Selwyn Times: May 15, 2019

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Wednesday May 15 2019
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SELWYN TIMES
VITTORIA
& Matt
Change in nap time
FOR THE last week or so, I’ve lost
the dream. Vittoria only has one
short nap a day now.
Gone are the days of regular
quiet coffee breaks or enjoying
lunch without the world’s cutest
magpie lurking about.
She now crashes out just before
her lunch time and sleeps for, at
max, 40min.
She then runs out into the lounge
to laugh at me while I try and gulp
down my remaining food before
she scabs it off me. Truly adorable.
The flip side of this is that she
is incredibly easy to get down at
bedtime. Like “in-a-deep-sleepbefore-you-even
take-her-to-thebedroom”
easy.
As I write this she is deeply and
peacefully asleep and got that way
almost instantly after finishing her
bottle at 5.30pm.
She’ll likely even sleep until the
same time as she normally does.
Or at least quietly sit up and chat to
herself until the time she normally
gets up.
On Tuesday morning she woke
me up by gently touching my nose
at 5am (yeah, cot thing is still not
going great), then lay back down
until 6.30am.
Boom, practically a sleep-in.
But even a sleep-in doesn’t quite
make transitioning to a one short
nap reality any easier. That’s over an
hour of extra toddler entertaining/
wrangling each day. With increasingly
poor weather.
On that note, we’re going on a
family holiday to the West Coast.
You know, because it rains there
a lot. Unless you prepare for rain,
in which case it will be the perfect
sunny day.
If we successfully make it
through the trip over the Southern
Alps with a toddler, we’ll be spending
a couple of days . . . no, hold on.
Vittoria just ran head first into
the lounge crying and looking for a
cuddle because she definitely went
to bed way too early because her
one and only nap was in the car
today. So cute.
Hold up. Cool, she’s back in bed.
So the trip . . . no, she’s back and is
just standing in the corner chatting.
I’ve got to get her back into bed
or I’ll be up all night.
And she’s back.
I’ll fill you in all about the trip
next week.
•Former Star Media
journalist Matt Salmons has
become a stay-at-home dad.
We follow his journey weekly.
Meat found on vegan pizza
• By Katie Harris
DOMINO’S PIZZA has
apologised for meat on a vegan
pizza from its Rolleston store.
Kate Williams ordered two
vegan pizzas from Domino’s
Rolleston, but when they arrived,
she and her husband discovered
what looked like several pieces of
meat on both of the pizzas.
“I noticed the first piece of
meat sitting out in the open,
then two more that were easily
discernible. I grabbed a fork and
checked under the bits of mushroom
and spinach, and realised
that there were at least seven
pieces on just the one pizza,”
she said. The pair returned to
the store, where a staff member
apologised and they were offered
a replacement pizza and a dessert,
which was also not vegan.
Mrs Williams said she and her
husband were shocked that the
meat was added to their pizza
topping and no one in the store
noticed.
“I find it very hard to reconcile
that someone could miss that
much meat being accidentally
added while preparing a vegan
pizza,” she said.
Though they had not eaten
the meat, she said it was hard
handling “pieces of flesh.”
Mrs Williams posted her
experience on the Vegans of
DISCOVERY: Meat was found on a vegan pizza from Rolleston
Domino’s.
Aotearoa New Zealand Facebook
page and her story got more than
70 comments and 78 reactions.
The experience made Mrs
Williams and her husband, who
are committed vegans, question
going to non-vegan restaurants
for fear of cross-contamination
or this happening again.
“I would still like to support
non-vegan establishments who
are now providing vegan options,
but if they cannot be bothered
to ensure a reasonable level of
care and knowledge by their staff
when preparing this, then they
should not be offering them,” she
said.
A spokesperson from
Domino’s New Zealand
said it had clearly let its
customers down, which was
disappointing.
“We pride ourselves on
offering our vegan customers
choice, something we are very
passionate about.”
The spokesperson said
Domino’s has strict food
handling processes and will be
educating and retraining the staff
members involved.
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