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Jo HolstedJo Holsted

Jo Holsted is a one-time blogger, two-time playwright, and a mother of one two-year old. She continues to work for, and is actually bloody passionate about, Auckland's access radio station Planet FM. In 2000 she received the coveted fifth form history prize for "relentless cheerfulness".

Mind the carpet! On the special misery of renting with small children

6 March 201921 March 2017 by Jo Holsted

People say that children help make a house a home, but what about when your house is rented and you could be turfed out at a moment’s notice? Jo Holsted writes about how her parenting is affected by being a long-term renter. “KALE EAT WAMATO” shrieks my son, as he wrenches yet another budding tomato … Read more

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