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View from Your Window

**If readers want this series to continue please send your original photos to window@thebfd.co.nz What can you tell us about this photo? ** We need more photos please folks, so grab your camera or mobile phone and get snapping! Yesterday’s view through your window was looking toward

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BFD Daily Opinion Poll

Take our Daily Opinion Poll and see how your views compare to other readers and then share the poll on social media. By sharing the poll you will help even more readers to discover The BFD. Share this BFD Opinion poll so others can discover The BFD using the share

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A Magic Trick

A Magic Trick

The Doctor Last night I enjoyed a great film about a team of magicians who pulled off global bank robberies as part of their act. They were so far ahead in their planning that the FBI and Interpol were left fumbling around, clueless. I can think of no better description

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Let Them Wear Cake
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Let Them Wear Cake

Bryce Edwards democracyproject.nz Dr Bryce Edwards is Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. It has been reported that Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern will not host her centrepiece Waitangi Day breakfast next year. According to reports by the Guardian

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How to Gift Someone a BFD Membership This Christmas

We have GREAT news. For many years readers have asked us for the ability to give a BFD membership as a present but we didn’t have the technology to do it. This Christmas we finally have what you have all been asking for. Gifting Our new system allows us

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A House Filled with Love

Last night the ‘far now’ arrived down from the Hokianga for Christmas. My dearly beloved’s parents, faux jumeaux brother and several other siblings. We are all pleased to see them for the first time in several months. My mother arrives tomorrow, my half-brother arrives from LA on Friday,

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NZREX Doctors Feel like Second Class Citizens

Johanna Thomas-Maude PhD Candidate in Development Studies, Massey University Massey University Immigration New Zealand’s recent announcement that all medical doctors would be included on the straight-to-residence pathway doesn’t quite give the full picture. In fact, “all” only includes those doctors who can have their medical

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All We Want for Christmas Is a Donation from Our Fans

We have been very good this year and would love to find some donation gifts from our fans under our Christmas tree. We know that for various reasons some of you are unable to support us with a membership. Years ago we rejected the idea of a donation option as

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Yesterday’s Five Most Popular Articles

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SPOIL Yourself with a BFD Membership this Christmas
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SPOIL Yourself with a BFD Membership this Christmas

Spoil yourself with a present that will be the gift that keeps on giving all year. TREAT yourself a subscription to The BFD It will be a present to The BFD as well as your gift to yourself and it will help ensure that we will be around next year

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The Years of Shame

The Years of Shame

Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Periodically, following an accident, we read of someone falling into a coma then coming out of it a year or so later. Imagine such a Rip Van Winkle situation now with someone who say fell into a coma in mid 2020 and waking today. When

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You Asked For It and Now It Is Possible

You Asked For It and Now It Is Possible

We have GREAT news. For many years readers have asked us for the ability to give a BFD membership as a present but we didn’t have the technology to do it. This Christmas we finally have what you have all been asking for. Gifting Our new system allows us

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Take Our Daily Trivia Quiz
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Take Our Daily Trivia Quiz

Test your trivia knowledge – Select from seven subject categories. General knowledge, Dictionary, Entertainment, History, Food & Drink, Geography, Science & Nature. To Enjoy Our Other Puzzles Become a Bronze Member

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Tweet of the Day

Tweet of the Day

“I would never suggest anything that isn’t safe”. pic.twitter.com/D9ffPxWa20 — Dame Jane (@Dame__Jane) December 20, 2022 If you would like to access exclusive Member content or just remove the ads to make your reading experience more enjoyable click here to browse our Membership options.If you

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The BFD Daily Proverb
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The BFD Daily Proverb

Proverbs 23 12 Commit yourself to instruction;    listen carefully to words of knowledge. If you enjoyed this BFD Daily Proverb please consider sharing it with your friends.

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