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Bucket list

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Travel, volunteering, or andrenaline adventures, everyone’s wish list is different but driven by what we love and what we dream of doing. By Donna McIntyre

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n the 2007 movie The Bucket List, Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman dash about the world with a wish list of things they want to do before they “kick the bucket”.

They skydive, fly over the North Pole, visit India’s Taj Mahal, the base of Mt Everest, the Egyptian pyramids, go on an African safari, dine at a Michelin-star restaurant, drive a Shelby Mustang, and ride motorbikes on the Great Wall of China.

Bucket list became a catchphrase for exotic and daring things people wanted to do in their lifetime . . . adventures, exotic adventures, something to make a memory of.

Some people still use bucket list.

It’s a term you can throw about when you’re young and healthy and mortality seems a long way off. Others prefer to use “aspirations”, “purpose”, “fulfilment” and “authentic self”. That throws the concept wide open, not just expensive, one-off experiences but fulfilling yourself, whether that be through taking a great leap of faith with bungy jumping or starting a training programme for a 5km run with the goal of a half marathon — we can never underestimate our health. Or, like in the movie, people attempt to mend bridges with the people they love.

And, just like in the movie, most people’s priorities and their most precious memories are good times, laughter and experiences shared with family and friends.

So just what are the things people are yearning to do: the popular, the novel.

Travel Plus asked Kiwi life coach Catherine Coluccio to survey her Rocking Midlife Facebook group about what aspirations they have on their wish lists. Here is a handful of answers.

“Travel, of course, features large.

DC for the Cherry Blossom Festive, Ireland, Scotland in the springtime.”

“Montana, and stay on a dude ranch.”

“Go on a cruise.”

“Take all my grandchildren to Disney World.”

“Croatia, too.”

And, just once, some said they’d like to make those trips in business class.

House of Travel commercial director Brent Thomas says many of his firm’s customers do have bucket lists they want to tick off.

“Destinations which are really taking off include Hawaii and Bali,” he says.

Japan “is on many travellers and sports fans wish lists . . . with the 2019 Rugby World Cup and 2020 Olympic Games being held here.”

He says people heading to Europe are venturing outside the central locations and wanting to immerse themselves in the local culture. “A villa stay in the South of France, sailing through the Mediterranean, walking the Camino or taking a

Jack Nicholson skydives in the movie The Bucket List; travel and experiences such as swimming with sharks are high on people’s bucket lists. Photos / Getty Images

cooking class in Italy. Portugal and Croatia are up-and-coming destinations.”

And cruising is no longer limited to ocean cruising, as customers branch out into river cruising through Europe and expedition cruising to Antarctica or the Galapagos Islands, he says.

Sarah and Denis La Touche of foodiesinfrance.com have been running walking, food and wine tours to France, Northern Spain and Liguria since 2012.

“I think people’s bucket lists are super-varied,” says Sarah.

“It’s all

about what you love, more importantly, what you dream of doing and hopefully at some stage can actually man-

age to do. Living the dream, I think, is the current catchphrase.

“I’m not sure that everyone is interested in the great walks of the world, but I do know that people really enjoy discovering cultures via the landscape, the food and wine. They love to combine eating well with walking and having a great time.”

For some people, travel is an opportunity to have some experiences as they help others.

This is where organisations such

as Volunteer Service Abroad (VSA) come in.

Heather Ware enjoys travel but also wanted to go somewhere where she felt she could contribute to the local community and perhaps make a difference. She thought that travelling as a volunteer wouldn’t be easy, matching her skill set of capital planning and marketing, but that very opportunity presented itself with a three-month stay working on the setup of a South Pacific World War II museum in Vanuatu from October to December last year.

“Life is short, and you have to make the most of everything,”’ she says, explaining she chose VSA because she wanted to live in an overseas place “rather than just travelling there and being an observer”.

Her wish list is for travel with her husband. “We are interested in going to countries off the beaten track — Russia, Mongolia and South America.”

Experiences As well as seeing life from a different part of the world, adrenalineinducing experiences are still high on people’s wish lists.

Again, Catherine Coluccio’s Facebook group offers a list of experiences dear to their hearts.

“Learn to scuba dive.”

“Half marathon and quarter Ironman this year!”

“Seeing bands in concert.”

“Riding a mechanical bull (done).”

“Done the jumping out plane thing and that’s worth every moment, and achieved a few set exercise goals. As I’ve past 50, I realise that health is the most important thing in life and opportunities to do wonderful things are a bonus.”

Or the selfless wish of one group member who said, “I’d love to surprise someone with a new car. I think that would be amazing to surprise and make someone so happy.”

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New Zealanders are fortunate they can have many adventures without having to leave these shores.

You don’t have to drive far to find a beautiful spot with a bungy jump. Or to experience the adrenaline rush of jumping out of a plane, flying by helicopter over amazing scenery and being dropped off for some heli-skiing or heli-fishing.

Auckland’s Sky Tower and SkyJump/SkyWalk also feature on people’s aspirations lists.

The majority of these requests are from charities like Make A Wish or Starship for very ill or terminal patients to visit the Sky Tower or do a SkyWalk or SkyJump. “They’re things that they’ve always wanted to do, or that they’d really love to do,” says Rebecca Foote, senior communications adviser at Skycity.”

The National Aquarium of New Zealand in Napier is the only place in the country where you can swim freely with sharks (in a wetsuit not a cage). And yes, it’s on people’s bucket lists.

The aquarium’s visitor experiences marketing adviser, Felicity Kibble, says, “Not long ago we had a woman in her 70s get in touch with us and organise a swim as it was on her bucket list. She was amazing and said it was a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

“We also have cruise ship visitors specifically book this encounter when they’re in port as it’s on their bucket list and they can’t do this anywhere else in New Zealand.

“You eyeball sharks, stingrays and skates, and get up close with local fish like kahawai and snapper from nearby Hawke’s Bay. It really does get your blood pumping and send your adrenaline levels through the roof!”

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Bob Dylan

in New Zealand It ain’t all over yet, baby blue, writes Graham Reid

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Bob Dylan performing at Mt Smart Stadium in 1986 with Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers.

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funny and cynical friend recently said if Paul McCartney dies we’re left with Ringo to explain the Beatles to our grandchildren.

He’s a great drummer, beyond question. But the fourth best singer in the band, who wrote no songs of any consequence? And whose most abiding contribution to the legacy was a children’s song, Yellow Submarine? Hmm. Might be hard to get the young ’un to check out I Am The Walrus, Strawberry Fields Forever or Paperback Writer on such evidence.

And Bob Dylan presents a similar predicament.

Any teenager who went — or more likely was taken — to one of Dylan’s recent New Zealand concerts would be bewildered by the claims made for him.

What they saw was an old man who strains to sing (I described his voice in my review as like “broken branches in a concrete mixer”), whose words were barely decipherable (“And you bang on about his lyrics, Grandma?”), who mostly stayed behind a piano and was barely visible, where one song melded into another and . . .

This guy is famous?

Of course, there’s much more to this man who recalibrated the direc-

tion of popular music at least three times: making tired folk contemporary and relevant in its themes; introducing literate and poetic lyrics into rock music when he plugged in the electric guitar; and bringing Americana to the fore on his John Wesley Harding album when the world was going day-glo Sgt. Pepper in the Summer of Love.

And that’s without mentioning his remarkable canon of mythopoetic songs in the 21st century.

For a slight man, he is a towering figure.

But try explaining this to those who went to his Auckland Spark Arena (or Horncastle Arena in Christchurch) shows late last month and bemoaned the lack of side screens (he’s rarely had them on his recent tours), the fact he never said a word to the audience (he hasn’t for many years) and couldn’t understand why they weren’t allowed to take photos on their phones.

That’s a generational thing, but Dylan isn’t Pink, Cher or some stadium rock act.

He is . . . Bob Dylan.

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eight times. I’ve witnessed him at his best (Western Springs in ’78, Spark Arena this past August) and his worst (with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers in Mt Smart Stadium in ’86, at the Supertop in ’92 when he seemed drunk and/or bewildered).

And at points in-between: Vector Arena and the Civic in ’07, North Shore Events Centre in ’98 with Patti Smith opening, and there again in ’03.

And so, to use the current jargon, “What’s the takeaway?”

That for the past 40 years Bob Dylan has not been for the fainthearted or those who want to hear the songs just like they were on a favoured album, that he has always been in a state of constant reinvention and emotional flux and his songs — old and new alike — reflect that in melodic and lyrical changes.

Nope, he’s not easy.

But he is, because of all that and more, a unique figure in popular culture.

At the memorable Western Springs concert he was helming a rock band and was ebullient (“I’d like to say ‘Hi and hello’ to the Highway 61 motorcycle gang”). But even then he was reshaping classic songs (All I Really Want to Do in a reggae style) and shuffling lyrics (a very different Simple Twist of Fate).

So it’s not like we weren’t warned

a long time ago that Dylan live was always going to be a very different experience.

For his Civic show in ’07 — a return concert after his Vector Arena appearance — I bought a ticket at the last minute. I was in the back row of the “upper circle rear” and all I could see of Dylan was the top of his hat. No matter, it was always about the music and what he did with it.

Beside me were a young couple, maybe early 20s, who told me they were very excited, they really loved his albums Freewheelin’ (’63) and Times They Are a-Changin’ (’64).

They were folk singers themselves.

I pointed to the stage set-up with drums and a bunch of microphone stands: “You know he has a band, that this is a rock concert, right?”

They didn’t. They left after three songs.

Going to a Dylan concert with little prior knowledge other than he’s A Legend will always lead to such disappointment.

That said, at the dire Tom Petty/ Dylan show in Auckland — the opening concert of their world tour — they came off like a stoned bar band rehearsing in public away from the gaze of US and UK critics. But, because I worked there selling T-shirts before the show started, many in the audience — those who made it beyond

Bob Dylan performing in 1966 (top left); the incomparable Bob Dylan (above); Photos / Getty Images Dylan and Tom Petty at Mt Smart Stadium in 1986 (inset).

collapsing just inside the entrance I was at — were primed on bottles of Jack Daniel’s and cheap vodka. Not the most discriminating crowd.

And much of what Dylan and his cracking band played recently was grounded in Chuck Berry-style rock ’n’ roll from a time when a new music came into being out of the flashpoint of country and rhythm and blues: the music of Dylan’s formative years as a teenager who loved Buddy Holly and Little Richard.

Songs like Highway 61 Revisited, Summer Days, Thunder on the Mountain and even Gotta Serve Somebody (his most secular song from the gos-

He has always been in a state of constant reinvention and emotional flux and his songs — old and new alike — reflect that in melodic and lyrical changes. pel/Jesus period) — songs separated by four decades — had dance-ready deliveries. But in the formal setting of the arena where people were asked to keep their seat (and politely did) they didn’t get the audience lift-off they deserved.

Sometimes it might be the audience letting the artist down, and not the other way around.

Bob Dylan has rarely been the performer that people expect or perhaps want, even at his most engaged and persuasive he’s never going to deliver something as crisp and polished as an Eagles concert, or with

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He’s a singular artist, who can’t be conveniently categorised or shoehorned into being An Entertainer with big screens and “wave your phones in the air” stage banter.

But who else has written more than 600 songs (and recorded about half that many), lived through 14 US presidencies and outlasted most of their peers and heroes (Little Richard the notable exception in Dylan’s case).

He has accrued more accolades and acclaim than anyone else in popular music.

Even at 77, as he was when playing here, he just keeps going.

When it stops, as it must, his legacy and life and music will be impossible to distill for an obituary.

The Beatles, via Ringo, will be easier to explain.

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It’s never too late to take control of your health, and a good place to start is in the vegetable aisle.

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Diet is key for a good quality of life at any time — but especially as you age. By Greg Fleming

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ccording to a 2017 survey from the International Council on Active Ageing, 27 per cent of men and women over 50 wished they’d eaten healthier in their younger years.

While we can’t turn back the clock, it’s never too late to take control of your health with good nutrition, says the NZ Nutrition Foundation’s dietitian Sarah Hanrahan.

Eventually, bad habits can catch up with you but it’s never too late to change, she says. “Improving your diet can reduce your risk of diabetes, stroke, heart disease and some cancers, so it’s something that’s definitely worth doing.

“Good eating habits are good eating habits throughout life, although many people find they gain weight more easily as they age. This is partly hormones and partly because even though you think you’re just as active and train just as hard as you have done in the past, you probably don’t.

The important things remain the same — eat plenty of vegetables, prepare food at home more often than you eat out and, as much as possible, eat with others.”

Is your nutrition advice for women 50 plus the same as for men?

“For some women, eating, and avoiding certain types of foods can

. . . eat plenty of vegetables, prepare food at home more often than you eat out and, as much as possible, eat with others.

Sarah Hanrahan, NZ Nutrition Foundation

make the menopause a lot more bearable. Women need a higher intake of calcium and vitamin D after menopause to help reduce the risk of osteoporosis. Excellent dietary sources of calcium include dairy products (milk, cheese, yoghurt), nuts, dark green vegetables, (broccoli and spinach for example) and fish with bones in (such as sardines and salmon).”

fats, eat plenty of wholegrains, use lean protein foods and include more pulses (beans, lentils, chickpeas).

“Other than that, most other things are okay in moderation, there is very little I would say avoid all together.

If you’re eating plenty of vegetables, cooking at home more than you’re eating out (including takeaways) and you eat with other people, then you’re on the right track.”

It’s often confusing as nutritional advice seems to go in cycles — coffee’s bad, no it’s good — how does the ordinary person know what’s what?

“In among all the debate there is a lot of consistent common ground — eat plenty of vegetables, use healthy

But isn’t eating well time consuming and expensive?

“It doesn’t need to be. If fresh vegetables are expensive, remember frozen and canned are there too and are part of a healthy diet as well as fresh. If you’re pushed for time, don’t be afraid to get a head start from the

supermarket; there are plenty of products like sauces, frozen fish, chicken and vegetable mixes, bags of salad and quick-cooking cuts of meat that can help you get a quick, delicious and healthy meal on the table.”

How does diet and exercise interact with those 50 plus?

“Generally speaking, unless you are doing full-on exercise for more than 60 minutes, you probably don’t need anything special, just good nutrition as already discussed. ” Is sugar as bad as it’s made out to be?

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cause they may be more energy dense (more calories per mouthful) than other foods and often less filling.

Foods with a lot of added sugar are best eaten in small amounts and are not everyday foods.”

Can you tell us a little bit about the Just Cook Healthy Ageing initiative . . .

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CARE, DIGNITY AND INDEPENDENCE THE NEW STANDARD FOR RETIREMENT LIVING Retirement living in New Zealand is changing, and it’s the expectations of a new generation of retirees that is lifting the benchmark, says BeGroup CEO Guy Eady.

Mr Eady, who has worked in the retirement sector for more than 25 years, says more retirees enjoy their independence, but also want a high standard of living combined with quality care.

“When developing Rawhiti Estate, it was important to us to ensure we had this blend of independence, dignity and high standards of living, but in a state-of-the-art retirement village that still feels like home,” he says.

Rawhiti Estate combines international design trends, world-first technology and an urban lifestyle in the heart of Auckland’s Remuera. The public can see it for themselves at its inaugural open weekend on 29 and 30 September from 10am to 2pm.

Housed on the former Rawhiti Bowling Club site, the village features 27 luxury independent living apartments, and 68 spacious rest home and hospital level care suites, including safe and secure memory loss units. Opening in midOctober, the village is designed to help maintain dignity in retirement care.

Designing for dignity

Rawhiti Estate’s independent living apartments are designed for a relaxed retirement lifestyle, with high-end kitchen fittings and appliances, open plan living, resort-style bathrooms and access to a world of amenities on site from the pool to private dining.

Alongside these sits one of New Zealand’s most advanced assisted living environments. For residents needing care, they provide the options of a seamless future transition, while also meeting the needs of retirees moving in to enjoy a supported environment today.

All aspects of the assisted living and memory loss facilities; from the discreet hoists and hospital grade beds

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nzherald.co.nz | The New Zealand Herald | Tuesday, September 25, 2018

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here is one month until the generally accepted planting-out day, Labour Weekend in October. There is logic behind this being the magic day, aside from the fact it is a lovely long weekend when we get an extra day to potter about in the garden and go to the garden centre and buy as many seedlings as we want. Labour Weekend is also the date declared as the last frost date.

But keen gardeners know the risks and proceed with caution, one eye on the weather forecast and one hand on the frost cloth should it be needed.

Another factor to take into consideration is the microclimate in your garden.

You may be in a sunny position and the frost barely touches your garden, and if it does, it is gone soon after first light. Or you could be across the street from that sunny garden and in the shadow of a hill and frost can linger well into the afternoon or even for days. So, as you stare out your window and see your sunny neighbour confidently planting tomatoes, you need to remind yourself this isn’t a race and your time to plant tomatoes will come.

As gardeners we have a tendency to want to control the garden, make it bend and perform to our will. And, in some circumstances, it can and will. If your soil is no good, due to being too sandy, too clayey, or you have a barely there topsoil filled with builder’s rubble, then you can create the perfect conditions in an aboveground raised bed. Although, for many of us, the ground beneath our feet is perfectly fine to

grow in. We can improve our soil by adding organic material like well-rotted manure and compost, and there are plenty of fertilisers and enrichments for quick fixes and slow release benefits to improve what we have so our crops can thrive in the best possible environment.

We can decide what we want to put in our gardens. The garden centre has a vast array of seedlings to tempt us into creating a diverse garden, and even more so if growing from seed.

The choice is endless, making enthusiastic gardeners apply all self-control in order to acquire only what will actually fit into the garden space available.

It isn’t too late to start your crops from seed.

Social media is awash with folk proudly showing off their seedlings in varying stages of growth and it may feel like you have missed the boat to get started. However, the window for starting off your garden isn’t limited to starting seeds in the first days of spring and planting them out on Labour Weekend. There is plenty of time and most of our summer crops can be started at any time during the spring, so whenever you and your garden are ready is a good time.

Nature knows what it’s doing, and all good things happen in their own time. And at this time of year there is still plenty of time. — it’s not a race. ● Sarah O’Neil is an author, blogger and passionate gardener writing about the trials and tribulations of growing food for her family. Her books Play in the Garden and Growing Vegetables are available at all good bookstores. sarahthegardener.co.nz

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What is TVNZ for?

. . . our failure to embrace a noncommercial outlet means that a shed load of great local content is forced off to the margins of the schedule.

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henever I travel to Australia the difference slaps me in the face.

There’s the faster, slightly more accurate driving. The louder, more confident twang of the Aussie beast. That’s a given. Put aside also the shimmering beauty of Sydney Harbour and the gritty alleyways and lip-smacking souvlaki of Melbourne, or the actual pubs in actual neighbourhoods with actual public transport. We have much to be jealous of.

Our insecurity can make us overstate our natural beauty or cling to rugby as a form of defence. Or worse. Some of us attempt to warm ourselves on the notion that at least “we” treat our indigenous folk better than they do “theirs”.

At best, we can lay claim to more rain and fairly stable politics. They can have the stupid pavlova and phlegm-inducing flat white. If you find yourself clinging to puddings and hot drinks you need to wake up to yourself, and then slap yourself in the face.

However, Australians are in possession of something important that we really lack, something resembling public broadcasting. They have the ABC. We do, of course, have RNZ for our radio, which is only a few stations short of the full Oz-sized deck. We don’t have the youth-focused Triple J, despite Neil Finn and others pushing hard for it decades ago.

You might not be a fan of RNZ, you might call their breakfast show “Moaning Report”, or grizzle that you are driven mad by The Panel, made to feel dumb by the brilliance of Kim Hill, or had your mistakes pointed out

by Mediawatch. But it’s hard to deny that RNZ is a public treasure. It’s filled to the brim with Kiwi life and culture.

You can hear farming news in glorious detail and the Phoenix Foundation live from the town hall,

The lack of a non-commercial channel means that good local content is forced to the margins.

Sol3 Mio belting out opera, or Guyon Espiner bringing te reo kicking and screaming into the nation’s cerebral cortex.

I suspect this was the reason that an expanded RNZ, or RNZ “Plus” as the home of our public TV took hold for a while, despite the elephant in the room with “WHAT IS TVNZ FOR?” scrawled on its side in John Clarke’s blood.

Excuse my heavy hand as I drop the late creator of Fred Dagg into this screed, but I noted at the time of his death that while he was sent off in great style by the ABC, a superb TV special among the many tributes, over here we only managed a replay of a Country Calendar episode which bore his trademark genius.

You’d suspect that a more publicfocused institution would have done more, cleared the schedule, made a

big deal of it.

A push towards a more public style of TV happened a Labour government ago with the launch of TVNZ 6 and 7, change seemed at hand. Some thought the notion halfarsed and underfunded. The National Party smelled socialism, cited low ratings (others disputed this) and flushed the enterprise like a steaming turd.

In the meantime, TVNZ remains the national carrier of our televisual dreams. I watch it a lot. I work on shows that it airs. I’m no hater, but I reckon our failure to embrace a noncommercial outlet means that a shed load of great local content is forced off to the margins of the schedule.

Even worse, stuff just doesn’t get made in the first place.

Three delivers a news and current affairs serving nearly on par with

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TVNZ but, likewise, shits out anything local that spooks the ad sales, as we saw with The Spinoff TV recently getting the elbow for Fail Army. When the market decides, clickbait will always trump culture.

You might think I’m just living in a past that has buggered off to the future. In many ways, things are pretty good right now. TVNZ is turning a profit and pushing all sorts of local stuff online, and much of it is brilliant. Comedy is thriving on Three. Maori Television is doing the mahi on its patch. And driving it all, NZ On Air has been getting on with it, making shows all over the place, keeping the culture alive and kicking.

But then I turn on that TV in a Sydney hotel and it hits me again, that feeling that we have an ABC-shaped hole in our national psyche and like a frog that is being slowly boiled we

have lost track of the temperature.

Perhaps the Auckland Harbour Bridge offers a way out. Not by leaping off in despair, but by considering the SkyPath, a walkway and cycleway that was taken off the plans in 1959.

We couldn’t afford it, they said, no one would use it, others groaned.

Nearly 60 years on SkyPath has managed to crawl out of the too-hard basket into the one marked “almost there”.

A recent list of 18 Western countries reveals that only the US spends less (per capita) on public broadcasting than we do, Australia spends twice as much, the UK nearly four times, and you don’t want to know how far behind Scandinavia we are. But don’t feel too bad, their coffee is contemptible, and the pavlova is a disgrace.

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nzherald.co.nz | The New Zealand Herald | Tuesday, September 25, 2018

You can’t take it with you

Baby boomers . . . are often in the process of downsizing and decluttering for themselves when an estate comes their way.

The days of handing family heirlooms down are well and truly gone.

Baby boomers are only accepting their parents’ stuff reluctantly, while Gen X and Gen Y are refusing theirs outright. By Louise Richardson

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heck out the classified advertisements in any New Zealand newspaper and the death notices make fascinating reading.

The parents of today’s baby boomers, who were born between 1925 and 1942 and are sometimes termed the traditional, or veteran generation, are regularly surviving to a ripe old age, dying in their 80s and 90s.

Most weeks, you’ll even find a lucky few who managed to make it into their second century.

With many having lived through all, or part of World War II, these people worked hard to get ahead.

They placed a great deal of value on the homes they created and the possessions they collected.

Often married young, they treasured wedding gifts of fine china tea sets, sparkling crystal bowls and glasses, quality silverware and elaborate furniture, regarding these precious goods as the hallmark of a gracious home and a legacy to be guarded and preserved for the next generation.

However, it seems that those days are firmly over.

Baby boomers, now in their 50s and 60s, are often in the process of downsizing and decluttering for themselves when an estate comes their way, complete with mahogany sideboards and credenzas, oak dining tables and chairs, damask tablecloths, oriental rugs and elaborately framed landscape oil paintings that they just don’t want.

Auction houses will generally only take very high-end goods while antique shops or licensed second-hand sellers often can’t shift what they refer to as “brown furniture”, and other typical estate treasures, at a price that makes dealing in them worthwhile.

Many of the latter have closed down, abandoning bricks and mortar in favour of selling online, but even

Be ruthless when downsizing to go into a home or retirement village (left); talk to your children about what they would like from your Photos / Getty Images estate. (below).

then, items that would have fetched hundreds of dollars a decade or so ago often sell for next to nothing today.

With charity shops, it’s a different story. In many cases, they’re paying subsidised rents and are confident of an army of volunteers, yet many still say that they simply can’t keep up with the constant influx of goods from estates and that they need more manpower.

Helen, who does a regular weekly shift at her local Hospice store reports that they are constantly inundated, and that the flow of items seems never-ending.

“Our truck goes out to a new estate

almost every day, and it’s all good stuff, but because there’s so much of it we have to try to keep things moving, which means asking prices far below what the owners will have paid.

“That might seem awful, but we have to be very pragmatic. We price things in order to shift them and ultimately it’s all good for Hospice.

“I’m in my late 70s myself, and working here has inspired me to downsize significantly. Whenever I come in for my shift I make a point of bringing a couple of things with me.”

She says, “My husband and I have talked to our children, who are all in

their 50s, about what they would like from our estate.

“Basically, they seem to place the most value on family photos, and particularly the slides of my husband’s and my world travels as hitchhikers in the early 1960s.

“It’s helped us all to get a sense of perspective.”

Margaret Engelander and her daughter Linka own Over and Above Moving, a Tauranga business offering complete estate clearances, and its sister company Secondhand Avenue.

They agree that the issue of baby boomer sons and daughters not wanting their parents’ stuff is “massive”.

“Just this week, I packaged up a box of fine crystal and china and sent it to a lady’s daughter in Australia,” says Margaret.

“She’d already said that she didn’t have room for it, but the mother simply said that she was getting it anyway.”

Margaret says there’s a silver tsunami in the Bay of Plenty right now and that she and Linka are running to keep up with demand for their services.

“When people are downsizing to go into a home or retirement village, we encourage them to be ruthless but many just can’t do it.

“They know that their possessions are going to be a liability when they’ve died but they’re the generation that never threw anything away in case it came in handy and it’s very hard for them to change that very

firm mindset. They still save old stockings to tie up the tomatoes, and iron and reuse wrapping paper.”

She says that a lot of items end up in garages and storage units simply because no one knows what to do with them.

As a second-hand dealer, Margaret has become so passionate about helping families avoid estate headaches that she gives regular talks to the senior community.

“I tell them that it’s not that their treasures aren’t beautiful, because often they are, but society has changed and today’s generation — Gen X and Gen Y, tend to go for cheap, mass-produced homewares bought at chain stores for bargain-basement prices. This way they can follow decorating trends and keep up to date.”

She says that this will inevitably bring its own problems.

“We worry about plastic bags, rightly, but what about all the other throwaway stuff we’re buying? I can’t bear to think of what our landfills will be like in another 20 years.”

Margaret says she is heartened seeing some shops giving older furniture a new lease on life by painting it in the shabby chic style and selling it to younger customers, but this will need to happen a whole lot more in order to solve the problem.

“We all need to look at ourselves and make a new definition of ‘value’.

“Is it sentimental or is it actual?

There’s a very big difference.”

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nzherald.co.nz | The New Zealand Herald | Tuesday, September 25, 2018

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Unfortunately, rather than a dream trip, it turned into a nightmare. He told us, “I soon learnt that all the time and money in the world mean nothing when your feet hurt too much to walk. After just a few days of sightseeing my feet were killing me so much I just wanted to go home.”

It started on his first day.

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nzherald.co.nz | The New Zealand Herald | Tuesday, September 25, 2018

Life keeps getting better There’s good news for older women.

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he gardens, she travels, she entertains and redecorates, she plays tennis, she quilts, she loves her work and her grandchildren, and maybe she even rides a Vespa. Whatever she’s doing, the woman aged over 55 is having more fun than women of all other ages, and she’s more satisfied with life than men of any age.

This might seem surprising, given the fact that women are often quoted as feeling “invisible” after the age of 50, to the extent of keeping the dermal fillers and hair colouring industries in healthy profit. However, when it comes to work-life balance and satisfaction with life and careers, women over the age of 55 are the clear winners according to AUT’s recent Wellbeing @ Work Study.

In the survey of 1500 working New Zealanders, there was little difference in the well-being factors when outcomes were explored by gender, age, ethnicity and location, but when the data for age and gender was compared, older women surged into the lead.

Research author Professor Jarrod Haar described the effects for women across all ages as being like a Nike swoosh.

“It dips down deeply at the start, slowly starts rising, and then the trajectory is strong and upwards.”

Looking at the results decade by decade, women aged 20-25 years are well into the negative on the satisfaction scale. This could be attributed to the challenges of modern life as a millennial. Women in their early

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20s are often working in a low-paid first job and living in a dingy but highpriced flat. They’re under pressure to look “social-media perfect” and they experience disastrous Tinder dates and sexual harassment. However, without many adult responsibilities, the survey showed their work-life balance was not significantly negative. By the late 20s, the study shows life satisfaction has improved but is still negative. Women are now “adulting” better and may be loved

up and enjoying couple time but their job satisfaction drops, perhaps due to a lack of autonomy and being undermined by gender bias.

In their early 30s, women’s life satisfaction drops to an all-time low, with work-life balance at its worst as women try to keep many balls in the air. Working to pay the mortgage and the relentless grind of caring for young children on not enough sleep, or experiencing infertility and the roller coaster of IVF. By the late 30s,

job satisfaction and work-life balance creep into the positive range for the first time. Children become more independent and work more interesting as careers develop.

In their 40s and early 50s, women may still have teenagers at home so work-life balance continues to be a struggle.

Throw in menopause and health problems such as breast cancer and these can be challenging years, but they can also bring women career

progression, more money and greater confidence in their abilities, so the trajectory creeps slowly higher.

During their late 50s, according to the survey, women’s enjoyment of life is like a shooting star.

Children have often left home, the difficult years of menopause are over and a woman commonly feels fulfilled in her career and generally contented. Finally, there’s time and money for herself.

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nzherald.co.nz | The New Zealand Herald | Tuesday, September 25, 2018

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s TV shows have glamorised the process and house prices have shot up, so has our interest in improving our properties, and we’ve become a nation fixated on renovation — not only to add value, but also for the satisfaction that comes with living in smart, comfortable, surroundings.

If you’re currently in the process, or just considering the prospect, here are some hints and tips.

It goes without saying that budget should always be a prime consideration when it comes to renovating.

This doesn’t mean that you necessarily need to commit loads of money, but it’s easy to over-capitalise, so doing the sums first is essential and banks can often help with wellinformed advice and online budget planning tools.

Some experts suggest that you should spend no more than 25 per cent of your property’s value on renovations, but given current property prices in Auckland — and the possibility that they may eventually stagnate, this is probably a bit on the generous side.

Have a chat with a local real estate agent and ask whether your potential changes, say adding a bedroom, or

putting in a new kitchen, will add value, in his or her opinion — or call in a registered valuer. Some banks will actually require this as a condition of a loan, depending on the size of the project and the amount you’re borrowing.

Remember that it’s incredibly rare for a job to come in under budget and far more likely that you’ll need to allocate further funds, so be sure to take that into account when planning and costing a project. There’s nothing worse than a 90 per cent-done renovation, which then sits unfinished for the next decade or so.

If you’re assured of capital gain, or renovating your “forever” home (remembering that circumstances can change and see you moving when you didn’t expect to), it makes sense to do everything to a very high standard, but even on a budget you want to be sure that any changes are safe and durable.

While relatively simple stuff, such as painting and wallpapering doesn’t always need expert input, anything that involves structural changes will generally require the services of an architect, building designer or draftsperson. The good thing about this is that they will know what must be consented and they’ll be used to

the often stressful process of dealing with council and other authorities, saving you time and agony.

If you’re good at DIY there are a number of jobs you can do yourself and it’s never been easier to learn new skills, with a raft of sources at your fingertips, including online tutorials or classes at your local hardware store. Tools are cheaper than ever before, which is an added bonus.

Don’t be tempted to try anything in the plumbing or electrical line because these are the domain of registered professionals. You might find that they can use their trade discount deals to help you save money on materials. Many will withhold a guarantee on work done using materials that you’ve sourced yourself, so that’s something to bear in mind.

Hints and tips Be sure that your plan unlocks all the potential it possibly can for the space in question and that it will actually work. This might involve garnering ideas from many different parties, while online sites such as Pinterest on the aesthetic side and Consumer NZ on the practical front can be hugely helpful too, as are local council websites. Even for a project

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that’s relatively simple, a one-off meeting with an architect might be helpful in ascertaining feasibility.

Accept that living in a renovation zone can be stressful and, if possible, time the project to take place during warmer months as issues with cold and damp can make mid-year renovations hard on a household. Pinpoint the reasons why you’re renovating and make sure that they are all legitimate and objective.

If the work is major and involves a complete upheaval you might be better to proceed with a pruned-back plan, depending on the circumstances Get all your ducks in a row in regard to the financial side of the job and finding tradespeople.

Work on creating a timeline to guide all those involved in the process and make sure that everyone has a copy so they know what you’re expecting of them. It’s vital to be sure you’ve gained consent for every aspect of the project or expensive hold-ups can ensue.

Have back-up plans for times when certain areas such as kitchens and bathrooms are no-go zones. Anyone who has ever lived through renovations in those areas will have tales of cold-water sink

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baths and eating takeaways for weeks.

Second-hand items can often be incorporated into renovations in order to save money or even add character to a property.

Check out websites such as Trade Me where complete kitchens can often be found for a song and refurbished, or demolition yards for period fireplaces, original windows and doors and other useful materials.

Work out what tasks you and your family can do yourself, before the professionals arrive. You might be surprised how much you can save by doing any demolition work yourself, for example.

Be very careful if there’s any chance that asbestos is present. This requires a specialist remover.

It’s essential to cover off issues around insurance and security.

Check and see if your house and content policies take account of building work and that your builder has insurance. If you’re moving out while the project is completed, discuss that with your provider and get everything in writing.

Try and learn from the whole adventure in case you’re ever mad enough to tackle renovations again in future.

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WINE country

Free-spirited or fancy, sunny Marlborough has a tour to match your taste, writes Ewan McDonald

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t’s the sunshine hours that work in Marlborough’s favour, says Michelle Osgood, manager of The Wine Station, which serves more than 80 premium Marlborough wines by the glass via dispensing machines.

The high sunshine quota means the region has an enviable international reputation for producing some of the best sauvignon blanc in the world, she says. It’s not too shabby at producing chardonnay, pinot gris, bubbles and pinot noir either.

“Marlborough regularly claims the highest sunshine hours in New Zealand, and combined with spectacular scenery and widely acclaimed culinary delights, contributes to making it the ideal wine tourist destination.”

Located in the recently renovated 1906 Blenheim Railway Station heritage building, The Wine Station opened in February to showcase local wine, including those of several vineyards without a cellar door, and artisan food products for a one-stop gourmet experience. It especially appeals to those who’ve limited time but still want to experience the region’s best, like travellers on the Marlborough Flyer steam train, which shuttles 300 passengers from Picton.

As advocates for the wine region, Michelle and The Wine Station team have seen changes over the years, with Marlborough now producing 80 per cent of the country’s wine.

“Twenty years ago, there were only 35 wine companies and 2000ha of vineyards. Today, Marlborough has 139 wine companies and more than 25,000ha of vineyards.”

Alongside the increase in volume, there’s been an increase in varietal diversity, she says, with the region now growing everything from gruner veltliner (Austrian white varietal) to tempranillo (Spanish red varietal).

There’s also been a rise in the number of single vineyard producers of sauvignon blanc from sub-regions like Wairau, Awatere and the Southern Valleys.

Pedal up to the cellar door (above); The Wine Station serves more than 80 premium Marlborough wines (left).

Photos / Destination Marlborough, The Wine Station

Tours Hop ’n Grape is the only wine tour guided by a winemaker with the backdoor key to wineries for sampling wine straight from the barrel. If you’ve picked up on the beer reference in the name, you can tour breweries too, and there’s also the ability to have a tour specifically tailored to you or your groups’ needs.

Wine Tours by Bike can have you pedalling your preference of tandem, single, trike or four-wheeled Renwick Roadster, with a basket on the back for any wine bottles. Unwind among the vines during a self-guided tour, with a drop off and pick up, plus a full briefing and suggestions based on your favourite tipple before you head off. Your first stop can be as little as two minutes away.

Explore Marlborough will take you off the beaten track with a personal guide, or you can go it alone and be self-guided. Can’t decide? Take a halfday guided tour in the morning, before spending the afternoon exploring the region on your own — there’s also a car option for the less energetic.

If you’re a real car enthusiast, Highlight Wine Tours can add a classic touch to your private excursion. Go groovy baby with the 1967

Twenty years ago, there were only 35 wine companies and 2000ha of vineyards. Today, Marlborough has 139 wine companies and more than 25,000ha of vineyards.

Michelle Osgood, The Wine Station.

Mustang convertible for the freedom of open-top touring, or crank up the disco tunes in the timeless 1975 VW Kombi, affectionately known as The SPLITTY. Imagine the photo opportunities as you’re chauffeured around the vines in these stylish wheels!

Fancy something a little more intellectual? Enrol yourself in a wine education class. The Wither Hills Vine to Wines tour takes you on a journey from the vineyard to the bottle. You’ll be guided through the Vine Library, the only one within Marlborough, where you’ll see the 30 different grape varieties grown commercially in New Zealand.

The Barrel Hall tour will acquaint you with award-winning chardonnay and pinot noir production, or take the private Wine Blending tour for a

chance to play winemaker, concocting your own pinot noir or sauvignon blanc.

Alternatively, Brancott Estate’s Mastery of Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc experience includes a tutored tasting that demonstrates the diversity of the region’s terroir and how it shapes the wine. A new blind tasting is set to be introduced soon.

Vineyards There are plenty of ways to see the heart of Marlborough wine country — bicycle, car or helicopter — but how about a literal bird’s-eye view? Discover the rare and endangered native New Zealand falcon during a Brancott Living Land Falcon Encounter, and watch it fly around its master to protect the vineyard.

From sky to underground, Mahi Cellar Door is open for private tastings and tours by appointment and includes barrel tasting of pre-release wines in its caves. What’s more, you’ll have the place to yourself as you taste wines selected just for your palate.

Jackson Estate also makes the most of its own underground room.

Deep beneath the cellar door, hidden from sight, exclusive tasting events and prized vintage selections can be found. This winery specialises in premium small-batch wines, with a cellar door reminiscent of an 1850s settler’s hut, designed by The Hobbit art director, Brian Massey.

Named after the owners’ children — Blair and Deni — Bladen Wines is a boutique cellar door and quite possibly the smallest. But don’t let size fool you: it was the joint winner of the 2017 Wine Marlborough Cellar Door of the Year, alongside Hunter’s Wines, so is worth a visit.

Finally, for the romantics, there’s dining amongst lush, leafy vines.

Book an outside table at Saint Clair Family Estate Vineyard Kitchen for an experience that oozes exclusivity, and take in the view towards the dramatic Richmond Range as you raise your glass to Marlborough.

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