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Articles all about our country, your favourites like food, wine, family, your home, gardening, retirement living and yes, something about pets also.
Selecting tropical freshwater fish to suit you
You have probably been to your local pet shop or aquarist dealer and seen a large ...
To chill, or not to chill spring bulbs?
To chill, or not to chill? It’s an age-old question and one I get asked every ...
Centenarian helps polytech students by getting a perm
Recently turned 101, Valda Colwill routinely drives from her Hastings home to have her hair permed ...
Mini hot cross buns
What is Easter without a hot cross bun or two? These buns are so much better ...
In-laws: How to get along with them
There are many things in life you have some control over. Where you live, what job ...
Equal pay for women
OPINION: This issue has been around for what seems like forever, and don’t think it will ...
National superannuation surfaces again
OPINION: Just when we all thought the issue of National Super was dead and buried, for ...
Manners matter
“Friends and good manners will carry you where money won’t go.” Margaret Walker I remember a ...
Video – The DNA journey
It’s easy to think there are more things dividing us than uniting us. But we actually ...