YOU July 2011

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STRENGTH Christine Ross

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PHOTO SARAH CHAMBERLAIN

Your Ashburton Guardian publication

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unsung hero

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COVER STORY:

Christine Ross – what a life

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around town

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street smart – Lou Hanham

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do it yourself – guttering

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weddings

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YOU and your gems

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YOU and your family

Welcome Our journalists have pounded the beat. Our photographers have clicked to their hearts’ content.

Our creative team has married it all together.

And here it is, just for you.

Our new magazine, YOU. Its emphasis is on local people with interesting tales to tell.

People like you.

So each edition we’ll bring you a profile of a local person whose ordinary life isn’t so ordinary, like Ashburton’s Christine Ross, who features on our cover today.

We’ll find out about your families as well and what makes an ordinary family tick.

In each edition we’ll reproduce your wedding photos; we’ll stop one of you in the street and ask about your fashion choices; we’ll find out about your favourite piece of jewellery, where you’ve been on holiday, your passions and how your weight loss challenge is going.

Around the home we’ll talk to

Peter O’Neill YOU Editor

local people about their DIY projects, their gardens, their grasp of technology.

In each edition we’ll honour an unsung hero in the community, we’ll ferret out those new to the district and ask what they think of the area and, in the same vein, we’ll ask international newcomers for a recipe from home.

And if you’ve got a legal question, we’ll get it answered for you.

As you can see, YOU is all about YOU. We’ve enjoyed putting this first edition together, and hope you do too.

Here’s to YOU

Editorial contact Peter O’Neill • 307-7959 peter.o@theguardian.co.nz

Advertising contact Nancye Pitt • 307-7974 nancye.p@theguardian.co.nz

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litter patrol:

for the love of her town

by Erin Bishop

Elwyn Peck takes great pride in her

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Elwyn Peck and her dog Bradley can often be found out and about ensuring Tinwald is kept clean and green.

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town and she wishes others would too.

She has lived in Ashburton much of her life and she likes to give back to a town which she says has treated her and her family so well.

So she picks up rubbish which others have carelessly discarded out their car window, or simply left behind.

Most fine days she can be found walking the main street in Tinwald with her dog Bradley, picking up rubbish.

It may not be everyone’s idea of a fun thing to do, but for Mrs Peck it has just become part of her routine and she reckons she’s literally picked up truckloads over the years.

She picks up everything; among the most common things she finds are discarded takeaway containers, drink cartons and broken glass, but she even finds the odd baby’s nappy.

“What gets me is the fact that it’s not only children doing it, it’s an adult who has thrown away those nappies,” she said.

She doesn’t understand why people do it. One of the worst areas is the rest area on the Tinwald side of the river, and there are rubbish bins there, but many don’t use them.

She doesn’t get paid for what she does, but she has found a total of $90 on the roadside over the years.

She can’t remember how it all started but thinks she’s probably been doing it for three or four years now and it started in the rest area on the Tinwald side of the Ashburton River.

“I was probably walking along here with Bradley one day and noticed a lot of rubbish so I proceeded to tidy it up,” she said.

“We get a lot of tourists down by the river so I like to keep it tidy for them.”

Eventually she started venturing further and now she patrols the green area off the main street from Carters Terrace right down to the Tinwald Shopping Centre.

She says she’s addicted, but also finds it’s good for her health and makes sure both she and Bradley get regular exercise.

“You know how people are addicted to cigarettes and alcohol, this is my problem,” she joked.

She even keeps a bag in her car so that if she sees rubbish while she’s driving she can stop and pick it up.

She’d love to see New Zealand introduce rules like those in Singapore where you can’t even drop a match-stick without being fined.

But with no such thing on the horizon, she’ll keep on doing what she does for the love of her town.

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Christine Ross:

take charge; it’s your life

By Sue Newman

You

can’t blame your upbringing for what happens in your life, it’s what you make out of it, the people you meet along the way who determine the person you become, says Christine Ross.

She knows what it’s like to be a kid with the cards stacked against her, she knows what it’s like to battle the odds and she knows what it’s like to succeed – over and over again.

This wife, mother, grandmother and multiple achieving career and sportswoman wasn’t born with a silver spoon in her mouth. By her own admission she came from a “Once Were Warriors” kind of background. If there was any luck in those early years, it was having a mum who wanted a better life for her kids.

With two older brothers and another two younger, Christine said she had to grow up tough and competitive, but that competitiveness did not extend to school.

She went because she had to; lunchtime was probably the highlight. If she’d had her way she would have scarpered the day she turned 15, but mum’s rule was that her kids stayed at school until they got a job.

A determined Christine scored a job with the next-door neighbour as a rousie in his shearing gang. Mum was far from impressed, but she couldn’t argue.

She’d never been in a shed before, hated every minute of it and lasted two weeks.

Back then it seemed her life would follow that of her schoolmates – work for a while, marry young and have a handful of kids. What she hadn’t counted on was meeting rugby playing, husband-to-be, Jock Ross. She was 19, he had a few more years on the clock, but they eventually married and settled back in Mid Canterbury. A new place, a new life that presented Christine with a smorgasbord of opportunities.

Jock became her greatest support and her greatest inspiration to try new things and achieve new goals. Inevitably, as the wife of an All Black, many of those achievements were to be on the sportsfield, an area of her life she’d closed the door on before she hit her teens.

“My sporting days ended at intermediate. It wasn’t a cool thing to do even though I really liked sport, but friends have a big impact on your decisions. It wasn’t until I came down here that I started playing sport again”.

And it wasn’t until after her two sons were born that she started playing rugby, the sport that was to propel her on to the international stage. Her greatest supporter, of course, was Jock.

That was in 1986. It started out as a casual team for a friend-

ly match against a Canterbury University side. It ended up with Christine being invited to join the varsity side. She played for that side for six years with another five in the Christchurch Rugby Club masters team.

The sport she tackled casually took her to Scotland as a player and saw her stay on to referee men’s B grade matches.

On several occasions she was a member of ‘unofficial’ New Zealand women’s rugby teams, but her official year in 1996, saw her tour Australia and Canada.

“My New Zealand jersey is hanging up in the Christchurch Rugby Club next to Richie McCaw, but mine was there first,” she said.

One of her rugby highlights was leading the haka for the Classic All Blacks at a festival in Bermuda.

“Not many people get to lead Buck Shelford or to tell the All Blacks what to do.”

In an odd quirk of fate, rugby was to be the catalyst for a

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new career.

“We trained at the police college for the New Zealand women’s trials and I got talking to some of the recruits and got a bit interested in the police. I didn’t make the team, but when I flew home and Jock picked me up, we got as far as Dunsandel and I said to him, what do you think about me joining the police.”

His response was typically Jock – “that would be great.”

“That’s been my life since I met Jock, I was always helped and encouraged to go out and do things.”

The decision made, Christine knew an all-too-short time at secondary school meant she had educational hurdles to overcome if she wanted to join the police. Friend and neighbour, teacher Claire Dobbs helped her fill the gaps and pass the entry test. That meant packing a bag and moving to Trentham for six months, leaving Jock and their two boys behind. A tough call.

“Getting through that needed determination, but more importantly, it was all about support,” she said.

She gradyated, worked in Christchurch Central and Hornby, commuting each day. Later Christine transferred to Ashburton, but after 10 years said she and the police had outgrown one

another.

“It was a good challenge, a job where the good outweighed the bad, but I was ready for a change.”

That change when it came, was the army.

“I’d opened my mouth and said I’d always wanted to join the army and someone said, what about the territorials, so I had to see it through.”

The 43-year-old recruit headed to Waiouru, again with Jock’s blessing and encouragement.

“I was fit when I went and superfit when I came home, but now I’m just in the army on paper. I’ve ticked that off the list and I’m ready to move on.”

Somewhere along the way Christine has also found the time to play cricket, men’s cricket, as a medium pace bowler in the Tinwald second grade side. With rugby taking her away from home in the winter, she felt it might be pushing family ties too far if she headed to Christchurch to play women’s cricket in the summer.

She’s also a karate exponent, achieving a black belt in 2004.

She takes classes twice a week and competed in Japan three years ago. Modestly she admits to finishing second in the open women’s section.

Currently her sporting involvement is with a whistle, she’s back on the rugby field, this time as a referee. Right now that’s for the under 13s. She’s non-committal about taking that reffing any further, but chances are, she won’t stop with the juniors.

“It was pretty tough coming back after 16 years away, those boys are pretty quick.”

Today Christine is taking a breaking, looking for the next opportunity, the next challenge, but in the mean time she’s happy down on the farm.

The next challenge won’t be anything to do with knitting and it won’t involve snow.

“I’m not a ski bunny. I couldn’t do it straight away so I gave it up. Snow looks better on a postcard.”

If she’s not chasing one of the couple’s 11 grandchildren, she’s likely to be found driving a truck, shifting stock, shoveling silage or as part of the family’s shearing team.

For someone who hated her short stint in shearing shed, she’s now completed a shearing course and happily picks up the hand piece whenever she’s needed.

The family teams shears its own lambs. It’s a good bonding time, rolling up your sleeves and working up a sweat. And with Jock, she still works up a sweat on the lawn – they mow their big patch, tandem, with push mowers.

“We’ve got all these grandsons coming on and there’s no more wood to chop or hens to feed, so their chores will be mowing the lawn with the push mower.”

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Volunteer awards

Sue Hooley (left) and Jenny Brady from Ashburton Gymnastics.

Ali Curwood (left) and Jenny Gill from the Ashburton Art Gallery.

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A wide range of volunteers (from left): Dianne Smith, Presbyterian Support, Rachel Lobb, The Great Little Cookbook, Torika Patterson, Presbyterian Support, Mirna Dassano, Multi Cultural Bite committee and Raewyn Barclay from the Newcomers Network relax at the recent TrustPower Community Volunteer Awards.

Steve Graham (left) and Dick MacDonald from the Amateur Radio Club.

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Leech and Partners’ opening

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Amy Mills, Nadia McClelland and Emma Prichard from the Ashburton Parents’ Centre.

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YOU launch

YOU’s official launch to advertisers was held recently and along to see our new product was (from left) Sarah Burdett, Mandy Reid and Maxine Whiting.

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Celebrating the opening of Leech and Partners’ new premises in Somerset House and the firm’s 25th anniversary are (from left) Emma Greenslade, Dwayne Goodall, Brett Dudley, Sarah Thornley and Natasha Hussein.

Adelle Wrigley and Amy McIntyre.

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Allanah Watson and Alister Lilley.

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Above – Louise and Mark Gorman (left) and Chris Ruddle.

Below – Andrea Lee (left) and Christine Todd.

ABOVE: Chris Heffernan, Evelyn and Ian Bruce.

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LEFT: Nick Walls and Penny Emery.

Rachel Barry and Jenny Brady.

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The YOU team will be running a monthly series on interesting, flash, classy and/or fresh looks on the street. Guardian photographer Carmen Rooney and sub-editor Lisa Fenwick found Lou Hanham recently who was on the hunt for a birthday pressie for her sister.

Casual chic

Lou Hanham is a psychiatric nurse who lives in

West Melton, but works in Ashburton and was also raised and schooled here.

She struck us immediately looking casually chic and while she tried to avoid us, we managed to pester her for a few fashion tips.

Lou looks for good quality items on special.

“If it’s on sale for a good price, I buy two,” she said.

Her classic-style good-quality leather boots were bought in Auckland on special. Two of them in fact, one with a lower heel.

She’s always in jeans and swears by Lee Riders.

“They have good pockets, sit nicely and come at a reasonable price.”

Lou wears belts a lot to give more shape to the layered, tunic top styles she enjoys wearing.

The belt she’s wearing was bought in Ashburton, but she also wears a lot of hipster belts.

A pink top underneath is, she said, to brighten up the black tunic top. “I wear a lot of black, so use bright colours underneath to lift it.”

The cost of her ensemble? Lou reckons no more than $350 for the lot.

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Lou Hanham makes casual look smart by dressing her black top up with a belt and great quality boots.

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Deal to your

guttering

It’s that time of year again – all of

autumn’s leaves have made their way to the guttering on your home and the winter chill has well and truly set in.

And although cleaning your spouting is sometimes the last thing on your mind, a little preventive maintenance now can avoid costly repairs later.

The roof is your home’s first line of defence against the elements and your gutters do a great support job in directing all of that water away from your foundations.

Clogged gutters and downpipes restrict the flow of water and in extreme conditions cause spouting to overflow, preferably down facias and not inside your home.

If you are not someone who likes to or wants to climb the ladder to jump up on the roof, there are plenty of maintenance companies who are more than happy to.

Or if you want to reduce the freOrdinary Kiwi bloke Shane quency there are a variety of gutter ‘Woodsy’ Woods is handy guards on the market. around the house with a hamSome claim you never need to clean mer. Each month we’ll check in on what his latest DIY project again but in reality a gutter guard properly installed will lessen the number has been. of times you will have to clean your gutters.

Most do the same thing - the guard In winter pooled water can freeze and is attached to, placed on or over the gutter expand, causing damage to spouting. Metal depending on the type. As leaves and debris spouting in particular will last a lot longer if fall the guard prevents them from entering kept clean and clear of debris.

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the gutter but still allowing water to flow through.

If you are keen to have a go at cleaning your gutters, you will need a ladder, your hands are best but a garden trowel of salad tongs are also good for scooping out debris, a hose to spray channels and downpipes and a gutter sealant to repair any leaks. Try to avoid leaning your ladder against the guttering.

First you will need to scoop out leaves and debris. Remove downpipes if possible and hose down debris from spouting. This is the best time to check for leaks. Run a hose down and clear downpipes. Clear and check stormwater drains and/or soak holes aren’t pooling water and leaking into foundations, causing rising damp into your home.

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Photos supplied

Above – Established trees are great at providing shade in summer but mean full gutters at this time of year.

Middle – Shane ‘Woodsy’ Woods clears leaves and debris from the guttering of an Ashburton home.

Gutters should be cleared every six months.

Right – Don’t forget to make sure your downpipes are also free of debris.

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YOU wedded bliss

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Emma Todd (nee Moore) and Graham married at Coniston Homestead on January 22, 2011.

Enjoying a moment, newlyweds Graham and Emma Todd.

The bridal party (from left) Kerryn Hurrell, Jessica Bowan, Graham and Emma, and Lindsay Martin.

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Bride Suzie Grieve (nee Cameron) and groom Phil Grieve hug Suzie’s boys Hayden (left) and Josh Dove on their wedding day March 26 at Beluga Lodge in Methven.

The wedding party (back row, from left): Kelly Stanley, Kiley Clayton, Suzie, Mel Baigent and Caroline Cameron.

Front row: Dale Gray, Jeff Grieve, Phil, Cory Quinn and Chris Grieve.

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How’s your

dance card looking?

By Lisa Fenwick

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Ashburton woman Jo Peacock is just such a jewellery enthusiast. She loves collecting and, while she laments the polishing involved, pewter and silver line her walls on shelves and cupboards everywhere.

Some are collectables and some just take her fancy, but it all makes for a fascinating display of interesting pieces.

One such gorgeous piece was a necklace she wears quite often, with its last outing the Harness Jewels on June 4. She loves wearing it because it’s different and she’s never seen another.

What’s interesting about it is that it’s not a necklace at all, but a dance card that was passed down the family line to her from great aunt Florence. Jo’s believes it probably belonged to her great aunt’s mother because it dates from 1893, which would make it late Victorian.

If you don’t know what a dance card is, it was usually used at balls in ye olde days so that men could write their names on it for their chance of a swing around the dance floor with the dainty owner of said dance card.

It was usually a leather-covered booklet that listed the songs that an orchestra would play throughout a dance or ball, Jo’s dance card is far more special than that.

The Birmingham sterling silver piece is in immaculate condition and you can still see writing on the sheets of ivory, which almost appear like new.

Jo believes dance cards would have been chained to ladies’ waists and, after she married and had no need of it anymore because her man had been claimed, it would probably have been used as a shopping list or something equally practical.

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Left – Ashburton woman Jo Peacock likes to wear her old silver and ivory dance card out on occasion.

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Jo

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She has thought it may have been a cardholder for calling cards, but she would love to know for sure.

If you think you know the silver case’s original use or have an interesting piece of jewellery to tell us about, please contact Lisa Fenwick at the Guardian 03 307-7929 or email lisa.f@theguardian. co.nz.

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‘Trust yourself as a parent’ What makes your family tick? YOU’s Susan Sandys asks the question of local families, starting with Nadia and Peter McClelland, who live in Ashburton with their children Grace and Emma.

Nadia is president of the Ashburton Parents’ Centre.

How long have you lived in Ashburton and what is it that keeps your family here?

We moved to Ashburton from Christchurch for work, four-and-a-half years ago. Our move was supposed to be temporary but after only being here six months we decided to make Ashburton home. I like the small-town lifestyle without it being too isolated. I love the hard-working farm culture and history the town has. It’s a fantastic place to raise a family. There are loads of activities and groups for parents. We are involved with the Ashburton Parents’ Centre, music classes, swim classes, and the excellent library and toy library. I have made loads of great friends going along to these things. There is an excellent range of preschools, kindergartens and schools for whatever direction you want your child to go in.

What activities in Ashburton do you enjoy doing as a family?

Swimming, picnics, going to the domain, visiting friends. I have heard about some great walks on the outskirts of town that are suitable to do with young children so I look forward to doing them sometime soon.

What is the main thing you would like your children to learn from you?

Be happy! Love the person you are!

I want to provide my kids with an environment to learn through play before they start school, have loads of experiences with their family in a stable, loving environment.

Do you have any tips for harmonious family life, such as discipline methods and parenting techniques?

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Nadia and Peter McClelland with their children Emma (left), 15 months, and Grace, 2½.

– Eat dinner at the table as a family. We talk about our day, ask what was the best and worst part, to get them thinking.

– Trust yourself and your ability to be a great parent.

– Go a little crazy – dance around the living room, spontaneously burst into song. The kids think it’s great.

– Be consistent and keep directions very simple. Be patient and try to keep calm though sometimes this is extremely difficult.

– Have networks of people around you. The Parents’ Centre was great for this. It’s important to have other parents to talk to and bounce ideas off. It confirms that your child is normal and you are doing a great job. Love, love, love, read, read, read.

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I hope my children will always have a desire for knowledge.

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our blood?

By Linda Clarke

Ashburton

has its share of blood donors, although more are always welcome. But what actually happens to that bag of blood?

YOU asks the question.

Only about 5 per cent of the population (some 42,500 Kiwis young and old) donates blood, and the service is always looking for more. Blood collected from Ashburton people helps save lives in hospitals around the South Island, including our own Ashburton Hospital.

Ashburton donors are important postquake as many of the service’s collection venues no longer exist.

What happens to the blood you give?

470ml of blood donated in Ashburton is transported to the blood service’s Riccarton Road lab the same day and a small amount tested for diseases like HIV and hepatitis, and given a blood type (A, B, AB and O are the main ones).

Your body will replace the fluids removed within 24 hours – 470ml of blood is about 7 per cent of the blood volume of an average

adult. The donated blood sits overnight in a lab refrigerator until being given the all clear for distribution to hospitals around the South Island. It is bar-coded, then broken down into red cells, plasma and platelets.

Christchurch Hospital uses about 10 per cent of all the red cells collected in the South Island, and Dunedin 4.3 per cent. The plasma is frozen and sent to Australia for further use in the medical field, and platelets are used to help blood to clot.

The donated red cells must be used within 35 days. Cancer patients are the biggest users of blood products, followed by accident victims and then patients undergoing surgery.

Blood needed for mothers and babies makes up 7 per cent. People who have been in accidents and suffered massive blood loss may need multiple transfusions of red cells.

Red cells carry oxygen to the body’s organs and tissue and are constantly being made in your bone marrow. There are about a billion red blood cells in two or three drops of blood.

Donors must wait three months before they have give blood again.

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The timely move marks an impressive milestone through some years that have been tough for the Real Estate industry, fighting through a depression that saw the housing market take a tumble.

Now that the Real Estate market is showing positive growth, the move allows the Photos Kirsty Graham 130711-kg-039 team that promises the best First National Mid Canterbury has shifted to Tancred Street. price, service and marketing, the opportunity to be imwhich they continuously improve and are notified immediately when a suitable mersed in the growing foot keep current, ensuring easy and prompt home is fresh on the market. traffic on Tancred Street. searches for buyers, and the knowledge to With an award winning team behind Franchise owner Jill Quaid believes that their vendors that their marketing is being them, the move to Tancred Street allows the move will have positive results for thoroughly looked after by the best in the First National to make the most of a rising both buyers and sellers in the market. business. market and look forward to doing what “Tancred Street has a fantastic mix of The move comes immediately after the they do best, which is practice best praceateries, banks, real estate and retail that team returned from a very successful First tice real estate. attracts a busy daily movement.

National awards conference in Dunedin, This is because they are a “Best Prac“We have always proclaimed to have where the local team walked away with a tice” accredited office. the best window display in town, now multitude of awards, including 2nd overall With more sunshine flowing in the more people have the opportunity to windows and the opportunity to further view it, which is excellent for our vendors”, in the top office category, and taking out the property management growth award. establish their presence in the community Jill said.

If you are in the market for a new home, with increased foot traffic, the chic new While an attractive window display or are curious as to what is on the market offices give the team more space, and is important to their continued growth currently, give one of First National’s sales more time to spend doing what they do and success, keeping another window consultants a call. best, selling homes. continuously updated is also important to They can put you on a database of interJill and Richard would like to take this ensuring that their clients needs are put opportunity to give their heartfelt thanks first. That window would be their website, ested buyers, which will ensure that you

and appreciation to everyone who made their move a smooth and stress free transition.

In particular thanks to Craig from Computer Solutions and Darren from Dynamic Computer Services, who organized the switch over of First National’s phones and internet.

Due to their excellent forward planning, they were only without phone and internet for one hour.

The biggest thanks are extended to their fantastic team, who all helped to make the move a successful one.

For the best price, best service and best marketing, ensuring that YOU are always put first, give the award winning team at First National a call today, to make a fresh move to a better life.

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JILL and RICHARD QUAID It is now 10 years since I purchased First National Real Estate in Ashburton and I have been extremely fortunate over this time to have worked with some very interesting and wonderful people.

The real estate market over this time has seen some extreme highs and lows as we have moved through one full real estate cycle. Despite the highs and lows of prices and number of sales, the one thing that stays the same is that there are always people that need to buy or sell property, and that requires a salesperson who can take the emotion out of that transaction and market the property to achieve the maximum price in the shortest time frame that the market will allow.

Being in business has taught me a number of things: You cannot please everyone but its worth trying You will not get it right 100 of the time

KIM MILLER Urban Sales Consultant With me, what you see is what you get. My philosophy in life as in business is this – By offering simple solutions and good old fashioned advice, coupled with treating others as you wish to be treated yourself ensures you will feel valued and part of a successful team throughout your real estate journey. My clients value my honesty and my commitment to keeping them informed every step of the way.

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You have to be a dreamer You have to have integrity and be ethical You have to take risks and not be afraid to fail You have to have some fun along the way and this last one is the biggie You have to define success in your own terms Richard, a qualified builder, joined me in the business 5 years ago and that has worked very well for both of us because of the different strengths that we bring.

It has also been great for me to have support and trust that is unconditional.

I would like to convey my sincere thanks to the wonderful and supportive team of people we have around us, and to all our fantastic clients who have entrusted us with their business in the past. I look forward to the First National brand helping the wonderful community of Mid Canterbury for another 10 Rural/Lifestyle years.

Sales Consultant Rural Urban Sales Consultant Ashburton The morning of February 22 including saw us attending a seminar at dairy farms, Riccarton Racecourse. Come arable farms, dairy support, noon, that wet Tuesday, we pastoral farms, equity partnerreturned to Ashburton only ships and lifestyle properties to experience a major quake while sitting at are my passion.

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YOU new to town

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enjoying life

in the quiet lane T

by Sue Newman

he fates conspired to bring South African couple Craig and Adriaan Philpott to Ashburton.

They’ve swapped tough, gritty, crime-riddled Johannesburg for what they describe as a place that’s as close to paradise as you can get. They’ve got the February 22 earthquake to thank for that; if it hadn’t intervened, they’d be calling Christchurch home.

Inspired by the experience of Craig’s sister, Michelle van Staden, the couple realised they too could live a life where they weren’t constantly on alert, where bars on house windows weren’t essential and where after dark it wasn’t safe to stop your car, even at traffic lights. For

years they’d lived with muggings, hijackings and hate crimes and they’d had enough.

From the moment they arrived, it seemed fate was on their side. With Christchurch no longer an option, they came to Ashburton and piece by piece, life simply fell into place – a job for Craig, a home to rent, a community that welcomed them.

For Adriaan a key to knowing Ashburton was right, was finding a church where he felt comfortable.

“We’re the first gay couple in the church here and we were a bit nervous, but it was very overwhelming the way they welcomed us.”

They say they’ve left hate crimes and fear behind and been given a lifestyle that has freedoms they’re still adjusting too. Here they’re not a gay couple, they’re simply a couple.

For Craig that freedom means simply living as he wants without constantly looking behind, without locked and bolted doors. There’s no barbed or electric wire, no high fences, no acceptance of living in an urban prison as the norm.

“I run in the morning through the domain and I still can’t believe it when I see a woman on her own walking with a baby in a pram. Every direction we look things keep coming along that make us realise this is so right,” he said.

And then there’s the silence. In Johannesburg there’s a constant cacophony of blaring horns, barking and snarling dogs. There’s shouting voices and if there’s silence it’s a waiting kind of silence. In Ashburton, there’s just silence.

And here it’s safe to socialise away from home, safe to walk the streets after dark. In Johannesburg, even in a group your safety was never guaranteed.

“There you can’t even stop at traffic lights for fear you’ll be car-jacked, there’s no feeling of safety at all.

Even the police are corrupt. Rather than cops on the road there are signs ‘hijack hot spot for the next 6km’, Adriaan said.

Ashburton is like Johannesburg was in the early 1980s, they said.

“It’s like a time-warp in a good sense. It reminds me of how life is supposed to be,” Craig said.

Now well settled, professional dancer Adriaan has turned his energies to setting up a ballroom and Latin dance studio. He’s already in business, receiving bookings for classes that range from one-on-one tuition to groups or couples.

He hopes to take those classes further, introducing social dance events, charity balls and, with a bit of planning, social competitions with Christchurch dance studios.

The couple are so enamoured with their new lives, both sets of parents are planning a visit later in the year.

Adriaan and Craig are hoping the Kiwi magic will keep them here.

Yes, they miss the people of their homeland, but not their city and not their country. Their hearts, they say are already firmly in New Zealand.

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YOU legalised

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What do you want to know?

Each month YOU gives readers the opportunity to ask that burning legal question. We’ll take it to a lawyer to get a response. Email your question to peter.o@theguardian.co.nz or drop it off at our office in Burnett Street. Your name is not essential for publication, but please include a contact point in case we need to clarify anything.

Question: I want to

know the legalities of shifting to Australia with my 12 and 13-year-old (who want to go). Their father has not had contact with them for about a couple of years and in the parenting order he is only allowed contact with them by mutual consent.

Classic! what makes ‘em special

Classic cars change hands all the time.

What brings them to the spotlight is usually one of several factors. It might have a track record distinguished by race wins. It might be in particularly good shape. It might have had a starring role in a major motion picture. It might be a particular rarity from a small production run, or maybe it served to showcase the manufacturer’s offerings at a major auto show.

Having all these factors come together on one specific automobile is a rarity, but that’s what we’re looking at with this stunning 1955 Ferrari 750 Monza Spider.

One of only 35 built, Ferrari displayed this Spider at the 1955 Brussels Motor Show, after which it was brought to America by famed importer Luigi Chinetti who sold it to his rival Porsche importer John von Neumann in Los Angeles.

Neumann set the Monza on an aggressive race program up and down the West Coast that saw it win twice and score another nine podiums at various sportscar racing events, bringing on board, among others, no less a talent than Phil Hill to man the wheel.

Most notably, the car was driven by Fred Astair in a fictionalised post-apocalyptic grand prix in the movie On The Beach.

Since then, chassis 0492M has been part of several prestigious collections, but after a comprehensive two-year restoration is now heading to the auction block at Pebble Beach, where RM Auctions will be putting it up for grabs with prices reportedly expected to top $3 million.

With a 260-horsepower 3.0-liter DOHC four similar to that found in the 500 TRC that RM sold for $4 million at Villa d’Este, this Monza Spider is described by one noted Ferrari expert as the best she’s ever seen.

Answer: Where the children are to live is a guardianship matter. A guardian of a child has all duties, powers, rights and responsibilities that a parent has in relation to the upbringing of that child. They have the right to make big important decisions in a child’s life (or help the child make that decision) including where the child is to live, go to school and what their culture, language and religion will be. Usually, a child’s mother and father are joint guardians of the child however in some circumstances a father is not automatically a child’s guardian. If the father is not a child’s guardian they can however apply to the Family Court to be appointed a guardian and the Court will generally do this unless it is not in the child’s best interests.

If the children’s father is a guardian, you need to get his consent to the children moving to Australia to live even though you have the dayto-day care of the children.

If you and the children’s father cannot agree on where the children are to live you can ask the Family Court to arrange free and confidential counselling to sort out the dispute or either of you (as guardians of the children) can file an application in the Family Court to resolve the guardianship dispute.

You also need to check whether the Parenting Order states where the children are to live

Paulette Petelo

as sometimes this is included in the Parenting Order. If the Parenting Order states that the children are to live in a particular town in New Zealand (i.e. Ashburton) then you will need to file an application in the Family Court to vary the Parenting Order so that you are allowed to take the children to Australia to live.

If you file an application in the Family Court and the children’s father decides to defend your application the Court will refer the two of you to counselling to try and resolve the dispute. If no agreement is reached at counselling the Court can direct that you and the children’s father attend mediation to try and resolve matters.

If no agreement is reached at mediation the proceedings will then be set down for hearing.

During the Court process the Court has the power to appoint a lawyer to represent your children. If a lawyer is appointed to act for your children they will ask your children whether they want to live in New Zealand or Australia.

Any application should be filed sooner rather than later as it can take some time to complete the Court process.

This publication is intended only to provide a brief summary of the subjects covered.

It does not constitute legal advice and should not be relied on as such without first obtaining specific professional advice based on your particular circumstances. If you have any queries regarding this article or a family law query in general, please contact Paulette Petelo at Nicoll Cooney Silva Limited on 03 308-4188 or paulette.petelo@nicolaw.co.nz

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YOU 2011 weight-loss challenge

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Our diaries –

Last chance saloon with one month to go!

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Amanda Niblett

Jo Wickett

Kelle Mingay

Weight lost so far: 4kg

Weight lost so far: 7kg

Weight lost so far: 4.5kg

Weight lost so far: 8kg

This month I bought some home exercise equipment, and have enjoyed not having to venture into the cold! A definite plus when these frosts are getting to be a regular occurrence, and it is dark so early.

I am having some difficulties with exercising and not “fuelling� myself correctly beforehand. But I can see this problem and need to work out a plan to fix it.

I’m sure with Sally’s help I will be able to do this. A lot of the problem is time management!

If you don’t eat correctly then, like your car, the fuel you put into your body will only take you along a certain distance. I found the other day that I felt good at the start of exercising, but then after a while I felt like a brick!

I have come to the distinct conclusion this month that love makes you fat. It’s a theory anyway and if I was a “test dummy� for that hypothesis, the theory would be confirmed. I had a blissful two weeks on a tropical island and returned engaged to the love of my life, but unfortunately this exciting time didn’t result in any weight loss, in fact to my dismay quite the opposite! For the first time in this challenge I ended up putting weight back on, possibly not surprising considering the parties and congratulatory dinners that followed our announcement. Initially I was upset and disappointed in myself for not taking full advantage of this challenge, but it has enabled me to look differently at my approach. I am taking the time to work through the emotional part of weight gain, discovering why I choose to eat poorly when I know the consequences.

When I close my eyes, I can’t imagine myself a “normal� weight, I have never been a normal weight before and a part of me believes I never will be. Breaking this mental barrier will be crucial to my long-term success, and I am determined to finish this challenge strongly.

This month we had a funeral in Blenheim.

What we would normally do is fuel the car and our bodies at the petrol station ie pies, savouries, chips, fizzy and lollies for the travel on the way. Also it’s only one night away, so normally we have takeaways for tea and breakfast ... luckily this trip we had a BBQ tea at Gavin’s aunty’s, and I had breakfast that I arranged to take with me.

Planning is the key. I packed a bag of fruit and carrots to snack on for travel and the girls even came on board and snacked with me. Thanks Toni and Ashley.

Coming home was later than planned after a little wine tasting at Yealands Estate (Gavin’s uncle), which was an awesome experience. The tea jitters set in at Kaikoura. I chose a healthy souvalaki and the others still have their fish and chips. So plan ahead and think positive.

Exercise ... I lost focus this month. So my challenge for this last month is to keep up the good work. I have curves now – Thanks Curves (no pun intended), I love my new shape.

This month I discovered that 5.45 appears twice on the clock within 24 hours. I have started going to a class at the gym in the early hours of the morning. It is great to get the gym work over and done with but very hard to get motivated on the frosty mornings.

I’m improving on the climbing wall and have now completed two grade 13 routes, and a grade 14 without cheating. This is a great achievement as I could not climb a grade 13 the first week (this is the easiest grade they had on the wall).

Marg at the Mountain Gym, Methven, has developed a new workout in order to build my upper body strength and improve my core muscles. This will help me with my climbing and with the challenge.

It scary that there is only a month to go, I’m worried I will not loose another 1kg and reach my goal!

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Weight lost so far: 18kg

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Hard to believe that another month has been and gone, and now it’s not far until the challenge finishes. This month has been up and down, with no weight loss in the first half of the month, but no weight gain either (which is a good thing). The second half of the month I injured my knee at the gym, which was frustrating, but I am so grateful to the ladies at Curves who helped me that day. So for the last two weeks I’ve been doing bugger all exercise, but still making the right choices when it comes to eating. I managed to lose 2kg. Still trying to figure out how but now I only have 2kg to go to get to my goal of 20kg, even getting beyond that would be great.

Thanks to everyone that is encouraging me and supporting me along the way.

This month has been a real challenge to fight the winter comfort foods. However, the up-side is that I have managed to go running every morning for five weeks now. This has not been easy – I mean when it’s a hard frost out, the last thing you want to do is climb out of a toasty warm bed. But my outlook is that if the only thing I accomplish everyday is a run, at least by the end of the day I can say I did something to help myself.

We are winding down to the last four weeks now so the heat is on. Here’s hoping Sally and Frank can pull a rabbit out of the hat to help us with those last few kilos.

Keep up the good work challengees!! And stop injuring yourselves!!!

As a footnote to last month’s report, I did complete my first Gym Company Duathlon. Competing in the individual long course (5km run / 26km Bike / 2.5km run), I finished at the back of the field, but enjoying the experience all the same.

I must admit losing focus on the challenge this month. I will not bore you with excuses, but undertake to “harden up” and get back into it. I commit to decent exercise 4 -5 times per week, beefing up my protein intake at the expense of carbohydrates and finishing the challenge with a flourish. That is the great thing about this programme, it is not complicated. However, until I form really good habits I have to stay focused.

Well well well, that time again. Sorry I missed my diary entry last time, I had problems a bit beyond my control. Things have been going along not at a fast pace, but in the right direction. I have lost a bit more weight, which I’m happy with, and I have started popping along to the gym. I hate exercise, but I feel great afterwards. Linda and the girls have been making sure that I keep away from the bad things. This cool weather doesn’t help. I just want to eat, but as I said I’m managing to do the right thing. Thanks everyone for your support, cheers.

Anna Johnson Weight lost so far: 19kg Life is full of challenges, they can be exciting and they can be disappointing, and this month I am learning that it is up to me on how this challenge will control my life.

In Thailand I embraced what it means to be on holiday with only a mild exercise programme, eating good food and wow those cocktails! With my weight yo-yoing I decided to refocus. I have entered two

Maryann Heaven Weight lost so far: 32kg I have finally hit the 30kg mark and I am stoked! My aim is to keep chipping away, and get as close to 40kg as I can, before the final weigh-in.

For about the past eight years, I have only really been able to shop in the larger ladies sections of a small handful of shops. Just finding something that fits, is usually an accomplishment. This month, I have ‘outgrown’ most of my clothes in my wardrobe and my ‘to grow into’ box. So I went shopping – and I’d have to say it felt great. Clothes shopping is quickly becoming something I enjoy again.

Heath Heaven Weight lost so far: 16kg Thanks to Chris and Maryann for all those extra games of squash – they have paid off and I’ve lost another 2kg this month. This is my first season of squash and I’d have to say it’s quite addictive. For me, it is an effective workout. Chasing a little black ball around a squash court is now my idea of a good time. After five games of squash you know you’ve had a workout and I feel great. I find my recovery is much better and I am not heaving after a full-on game.

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A passion for the trails

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Chris Clay has a passion for mountain biking on and off trail since he was introduced to it back in the UK in 1999 and hasn’t looked back since.

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... just getting away from the noise and technology in everyday life and facing different trails is a great feeling

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Mountainbiker Chris Clay lives

and breathes his passion. If he isn’t out riding, he’s tinkering with a bike, thinking of improvements he could make or planning his next trip.

As a child he dreamt of owning a new bike so in 1999, with the help of a student loan and an already addicted housemate, he was hooked.

The Leicestershire countryside and hilly Derbyshire Peak District became their playground, with occasional mountain excursions into Welsh valleys, peaks, pine forests and pubs when time permitted.

His passion also brought him to New Zealand. He planned to ride the length of the country on bike and luckily met a Kiwi girl.

He now looks at others riding the long road and thinks they’re mad.

“I enjoy the tranquillity, wilderness and the individuality of mountainbike riding and just getting away from the noise and technology in everyday life and facing different trails is a great feeling.

“I also love eating cake, pies and drinking beer so if I didn’t bike, I’d be a little bit larger than I am,” he said.

Mountainbiking can also be enjoyed in a group or alone.

On one hand, he said a small group of mates is the best to share the laughs, the crashes, highs, lows, views and whinges.

“Sometimes though, it’s great to get out there alone and face whatever you fancy.

It’s often on those solo rides you’ll relax more, sit down on a hillside and appreciate the experience,” he said.

He wouldn’t tackle the big day rides solo though.

His passion has helped take him to some amazing places and if there were no limitations, he’d go a lot further.

“I rode the four-day Alpine Epic from Mt Somers to Lake Tekapo in 2010 with a team-mate and it was incredible. It was tougher and more rewarding than we ever anticipated and the views of the Southern Alps were breathtaking,” he said.

He’s ticked off the Queen Charlotte Track in a day, the St James Loop, the foothills of Mt Kilimanjaro and up the collapsed Ngorongoro volcano in Tanzania over five days.

“That was pretty special because 80 of us raised a quarter of a million pounds for people with cerebral palsy. The riding, scenery and wildlife was insane and so was the heat stroke and sunburn. Our tires melted in the heat and we got something like 300 punctures combined,” he said.

The Heaphy Track would be his favourite so far and if it was more accessible, he’d be a frequent flyer.

He’s also read that the Rockies and British Columbia are amazing, but tough, and there’s reportedly some great riding in the European Alps, Verbier and Les Gets that need ticking off.

For now though, riding when he can is enough to keep him busy and his advice for those thinking about giving it a go – get off the flat stuff, push yourself (but not too hard) and find any excuse to use your bike.

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Above – Enjoying their lunch and the views from the top of Mt Ryall, on the Croesus Track between Blackball and Barrytown, are (from left) Felix McGirr, Jamie Donaldson and Craig Cullimore.

Top right – Chris (left) and team-mate for the Alpine Epic Race Darryl Oldham approach the finish line after approximately 270km and five days of travelling from Mt Somers to Tekapo through back country.

Right – Craig Cullimore negotiates a track at Craigieburn.

Below – Felix McGirr climbing the Peter Range near Inverary.

Above – Chris after riding in Queen Charlotte where they completed about 70km in a day. There was so much rain that by the end of the ride, none of the boys had brakes because the grit on the track had worn down their brake pads.

Bottom left – Chris celebrates one of the many tracks he has conquered.

Bottom right – Craig Cullimore taking a moment to look at the scenery and track ahead of him.

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Wormly deposits

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are the perfect pets, they don’t need to be walked and if you feed them well, you’ll have loyal friends for life.

And those loyal worms are happy living just about anywhere providing there’s a bit of moisture around and the temperature stays within a reasonable range. To make them extra happy, however, worms, tiger worms particularly, like living in their own home.

That home, the popular worm farm, can be just about anything – bucket, box or just a patch in the garden. As long as they have kitchen scraps with a bit of roughage on the side, they’ll reward you with rich garden compost and in true wormly fashion, with thousands of new worms each year.

For worms, as it is with most pets, food is the number one motivator.

Feed them and they’ll stay in your backyard, fail to provide them with

Brent Holley is an expert when it comes to composting. He gives Sue Newman the low-down on building a worm farm. the right diet and they can travel up to one kilometre in search of food.

Making a worm garden is simple – ask Mastaguard community educator Brent Holley.

From the combination of worms and food scraps gardeners are rewarded with rich vermicast to use as a nutrient booster in the garden and with liquid worm juice that is diluted and used as a plant spray. All natural, all free and all in constant production.

Tiger worms can be bought from Ashburton Meat Processors.

There are a few simple rules when it comes to building a successful worm farm: the farm must be kept

wet, it must be kept out of the sun, they don’t eat citrus and don’t like too much bread, air needs to circulate and they need a little bit of roughage to help them grind their food.

The ultimate for a home gardener is to have a plot that’s rich in worms, creating a no dig garden. The rapid reproductive cycle of worms makes it easy to grow your population.

They lay eggs every seven to 10 days and within two to three weeks of hatching a worm is able to reproduce. They even have their own method of population control. When numbers match food supply, they stop breeding.

Right – Mastaguard community educator Brent Holley with a handful of perfect pets – tiger worms.

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Making a worm farm Let’s Face it – YOU NEED TWO 20-LITRE BUCKETS, ONE LID AND ONE PLASTIC FLOWER POT.

Drill holes in the lid and in the bottom

of one bucket. The holes allow aeration and allow the juice generated when worms grind their food to drain into the second bucket. Place an upturned flower pot in the bottom of the bucket without holes. Place the bucket with the holey bottom inside the second bucket. The flower pot ensures the two buckets do not create a tight vacuum.

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wet newspaper in the bottom of the bucket and pour some good compost or soil, straw or peat on top, along with some strips of newspaper. A handful of broken up egg carton is also good. This forms the worms’ bed and ensures they have something gritty to help them grind their food. This layer should be about 5cm deep. Pour some more water over this bedding layer. It needs to be wet, but not saturated.

Add your worms. A 20-litre worm farm needs

around 250 grams of tiger worms. Tiger worms are specially bred for the job and they’re bred locally.

Ashburton Meat Processors uses huge worm farms to deal with some of its waste product and they’ve become a worm supplier for the domestic market.

For around $25 you can buy 500 grams of worms, about 2000 of the tiny wrigglers.

you’ve heard of Facebook and you’re curious. You can talk to friends and families in other countries easily, you can upload pictures of you and you’re friends or can simply keep a track of what others are talking about.

There’s also a lot more to it, but we’ll keep it simple.

To join up, visit facebook.com and the instructions are relatively easy.

You will be asked to create a profile.

This is where a lot of parents worry about their kids. But profiles can be set to private.

This means only friends can view what it contains and is a lot safer than having an open profile. It’s also up to you what you’re profile includes, whether it’s your interests, hobbies or contact information.

A profile picture is optional but when adding friends, it can help them identify who you are. Part of the attraction of Facebook is connecting with people around the world.

While some like to have lots of “friends”, others like to stick to a core group of people who they would actually talk to if they saw them on the street.

They may add you, you can choose to accept or deny their request, or you could add them.

It’s a matter of searching their name, iden-

tifying the right person and clicking a button to send them a request.

Once a person is your friend, they can read your profile and you can interact freely.

Other people can send you private messages, which is like an email and vice versa. It is up to you whether you respond.

How you use Facebook from then on is up to you. It may be a great way to keep in touch with family overseas or to keep a track of friends closer to home.

It is called a social network and opens up the lines of communication.

There are dangers, but it isn’t hard to protect yourself. Don’t add people you don’t know, or don’t like, and it is recommended you keep personal details to a minimum, along with contact details.

It’s always easier with someone guiding you through it, so if your unsure, ask a regular Facebook user to teach you the basics.

Add the essential ingredient, kitchen waste. Worms

will enjoy almost everything except citrus, garlic, onions or too much bread. They’ll even eat egg shells, tea bags and coffee grounds. If you have large pieces of fruit or vegetables, but them into small pieces to make the worms job easier. A simple rule of thumb is one part carbon (paper and leaves) to three parts food scraps. You can’t over feed them, they’ll eat as much food as they need and they’ll breed to match their food supply.

Top the food layer with shredded newspaper and then place a thick layer of wet newspaper on top.

Cover the farm with the bucket lid. If you don’t have a lid, a board will do and it doesn’t have to fit snuggly. It’s important to keep the light out so a layer of cardboard or old carpet on top can also be used.

What happens now?

Your worm farm is best kept in a shaded area to reduce both the risk of frost and of the sun drying the farm out. Worms like conditions that are neither too dry, too cold or too hot. If you have a light coloured bucket, it can be wrapped in newspaper, sacks, an old blanket or anything that will keep the light out.

Feed your worms regularly. There should be no odour, other than a compost like smell. If the farm does small, toss in a small handful of lime.

Within a few days worm juice (the liquid generated when worms grind their food), will begin to drain into the bottom bucket.

This can be used, diluted to the colour of weak tea, as a foliage spray.

After a few weeks your worms will have produced vermicast. To harvest this, take

out handsful of the product and spread it out on a solid surface in the light. The worms will race to the centre to avoid the light and you simply take the vermicast from around the edges. Return the worms and some vermicast back to the bucket. It doesn’t matter if some worms escape into the garden, they’ll build a new colony to help aerate your garden.

Vermicast can be dug in and mixed with soil, spread thinly around plants (avoid touching plant stems), placed under the roots of seedlings when planted out. It can also be mixed with potting mix for tub plants.

Worm farms are just nature doing what it does best, using a natural recycler to return food waste to the soil to boost its nutrient value.

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warm lagoon, a swaying hammock and a waft of frangipani are waiting in the Cook Islands, just under a four hour flight from New Zealand.

From the second you step off the plane, the warmth of the Cook Islands embraces you like a second mother, making you feel instantly welcome. You will be captivated by the island’s undeniable charm and laid-back lifestyle.

Forget complicated arrival procedures, in Rarotonga the welcome is warm and casual, with Papa Jake singing a welcoming ballad as he strums his ukulele, and women with large smiles placing a fragrant lei over your head.

Like jewels in the South Pacific, with their fifteen idyllic islets spread out over an area roughly the size of India, and a population of

only fourteen thousand, there’s a lot of paradise to go round in the Cook Islands.

The island is completely encircled by a reef which harbours a lagoon of turquoise waters.

These striking natural features make the approach by air a truly breathtaking experience, and once you are venturing around the tropical paradise, the scenery will keep you captivated for hours.

Despite being the largest of the Cook Islands, Rarotonga is still only 32km in circumference - and bicycles and motor scooters are one of the best ways to get around. They say you haven’t Raro’d if you haven’t scootered, and on a fine day, the feeling of the warm wind in your hair as you’re taking in the sights and smells is definitely an experience. There is also a regular round-the-island bus service which runs in both directions, aptly called “clockwise� and “anticlockwise� - you just flag

it down and hop on and off as you please.

Rental cars are cheap to hire also and make a nice alternative to a scooter, for a day that you feel like relaxing and chatting as you’re putting around. You can’t both drink from a coconut and travel around the island if you’re on a scooter like you can in a zippy wee convertible! I refer to the speed as “putting� because the speed limit around Rarotonga is 50km/hr around the entire island, 40km/hr if you are on a scooter without a helmet.

Rarotonga has a craggy, tropical junglecovered volcanic heart. It is lush and volcanic dominated by mountainous peaks from where dense rainforests cascade down to palm fringed shores.

If you’re interested in abundant, exotic flora and fauna take a guided trek into the interior. A guided 4WD trek through the heart of Rarotonga is an exciting and informative ad-

venture, starting on the coast where coconut and paw paw are abundant, through to the lush highland where you can view interesting formations such as the high peak named “the needle�. The rough road to spectacular views is referred to by the hilarious guides as “a Polynesian massage...without the oil�.

Muri beach and lagoon is undoubtedly the best part of the island for swimming, as the sand is golden and soft, the water warm and clear. Highly recommended is a snorkelling tour of the lagoon on a glass bottom boat.

Your friendly Polynesian guides will sing and keep you laughing as you glide over the sparkling water to the depths of the lagoon.

As you splash into the water, the snorkelling guides take you from coral to coral where you swim in a wonderland of colourful clams, spectacular fish and spellbinding underwater formations.

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For added indulgence and relaxation, Rumours has incorporated the famous Waterfall Spa, with an abundance of treatments one would expect from a world-class luxury standard.

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The Waterfall Spa at Rumours has been purpose built to ensure that guests have the most up-to-date and luxuriously exclusive range of services available to them that is in their power to provide.

Start your relaxation with water pulsating over your body, draining stress and tension from top to toe. The Vichy shower has seven adjustable shower jets to caress your body under an invigorating waterfall. The therapist adjusts the pattern, placement and temperature of the jets to achieve whole-body water massage treatment. When all seven jets are on, there is about 50 litres of water per minute flowing over your body, producing in many people a sensation of floating on water.

The effect of so much water movement on your skin is to increase the blood circulation, hydrate the skin and sooth the nervous system, enabling your body to balance and your muscles to relax.

Cocoa and coconut, organic ginger and cinnamon and honey and frangipani are just some of the delicious options available in a full body scrub treatment. The Waterfall Spa body scrubs combine pure scents to soothe the mind, while removing the outermost layer of dead skin, revealing soft supple, younger looking skin to be seen, felt and envied.

Massage therapy is beneficial to health and well-being, both physically and mentally you will experience deep relaxation as well as the easing of acute and chronic pain. Take time out to reward yourself with one of the Waterfall Spa’s therapeutic relaxation massage treatments, from hot-stone therapy, to a candlelit romantic massage for two.

If you are a romantic at heart, no matter what your age, then Rumours Romance Beachfront Villas and the Waterfall Spa in Rarotonga provide the tropical holiday location you have always dreamed of.

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Traditional

Recipe of Samoan the month Congratulations to last months winner

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Philippa Reid Ashburton

Butter Chicken Hot Pot Pie Winter indulgence! Serves 4 Ingredients ½ cup Tandoori Palace Butter Chicken paste Ÿ cup natural yoghurt 500g skinless boneless chicken breast, cubed 1 onion, diced 2 cups par-boiled kumara, cubed 300ml cream 1 sheet ready rolled flaky puff pastry 1 egg, beaten 1. Cube 500gm skinned boneless chicken.

Marinate for 1-3 hours in a paste and yoghurt mixture.

2. Preheat oven to 180 C 3. Brown onion then add marinated chicken and panfry until just cooked.

4. Add the kumara cubes and cream, stir and simmer for 2-3 minutes.

5. Spoon into a lightly greased pie dish.

Top with flaky puff pastry and brush with egg wash. Pierce pastry with fork to allow venting and bake for 25 minutes or until pastry is golden brown.

Serve with a crisp green salad.

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Katalina Evile from Samoa with several traditional dishes; coconut shrimp, chop suey and taro.

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her family arrived in New Zealand from Samoa in December 2008.

They’ve fitted in well with the local community, taking part in school activities with the three children, the Samoan Community Group and sharing their culture at the annual Multi-Cultural Bite festival.

For a recent Fia Fia night for Pasifika families involved in a new Pasifika cluster, Mrs Evile made several traditional dishes, which are usually saved for special days, including White Sunday.

They’re not the kind of food the family would eat everyday but are very traditional, she said.

She shares her recipes with us.

Ingredients

• shrimps •  1 can of coconut cream • 1 onion Â

Method

Dice up onion and put into a pot, add shrimps and coconut cream and bring to a boil. Simmer and serve.

Chop suey Ingredients

Red meat: beef or lamb – enough to fill a stock pot 1 cup soy sauce 5 cloves of garlic 1 onion 1 packet of vermicelli noodles 2 litres boiling water Diced vegetables: carrots, beans, baby corn, onion (could use frozen mix)

Method

Boil meat until cooked, drain and add soy sauce, garlic and onion to the pot. Add vermicelli noodles and boiled water and simmer over a low heat until noodles have cooked.

Add vegetables stirring over a low heat.

Taro Ingredients

1 taro 1 cup sugar 1 can coconut cream    Â

Method

Dice up taro into 2cm cubes and bake in the oven until tender but slightly firm. Â Â Â In a pot, melt sugar and then add coconut cream.

Add taro into sauce. This may be kept on a low heat until served.

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