She said: “I’ve felt immense gratitude for the support I’ve received from the NHS. “It’s been a hard year for everyone, but there can be no doubt, the workload and pressures on Intensive Care Unit staff have been relentless and unprecedented. The West Wing of the John Radcliffe Hospital The deliveries are carefully coordinated and we have linked in with Oxford Hospitals Charity, as they are providing mass support for patients and staff across four hospitals in the county. We’ve been told the meals have helped to sustain staff during a long shift, and also provide a sense of solidarity and support from the local community, which really lifts morale.”
Ahuriri said Wildbore-Brumby struggled in several areas of his life. “He wanted to stay in another world with alcohol because he hated the life he was living in here. Every day was a struggle for him.”
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Owen Charles Wildbore-Brumby, 40, was found dead in Te Marae o Hine/The Square on Tuesday. Through the years their friendship grew and Ahuriri tried to look after him, offering Wildbore-Brumby a place to stay during the first Covid-19 lockdown. Eventually Wildbore-Brumby returned to the streets. “He wasn’t able to operate here because we ve got rules. He’d just lived too long in that other life of one set of clothes for the week.”
CALEB WISEBLOOD
The tried-and-true and still apropos idiom “the bee’s knees” is a bit of an understatement when describing the husband-and-wife duo behind Cuyama Homegrown.
DYNAMIC DUO
Husband and wife Jean Gaillard (right) and Meg Brown (left), owners of Cuyama Homegrown, purchased their ranch in New Cuyama in 2001, where they grow fresh fruits and vegetables throughout each season of the year.
PHOTO COURTESY OF CUYAMA HOMEGROWN
“It’s the most pure honey you could ever dream about,” said Jean Gaillard, co-owner of the farm with his wife, Meg Brown, while discussing the two bee hives on their property.
One of the secrets to maintaining this so-called purity within the hives’ product is a lack of human interference, Gaillard explained.