I’m a flirter, not a fighter.

It’s gonna take everything we’ve got to halt the devastating impacts of Climate Change. Including our ability to flirt. If you’ve got it, flaunt it - for a good cause!

I’m not sure if my husband agrees with this approach. But it seemed to work yesterday when I fulfilled one of the items on my Bucket List;  “Make an Oral Submission to Council”.

This was reported by Tom Hunt in the Dominion Post Diary today: “It seems feminine wiles may still be an effective tool of persuasion - even in local body politics. Temperatures rose during a Wellington City Council committee meeting yesterday as councilors Rob Goulden and Brian Pepperell fell under the charm of a young [thanks Tom] Newtown woman. Megan Salole made a submission in support of lowered speed limits along the “Golden Mile”. She said crashes between vehicles and cyclists usually resulted in injury for the latter. To highlight their vulnerability, she asked Mr Goulden to touch her skin and describe its texture. “Very soft, though slightly cool to touch,” he reported. Council initiatives supporting cycling would result in good-looking young women riding on bikes around the city, Ms Salole said. This prospect must have appealed to Mr Pepperell, who responded: “I think its a very good idea to have lower speed limits when beautiful women are on their bikes.”

Just to contextualise this - myself and some other lovely people established Frocks On Bikes - a cycling movement aimed to encourage women and girls in everything from their day clothes and their best duds to cycle in style. Not only is it a liberating experience to cycle (I swear it knocked 10 years off me) it really is the hands-down easiest and cheapest way to dramatically reduce a cities carbon emissions. Not to mention the hottest. All those sassy women… on their Mamachari bikes… wearing a skirt…in an ample Wellington Breeze! [wolfwhistle]. Now that’s a good reason to support more cycle friendly cities!