Annie Sloan at Le Monde
The biggest distraction many budding home renovators find is the seemingly endless and mind-numbing prepping and priming that is required before you’re allowed to get to the fun part of going wild with colour.
The biggest distraction many budding home renovators find is the seemingly endless and mind-numbing prepping and priming that is required before you’re allowed to get to the fun part of going wild with colour.
Daniel Pollen was born in Ringsend in Dublin, June 2 1813. His father, Hugh Pollen was a dock master who according to some accounts helped build the United States Capitol.
Kitchen designer Celia Visser lives and breathes design. Her exquisitely keen eye for colour and texture was honed while renovating her own homes.
I’m not much of a morning person during the winter months but now that spring is here, I feel vividly alive. I feel the explosion of life around me and literally leap out of bed in the mornings to see what there is to see.
We take a look at some of our local childcare providers for preschoolers.
I tried Bikram yoga for the first time in my life last month, and found the process both challenging and intriguing. It certainly tested my emotional and physical fortitude at times, but involved the pleasure of meeting the wonderful Rebeckh Burns of Bikram Yoga Britomart.
Mo’ore’a. A heart-shaped island in the middle of the Pacific pierced by a shallow harbour on its northern side and barely a half hour sail from Tahiti’s capital, Papeete.
There’s recently been one heck of a commotion over the demise of a lion called Cecil and even as a card-carrying herbivore with an endless reservoir of compassion for furry mammals, I found all the brouhaha rather tiresome.
In her 2004 book, ‘Troubled Water’, the late Anita Roddick quoted a group called ‘Public Citizen’, a not-for-profit consumer organisation set up in America by Ralph Nader in 1971.
The Cavalier Tavern - The Suffolk Arms.
The mammoth task of finalising Auckland Council’s Unitary Plan continues apace, with hearings before an independent hearings panel and council staff preparing responses to huge volumes of submissions.
It’s 40 years since I was Deputy Principal of Bayfield School, and now I am crossing the road to the brand new school on the present site.