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Angela Barnett hails from Taradale and her tūrangawaewae is Piha. She’s a writer, body image activist, mother, and lover of wigs. OPINION: On our second night with five baby chicks, we couldn’t hear the TV. “Can you turn down the chickens,” said my partner. Peering into their box I found blood down the spine of one of them while the rest of the brood pecked at the same bloody spot in a frenzy like sharks. It’s possible I screamed. Google suggested tedium was one reason for chick bullying–and could end in homicide. Bored to death! Panicked, we dangled a CD into the box (for pecking), put up some Christmas lights (for distraction) and played Adele (for entertainment). READ MORE: The comment that started a lifelong war against my moustache A love letter to all mothers who miss being needed Scales are evil and triggering, it's time to smash them all All was calm when we went to bed, but I was horrified at what the chicks could do to each other, and what I might … [Read more...] about The romance vs reality of keeping chickens

Searchlight Pictures Emma Thompson and Daryl McCormack star in Good Luck to You, Leo Grande. "Everyone just looked angry," says Emma Thompson, grimacing and gritting her teeth. She's describing the movies featuring sex scenes that she watched as a teenager. "Everyone looked just sort of cross, and just sort of enraged by the whole thing," she continued. "I just thought, 'Is that what sex is supposed to be like? I don't understand’. Good grief, we have a long way to go." Thompson considers her new movie, Good Luck to You, Leo Grande (which opens in select cinemas nationwide in New Zealand on August 18, although there are previews from August 10), at least "a step in the [right] direction”. She plays Nancy Stokes, a widow and retired teacher who hires a sex worker named Leo Grande (newcomer Daryl McCormack) to help break her out of a lifetime of sexual repression. Over the course of four meetings in an anonymous-looking hotel room, the two embark on an unlikely ally-ship, … [Read more...] about Good Luck To You, Leo Grande: Why Emma Thompson wants us to like our bodies