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The Good Life: Scrabble showdown in slippers - the Lush Places championship

Which member of the Lush Places Scrabble Club would earn bragging rights as 2024 champion?

Weekend wine guide: Real bargains among Villa Maria’s new releases

There’s no shortage of good wine on the shelves, and plenty of real bargains.

Midweek meal inspiration: How to eat well for less - and not get tied up in the kitchen

Australian cook Nicole Maguire shares her dinner go-tos.

Can I interest you in my sock drawer makeover? The desperate search for content in a finite world

Late-stage capitalism has encouraged a giddy, reckless approach to growth.

The Good Life: Recipes for life

Michele Hewitson on how old books have become treasured time capsules.

Weekend wine guide: Would you pay $40k for a bottle of Kiwi pinot noir?

It's not impossible that the price of an NZ pinot noir could ever approach such heights.

What’s in a name? Confusion when you share it with someone who dies

If you share a name with someone else, it'll get tricky when one of you dies.

The Good Life: Going for goals

If life has taught me anything since moving to Lush Places, it's to have modest goals.

Behind the photo: How Brett Stanley became one of the world’s best underwater photographers

Brett Stanley discovered a love of photographing watery worlds in Wellington.

Niki Bezzant: Going to town in an annual celebration of art deco style means embracing vintage, not the era’s values

People wrongly assume because you love the aesthetics, you love the morality or values.

The Good Life: A cat-astrophic meeting at Lush Places

Is an era about to end?

Bringing a plate? Try these easy autumnal dishes

Australian country cook Sophie Hansen shares some tasty make and take treats.

Jane Clifton: Fashion goes back to 80s excess

Shoulder-pads, body suits, and bulky cargo pants are back bigger than ever before.

Weekend wine guide: NZ’s oldest archaeological site is now a vineyard

The MacDonald family’s move from dairying to vineyards has paid off.

Why does procrastination hit near deadlines?

Procrastination afflicts most of us at some stage, why is that?

Latest research on “nature vs nurture” - do we really have control over our lives?

There's no such thing as free will, argues neuroscientist Robert Sapolsky.