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This has been a grim day. A member of our extended family, a brilliant young wife and mother, died as a result of ice on the road. I didn’t really know her, but my daughter, FirehorseMia, was close to her having been her babysitter for all her childhood and a continuing friend.

It was also the day my brother-in-law was buried.  He was a dear man, but suffering a lot of pain. I could not go to the tangi (Maori funeral). Even if I’d been able to escape my iced up home I couldn’t face the long, cold journey.