Big kids have teamed up with little kids in a DIY garden project which has become a model of collaborative learning, reaping benefits far beyond what teachers envisaged.
A group of teenage boys from C...
WHEN the velvet cap with a gold tassel was placed on her head and the doctoral scroll in her hands, Dr Peetikuia Wainui’s thoughts were of the little school at Whatatutu where her long journey to the ...
When I walked into Tony Ogle’s studio, I literally took a step backwards. The visual impact of his work was staggering. The vibrant colours and the crisp, sharp definition of the images leapt off the ...
WE set off to the airport bright and early in a high state of excitement, a team of good mates heading to the wedding of a Gizzy girl and an Aussie boy in Melbourne.
There is slight consternation when...
DR Rainer Eschenbruch talks to grapevines, and what’s more they talk back to him.
The German-born scientist, PhD and former chief of wine research at the government-owned Te Kauwhata Viticultural Rese...
Dodging donkeys is not quite as dangerous as running with the bulls but it’s not entirely without risks. Our guide warned us to take evasive action whenever we heard the call ‘balek, balek’ (Arabic fo...
IT was the scarfalanche that did it. My lifetime collection of scarves suddenly decided to vacate their long-time abode and came cascading off the dressing room door, landing in a soft heap on the flo...
Kathy Sheldrake was in her early 40s when her heart was first touched by the people of Nepal.
“It was 1991 and I was trekking in Nepal, my first visit to a Third World country. I was quite overwhelmed...
THERE will be two glamorous newcomers at the Poverty Bay Turf Club race meeting next month.
Supermodel Kylie Bax is coming to town to judge the Fashion in the Field competition and the “The Nation,” a...
DUNCAN Bush went to a vocational guidance counsellor in his senior year at St Kentigern College in Auckland, looking for a career where he could be his own boss.
Born in Wellington, Duncan’s family mo...
INFLUENZA can be a killer. According to the National Influenza Specialist Group, more than 200,000 people in New Zealand get influenza every year, and of these, an estimated 400 will die directly or i...
IT'S NOT easy to conduct an interview while you are adjusting the monitor on a baby asleep in a bassinet, cuddling her twin sister on your knee, comforting a seven-year-old complaining of a sore throa...
WHEN Dr Stuart Davis told me he was leaving Gisborne and heading for Bombay, I envisaged an exotic city in far away India and wondered why he was venturing all that way to grow vegetables.
However, th...
MY CLOTHES and I had a shower at midnight in the Sahara. Conscious of conserving precious water at our camp in the desert, I decided to combine my laundry and personal ablutions. I watched the ochre s...
MANAGING large numbers of teenage girls on a daily basis would be a daunting prospect to most of us, but Gisborne Girls’ High School principal Jan Kumar is surrounded by 750 young women every day, and...
JAMES Blackburne was an inquisitive child, always wanting to know how things worked.
“I used to pull things apart,” says James, whose career in architecture took him in quite the opposite direction.
“...
THERE are restless spirits on the Chatham Islands, the souls of those who have long since departed but have no marked resting place to call their own.
Their descendants here in Turanga have a sense of...
PERHAPS it’s night bowls, you wonder as you drive down Rawiri Street on a Friday evening and see all the lights blazing upstairs at the Gisborne Bowling Club and cars lining the streets.
But then the ...
THERE was high excitement behind the scenes at the Hospice Tairawhiti shop this week as manager Brenda Kinder marshalled her models and make-up artist Juana Vincent put last minute touches to lipstick...
EVEN if you don’t need orthodontic work, it’s worth making an appointment with Katherine Thompson just to check out the view from her surgery. Sitting in the chair, you are treated to a magnificent el...