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Gardening: Jobs to do
A list of jobs to do in your garden over the coming week.
Fiji: What a wonderful day
I'm going to take you on a journey. You might not come back as exhilarated as I did.
Time soon for a haircut
Pruning is one garden topic that makes my eyes glaze over. I suspect that's because, in the first instance, pruning usually makes plants look worse, not better, and I feel as badly for them as I do for myself when I've had a particularly awful haircut.
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Just one pot will do the lot (+recipes)
Tis the season of the crockpot and one-pot...
Take 4 Ingredients: Honey baked chicken
Food and finance go hand in hand. Kim McCosker,...
15 Minute Meal: Japenese-style Miso Fish
Another quick and easy recipe for the busy...
Spice up your mealtimes (+recipes)
Much to my delight, our local Asian food store...
Wine
Wine: Rare drops up for auction
If you're serious about collecting wines of rarity and significance, then you could do worse than cast your eye over the offerings at the 22nd Hawke's Bay Winegrowers' Charity Fine Wine Auction this Queen's Birthday weekend.
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Fishing guru Matt Watson
We talk to TV fishing presenter Matt Watson about...
Salmon double has anglers hopeful
For anglers like Gary Kemsley there is a strong...
Tuki trout off anglers' menu after virus hits
A Hawke's Bay fishing club is refusing to eat...
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Gardening
Gardening: Chop trees before they're a problem
Until a week ago we had a 30m-plus eucalyptus behind our house. It was a gorgeous thing, obviously much older than I, and I was very emotionally attached to it.
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'oneeye' is correct, these trees are indeed known as "widow-makers"in Australia. It is because they will drop one of their massive branches without warning. It does not need high winds etc to bring the branches down, it happens without warning and...
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Travel
Travel: Let there be light in Sydney
Amid-winter warm-up is a great excuse for travelling in the cooler months, and Australia's leading lady is seasoned in the art of perking up visitors' winter blues.
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Fashion
Fashion: Buy less, buy ethical
The collapse of a garment factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, last month drew worldwide attention to the fashion industry's production processes.
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Motoring
Motorsport: Family fun the classic way
Todd Forsyth must have shares in a fuel company to run this much-modified 1974 MGBGT, spotted racing at Pukekohe one recent rainy Saturday.
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