He fed me as we worked tirelessly to stop seabed mining and to stop Oranga Tamariki advertising our babies on TradeMe. He put up billboards, driving eight hours from one part of Te Tai Hauāruru electorate to the other, and despite every political analyst predicting it was impossible to return a party out of Parliament, it was he, my darling, who predicted otherwise and said there would be two of us returning to Parliament. 