NZ Herald Plus Feature - August 2018

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Tuesday, August 21, 2018

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BLUESMAN DARREN WATSON GOES ACOUSTIC CRUISING VIETNAM’S RED RIVER

INSIDE: WIN A YATES GARDENING HAMPER

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“I always felt that she deserved the best.”

The inspiration behind the philosophy of New Zealand’s biggest retirement village company.

Back in 1983, Kevin Hickman, a former policeman

Brenda says she has noticed a massive change in her

turned private detective, investigated a resthome fire in

Mum Myra since she has been living in Ryman’s Evelyn

Christchurch and did not like what he saw.

Page village in Orewa.

“To me it was crazy, the standards were so poor’’ Kevin recalls.

“I thought, what would I want for Mum?” “I’d want a single room, with an attached ensuite. Not a shared ensuite, because that creates enormous problems.’’

And so, Ryman’s philosophy that care has to be ‘’good enough for Mum’’ was born.

Kevin teamed up with business partner John Ryder.

Ryman – a combination of Ryder and Hickman –

“She knows everyone, has become really social and tries new things like table tennis. She is in a lovely place, is healthy and enjoying life.”

Care is at the heart of what Ryman do. And it’s got to be good enough for Mum, or Dad! Since Kevin and John established Ryman Healthcare

Healthcare was registered, and they bought their first

more than 30 years ago, the company has grown to

property to convert into a resthome in 1984.

become the largest retirement village operator in New

When Myra started looking at retirement options,

Zealand and a trusted operator in Victoria, Australia.

Brenda and her family knew it had to be the very

However, Ryman’s core philosophy remains the same.

best. Myra is a very special Mum, so Brenda needed

Care is at the heart of what Ryman do. And it’s got to be

somewhere she could trust for her to move into.

good enough for Mum, or Dad!

For more information about the Ryman difference visit our website www.rymanhealthcare.co.nz or phone Josie on 0800 000 290

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As the last generation to know life without technology, we have a great deal to share, writes Joanna Mathers

Connectivity is king (below); to be switched off, shut off, and left in silence with your interior world is unthinkable.

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here was a time, not long ago, when ignorance was bliss. Before smart phones, Twitter, Facebook, BuzzFeed, before constant connectivity and the god of Google. Those of us old enough to remember life before internet will recall how it felt to be in the dark about most things.

To not know the latest atrocity, sex scandal, or environmental disaster.

To go on holiday and actually be aware of our surroundings, not worried about capturing it for Instagram.

In those days, the world beyond our immediate experience was a mystery. We knew that bad things happened in faraway countries, but these exotic locales were so far removed from our daily experience they could almost be mythical. The newspaper (actually made of paper), the evening news, and radio were the closet we could get to the “action”, and the action was filtered through the lens of the (primarily) middle-aged white men who ran the media.

Baby boomers and Gen Xers are old enough to remember life before technology. We’ve lived through an era of such unparalleled change that many of us feel whiplashed. As vinyl records seceded to cassettes, then CDs, then MP3s; as videos became redundant, then DVDs, and the world switched on to streaming and Netflix, the change has been fast and it’s been furious.

Remembering the “good old days” is part of the human condition. It’s easy, sometimes, to tire of kid’s constant attachment to devices, to get sick of sitting in silence as friends connect to something as banal as a plastic screen. But while we might pine for the way things were, and occasionally feel like the village luddite, we should at the same time be grateful. We are the last generations to know what it was like to be absent, unconnected and alone.

Aloneness is the enemy of our technology epoch.

As the last generation to know life without technology, we have a great deal to share.

One day we will be seen as almost mythological creatures; living in a world that didn’t know everything, all the time.

Pre digital

● Two people at a table meant conversation

● Boredom forged self-reliance ● The ability to be unreachable ● Opportunity to appreciate the here and now

Connectivity is king; to be switched off, shut off, and left in silence with your interior world is unthinkable. But Baby Boomers and Gen Xers know what it’s like to be by ourselves. To have thinking space, complete silence, uninterrupted by the bleep of new messages or WhatsApp notifications. To be unreachable.

Author Michael Harris argues the case for such aloneness his books The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We've Lost in a World of Constant Connection and Solitude: In pursuit of a singular life in a crowded world. In these much-lauded tomes, he puts forward the argument that we need to re-examine our relationship with technology and embrace the joys of alone time.

“As we embrace a technology’s gifts, we usually fail to consider what they ask from us in return—the subtle, hardly noticeable payments we make in exchange for their marvellous service,” he says in The End of Absence.

“We don’t notice, for example, that the gaps in our schedules have disappeared because we’re too busy

delighting in the amusements that fill them. We forget the games that childhood boredom forged because boredom itself has been outlawed.”

Harris clearly elucidates the relationship between solitude and boredom. And if aloneness is the enemy of the digital age, boredom (as he puts it) is an outlaw. Who has time to be bored, when the world is at your fingertips and you’re in touch with everyone, all the time?

Boredom was part and parcel of growing up pre-internet. You’d come home from school, throw your bag on the bed, and be bored.

After-school TV was the only entertainment us Gen Xers could switch on to; Boomers had books and radio.

But the boredom that space and aloneness offered us was exquisite in its own way. It gave us time to develop our inner world, to explore interiors that cannot be deeply traversed when you’re constantly connected.

In Solitude Harris shares the story of Dr Edith Bone, a woman who was kept prisoner for seven years in Communist-era Hungary. Instead of

being broken by the experience, she came “a little wiser and full of hope”.

Her extreme solitude was made bearable by a rich interior life; she translated poetry in her mind, mentally revisited cities she had visited, made letters and beads out of old bread and worked out problems and calculations. Silence, solitude and lack of connection can be beautiful, if we nurture our interior world as well as we do our Facebook account.

When it comes to working life, those of us who bridge the technological divide also have certain advantages.

Baby Boomers in leadership roles had to rely on their ability to tell compelling stories around workplace performance, to travel and bring back experiences of other environments and use this knowledge to inform their own staff around how things are done elsewhere.

Gen Xers understand the ways in which Baby Boomers work, but bring an anti-authoritarian, socially progressive understanding to the workplace and are able to effectively bridge the gap between Boomers and

Millennials.

The experiences of Baby Boomer leaders may not impress those who have always had access to the wider world via the internet, their years of experience in “real world” environments is invaluable. Successful interpersonal relationships in real life can’t be taught by Doctor Google, and those who’ve spent most of their time in the here and now (as opposed to online) have a lot to teach.

While some of us may feel blindsided by technology, and worry for the future generations as they navigate a world in which technology is as ubiquitous as the air they breathe, we may be better advised to look at the opportunities we have to educate “tech natives” on the wonders of the world outside the screen.

Passing on the joys of nature, sharing the wonders that can be found in between the pages of a book. Encouraging conversations with people in person, attending concerts, playing with animals.

Helping them to rejoice in the here and now, as boring as it can sometimes be.

As the last generation to know life without technology, we have a great deal to share. One day we will be seen as almost mythological creatures; living in a world that didn’t know everything, all the time. We should rejoice in our status — we straddle epochs and we can draw on our experiences of the past to help the younger generations navigate and nurture their own inner lives in the technology-fuelled future.

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PLUS+ & BRITANNIA

The couple who lived too long Running out of money in their retirement years forces some people into desperate measures.

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sked why they needed money, the response from an Auckland couple was heart-breaking: “We didn’t expect to live this long.”

For Beryl and Edgar Charles (not their real names), life in their late 80s had taken a grim turn.

After running out of savings, the long-retired business owners were seeking a way out of their predicament – and had applied to borrow cash to tide them over.

Turned down by the brokerage they had approached (because they had not enough income to meet repayments), the couple were left with few options other than talking to their family in the hope of finding a way out of their impasse – a step they were reluctant to take as they had never wanted to be a burden on them.

“We have always been independent and thought we had our retirement well sorted, but we really didn’t expect to live this long,” says Edgar.

Their story is an example of an all too familiar scenario playing out among a growing number of Kiwi retirees: What to do as better health and longer lives result in more people outliving their income.

The problem is likely to deepen in the coming years.

The most common age of death has risen over the last 20 years from 78 to 87 while New Zealand Financial Services Council (FSC) research late last year shows retirees were generally short of about $218 a week to live comfortably, even taking into account the state pension and KiwiSaver.

KiwiSaver is rated by most as having done a good job but is designed to accumulate savings, not to help people with drawing down savings in retirement.

Meanwhile a financial wellbeing survey commissioned

by ANZ this year revealed about a quarter of New Zealanders have no savings while a BNZ Financial Futures study showed 31 per cent of Kiwis plan to keep working beyond 65 for financial reasons.

Kiwis are not alone. In the US, a survey conducted by the global

financial services company Wells Fargo found 48 per cent of Americans admit they will not have enough money to survive in their golden years. Chillingly, the survey revealed 22 per cent said they would rather die than not have enough cash to live comfortably in retirement.

“We have always been independent and thought we had our retirement well sorted, but we really didn’t expect to live this long,” In New Zealand Tom Hartmann, the personal finance editor of the Commission for Financial Capability (CFFC) says increasing lifespans are one of the variables that make retirement planning a challenge.

“Alongside the question of how much we’ll need, not knowing how long we should be planning for can paralyse us and lead us to simply kick it all down the

line a bit longer,” he says. “People underestimate how long they are going to live.”

Hartmann says life expectancy may climb even higher in the future: “Biotech breakthroughs may mean not just increased lifespans but increased health spans as well - where we not only live longer but live better.”

Because of this Hartmann says the CFFC is trying to get people planning for retirement earlier in their lives - and encourages a careful investigation of all options.

A relatively new type of product in New Zealand – life income funds – gives New Zealanders the opportunity to have a regular tax-paid income from a lump sum investment, particularly in a world of low interest rates. Combining investment and insurance, the funds provide customers fixed fortnightly or four-weekly income for the rest of their lives.

“Because it is difficult to predict what the market is going to do over time, these products can provide a degree of certainty for people and take away the ‘up and down’ of the market,” he says.

“It’s like still getting a pay cheque.”

But Hartmann says there are key questions people need to ask when considering or researching a fund of this nature.

“Firstly, by my calculation, an investment of $100,000 would typically return a payment of about $200 per fortnight. But 25 or 30 years down the road that $200 may not be worth the same, so people need to ask whether the fund adjusts for inflation or not.

“If you die early you will also

want to know if the investment can be passed on to your estate and, thirdly, you need to ask what happens in the event of a company failure. Will the payments continue?”

Hartmann says people need to go in “with eyes wide open” and while it may be hard to tell precisely how many years they’ll need to fund, above all they should be planning now so they avoid the predicament that faced Edgar and Beryl Charles.

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Sailing down Northern Vietnam’s Red River and its tributaries with Pandaw Cruises is not for everyone.

For this trip is a journey for travellers, not tourists. By Tiana Templeman

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hen Pandaw Cruises say some spots are ‘not the prettiest of towns’, they mean it. However, the passengers on our replica colonial-era ship discover that beauty comes in many different forms.

Our 10-night expedition begins with one of the highlights on the itinerary: Two nights exploring the World Heritage Listed Halong Bay. On our second morning we wake early to the sound of thunder echoing off the towering limestone karsts.

Rain lashes the ship and lightning pierces the brooding grey skies that are common during Vietnam’s monsoon summer.

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Cruising Red River gap overhead. Soon the sky has cleared and kayaks are launched for the more adventurous travellers onboard. The rest of us opt for traditional basket boats rowed by women wearing the conical hats known as a non la.

Halong Bay is cloaked in silence except for the soft splash of our boatwoman’s wooden oars, until

excited shouts ring out in the distance.

The kayakers have discovered a colony of tiny bats so our boatwoman cruises over to join them, paddling through a rocky, dimly lit space filled with the sound of fluttering wings, until our boat emerges inside a semi-enclosed lake.

Later that afternoon, our ship

anchors at a secluded beach where the crew set up a cocktail bar.

Passengers from Australia, USA, and the UK laugh and socialise as they bob about in Halong Bay’s emerald green waters, taking care to keep their perfectly mixed gin and tonics above the waterline. Only the promise of a stellar sunset and a warm shower tempts us back to the

ship.

After leaving Halong Bay, our first day on the river is spent waving at shipbuilders and sand barges on the way to Thanh Ha, a small village on the Kinh Thay River.

Washing hangs from cargo vessels like colourful bunting and greetings from passing ships mingle with a soundtrack created by

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hammers tapping on steel hulls.

This bustling, industrial section of the Red River delta is a far cry from picturesque Halong Bay. On our arrival at Thanh Ha village, staff help us dodge the cow pats as we clamber up the riverbank and walk through the village to a water puppet show performed in a pond studded with lotus flowers.

By day the singers, musicians and puppeteers are farmers but, whatever they lack in professional training is made up for with their contagious enthusiasm.

Singers raise their voices in lilting song as the actors standing behind a bamboo screen wade into waistdeep water to perform.

Wooden puppets depicting everything from rice pickers to buffalo and fearsome dragons shooting fireworks dance across the pond, eliciting laughter and gasps of delight from locals who have come to watch the show. We can’t understand the lyrics but the giggles and shouts of the children make it easy to work out who the good and bad guys are.

New Year is the only time a village usually hosts a performance of this calibre, so the Pandaw show is a treat for everyone, not just the passengers.

Our days on the 32-passenger Angkor Pandaw settle into a gentle rhythm, with free time spent sipping cool drinks and socialising as Vietnam’s rural scenery slides slowly past.

While each teak-lined cabin comes with shiny brass fittings and all the mod-cons, the sweeping upper deck dotted with deckchairs proves impossible to resist, as does the excellent Asianinspired dining.

Onboard it feels like a house party with welltravelled friends.

Pandaw cruises tend to attract those who enjoy getting off the beaten track and don’t mind paying a little extra for a more comfortable trip with luxurious touches.

Almost everyone is a repeat passenger, and by the end of the trip we can understand why.

However, this is no guarantee that everything will go according to plan.

We arrive in Hanoi during a record heat wave and our much-anticipated day spent exploring the city’s museums turns into an exercise in endurance. Passengers call each other over to everyone’s favourite exhibit, the wheezing portable airconditioners and fans, which pump out just enough air to revive us for

From left: Sunset in Halong Bay on board Pandaw’s replica colonial-era ship; passengers learning how to make traditional Banh Chung; enjoying the view from the ship; kayaking in Halong Bay (inset).

Photos / Trevor Templeman

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the next stop.

Returning to the ship, we are greeted with chilled towels and icy drinks.

Hanoi is the only major city on the Red River and Halong Bay itinerary, with the remainder being small towns and local villages. Our favourite is Gia Thanh, where we clamber on to a flatbed ferry for the trip to shore, joining motorbikes and labourers on their daily commute.

Our guide leads us up a dirt road and through a market where plump white grubs wriggle in wicker baskets, trying in vain to escape their fate of becoming beer snacks, flashfried with sliced lime leaves and served with chilli sauce.

Piles of spiky, pink dragon fruit catch our eye as we try to avoid tubs

filled with feisty fish, which seem determined to splash our feet.

During the following days we see dance performances, craft demonstrations, temples, pagodas, and Duong Lam village, which received a UNESCO cultural heritage conservation award for the restoration of its historic buildings.

One of our final excursions sees us visiting a house where multiple generations of the same family devote themselves to the traditional craft of making non la.

Children clamber on to their grandmother’s lap as she stitches the hats that have become a symbol of Vietnam. We take tea with the family inside their home and everyone is presented with a non la as a memento of their time in Vietnam. It is a beautiful gesture and one that reminds us the true beauty of a country is not always found in its major sights.

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ith a chart-topping new album, Too Many Millionaires, and a recently sold out national tour, Darren Watson is living proof that, at least when you’re playing the blues, everything gets better with age.

Congrats on the record – you stripped things back for this one what brought that on?

Thanks Greg! I’ve been playing mostly acoustic gigs since about 2013 and folks at the end of shows would come up to us and inevitably ask which album was acoustic, like the show they just saw. Frankly, it got embarrassing saying “well, this one has one or two acoustic numbers on it”. Basically I finally got embarrassed enough to do something about it. So we set up a crowd-funding page and raised the dollars to get it made and pressed to vinyl. And I’m really proud of it.

Might be the best thing I’ve done so far? Certainly that’s how I feel about it.

How hard is it being a musician in NZ? Oh man. It’s almost impossible I reckon. You have to do a bit of everything to make ends meet — so I teach a lot, and play only the gigs I want to. Mentally it’s really tough and it seems to just get harder as you get older. The rewards are few and

far between and the bleak spots are numerous. I’m really glad my daughter showed no signs of following in my footsteps. I really am. There aren’t many in New Zealand who make a living from playing original music.

Funnily enough though, there is a whole industry built up around it.

What brought you to the blues in the first place?

A desire to be unpopular? Ha ha, I really don’t know apart from it being the first music that struck me ‘spiritually’ in the gut. I have no idea why some kid from Waiwhetu got so excited about music from the 30s, 40s, and 50s. But, you know, Muddy Waters is still cooler than Simon Le Bon will ever be.

Biggest compliment you’ve had from a fellow musician . . .

I was sound-checking at a gig opening for Joe Cocker about 10 years ago. I checked my vocal monitor by doing a few bars of my tune All Going Wrong with the band. Joe’s keyboard player (Mike Finnegan, now with Bonnie Raitt) came running on stage, hugged me and started raving about how soulful my singing was and stuff, which I figured he didn’t do every day. That was pretty flattering coming from a dude with chops and experience like that. You know, he played on Hendrix’s Electric Ladyland

Muddy Waters is still cooler than Simon Le Bon will ever be.

Darren Watson (top); Blues musician BB King (left); Muddy Waters.

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and I knew his work from Taj Mahal’s Phantom Blues Band. It’s nice when someone at that level has a few kind words to say about you, I reckon.

Helps to remember shit like that when you’re in one of those ‘I’m deluding myself’ funks that happens to me and I know a lot of my fellow creative souls.

Favourite blues album . . .

Wow, that’s a bit tough. There are so many different kinds of blues. But I guess if I had to pick one it would have to be BB King’s Live At The Regal.

A great singer and guitarist captured live at the absolute apogee of his power in front of an all-AfricanAmerican audience who were allowed to holler but the Regal had rules about no dancing. It really is an astounding document. BB was 38 years old, a superstar of the blues but still yet to ‘make it’ with white audiences. Thirty-eight, man!

Favourite blues guitarist – and why . . .

Equally unfair question. And you probably think I’m gonna say BB King? And I love him and the other Kings too, of course. But I fell in love early on with Earl Hooker. A Chicago session guy who played some of the best slide guitar ever put on wax. Not a singer, like most other blues guitar heroes. Just an amazing, expressive guitar player. Not really star material.

There’s a political punch to many of your songs — can a song truly effect change?

Maybe not on a broad, societal level but in a person’s heart? I think so. I think ‘political punch’ is present in many songs that are not explicitly or overtly political too. Otis Redding’s Respect was written about male/female relationships but in Aretha’s version it becomes as much about race and civil rights as a sassy man/ woman thing.

I sense a lot of other influences in your music — country, rnb, soul…

Oh, hell yes! I’m just a sucker for

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You teach guitar also — does that feed into your writing?

Any time I pick up a guitar feeds into my writing. I constantly find stuff out about my own playing that I’d been unaware of until showing it to a student. I’m really blessed to have a bunch of deeply committed students in Wellington and around the planet.

What’s next for you?

Right now I’m having a breather after 12 months of getting the album and tour into the realm of the achieved.

I’m quite exhausted. I’m thinking about recording an album of my ‘greatest hit’ (Midge Marsden’s singular contribution to how I think about these things!) The best of my back catalogue recorded in the same manner as Too Many Millionaires. We played a few of the old tunes on the tour and they sounded even better than the original versions to me. I reckon that’d be a blast. Then again I have a bunch of new electric-based songs that might need finishing before I do that . . .

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RESTAURANT REVIEW: Teddy's 23 Ponsonby Rd, Ponsonby Teddys.co.nz

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erhaps it’s never crossed your mind, but: where do restaurateurs draw the inspiration for their eateries’

names?

The French Cafe might have been once, when Barrington Salter banged the pots and pans, but in Simon Wright’s reign it was neither . . . nor . . . an early Ponsonby institution revelled in the title of Dr Livingston, I presume. Like the bistro, the reasons are long lost. The Golden Swallow might trump both, but there are some things that shouldn’t be discussed at the dinner table.

So, Teddy’s. It was a chilly Saturday night and I asked Bridgie if she thought the name might denote appropriate (or inappropriate) apparel. She cut me off. “Not since the turn of the century,” she responded in an Arctic tone, which intimated that it would not be a good idea to linger on the subject.

’ve eaten here many times under Ime).different names (the restaurant, not The old villa was Rocco, Blair

Russell and Mark Wallbank’s at-once classy and louche bistro; when they parted companies, Wallbank and Che Barrington begat MooChowChow, and their empire took off from here.

When MooChowChow expired earlier this year, Oliver Scutt of Annabel’s wine bar in Three Lamps and the NZ Rose Co, and business partner Rob Hill of 1885 bar in Britomart, moved in.

Their idea: an unpretentious and uncomplicated space to enjoy lunch, dinner or some after-work bites alongside an interesting mix of drinks.

“The menu’s designed to be simple and has classic dishes with an interesting take on classic and nutritious food,” Scutt says.

There have been tweaks to the floor plan: the interior has been sensitively lightened up and, to use Oliver’s words, the restaurant has been redesigned to “make the bar more of a star”. That generally translates as, who cares about the food?

We can make way more money from the drinks.

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ridgie was ensconced (for she B does not “perch”) at the bar when I arrived, assessing the quality of the

house Champagne. We quickly ordered the signature limoncello spritzer because we have a close, near-family relationship with the Amalfi aperitif.

The menu is a take on the Paris bistro: classic dishes gussied up with a mildly unexpected condiment here and a possibly cheeky sauce there.

If you’re looking for a smart remark, and it’s been a few paragraphs since you’ve read one, it’s a contemporary take on the Contiki tour of Europe. They may not serve cured mackerel with salted cucumber and buttermilk curd in Bilbao, or duck liver parfait with rhubarb relish in Lyon, but you will find it here. Even if you were not looking for it.

We ordered entrees, mains and desserts — each to his and her own — because there was nothing on the menu saying “our dishes are for sharing”.

The waiter looked askance.

“You’ve ordered rather a lot of food,” she said. Spoiler alert: she was right.

Bridgie began with chargrilled prawns, a cos and cherry tomato salad and, when she found them, smoked golden beetroot; I with spicy lamb ribs and fermented leeks. Both were well conceived and executed dishes; if we’d been a little more alert, we’d have twigged that both were generously proportioned.

She kicked on to pork belly; me,

venison fillet, roasted beets and the predictable juniper red wine jus.

Neither of us can resist brussels sprouts, especially with hazelnuts, so we didn’t. Or toasted farro . . . I should stop now. Or rather, we should have.

If the waiter was right about us ordering too much food, Bridgie struck upon another truth: that each plate carried too many flavours; was just too much of a meal on its own.

On each platter, less would have been enough.

We had each chosen a favourite dessert but two were beyond us.

We shared a gigantic slice of lemony olive oil cake, which was more than rather good, neatly set off with ginger chantilly, which your grandmother might have called whipped cream with a dash of Hansells essence.

Occasionally the traditionalist, I enjoy wine with dinner, and Sculptureum’s Cezanne syrah from the Matakana sculpture gardencum-vineyard is highly regarded.

Bridgie was in cocktail mode; Naughtea blended Earl Grey-infused gin with honey (“too strong and sweet for my liking”) and citrus tones.

Sated if not entirely satisfied, we made our way from the table to pay, past the smartphone set, photographing their platters and posting their ‘grams. They did not notice us and, it seemed in some cases, who they were dining with.

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Dark Tourist’s DNA David Farrier’s new Netflix series has its roots in a variety of local productions, says Paul Casserly

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omparisons are an incredibly lazy way to describe a TV show or film. This apple is like that chimp. This actor is like that red-haired stepchild of what’s-her-name. Sitting through the movie was a bit like having a root canal, but performed by a vet, a Vietnam vet!

Comparisons are the lowest form of criticism, they are lazy. I like them.

“It’s a bit Louis Theroux meets Anthony Bourdain, but without the food or booze.” That’s how I summed up David Farrier’s much-feted Netflix series Dark Tourist to someone recently and they nodded, perhaps in pity, it was hard to tell.

I heard someone compare Farrier to the late Dylan Taite on the radio the other day. Fair call. Both did time as the quirky entertainment reporter on TV3’s Nightline.

Taite also seemed to do things his own way, and he played soccer with Bob Marley at a Parnell hotel in 1979.

There was the potty late-period Taite when he often emerged from a TV3 lift ranting his own brand of rock poetry, or interviewing someone in a noisy cafe. Sometimes it seemed a wee bit unhinged but it was always authentic.

But the story that sticks for both Taite and Farrier wasn’t a music or entertainment one. For Dylan, it’s the one about an obsession that swept the nation back in the early ’80s. A theory had taken hold, spread by gossip, probably by fax too. If one were to fill up big plastic soda bottles with water and leave them around the lilies and herbaceous edges of one’s garden, the snaggle-toothed dogs that used to roam our suburbs unmolested, those dogs — this amazing new theory posited — would be rendered incapable of shitting and pissing in the vicinity. They would raise their legs, begin the squat and nothing would flow.

Taite’s report was a little piss ridden, in a gentle way, he knew the scheme was a scam but, the reason it stays with me is the line that he included comparing the battle for scat-free gardens to “the turd world war.”

Not that Farrier’s Dark Tourist goes in for such dad joking, which is not to say it’s without humour. As for the Farrier news story that sticks, it’s hard to go past that shirtless sauna interview with conservative loon

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Implying that Farrier shares DNA with other broadcasters is a fatuous exercise but if you insist, shall we include Marcus Lush? His various expeditions around the less obvious parts of NZ pulled in the viewers and charmed us into falling in love with even our unlovely bits.

His Off The Rails, South and North, became new benchmarks. Today his night-time talkback show on ZB is full of the joys of a certain part of the

Kiwi life, a world of feijoa recipes, small town secrets, the wonders of everyday life and hot takes on world affairs from average Joes, all rendered with a touch of poetry.

We could also easily make connections to Guy Williams, Jeremy Wells and Te Radar. But could we say that Farrier is a bit like Gary McCormack? Seems insane, but Gary’s documentary series Heartland has threads connecting all of the above, though to be fair, David is

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perhaps the most unlikely of all to get himself banned by Air New Zealand for causing a ruckus in the Koru Lounge. Finding female connections is a harder task and probably points to institutional and general all-purpose sexist exclusion from this sausage sizzle of guys who get to do these sorts of shows. Not easy is it?

Broadcaster and writer Elisabeth Easther is one exception I can rustle up.

She recently got to roam the islands of the Hauraki Gulf to see if they had changed much since her mother, Shirley Maddock, visited them to make a similar doco in 1964.

The answer was, sort of, and no.

It’s a great watch and Easther is the perfect guide. (Islands of the Gulf, TVNZ ondemand) Operating in a slightly different arena there’s Alice Snedden, another New Zealand original doing the business her own way with her own

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The show is available via TVNZ’s ondemand service, and her themed riffs on national issues from weed to tax evasion are fresh and funny and suggest an inquisitive drive that will be with us for some time.

Perhaps a Netflix series awaits in her future, if that is indeed an appealing thing down the track.

Some fear that the streaming service will do for TV productions what Uber has done for the taxi business.

That may come to pass, but for now Dark Tourist marks the first NZ production to wear the Netflix Original brand, meaning it will be seen by millions. Most importantly, it’s a great watch, and Farrier’s muchloved schtick remains very much intact, helped no doubt by Carthew Neal and Mark McNeil, two of the sharpest producers we have in the Kiwi TV toolbox.

It’s a slickly made 10-part magazine show taking in a smorgasbord of ‘dark’ tourist destinations; shithole countries, voodoo carry on, nuclear fallout. All the fun stuff. You could say it’s a bit like Whicker's World for the woke generation. If you wanted to sound like an old fart.

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GETTING READY FOR SPRING T

Sarah O’Neil

he last month of winter is a difficult time for the keen gardener. In among the bleak and gloomy days are a sprinkling of glorious blue-sky days that hint at how wonderful the next season will be.

But we need to remember August is still winter and can still be nasty, with stormy weather, icy starts, excessive rain and conditions that drive us indoors to be comforted by the fire with a big bowl of steaming soup.

Like all good endurance activities, the key to success is preparation.

Now is the perfect time to start to draw together the things needed to ensure the long growing season has what it takes to be productive and rewarding.

In the lingering cold of winter, make the most of days stuck indoors with rain pelting on the windows to do some planning.

What kind of garden do you want?

What do you want to grow? It is very easy to pop down to the garden centre and be tempted by a multitude of seedlings already beginning to make an appearance, or by the vast array of seed packets available.

However, it is always best to have a plan and approach the garden centre with a list and try your hardest

to exercise self-control.

A good plan starts with an assessment of the space you have to grow your vegetables. Use one of those blue-sky days to pop outdoors and take a good look at your garden. How big is it? Is it in the right location? Will it be in shadow in summer? As the sun shifts into its summer position will the fence shade the garden, will leaves fill overhead trees to block the much-needed light?

A good vege patch should be in full sun for at least 6 to 8 hours a day for the best harvest.

For healthy plants to flourish in the garden they all have specific space requirements.

Competition from other plants planted too closely and from weeds can compromise the abundance of the harvest and invite pests and disease. Taking the time to learn about what you want to grow and finding out how much space they need will improve your gardening experience in the months to come.

The other temptation that is best avoided, once you have gathered your seeds, is to start too soon. It is best to wait for the right time before sowing them.

For most summer crops, they are ideally planted once the weather warms up, the day lengthens, and all risk of frost has passed. For most of

A good vege patch should be in full sun for at least 6 to 8 hours a day for the best harvest

us, this is Labour weekend at the end of October, which is still some time off. In some seasons, even this can be too soon as killing frosts in early November aren’t unheard of.

The general rule of thumb for most summer crops is to start the seeds about 6 weeks before it is safe to plant outside. This ensures the plant is a good size to go outside, into conditions that will allow it to thrive.

Starting too early can result in plants that become large and unwieldy for indoor situations and are at risk of becoming pot-bound

with their roots encircling themselves in increasingly nutrient-depleted pots. If planted outdoors too soon, then they struggle to get going and continue to struggle for the rest of the season, if they don’t die before then.

Plants planted at the right time soon overtake the early plants in health and wellbeing and go on to create a better harvest.

Having said that, there are plenty of crops that can be started now, crops such as beetroot, cabbage, carrots, salads, peas, radish, silverbeet and a wide range of herbs.

Nature can’t be hurried, and we really shouldn’t try. It can be very relaxing and quite therapeutic to slow things down and work with the timings of the garden.

The start of every growing season harbours the hope and potential that this will be the one — that marvellous year where all the conditions align to create the perfect conditions. This month is the month to allow yourself to bask in the possibilities, imagining the mature garden heavy with the fruits of your labour and then plan to make it happen. ● Sarah O'Neil is an author, blogger and passionate gardener writing about the trials and tribulations of growing food for her family. Her books and Play in the Garden and Growing Vegetables are available at all good bookstores. sarahthegardener.co.nz

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