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.
Last month Ponsonby News editor Martin Leach enjoyed a great afternoon dodging rain and spending a few hours walking around Ponsonby with some of the students from the Media Design School. Aged from 20 to 25, they are from China, India, Korea and Nepal, and are studying for a Graduate Diploma of Creative Technologies.
Taste of Auckland’s (5 - 8 November) focus on New Zealand cuisine is bigger than ever. The most exciting thing that food and wine aficionados can look forward to will be checking out how New Zealand’s top chefs have come together to create the country’s greatest gourmet hangi!.
Our parliamentary side are at it, our armed forces, the All Blacks and even our very own New Zealand Falcons - winning rugby tournaments, that is.