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4 Ashburton born and bred radio celebrity Simon Barnett does not let the fact he is good looking, articulate, funny and popular get in the way of being a down-toearth nice guy. YOU’s Susan Sandys caught up with him at his Christchurch studio.

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Maintaining a “blondeness” and “naivety” has helped Simon Barnett forge a successful career in radio, says one of his former school friends.

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t is 9.45am on a week day, and rolling over the airwaves in Canterbury and Nelson is the radio-smooth voice of Simon Barnett.

It is no surprise to listeners of More FM’s prime time breakfast show that the 46-yearold is talking about his early life in Ashburton, where he was brought up by mother Frances, along with four siblings.

Station regulars hear plenty about Simon’s early life in the town, anecdotes ranging from how he missed out on the lead role in Romeo and Juliet at Ashburton College, to how his first love dumped him on their first date.

Today the YOU photographer and reporter are in the Christchurch studio, and Si is happy to wax lyrical about himself in ad breaks.

But Si’s glowing in the limelight proves too much potential joke fodder to co-host Gary McCormick, who complains on air about being shoved to the corner of the studio.

“Do you feel embarrassed talking about yourself?” Gary asked.

“You don’t care about Ashburton, you hate Ashburton,” Si counted.

Gary launches into a tirade about how he would have liked to have been brought up in the town, undertaking a pharmaceutical delivery run to rest homes as Si had had the privilege of doing.

Gary continues this would have been far better than being brought up in gangland as he had (his imagination runs riot with this one and ultimately he says his mother operated a P lab), and tells listeners everything Si has said so far to the YOU reporter is “codswallop”.

It is classic Si and Gary - Si the self admitted “show pony”, seemingly loving the limelight, as Gary and his fellow co-hosts take pot-shots at him.

“Hey, I was head boy (at Ashburton College),” he said to announcer Jason Royal on a recent show when he asked him did he not go to school?

“Dropped-on-your-head boy more like it,” Jason said.

After graduating from Ashburton College, Simon went to Teachers’ College, following in the footsteps of his Allenton School teacher father, who separated from his mother when he was nine. He had always thought he would be a teacher, although he started to doubt he was any good at it once at the college, and dropped out after three weeks.

“With that came a massive crisis of confidence,” he said.

At the suggestion of his mother he tried radio school, and completed a two-year cadetship.

He trained in journalism, editing, commercials, announcing, and found it was the latter that appealed.

“I had never had a desire to be a bass player in a band, I always wanted to be the lead singer. That’s probably the scary thing about my personality,” he said.

His first radio announcing jobs were out of a caravan in the Bay of Islands, on a short-term summer station, and with the drive show on Radio Nelson.

When he was 20 he scored a job as a presenter on the What Now children’s show.

It was while filming What Now he met his Chinese wife Jodie, five years his senior. He first saw her at a Christchurch gym and was taken by her beauty. When he was up on Mt Hutt with the What Now crew a couple of months later he saw her again.

She fell off a poma lift, and Si said he pretended he was good at skiing and went over to help her up, and they ended up spending the rest of the day together.

This was followed by their first date on a picnic on the Port Hills, for which Si baked a flan and took a not-so-expensive bottle of bubbly.

She told him alcohol did not agree with her.

But he persuaded her to try some anyway.

She obliged but went bright red in the face and could hardly breathe.

Si lives at Sumner with Jodie and three of their four daughters - Sophie, 17, Isabella, 14, and Lily, 12. Their oldest, 19-year-old Samantha, is studying at the University of Otago.

Despite enjoying his life in the city, Si said he is very much a small town person.

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Richie McCaw, Greg Johnson, and Dave Dobbyn are some of the famous names who have visited More FM’s temporary portacom studio at Addington Raceway.

He said he had loved his early life in Ashburton, and had a sense of nostalgia about his youth. He would bike to friends’ places, and they would visit their favourite haunts, which included the town swimming pool and the Norwegian Wood fish and chip shop. He would also love to ride an inner tyre down the Ashburton River, fish at Mill Creek and do the death drop off River Terrace.

“The death drop was a bike ride down an incredibly steep bank that usually ended up with handle bars wedged where they shouldn’t be,” he said.

His best friend was David Fendall, and his family was close to the Malcolm family, of which actor Robyn Malcolm was a member.

“I have incredibly fond memories biking to mates’ places. I went to Allenton primary school, Ashburton Intermediate and Ashburton College, so I’m very much an Ashburton person.

Ashburton for me will always be home,” he said.

He had always liked telling jokes and funny stories, and playing practical jokes.

“I just love to have a laugh, I have never taken myself seriously. I have been very fortunate to build a 25-year career around that,” he said.

He has been married to Jodie for nearly 21 years.

“She’s my greatest support, she’s amazing and I’m completely and totally in love with her.”

Besides What Now, Si’s television career has included shows such as Face the Music, Stars In Their Eyes, and “real reality” show Celebrity Treasure Island where he lost 10 kilograms and fellow guest Lana Coc-Kroft contracted a lifethreatening infection.

“I couldn’t wait to get home,” he said.

And as much as he enjoyed television, nothing beat the spontaneity of radio.

“You rely on so many other people, so many cogs in the system, with TV, whereas with radio it’s immediate. I guess it’s the immediacy that appeals to me. When the earthquake hit we were straight on air within 30 minutes hearing people’s stories.”

After the first September earthquake, Si and Gary were on air the following Monday, sharing their stories and those of their listeners. And for many of the significant aftershocks since, they have been on air, talking through the rattling, and comforting listeners.

After the February 2011 earthquake both Si and Gary were off air for a week as they were driven from their damaged homes. Their studio was destroyed and they have been based in a portacom at the Addington raceway ever since, and plan to move into a new MediaWorks city premises this August.

Si is well known for his Christian faith and

family values, and is a spokesperson for Faith For Families, an organisation headed by parenting gurus Ian and Mary Grant, and was outspoken in the anti-smacking debate.

He does not think there is a conflict between having a career as a radio jock and being a Christian family man.

He said one of his core philosophies of life was the second commandment of ‘Do unto others as you would do unto yourself’. He liked carrying this through to radio, and airing “real life” segments such as the “Pay it Forward” promotion he and Gary had presented in December. They broadcast individual stories from people having a hard time, putting them in touch with those who could help out.

Si said he was enjoying filming Mitre 10 Dream Home for this reason.

“I’m really delighted to do that because dealing with families who have suffered a great deal, I can really put my heart into this,” he said.

“I just want to look after people, and can do that through radio, I feel very privileged to work in this job, that’s important to me.”

As much as Si loves radio, he hesitates when asked if it’s a career he would encourage his children into.

“I would be nervous for them to get into broadcasting,” he admitted.

“Because it’s a very different beast from when I started. There was so much opportunity when I began, it can be incredibly cut throat.

It’s hard to forge a career. There are so few opportunities comparitively, budget restraints, the recession, so I’m not sure really.

“My guiding light would be I want the kids to do something they want to do, if they really had their heart set on it, I would absolutely encourage them to do it.”

And while it took some soul searching before Si got into radio, for his old school friends it is no surprise he ended up in the entertainment industry.

Former Ashburton farmer and Federated Farmers leader Michael Morrow, now farming at Courtenay, said the Simon Barnett he knew was always a performer.

“When he was in full flight he was a bit larger than life,” Mr Morrow said.

“He always related well with everyone, was a pleasant person to be around, but good fun.”

Mr Morrow was the person to which Si allegedly missed out on the lead role in Romeo and Juliet. However, as Michael tells it, Si already had the role of Mercurio lined up and then focused his attention on talking Michael into trying out for Romeo.

“I was a non-theatrical first 15 captain who wasn’t that fazed about drama,” he said.

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It was a starry line-up in that year’s senior play at the college, with Robyn Malcolm, of Outrageous Fortune fame, playing Juliet’s nurse.

“He was always a natural talent, it didn’t surprise anybody that he ended up in some form of entertainment,” Mr Morrow said.

He believed Si’s “great skill” over the years had been to incorporate a bit of himself into his professional role, maintaining a “blondeness” and “naivety”.

Ashburton’s Kerry Marshall, nee Millichamp, and her friends hung out with Simon at Ashburton Intermediate and in the early years of Ashburton College.

She said she had heard through friends who heard it on the radio that she was allegedly the provider of his first kiss.

She admits that “could have been” the case, perhaps at a mutual friend’s birthday party.

She even had Si’s former radio partner Phil Gifford phone her up on air and subject her to some radio banter about the episode. She was not the same girlfriend who allegedly dumped him on their first date, this incident happening in later years at college.

Mrs Marshall said Simon had been one of the “good looking cool guys that you sort of wanted to hang around with” at intermediate.

It also did not surprise her that he had gone into broadcasting.

“Some people have goals like that, to get the most they can out of life, and I think he’s really achieved all that he wanted to do,” she said.

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Rakaia’s Joris van Leeuwen, 86, emigrated to Mid Canterbury at the age of 25. He was born in Holland and brought up in the house represented in this painting.

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umps in the middle of lambing season was the start of new things for Joris van Leeuwen of Rakaia.

It was not Joris who had the mumps, but the neighbour of a farmer at Dorie for whom Joris used to work.

It was the 1950s and Joris was in the lower South Island, in a job changing sleepers under the main trunk line for Dunedin Railways, when he got a call from the farm.

They needed help the mumps.

Joris jumped at the opportunity to return to Mid Canterbury and farm-based work, after having initially arrived in the district a few years earlier when he emigrated from Holland at the age of 25.

Once lambing was completed, shearers began to arrive on the farm.

“They said here Joris, you give it a go. After one or two sheep I thought this is quite nice.”

He followed up his practical training with a shearing course at Chertsey and then found a shearing job at Amberley. Once the season was over he went back down south, this time returning to another former job as a seasonal freezing worker at Makarewa.

When that season was over he was back to Rakaia for shearing, and paired up with fellow shearer Allan Butler.

Mr Butler also operated a portable seed cleaning machine, and after a few years offered to sell it to Joris because he was going farming.

“I bought the seed cleaning machine and did that for 30 years,” Joris said.

He operated Van Leeuwen Seed Cleaning based at Rakaia until he retired in 1990.

It was a business which provided plenty of hard work for Joris and the machine. He used the same Andrews and Beaven machine all

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those years, repairing and extending it along the way.

In the business’s early years the seed was harvested into sacks, and Joris’s job was to dress, clean and pack it into sacks again.

Each sack had three bushels of seed, which was equivalent to 83 kilograms. He would process 200 sacks per day, which is over 15 tonnes, lifting each sack by hand and stacking them five sacks high on the warehouse floor.

“When the metric system came along I packed them in 75 kilo bags, that was eight kilos less than the three bushels. That made such a great difference, it was just amazing,” Joris said.

Farmers were not so keen to change however, and many insisted he pack three bushels anyway as they would not otherwise know how many bags to sow in their paddocks.

Joris politely told them that would be for them to work out for themselves.

Today Joris is 86 and feels the wear and tear of all those years of lifting in a worn out back and shoulders. At the same time he can look back on a job which he enjoyed and kept him fit.

When emigrating from Holland all those years earlier, Joris had a goal of going farming. With farms too expensive in Holland he had looked further afield. He considered Canada, which

was “too darn cold”, South America would necessitate learning another language on top of the Dutch, French, German and English he already knew, and Australia was “too hot”.

“So New Zealand became the country to go to.”

He sailed on the Waterman, a ship which had 1250 Dutch on board, 400 bound for New Zealand and 800 for Australia. While he never ended up buying his own farm, he was happy to have worked on many farms and to have run the successful seed cleaning business.

Joris was one of seven children, and his father was a civil engineer fortunate enough to have work during the Depression years enabling

the family to have a nice two-storey home, of which Joris today has a painting on his wall.

It was while he worked as a shearer and lived at Rakaia that Joris met his late wife Eileen, who lived next door. The couple visited Joris’s home country in later years, catching up with family there. They had two children and today Joris has four grandchildren, two in Christchurch and two in Wellington.

After marrying he became involved with the Rakaia Presbyterian Church and became an elder, and over the last 10 years has enjoyed being among volunteers at the Rakaia Recycling Park.

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by Sue Newman

ight years ago Elaine and Russell Lowe’s garden was a bare paddock growing grass; today it’s a picture perfect country garden.

It’s a garden for all seasons, one where plants jostle for space and blooms vie for attention.

But it’s also a garden that doesn’t demand the attention of its owners in terms of maintenance.

And that’s the way Elaine and Russell have designed it.

When the farming couple decided to sell up and move closer to town they went in search of a small block of land. The transition from wide open spaces to cheek to jowl living was just one step too far, Russell said.

In an odd quirk of fate they found themselves buying a five acre block that was part of a farm they’d looked at buying decades earlier.

“In the mid 60’s before five acre blocks were thought of, this was part of a farm we looked at buying – for $68,000,” Russell said.

Their investment in 2004 was significantly more for significantly less land but today they say they couldn’t be happier with the house they’ve built and the garden they’ve created.

With years spent in a large country garden that had been developed over generations of the Lowe family, Elaine said she was never lost for inspiration when it came to creating her new Grahams Road garden.

“We built this house in the middle of a paddock on the highest knob of land and when the builders moved out, that’s when we started thinking about how the garden would look. The first things we decided were, that there wouldn’t be any straight lines and that we wanted a small hill,” Elaine said.

The hill was built using old concrete, plenty of soil and stones from Mt Somers. It formed the point from which everything else in the garden developed.

Adhering to the belief in following nature where there are no straight lines, Elaine and Russell used

hundreds of metres of garden hose to outline and re-outline their garden beds.

“There was no planning on paper. I’m not a gardener who does things to set designs. Ours just happened. We just pottered and created,” Elaine said.

With the design roughed in the real fun – buying plants – began. And again there was no set formula.

“I just went out and bought the plants I really liked, lots of rhodies, azaleas and roses. The one thing I tried to do was plant so I’d have colour all year round.”

While she plants hundreds of annuals each year, Elaine hasn’t been tempted to raise her own plants from seed. She’s happy to keep the commercial outlets in business, and have the assurance of knowing that what she buys has every chance of making it into bloom.

Inevitably the cost of creating a new garden is high, but Elaine and Russell say they haven’t kept track of the dollars spent, it’s easier not to know.

They say they’ve always shopped around and chased bargains and sales to keep some kind of a cap on costs.

Their garden is eight years old but it has been only in the past two years that it has taken on the settled look of an established plot, Elaine said.

She’s determined that after years of creating new gardens, planting and nurturing that there will be no more extensions.

“I’m really happy with the way this has come up, with the way it’s shaped. I sit back now and look at it and think, yes, I’m quite satisfied with it.”

The flower beds are very much Elaine’s domain, although Russell provides the muscle power when there’s heavy pruning to do, holes to be dug, sprays to be applied, irrigation systems installed or when they were digging out new beds. Today he’s the man in charge of the extensive lawns and the vege plot.

While most lifestyle block owners are happy with ride-on mowers, Russell has gone one step further and has bought himself a 60 year old parks mower. It’s perfect for the job, gives a great result

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Elaine Lowe and Duke the Jack Russell, relaxing in the Grahams Road garden she created wit her husband Russell

and it takes just 20 minutes to whip around the lawn.

With just under an acre of garden, it could appear Elaine and Russell spend every spare moment weeding, pruning and planting. They don’t.

Russell’s keen on Round-up and Elaine on the weed suppressing qualities of linseed straw.

“I don’t think of this as a lot of work and while I grow annuals in the front at the moment, I can always put linseed straw over the whole bed and forget about the annuals,” Elaine said.

With hundreds of roses scattered around her garden beds, pruning time is busy, but rather than a chore, Elaine views it as just part of her regular pottering programme where she weeds, dead heads and prunes whatever needs attention.

“We’ve designed this so it can be pretty maintenance free. There are a lot of other things we like doing as well as gardening. The key for us was to create something where we could just walk away and we have,” she said.

Today they look at what they’ve created and say they’re delighted with the way it’s turned out.

“This was a great challenge. “

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Resolve to get fit in 2013

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by Amanda Wright

ou had an extra glass of bubbles with your meal, followed by an indulgent cocktail.You said yes to dessert a few too many times. At the beach it was hello sausages and beer, followed by lazy days in the sun, and since you really didn’t feel like cooking, takeaways made a regular appearance.

Yes the holiday season is full of indulgence and merriment, but many of us draw the good times out long into January. Before you know it, trying to pull on your skinny jeans is like trying to shove an egg through the eye of a needle, it’s not going to happen unless something cracks.

Sound familiar? It should if you’re one of the millions of people who find themselves unsatisfied with their excess body weight or sluggish

physical condition at the turn of the calendar.

We’ve all been there, and even if you haven’t settled on your resolutions for this year, now is still an excellent time to get moving.

The best place to start is now. Yes today. If you’re reading this, then it means you’re ready to start making changes, so first things first, get a pen and start planning. Write down what you would like to achieve and then positively affirm that you can achieve it.

Many of us fail immediately simply because we know what we want, but we don’t actually believe it will ever happen. Well it can happen, you can make it happen. The little voice in the back of your head that says you can’t do this is a liar. Sometimes you have to fall before you can fly, so don’t let past attempts put you off your new endeavour, because this time it’s your time to fly. Strength doesn’t come from

things you can do, it comes from overcoming the things you thought you couldn’t achieve, so firstly resolve to become strong, in mind and in body.

Remind yourself that it will be hard, but it will be worth it. It may be tough to reach the top of a mountain, but the view from the top is worth it. Your new life will be worth it.

Now that you are in the right frame of mind, plan how you are going to tackle your two biggest threats to your success, food and fitness.

No matter your condition, the best place you can start is by going to the gym or an exercise institution. Nothing beats the expert advice given and the continual monitoring and motivational support they can offer.

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I’m 40 and I look like

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by Amanda Wright

hese are not the words you want to mutter as you’re drowning your sorrows into a glass of wine, wondering how your skin deteriorated into crocodile skin so quickly.

As the body’s largest organ, your skin acts as a mirror to your overall health condition. In other words, it reflects how well you have taken care of yourself, inside and out. It’s also an organ that requires your constant care.

Sun damage can lead to premature aging of the skin, wrinkles, marks, dry skin, and even skin cancer over time. As the sun lingers in the sky longer, and we experience day after day of scorching temperatures, it’s more important than ever to protect your skin from premature ageing and skin cancer.

It’s important to know how the sun’s rays impact your skin, especially when you’re seeking to cut through the hype on cosmetic labels.

• Ultraviolet A (UVA): The longest wavelength of the sun, this one penetrates the dermis, your skin’s deepest layer of the cipka. Sun damage can activate free radicals and speed up the process of skin aging.

• Ultraviolet B (UVB): This wavelength penetrates the skin’s upper layer, the epidermis. These rays cause sunburn, allergic reactions and skin cancers. After only six times of being burned, the skin has double the risk of developing a potentially dangerous melanoma, according to the US cancer council.

• Ultraviolet C (UVC): Generally these rays are filtered by the ozone layer and they

are the most damaging rays. That’s why the hole in the ozone layer is a big problem for us.

One of the most important ways to take care of your skin is to protect it from the sun, and not just on the days when you are at Lake Hood, but every day.

• Use sunscreen. Use a broad-spectrum sunscreen with an SPF of at least 15; 30+ is preferable in New Zealand’s climate. When you’re outdoors, reapply sunscreen every two hours, or more often if you’re swimming or perspiring.

• Seek shade. Avoid the sun between 11am and 5pm, when the sun’s rays are at their harshest.

• Wear protective clothing. Cover your skin with a shirt, light cotton pants and widebrimmed hats. Consider special sun-

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protective clothing, which is specifically designed to block ultraviolet rays. Don’t forget sunglasses that protect your eyes and can help prevent crow’s feet.

Keep hydrated! Drinking water is one of the best ways to keep your skin supple and fresh, make sure you are consuming at least 8 glasses per day, or more if you are perspiring.

Treat the skin. While we endeavour to protect our skin from the sun it is inevitable that we get caught out from time to time. Use a strong vitamin serum to boost the skin’s collagen synthesis, to reduce pigmentation and to aid the healing and prevention process. It will help to replenish sun-damaged skin and can help protect against further UVA and UVB harm.

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by Amanda Wright

he number of botox treatments in New Zealand has exponentially increased in recent years as people strive to reduce the impact of ageing. It is commonly used as a non-surgical option to reduce the appearance of wrinkles on the neck or face, caused by years of facial expressions and environmental damage. We hear it referred to in the media often, but now instead of only being accessible to the wealthy and famous, it is becoming more affordable than ever to dabble in the art of reverse-ageing.

But firstly…what exactly is botox?

Botox is a product name for a protein extracted from the botulinum toxin that is produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum, which is the toxin responsible for botulism, more commonly referred to as food poisoning. Sounds pretty disgusting, but it is incredible what this little toxin can

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Nailed it!

by Amanda Wright

One of the hottest accessories hitting the fashion catwalks in New York already in 2013 is glitzy, outrageous nails, and then in complete contrast the most basic manicure ever, the snow white look. You’ll love the following looks for summer so much that you won’t be able to wait to get them on your fingers. CND nail products were most popular amongst the designers, also OPI, Butter London and MAC were commonly used.

If it’s hot right now on the catwalk, these trends will become commonplace on the streets of Ashburton before we know it, so here’s a breakdown of how the designers are dressing their nails.

Milk-White Polish White nails were all over the New York runways, including at the Karen Walker show. Think bright white to nude to light blush, they were all represented. It was the largest trend and possibly the easiest for us to attain! This is a particularly great office-appropriate nail look that will take you

from practical day to playful night.

The Beaded Nail Beaded nails will still be going strong this year, judging by the manicures at the Joy Cioci show. It’s all about the block colour being used in delicate shades to escape it looking like messy droplets.

The effect the texture will have on the appearance of your hands is oh-so-pretty.

Glitter-Dipped Tips It’s like being touched by a fairy! A graduated glittery sparkly manicure equals instant glam.

At the Behnaz Sarafpour show, CND’s Shelena Robinson applied glitter by mixing Spectrum Shimmer and Antique Bronze metallic dust over a clear top coat. This playful look will make you feel young again as sunlight dances from finger to finger and is a magnificent evening and party look.

Ultra-Shiny Metallics Purple metallic nails with an unbelievable sheen were popular at the Erin Fetherston show. The color used here? Butter London’s Lillibet’s Jubilee.

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Olives Lochlea Lifestyle Resort

Situated on 9 hectares in Racecourse Road is Ashburtons Premier Lifestyle Resort village for people aged 60 years and over.

Expressions of interest are invited for this fabulous complex which is currently under construction and will eventually provide 107 two and three bedroom villas, ten age care units and a seventy to eighty bed hospital with attached dementia units.

The hub of the village will be “Lochlea Lodge” the community centre for all residents and their visitors. A lot of thought has gone into the design of the lodge and it will provide many indoor and outdoor facilities such as residents lounge, library, workshops, bowling green, Barb be Que area, putting green, indoor swimming pool & spa, gymnasium and much more.

This gated complex will provide a safe and secure living environment and is situated on the North West side of Ashburton, an idyllic semi rural location with mountain views and the resort is only an hours drive to Christchurch and Timaru.

Adjacent to the Resort is Lochlea Estate Stage 1 now selling section enquiries welcome

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preserved in salt or brine. The small, oval olive fruit has a flavour ranging from salty to mild and sweet.

While they are easy to enjoy straight from he olive is one of the fruits, with its origins their brine or marinade, olives are equally at going back to 3500 BC. Its cultivation home in many spreads and combined with other began in ancient Greece on the island of ingredients in a wide range of dishes.

Crete but it quickly spread throughout that Tapenade, a paste made from black olives, olive country. oil, capers, anchovies and lemon juice, and stuffed Today olives are widely cultivated and widely olives are probably the two best known ways in eaten. They’re not universally loved, however. which olives are eaten.

When it comes to olives there appears to be no middle ground – you love them or you hate them.

Orzo with lamb, olives It is said they are an acquired taste, that to truely and feta enjoy an olive you must eat at least 100 – not in one sitting!

250g lean minced lamb Raw olives are incredibly bitter, so once 1 1/2 teaspoons olive oil harvested they are cured and then usually 1 large onion, finely chopped 3 cloves garlic, minced 1 t ground cinnamon Fig and olive tapenade 1 t fresh rosemary chopped 1/4 teaspoon chilli flakes 1 C chopped dried figs 1 can undrained whole tomatoes 1/2 C water 3 T chopped, pitted black olives 1T olive oil Salt and freshly ground black pepper, 2T balsamic vinegar to taste 1t minced chilli 12 ounces orzo 1t chopped fresh rosemary 1/4 cup crumbled feta cheese 2/3 cup chopped kalamata olives 2 cloves garlic, minced – Put a large pot of salted water on to salt and pepper to taste boil.

1/3 C chopped toasted walnuts – Cook lamb in a small pan over me 250g cream cheese dium heat, stirring, until browned, 3 to 5 minutes.

– Combine figs and water in a saucepan – Heat another pan and cook onion 4 to over medium heat.

5 minutes.

– Bring to a boil, and cook until tender, – Add garlic, cinnamon, rosemary and and liquid has reduced. chilli flakes cook, stirring 1 minute – Remove from heat, and stir in the – Add lamb olive oil, balsamic vinegar, rosemary – Puree tomatoes and their juices in a and chilli food processor until smooth.

– Add olives and garlic, and mix well.

– Add to lamb and cook, stirring occa– Season with salt and pepper to taste. sionally, until the sauce is thickened, – Cover, and refrigerate for four hours about 10 minutes. Remove from heat or overnight to allow flavours to blend. and stir in olives. Season with salt and – Unwrap cream cheese block, and pepper. place on a serving platter.

– Cook orzo about 8 minutes or accord– Spoon tapenade over cheese, and ing to package directions. sprinkle with walnuts.

– Drain and toss with the sauce.

– Serve with slices of French bread or – Serve garnished with feta. crackers.

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Stanley the Bionic Cat

Stanley arrived home after being missing for five days and was unable to use his back leg; Mrs Cornelius brought Stanley to see me. The reason for him not being able to stand was clear, his leg was swinging and was obviously broken.

I admitted Stanley to give him pain relief straight away and x-rays were taken to assess the fracture and to look for any other damage.

The x-ray showed a fracture of his thigh bone, without orthopaedic surgery it wouldn’t heal by itself.

The Cornelius gave the go-ahead to repair Stanley’s leg.

Bones heal slowly compared to cuts and grazes, normally taking around six weeks to heal; they need to be held closely together and unable to move around.

Just like the Six Million Dollar Man Stanley’s

leg needed rebuilding with a metal plate and screws that would hold the plate onto the bones. The plate and screws will hold the bones rigidly in the correct position while the fracture heals. The plate should have done its job within six weeks but it will be left in place for the rest of Stanley’s life unless it causes him any problems.

Unlike the Six Million Dollar Man the rebuild was considerably cheaper – not that we fitted Stanley with an eye that can zoom in and see in the dark!

Stanley recovered well from his surgery and was able to weight bear and walk on his leg the next day. He is now back at home recovering and will be x-rayed again in six weeks time. If Stanley shows the same determination during his rehab as he used to drag himself home, then he will hopefully soon be back to normal.

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hose who enjoy craft, be it knitting, scrap-booking or card-making, know all too well that no matter how good you get, you forever remain an apprentice, always learning new skills and harnessing new talent. Perhaps that’s all part of the crafting experience you never stop learning.

Jan McMurtrie is a shining example of how a passion for craft and art can become a successful business, stemming from a lot of learning and self-teaching.

A former St Margaret’s student in Christchurch, Jan as she is known to everyone grew up Jeanette Gilbert, and lived with her parents in a home behind their china and hardware business in Riccarton Road.

“Back then it was common for people to live in a house out the back of their business, it didn’t matter if it was a dairy, jewellery shop or hardware shop. We had a quarter acre like most people and a lovely big home. The section is now where car parking for the mall is,” Jan said.

Jan who turns 73 this year laughs at how she has come about full circle.

“It’s funny, I started my life in a home attached to my parents store and now here I am, toward the end of my life and I’m living in a home attached to my own store, which I’ve created, also with a beautiful big garden.”

As an ex-florist and an artist, Jan harnessed her talent for creating beautiful items when she was faced with a situation that stopped her from being able to do physical work. Looking back, it was perhaps fate that led her in the right direction to what would one day become a cherished boutique business.

“At the beginning I had my own range of baby wear which I had designed and sewn myself.

I had always been artistic, but I didn’t think I could make a decent living from it.

“Practicality took over and I worked for Watties for many years, but I injured myself at work with a spinal injury, which meant I couldn’t work there anymore.

“The boredom of not working set in quickly and the artistic side of me took over and I

began designing my own cards. I hadn’t any formal training, I was just bumbling along self-teaching as I went, but they ended up becoming very good and I was able to start selling them. From there I got into it more seriously and my hand crafted cards were internationally barcoded and sold nationwide,” Jan commented.

Jan’s business at that stage was mainly manufacturing, with a small area dedicated to local retail sales, but that was soon to change after a visit from a local television station.

“The next thing I knew I had a knock on the door from CTV which was filming businesses in Selwyn. I had always been reluctant to let anyone photograph me let alone appear on television, so I was very nervous about it, but I just said yes and took the gamble.

“Well things just went crazy from there!

The amount of people I had visiting me every day was unbelievable. I ended up giving up manufacturing totally to concentrate on retail, so the small area I had set aside for retail is now my year-round Christmas room, and my larger manufacturing space is now my retail showroom.” Jan said.

In 2009 Jan decided that it was time for a re-build, so the business and her home were completely re-done, to allow for space for her growing business as well as a nice home for her to live.

“The money was available to make the changes, so I figured at this stage of my life it was time to do something nice for myself while I had time left to enjoy it.”

Jan’s business, known as Jancraft, is an absolute treasure trove for craft lovers. The shop and her home are in a tranquil garden setting, many visitors arriving just to spend time looking at her beautiful garden. The exflorist side of her comes out in every aspect of her business, every detail is delicate and pretty.

The main showroom is full to the brim with everything you need to create unique and masterful crafts. Jan takes pride in sourcing her products from all over the world, to provide different items that you won’t find anywhere else locally.

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of life beautiful Every item is lovingly displayed. It’s not like a normal retail ‘in and out’ experience; it’s a destination to become immersed in all things creative.

The chandeliers add to the boutique style.

“I like people to feel welcome when they visit and take their time. I have so many different products it can be overwhelming for a first time visitor into my showroom, but I always say if you can’t find something you’re looking for just ask me, I probably have it somewhere! I love that visitors get the ‘wow’ factor every time they come in the shop,” Jan said.

An addition to Jancraft is Jan’s year-round Christmas room. You couldn’t find a more stunning Christmas display if you tracked down Santa’s cave yourself. Every display is breathtaking. If you love Christmas, you may never want to leave!

“I found a niche for keeping my Christmas room all year. I have card-making ladies that

begin in July and keep going all winter and they need somewhere to get supplies. Many people enjoy shopping for Christmas all year, not just in a mad panic leading up to Christmas,” Jan said.

Jan has found that targeted marketing has grown her client base further afield than Christchurch, with many people travelling from Timaru and beyond to visit her store.

“After the success I had with CTV I remained a loyal client of theirs and had regular advertising spots. They would come and film on location too. I got to know many of them very well. I extended to marketing with The Guardian and that developed groups of regulars travelling from Ashburton and Timaru. Quite often a car load of crafters will head to Rolleston for the day, just to come and see me. It’s quite special really,” Jan said.

It hasn’t all been smooth sailing, but the 72-year-old’s love for her business and clients has pulled her through tough times. She

suffered her own heartache and struggle through the Christchurch earthquakes, firstly when the September earthquake severely damaged her shop and then again in February when many people she was close to lost their lives in the CTV building collapse.

“Eight weeks to the day after my home and business renovation was complete, the September earthquake hit and the shop went down. I was very lucky that I didn’t sustain any major structural damage to the house or shop, but every item in the shop had found its way to the floor. Wall to wall, door to door piled high was a tangled mess of metal stands and my products strewn everywhere.

“It took a long time to place everything back again, as I take tremendous pride in the beauty of my store. Part of the experience of shopping at Jancraft is looking at beautiful items and planning to make beautiful items, so beauty is what it is all about.

“When the February earthquake struck, some of the camera crew were out filming.

They were the lucky ones. A lot of people that meant a lot to me were lost in that building that day including a cameraman, producer and presenter. It was just tragic,” Jan said.

Jan encourages beginners to crafting to come and visit her for some one-on-one advice, and on special request Jan will even provide tutoring, to teach people the art of card-making.

“These days with more and more beautiful stick-on decals coming out of Europe and all over the world, card-making and crafting are becoming easier. I’m happy to spend one-onone time helping people who are looking for some advice. It’s one of the things that make Jancraft a special place to visit.”

A visit to Jancraft will open up a world of unique ideas, perfect to impress the next time you are looking to craft some home made inspiration of your own.

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Opening night of “Why are my Parents so Boring?” At the Ashburton Event Centre

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Above – Travis, 12, Ryan 10, Alastair and Leeanne Howden.

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Above – George, 12 and Jude McKendry and Krystel Elliott.

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Above – Wynter, five, Arnica, three and Michael Copland

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Above – Oliver, eight, Andrew and Archie Maw, three.