Let’s Active
The first passenger we put in the rear seats of the new BMW 2 Series Active Tourer promptly fell asleep before we cleared Ngauranga Gorge. “This is good,” I thought. […]
Childspace celebrates 21 years
In 1994, Childspace founders Toni and Robin Christie were working in early childhood education in Christchurch, but they weren’t as happy as they thought they should be. “We were young, […]
Stranded
Strand yarn was developed in the 1990s by Ruth Mary and Neville Beach in consultation with the New Zealand Wool Research Institute as an embroidery yarn. They had been […]
Hedge your bets
Every garden needs good boundaries. And while any basic fence can provide shelter and privacy, a well-planted boundary hedge has added benefits of beauty, fragrance, fruit or flowers, and habitat […]
Collaboration home
Up amongst the native trees in a small corner of Newtown, four Balmoral Terrace flatmates are brewing coffee and preparing breakfast. Rosemary Patterson, Kate McKenzie, Samantha Guillen and Beth Hilton […]
Education: Porirua’s high-tech schools
“We had this kid who was in Year 4 last year, and got really into Adobe Photoshop. He started to do some quite interesting stuff, and his auntie said, ‘I […]
Three-in-one
To celebrate the international launch of the new M‑series, the BMW people gave me a choice between the new M3 — the four-door sedan version — or the M4, worth […]
Coco at the Roxy
A Wellington icon, leading attraction and symbol of the city’s proud history of film, the Roxy Cinema can be found right in the heart of New Zealand’s filmmaking […]
A place to call home
Norrie Powers has lived in social housing for the past six years, and moved into the newly renovated Central Park Apartments in Brooklyn two years ago. “Long story short, buying a […]
AFL on Anzac Day
For a country where sport is such an important and oft-celebrated part of its cultural framework, New Zealand is strangely bereft of traditional sporting fixtures, even more so when it […]
