Taking it on the chin, Jo Ferris confesses her map-reading incompetence while walking Picton’s Snout Track. Anyone who knows me will agree that lengthy walks aren’t really my forte. They take too long, for starters. Hikes are worse. Lugging packs...
Books are a popular gift at Christmas and for summer reading, and sales here have been on the rise lately. Wynsley Wrigley spoke to Gisborne's two leading book sellers about business over Christmas/New Year. What were their bestsellers and do...
BROTHER and sister duo Leroy and Anna Ma’s Wednesday recital at Tiromoana, Wainui, marks the beginning of a series of three concerts of young rising stars of the piano. The two prize-winning sibling pianists are studying in the Rising Stars...
This colourful salad uses lemon basil vinaigrette as a marinade for the usually cool watermelon, pineapples and tomatoes. Crunchy greens provide a hearty bed for these fresh fruit, grilled smoky sweet. The recipe is courtesy of Jenné of Sweet...
Flutter-tonguing, trills, jet whistle, tongue rams, tongue pizzicato and glissando are among intriguing descriptions by well-respected music reviewer Stephen Gibbs of a performance by the trio Confetti. And he hadn’t even got around to what the...
Coll Campbell was born and raised in Gisborne. He attended Te Wharau Primary School, Gisborne Intermediate and Gisborne Boys' High School.“I probably didn't apply myself as much as I could've academically at high school. I did sports and arts and...
TAIAO, the natural world, is the name of Maori visual arts and design school, Toihoukura’s end-of-year exhibition — but Evon Wilson’s work also embraces the celestial and the mythic. Now in her third and final year, Wilson’s collection of...
From science fiction to romance, from haiku to memoir, the Tairawhiti Writers Hub is taking submissions for an anthology of writings from the East Coast. A few prerequisites: Writers must be from Tairawhiti or have a link to the East Coast. All...
Derek Goodwin has three very different fields of work. He is a fire risk management officer, a marriage celebrant, and a clown. He is also a very caring member of the community. You could lose a few hours chatting to Derek Goodwin. He has a wealth of...
Recorded Music New Zealand's annual End-of-Year Official Charts — Te Papa Tātai Waiata Matua O Aotearoa — have been revealed. While it has been a record-breaking year for New Zealand albums reaching #1, and there are more chart accolades for...
Rosa Briant talks to Maria Del Gaudio Geronazzo about her journey to become a yoga practitioner and reiki therapist . . .In an era of trendy yoga styles, expensive work-out clothes and generally commercialised spirituality, meeting a reiki therapist...
Gisborne Herald advertising manager Jane Smith has one of the most exciting, relaxing and rejuvenating days of her life when she has a skin treatment at Juve . . .Award-winning beauty spa Juve may have a simple ethos but it comes with huge...
In Sweet Leith Studio, next to the Bean Genie espresso bar, something new is brewing. Made up of three bass guitarists, a keyboard player and a drummer, five-piece act Subset BC evolved from a bass player’s creativity group, the Bass Club. Although...
Phil and Sue Newdick write about their visit Hamburg in Germany where thousands turned up to greet them at the train station!Leaving Leipzig we caught another train, this time to Hamburg. This city is about 400kms north-west of Leipzig but even with...
From the opening recorded monologue accompanied by the percussive swoops of Eden Mulholland’s score to the moving final segment, dancer Rodney Bell’s Meremere is all about connection. Twenty-six years after he was paralysed from the chest down in...
Another ‘easy as’ recipe from ‘Nan’, who brought us a tasty guava sauce recipe two weeks ago.‘This is so easy even the kids love making it,’ she says . . .Ingredients:300 ml cream3/4 cup sugar2 egg whitesMethod:Beat cream and sugar till...
Basic dance movements to Beauty School Dropout and Greased Lightnin', will be taught at pre-auditions on Saturday for Centre Stage Theatre's upcoming production of the musical Grease. Participants will also learn the song Grease, which will be part...
‘For me to not feel hard done by, Christmas really must include mince pies,’ says Jo Seagar in her fabulous new cookbook, Better than a Bought One, which features a chapter entitled ‘Casual Kiwi Christmas Menu’.So, I would always have a tin...
BEING the premiere, it was a largely adult audience at last night’s launch of Cinderella: A Pantomime, but you wouldn’t have thought it by the racket from the cheap seats.“Hello Buttons!”, “Look out behind you!”, the audience hollered...
1 green apple, peeled, cored and diced. 240ml low-sodium tamari (available atDown To Earth-Health 2000 for $8.50)120ml apple cider vinegar120ml water3 slices ginger1 lime, zested and juicedPlace the apple in a small pot and add enough water so that...
EXITING a Mini can be complicated and undignified. Rather than alighting gracefully, you pour out like a human puddle. I discover this en route to Lake Waikaremoana, at a Wairoa service station, while filling up Tweety, a 1976 Leyland Mini. There’s...
Voice, classical guitar and traditional Maori instruments combine in a concert at Eastwoodhill Arboretum this month to mark the changing seasons. Accompanied by classical guitarist Chaitanya Santana Temepara and taonga puoro player Norm Heke, singer...
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 unease too for they do not know where or how many...
One by one they roll up. Retirees in well-appointed motorhomes, oblivious to the traffic snarled up behind them. Young travellers in converted Toyota Estimas with the all-important blue sticker — “self-contained” — a passport to some of the...
HAVING returned to the country music circuit this year after a 15-year break Manutuke musician Whata Brown was rapt to find he was roomed with his inspiration, and the event’s special guest, Dennis Marsh.“I was a bit nervous but after talking...
1 fresh mango1 capsicum⅓ telegraph cucumber1 red onion3 cloves of garlicA handful of fresh corianderSalt and pepperA dash of sesame oilA dash of olive oilThe juice of one lime1 tsp of apple cider vinegarFinely chop the mango, capsicum, cucumber...
Five years ago, Gisborne forestry worker Tama Koia was looking ahead to some serious health problems resulting from the diabetes he had developed. Among the spectre of possibilities were blindness, gangrene and dialysis. Today, thanks to a Gisborne...
Personalise your Rhythm and Vines schedule, store all the info you need in one place, and load up your personal favourites with the official R&V mobile app. Now available for download, the app’s planning software allows you and your mates to follow...
• Many of today's antibiotics have been derived from soil — e.g. penicillin.• Soil is made up of clay, sand and loam. They are grouped according to the amounts of coarse sand and fine clay particles and organic matter they contain.• What is...
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 sand stream off my camel-riding regalia and run in...
The American Institute for Cancer Research talks to Barbara Rolls, a leading researcher in the United States, on why people eat the way they do. The notion of calorie density — the number of calories in a specific weight of food — may sound...
Sun, sand, surf, vintage clothing. It's all happening down Salisbury Road. Running an apparel shop out of a garage, Gabby Rose offers customers a kaleidoscopic range of second-hand, vintage clothing at Salisbury Vintage.“I usually collect clothes...