Feeling lonely is not a state anyone wants to find themselves in for very long, and for good reason. Research shows loneliness can detrimentally affect our immune systems, heighten our blood pressure, and increase our cholesterol.
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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.
Keto Orange and Almond Cake
A low-carb, sugar-free, gluten-free, diabetes-friendly, and calorie conscious cake!
5 Great Indoor Winter Gardening Activities
Who said gardening had to stop with winter – make this your best indoor gardening year ever!
Yes – Cats Can Get Depressed!
Let’s face it – with a reputation for sleeping between 12 to 16 hours a day, cats aren’t exactly the most active of animals. That, in itself, doesn’t equate to a symptom of moggie depression.
New Zealand in 2050
Have you ever thought what New Zealand would be like in the year 2050, twenty-eight years from now?
Southern Style Baby Back Pork Ribs
You don't have to dedicate your life to eating like a caveman to love a good barbeque - since the discovery of fire, roasting meat over a flame has made mouths water.
It’s Never too Late to Learn Something New
At the age of twenty-seven, I met a new breed of women – who were mothers with youngsters like me, but were also students at Massey University
Yuzu – the latest citrus on the block!
Fresh fruit growers and their customers can’t resist novelty – and they now have it, once again, in the form of Yuzu, an unusual citrus which is available in New Zealand
Interfamily Property Ownership
In recent years there has been an upsurge of the circumstances where more than one generation of a family has a financial stake in the same property.
What Wine Goes with Pork?
To tackle the query which comes up time and time again, “what wine goes with pork?”, one must first ask another question, what kind of pork are we having?