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Kate Hawkesby: How do we turn this doom and gloom ship around?
I’m just wondering how many of you who’ve been overseas these past couple of weeks, maybe for school holidays or just a winter escape, whether you’ve come back refreshed and feeling better.
Was it the elixir you needed? Did it revitalize your soul? Has it washed away the pall of gloom over most of us at the moment?
I ask because I’ve heard mixed reports. Some say it was everything they needed and just the serotonin boost they’d been missing. Others say it was almost too much, because coming back to cold and wintry old NZ has been a bit of a down buzz and anticlimactic.
Others say it’s still a…
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