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Looking forward to salad days

Stepping out your own back door to forage for fresh salad ingredients is one of the many delights of gardening. It’s also a great way to save money. GROW YOUR OWN SALADStart growing your own cucumbers, lettuce, radish and rocket in September or...

Nurturing district’s crafters for 50 years

Gisborne’s Ten Talents Craft Centre has just celebrates milestone birthday

EMBRACING THE ART OF ACTING

‘It’s not the job, it’s the friendships’

A Quiet Place Part II keeps heart rates up

by Lindsey Bahr, AP Film WriterJohn Krasinski catches you off guard in the first moment of A Quiet Place Part II, inviting you into his film with the most terrifying thing of all in this universe: Noise. It is a testament to the effectiveness of...

Cead Mile Failte to Ireland

IF YOU ever go across the sea to Ireland you will hear these words many times “Cead Mile Failte”. A hundred thousand welcomes greets visitors across Ireland. In Galway it has added significance with the city recently voted the “World’s...

Gig Guide

Got something going on? Let The Guide know at guide@gisborneherald. co. nz or telephone 869-0630. This weekMarlon Williams: The Turangawaewae Tour: Kiwi singer-songwriter plays alt-country. With support act Emily Fairlight. War Memorial Theatre...

Wellington wows second time around

Sometimes you have to give a place a second chance. That was us and Wellington. We visited the capital city in 2020 but the spark was not quite there. Two years later we decided to give it another go and it was nothing short of fantastic. It takes...

One Man, Two Guvnors

A mere smattering of people attended screenings at the Odeon of National Theatre Live's mostly brilliant shows when the reels came to town. Now the opportunity to see a selection of these productions that were astounding in their inventiveness and...

Choral Society welcomes newcomers

If singing in the most popular major choral work ever, and having the chance to belt out a rousing Hallelujah chorus, have ever been on your bucket list, the time to act is now. Gisborne Choral Society has just started rehearsing Handel's Messiah...

The Guide

Got something going on? Let The Guide know at guide@gisborneherald. co. nzThis weekRetro Bar — The 35ers party celebrating the release of the latest compilation of East Coast hip-hop; Saturday, April 30. The Dome Room — Players and spectators...

Brain building interns

Like many teenagers Haylea Rodgers, Ruby Westrupp and Jade Keelan decided to take up an internship this summer, but unlike many, managed to reconstruct their brains in their first week on the job. The three are among seven summer interns at the...

Evergreen shrubs for your yard

We often receive comments and questions on what are the best shrubs for the garden, as there are so many options and it can be quite confusing. We have researched and found the top nine shrubs that grow well and look good all year round, need little...

Love and determination

Brenden Gooch drove to many titles in his streetstock and now he is driving hard to one day walk unassisted as he recovers from a serious spinal injury. He talked to reporter Murray Robertson

Spread the words

A pen of writers (the jury is still out on the collective noun) filled the Waikanae Surf Life Saving Club conference room on Friday for the long-awaited launch of the anthology Kaituhi Rawhiti (Eastern scribes).Edited by Aaron Compton, Christopher...

Spring flowering trees and shrubs

Trees and shrubs add wonderful permanence and structure to gardens, as well as shade and privacy. Spring is when many trees and shrubs are covered in masses of beautiful blooms, adding a colourful or sometimes fragrant dimension to outdoor spaces...

Poetry without words

Two classical ballet favourites and two new works that were postponed in 2020 come together next month in the Royal New Zealand Ballet’s much-anticipated Tutus on Tour performance in Gisborne. Described as achingly beautiful, tender and...