with the first docket and then at another store, say, pick up the same item from the shelf and try to return that one, too, with the second docket. Unless the retailer's system tracks the original transaction and any refunds, that's 100 per cent profit. Thieves are quite brazen like that."