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Contents Features 7–9

BENDING THE RULES A Blenheim filmaker looks back at the start of his yoga journey

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ART DECO DELIGHT A peak inside two of the region’s heritage homes

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BEACON OF HOPE The resilience of South Marlborough communities shines through

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JOINERY GENIUS Celebrating the winners at 2021 Joinery and Design Awards

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On the Street

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What’s On

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Social Pages

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Sporting Memories

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Gardening

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Food

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Editor’s Note

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iving in Seddon I have an acute awareness of the challenges the twin towns of southern Marlborough have faced since the Kaikōura earthquake.

So it’s exciting to see the upgrades of the Cape Campbell lighthouse and what it means for the Ward and Seddon communities. This story has been captured stunningly-well by journalist Tracy Neal, which is why we made it this month’s cover.

April is always a busy time in Marlborough with an influx of people for the grape harvest, it’s exciting to have the buzz around town and I for one am looking

forward to celebrating the end of the harvest with Feast Marlborough in early May (details can be found on page 17).

Finally, we have some exciting news in our team with the addition of Leigh Sommerville as our general manager and the Marlborough App has been given a major overhaul so if you haven’t checked it out for a while, please download and have a look – we know you will love it as much as we do.

Enjoy the read.

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EDITOR Summa MacDonald summa@marlboroughmedia.co.nz CONTENT EDITOR Paula Hulburt

APRIL 2021

DESIGN Matt Brown and Toni Woolf

Bending

CONTRIBUTORS Peter Jones, Tracy Neal, Emily Marten, Kat Duggan, Sarah Brown, Adrian Jefferson-Brown

the rules

A new dawn for Ward ART DECO

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Cover: Bending the Rules. Pages 7–9.

Photo: Sarah Brown.

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Breathing Through Life WORDS: KAT DUGGAN

CARMENA SU

Producer James Wvinner credits the spiritual discipline of yoga with life changing properties. He looks back at how his journey started and how he helped others to heal.

Above: Terminal Island Federal Prison where James taught yoga.

Left: The Crip Who Loves Yoga won Best Short Documentary at the Auckland Film Festival.

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hen James Wvinner woke to a raging inferno spreading through his Los Angeles home in 1991, yoga was the last thing on his mind.

But after being flown to an intensive care unit and later a burns facility, he can thank the near-death experience for the lifelong yoga journey that would follow.

“Although I wasn’t into yoga yet, this was going to be my transition,” James recalls. “I had burns to 35 per cent of my body, I had to get skin grafts and they weren’t sure that I would walk out of the hospital because my feet were burnt.”

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seen or heard and it’s held in the body. Yoga is the practice of dissolving all these things...

But the healing wasn’t over. Once home, James gained nearly 20 per cent of his body weight as a result of the high calorie diet he had to consume to aid his recovery.

“What happens when you have burns is that you have to eat like April 2021

Despite trying to get back into old hobbies like playing basketball and lifting weights, the extra weight didn’t seem to be going anywhere.

“I realised you can exercise all you want but until you get a hold of your habits ... you could probably run forever and not really lose any weight because it’s not just about burning more calories, Karma is every thought, every it’s about building the muscle, experience, everything we have physically and in habit,” he says.

Prior to his accident, during the 1980s, James visited a bookstore, one known as a place to pick up new ideas and inspiration before the rise of the internet. Two books; The Possible Human by Jean Houston and Mantak Ghia’s Microcosmic Orbit got him thinking about what was possible.

James began meditating during his recovery, and just two weeks after his accident was deemed fit enough to leave the hospital.

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3000 calories a day, and that’s quite high for me,” James says.

Growing up in Chicago as part of a large family, James’s father was in the advertising industry and eating and drinking was a big part of everyday life. James too found himself working in the advertising industry as a photographer, before being recruited to a large Los Angeles production company to direct commercials.

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It was thanks to being headhunted that he wound up living in LA, the North American epicenter of yoga.

“I was a photographer in Chicago for seven years and the company that hired me to direct TV commercials moved me out to LA. I had been there for 12 days and I got to direct a commercial ahead of a fight between ‘Thomas the Hitman Hearns’ and Virgil Hill,” he says.

It was after this 12-hour day filming his first Hollywood commercial that the fire took hold at James’ Topanga Cyn home.

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It changed the direction of his life.

“I found yoga and it was a huge life adjustment ... I was hooked. Yoga is this incredible challenge that you learn by effort while relaxing a bit,” he says.

James attended YogaWorks in Santa Monica, where the best of the best yoga teachers in North America trained more than 20 years ago. It was a long while before he would begin teaching yoga himself, but the practice got him through many long days at work.

Due to budget constraints in the advertising and film industries, it was not unusual to work long days, James says.

“Back in those days you couldn’t really instruct yoga until you had practiced for eight years. I was directing commercials and videos, and I’m still into that and I love that. Yoga was to help me have the energy for the 12-hour day, sometimes six day weeks,” he says.

After practicing yoga for eight years, James took a detour from his career when a group of Tibetan monks inspired him to teach yoga in prisons.

“We saw the monks working with the young offenders and felt yoga could do the same. With several other American teachers, we started our programme, Yoga Inside, and over the next four years we brought yoga to more than 200 US facilities.

“I taught men at Terminal Island Federal prison. One in 1000 really change; yoga helps turn lives around, and I am glad to say I saw it in person,” James says.

James Wvinner found yoga three decades ago, a practice which has shaped his life in many ways.

while growing up on a Native American reservation.

Ebay and Curtis, along with prison chaplains, yoga teachers, psychologists and youthful offenders share their stories of yoga as an essential practice in the inhumane microcosm of mass incarceration in the film.

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The project cemented his long-held belief that yoga has the power to change lives.

Yoga is this incredible challenge that you learn by effort while relaxing a bit.

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“In my life yoga has been this common theme; and you can go to a class and you already have something in common with other people there; whether you’re looking for the same thing or not.

Everyone is up against the same thing; we all have struggles. Yoga twists and turns us and we keep breathing, so when life does we remember to breathe.”

James met his longtime partner, Carmena Su, through his yoga journey. The couple both attended a yoga intensive in Byron Bay, Australia, more than 20 years ago.

The couple now live in Blenheim with their young daughter.

Here, James runs two yoga classes per week and teaches several private sessions, alongside running his business, Pixel Poets Film Production.

“It’s simple karma. Karma is every thought, every experience, everything we have seen or heard and it’s held in the body.

Yoga is the practice of dissolving all these things; opening the body with yoga’s physicality,” he says.

James says yoga can be beneficial to all people, from all walks of life, encouraging them to find their own space even in confined or overpopulated places or within a busy life. The practice, he says, is beneficial for all; big and small, old and young, athletes and non-athletes, and breaks down barriers like social status.

James’s journey at the prison was so powerful that it inspired him to produce a short film, The Crip Who Loves Yoga.

It won Best Short Documentary at the Auckland Film Festival, following which, James and his co-producers were able to raise a small budget to turn the short film into a feature length film which has recently been completed.

It is a fantastic way to incorporate some selfcare into everyday life, James says. “I don’t think people believe they get to feel good; they just throw themselves at their career and at their exercise and everything else they do, and they are forgetting about themselves, but there’s sort of a selfishness that isn’t bad; that is self-care and taking care of yourself.”

“We’re looking forward to distributing that soon,” James says.

James has worked with people from all walks of life; PTSD sufferers, those with eating disorders, individuals who struggle with impulse control others simply looking for an outlet.

“I’m now 65 and I’ve got no aches and pains … I’m probably as free of pain as any 35-year-old; certainly more than my 35-year-old self anyway.”

“There’s an idea that there’s a spiritual place to open up through yoga, and it can fill needs for other less healthy things,” he says.

James’ classes take place in the Whitney Street School Hall at 5.30pm on a Tuesday evening, and 10am on a Saturday morning.

The Crip Who Loves Yoga follows two gangsters. There’s generational Crip gang member, Ebay Williams and his journey of discovering yoga while dealing drugs in his Venice, CA neighbourhood. Then there’s Curtis Mark Foster, who became a gangster drug dealer and bank robber

He is working on his latest feature length documentary, And Now Yoga. Partially shot in New Zealand, And Now Yoga shares insights from a star athlete, teacher and police detective into their individual journeys with yoga.

James encourages people to give yoga a go, regardless of their physical ability.

“I wasn’t a flexible person to start with, but I now understand how the body opens …

It’s just like the butter doesn’t melt all at once; the more you heat it in the pan, the more it melts,” he says.

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MIAMI NICE NICE BLENHEIM’S ART DECO DELIGHTS Napier might be the Art Deco capital of New Zealand - if not the world - but Marlborough proffers its own impressive art deco heritage too.

WORDS: EMILY MARTEN

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t all started in Paris. The sleek geometric and symmetrical forms that dominated decorative styles of the 1920s and 1930s were first seen just before the Second World War. Characterised by precise and boldly delineated shapes and strong colours, Art Deco influenced the world. From jewellery, furniture, buildings and even vacuums, it’s a style that made an impact, one that can still be seen in Marlborough today.

The number of Art Deco properties in Marlborough has steadily declined.

Renovations have simply fallen out of fashion, but notable homes remain to this day in Blenheim.

63 Redwood Street For owners Paul Knight and his partner Rachel Rossetti, their passion for all things Art Deco started with Agatha Christie’s Poirot...

“We’re massive fans - we’ve been on the Orient Express,” says Paul.

Originally from Christchurch, they had been collecting Art Deco objects and furniture for 25 years but had found it unaffordable to buy a property of this

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style in Christchurch.

“After the earthquake we decided enough was enough and we moved to Blenheim.

“It’s crazy because we decided on Blenheim first - and then this was the first house that came up when we started looking,” Paul laughs.

Their house was built by local builder Russ Connolly in 1937 as a show home.

“He went on to build most of the Art Deco properties in Blenheim,” Paul says.

Paul and Rachel are currently in the process of restoring the house to its former Art Deco glory.

“We bought the house around seven years ago now, although we couldn’t move in for a year because the roof leaked like a sieve - so we had to do quite a bit of work before we could actually live here.”

Although a distinctively Art Deco property, the house has certain features that sets it apart from other houses of that era.

the house as well as internally - I’ve never seen that in an Art Deco home before.

“The rooms also have built-in wardrobes whereas most Art Deco homes would have freestanding ones - Russ was actually quite ahead of his time in that respect.

“The Clouston family were the original owners,” says Paul.

Arthur Clouston joined the pre-WW2 Royal Air Force and went on to become a test pilot. Later, the house was rented out as seasonal accommodation for those in the wine industry.

“When we bought it most of the windows were falling out - there was even a bullet hole through one of the windows,” says Paul.

“We bought it because we could see all the changes that could be made but it was a huge job.”

“Most Art Deco homes were meant to be between 80 and 90 square metres but this one is 150 - Russ put everything he had into it.

The couple have dedicated most of their time to restoring the exterior of the property, while the interior remains a work in progress. Outside the front of the property, Paul has constructed a postbox, a mini replica of the house itself.

“The house has a lot of unique features such as being rounded on the outside of

“We wanted to get the outside completed first. With the kitchen we’re picking

out the sunrise design on the front and putting that into the design of the cupboard doors. We’re actually in the process of removing anything that isn’t Art Deco and finding something to replace it.”

Watson Legal is one of the few remaining original Art Deco properties in Blenheim.

One internal feature that has been completed is their sunroom.

“The wallpaper is a replica of the 1930s Beverley Hills Hotel and is called Martinique Banana Palm - we imported it from the States and have made a feature wall out of it. We also picked out the sunrise motif and replicated it on both our garage doors,” Paul says.

The bright sun imagery is distinctively Miami - and Blenheim’s own climate isn’t worlds away from The Sunshine State’s.

The couple draw from this for their colour scheme.

“At the moment, the interior colours are mostly beige so we plan to brighten it up,” explains Paul.

Many of the original features remain to this day and keeping them is a priority.

“All of the fireplaces are beautiful Art Deco set fireplaces - not inserts - and all of the ceilings have got Art Deco roses on them. Most of the lighting is original and we have original light switches and door handles. We’re so lucky to have all of those bits.”

Phil has built up an enviable collection of Art Deco antiques over the years.

Paul and Rachel even have their own Art Deco dog - a breed that was popular during the 20s and 30s - a Borzoi by the name of Tchaikovsky.

Unsurprisingly, the house has attracted its fair share of attention over the years.

“We had a model who asked to shoot photos for her portfolio at our house and we have lots of people taking photographs.

“People just stop and look.”

71 Scott Street On the corner of Scott and Nosworthy Streets lies Blenheim’s own selfproclaimed ‘Art Deco House’, where Philip Watson has been practising law since 2006.

Built in 1939 as a private dwelling for the Whiteford family, the house is thought to be one of the few original houses of this style remaining in Blenheim and it hasn’t changed significantly from first design.

“The Whitefords were a well-known family in Blenheim,” says Peter Jameson who works at Watson Legal.

“Philip repainted the previous white and blue exterior after acquiring the property when Mrs Whiteford died aged 92.”

The pure white was replaced with a vibrant turquoise while coral was chosen instead of pastel blue as the accent colour, garnering it the nickname ‘the lollypop house. The house takes it visual

Owner Philip Watson.

cues from the brighter Miami Art Deco style with vibrant colour palettes and coastal references.

“Other than the external repaint, many of the original features remain, such as the real set-in fireplaces and geometrical windows,” says Peter.

Geometrical shapes play a large part in Art Deco’s design and the house’s original octagonal daylight window is both a nod to the more traditional European style as well as to the more nautical-inspired, Miami interpretation.

As for the interior furniture and decorations, Philip has tried to stay as authentically true to the era as possible, says Peter.

“Phil has chosen many Art Deco fixtures and fittings deliberating in keeping with the style. A lot has been sourced from Blenheim store Just Browsing. It’s really an ongoing project and he’s constantly keeping an eye out for suitable pieces that can be added.

“The Art Deco tray was found in Oamaru and the toast rack we used to use to keep business cards in.”

Original rimu and redwood features and door frames, as well as kitchen cupboards, have stood the test of time well, while the reception room features an exemplary scalloped fan mirror. Throughout the house many Art Deco plug sockets can be found.

“Lots of the wall sockets are the original ones,” says Peter. “In those days there was only one plug socket per room and each was just a single outlet. Nowadays most people need more than one per room so we’ve had to change that in some rooms.”

Original Art Deco lighting and enclosed globe fittings have been preserved, except for one small detail.

“We have had to install energy efficient light bulbs,” Peter smiles. Unfortunately, the house has been subject to some structural issues caused by earthquakes over the years.

“The cladding is board with concrete plaster on it which means it’s liable to cracking and splitting and every time there is a minor earthquake it causes more damage.

“When Phil bought the house it was more expensive to renovate the property in keeping with the style than it was to modernise it - that’s probably why we are seeing so many Art Deco properties disappearing from the area.

“You do have to make some compromises if you want to retain an Art Deco flavour here - but they are really worth it.”

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Sally and Rob Peter stand in front of the centuries-old lighthouse, now shrouded from view by Scaffold Marlborough as repairs safeguard the icon’s future.

Ward’s Beacon of Hope WORDS: TRACY NEAL

TRACEY NEAL

The 2016 earth-shattering quake might have ripped the soul out of Ward, but not its heart. It has continued to beat in time to the flash of the lighthouse at Cape Campbell. The Marlborough township’s biggest visitor attraction, currently under wraps for a new paint job, is also a beacon of hope for its revival.

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cars remain on Ward’s brown hills, and on the hearts of those who live there.

Boundaries shifted in a flash the night of the Kaikōura quake. Buildings broke, hillsides fell and waterways vanished when the powerful quake shunted a slice of the South Island nine metres north.

But the lighthouse at nearby Cape Campbell remained steadfast, blinking its warning every 15 seconds to ships and boats passing the South Island’s windbattered eastern shoulder.

Maritime New Zealand says remote monitoring systems revealed the back-up battery-powered system kicked in and continued to power the light when the mains power was knocked out by the quake.

Farmer Rob Peter and painter Aaron Dawson from Abseil Access.

The Peter family, who farm the surrounding land at the Cape, could not believe the lighthouse was still standing when they finally made it there, over gravel road and fractured earth. Rob Peter says he expected to find it slumped sideways on the ground like an ice cream cone on a hot summer pavement.

Cape Campbell, or Te Karaka for its onceabundant forest, is a hub of New Zealand history from the days of earliest Māori occupation to the arrival of European settlers, sealers, whalers and farmers.

The Cape and its lighthouse are to be a central feature of a planned new visitor and education centre for Ward, to replace the little one lost in the quake and to give the town a fresh focus.

It is to be built near the newly refurbished Ward Town Hall, beside the proposed Whale Trail – a 210km cycling and walking trail from Picton to Kaikōura.

“We’re really counting on that happening.

I think that will be really big for us, for a lot of reasons,” says Ward farmer Sally Peter.

She is part of a team of heritage guardians in Ward, and a driving force for the new centre for which a Lotteries grant helped it past the concept stage. The Flaxbourne Heritage Trust has just lodged an application for further funds that would mean building could begin.

Sally says the area has a story to tell, one the new centre would help convey. From the dining room in the family’s cracked and warped homestead in Ward, Sally says it would also help to heal wounds.

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Plans for a new heritage centre are taking shape.

“People have leaned on each other and we’re really strong because of that, but for us to move forward…it’s taken this long for people to think about it because they’re still fixing their own lives.”

Families in the area have spent the past four-and-a-half years fixing their farms before they can begin to think about fixing their homes.

Ward farmers Tom and Angela Loe are among them. Angela says their home did not suffer the same damage as many others, but repairing land slips, recovering lost roads and tracks, fencing and water supplies have all taken precedence.

“What many probably don’t realise is the time and effort it takes to repair a farm after such a disaster.”

The Peter family runs two farms in the area - one at Cape Campbell and the other at Ward itself. The homesteads on each were severely damaged but the small wooden cottages beneath the lighthouse, which the family runs as holiday accommodation, and which were a location for the 2016 film The Light Between Oceans, were miraculously left intact.

Grape grower Ross Ward lost his house in the quake, he now lives in a brand-new home atop a hill that was set aside as a possible building site when he and his wife bought the Ward farm 16 years ago.

He says they took their insurance, cut their losses, and moved into the new home a year after the quake. It is clad in timber from macrocarpa trees felled in a windstorm a decade ago.

Cape; their souls entwined with Māori buried there, and the souls of those shipwrecked on the once submerged reefs, now clearly visible after they were thrust up by the quake.

“It’s what makes it such a spiritual place.”

The story circle has widened to include families from further south in Clarence and Kēkerengū who gravitated to Ward after the quake when Kaikōura was blocked by landslides.

“We ended up with a whole new community coming to us. All those young families have formed a new community.”

Ross Ward who list his house in the 2016 quake is happy in his new home, and is sure that Ward township has a bright future. Photo: Tracy Neal

“It’s been a battle moving on, but every day we look forward.

“It wasn’t fun to live through and I’m not sure I’d want to go through it again but when we see what we’ve got out of it… was it worth it? Yes. Would I go through it again? Not by choice.”

The new centre will host the area’s story, from the beginning when the uplift began from the submerged continent and the mountains of Kaikōura were formed, to the once abundant moa, and the early Māori trails around Ward’s coast. The area has many treasures in its care, slowly revealing artefacts dating back more than 800 years - the same as those found at the Wairau Bar, or Te Pokohiwi, where explorers from East Polynesia arrived in about 1280.

“The same people walked through here,” Sally says of Marlborough’s southernmost township named after politician Joseph Ward. Ward township was created in 1905 from government land reform which carved up Flaxbourne Station, established in the area around 1847.

Sally says Ward is a name some have difficulty with, not least the postal service.

It once delivered a parcel designated for their farm, named Isolation, to the

isolation ward at Dunedin Hospital.

Keeping such stories safe will be an integral part of the new centre’s purpose.

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People have leaned on each other and we’re really strong because of that, but for us to move forward…it’s taken this long for people to think about it because they’re still fixing their own lives.

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The centre will also be a hub for stories of the lighthouse (the current one is the second to be built there), the people associated with them and the farming families who lived there.

“I’m intrigued by the families that were there, their struggles, and the things that went on in their daily lives.

“In a diary entry from the 1800s it just says: ‘Mrs Smith gave birth to twins this morning. Neither survived’, and then it goes on talking about the weather.”

Sally says the babies are buried at the

Widening the net has also meant the story now crosses into Ngāi Tahu territory. The Trust has been working with Rangitāne o Wairau - one of the oldest and most prominent iwi in Marlborough and has raised discussions with Ngāi Tahu because of the overlap.

“It’s really important to us that they tell their story in this new development,” Sally says.

Ward has mourned the loss of its tavern since the quake, but there is hope that the new centre might also create a focal point for social gatherings.

Angela Loe says the newly refurbished Ward Town Hall goes some way to providing that, but the community has struggled a little without its beloved pub.

“I know that probably sounds bad, but we always had somewhere to congregate and catch up with others and it’s a shame we don’t have that anymore.

“The tearooms are still there but they seem to focus on the traffic passing through. If I won Lotto and had all the time in the world, I’d buy them and create a place for the locals to come to.”

Sally also feels strongly about creating a place where young people can learn about their roots.

“Iwi have a very good way of doing this; Europeans not quite so well, but we’ve been in this area long enough that it’s now time to take pride in where we come from.”

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hat do you do when three iconic events clash? Party, of course.

Feast Marlborough is back again for 2021 and this year it happens to fall on International Sauvignon Blanc Day and falls the day before the wildly popular St Clair half marathon. That means you can expect Blenheim to be ground zero for people looking to have a good time.

Bayleys Friday Night Feast will once again be fill the town centre with foodie delights on Friday May 7, with Bayleys Marlborough continuing their support as event sponsors.

Street food vendors are again being encouraged to use as much local Marlborough produce as they can in their mouth-watering dishes and already collaborations are underway between chefs and local food suppliers to bring the very best of Marlborough together on a plate.

The family friendly event has music and entertainment throughout the event and also has a dedicated ‘future foodie’ area for the littlest of attendees, where they can play games and burn off some energy while enjoying dishes sure to appeal to a younger audience.

Bayleys Feast Marlborough organiser Hannah Lamb says the cross-over with International Sauvignon Blanc Day and the half marathon hasn’t gone unnoticed.

“There will be a dedicated area serving up award winning Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc to match with many of the dishes on offer, in addition to the other wine and beverage options available.

“And with the half marathon we’re looking forward to entertainment hundreds of hungry runners while they get their fill of healthy and tasty energy food before their big day.”

Hannah Lamb says the event has been well supported

by Bayleys and Marlborough District Council.

Bayleys Friday Night Feast will held in the Forum area from 3.30pm - 8.30pm.

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ON THE STREET Describe what you are wearing today.

Today I’m wearing a transparent women’s shirt I stole from a lover, bootcut Levi’s, a leather jacket from Marcel de Vriend, stud belt, lots of dangling jewellery, big ass sunglasses to stay protected from evil curses and very high heels of course.

Do you have a usual style?

Usually it’s quite old fashioned like jeans with a tucked in t-shirt, leather jacket, ol’ cons or boots with a kiss of glam-rocky-feminine jewellery and odd accessories. Unusually, when the moon is full, it could be a fabulously sensual gown dress.

What items do you have the most of in your wardrobe?

Socks. I’ve got two of those.

What looks or trends do you like at the moment?

I really don’t follow any particular trends. I go with what feels right at the moment for myself. I do tend to get turned on by creatures that I find to be fascinating, creative and mysterious.

Could be a musician, cowboy or a

Self-proclaimed barman/vampire/full-time cowboy Samir Olofsson Arfaoui is a born and bred Swede living in Blenheim whose style is a no holds barred glam rock phenomenon.

gorgeous babe in the bar, whatever gets me going. I take bits and pieces from all over the place for inspiration and then I find my own way and style.

If it feels right, it looks right.

Where do you buy most of your clothes?

I find most of my stuff at second hand stores. If you’re lucky you’ll find these luscious vintage fabrics for a small buck. Sometimes I treat myself looting boutique stores in different towns or on the world wide web to find unique treasures. Could be god damn pricey, but sometimes if it feels right... you just gotta do what you gotta do.

What wardrobe staple should everyone invest in?

For me it’s all about lots of strange gems of jewellery and accessories, funky sunglasses and hats. In the right combination, even the simplest elements can elevate an experience to another world... I would be lying if I said I didn’t read that on a beer can.

Finish this sentence. You would never catch me wearing...

Crocs or underwear.

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2021 Joinery and Design Awards

Supreme Winner – Best kitchen design, Best use of Timber – Bays Joinery

Stunning joinery showcased at local awards The 2021 Joinery and Design Awards showcased the talents of local joiners.

Eight years ago the Joinery and Design Awards attracted 14 entries, followed by 30 entries the next year and from there it grew to 100, this year there were 153 entries. “It’s just got bigger and bigger and is a massive success,” says Phil.

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he awards cover all facets of joinery, from making stairs and benchtops to interior design and the use of colour, to the best kitchens and fitouts. association secretary of Nelson-Marlborough Master Joiners Philip Thompson says “It’s about getting local joiners to lift their heads above the parapet and celebrate what they do more.”

The awards include 18 categories across a vast range of projects. The categories aptly reflect the work of joinery businesses in the Top of the South and the results were celebrated by more than 120 people in Nelson last month.

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The work was judged by architect Brad Beazley from Redbox Architects, Lyn Russell from Lyn Russell Design and interior designers Fiona McNeil and Kim Lyall.

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To ensure it’s not just about manufacturing, NelsonMarlborough Master Joiners President Myles Sellers and Phil changed it from Regional Master Joiner Awards to the Joinery and Design awards and they say that having the competition helps lift the standard of local joinery.

This means more local companies being recognised at national awards.

“Our joiners work incredibly hard, so the awards not only highlight their work and celebrate their skills, but they also inspire others to enter the industry.”

JADA 2021 award winners Best apprentice – Nazareth Joinery Best stairs – Waimea West Joinery Best bench top – The Sellers Room Best biophilic project – AK Joinery Best apprentice – Nazareth Joinery

Best use of colour – Cooper Webley Emerging designer – Fiona Vidar | Cooper Webley Best interior design – Bays Joinery Best kitchen under 20k – The Sellers Room Best spatial – Waimea West Joinery Best creative lighting – Cooper Webley Best commercial fit out – The Sellers Room Best fitment – Cooper Webley Customer journey award – Cantwell Joinery Best kitchen – Simply Joinery Best kitchen design – Bays Joinery Best use of timber – Bays Joinery Best door or window – Waimea West Joinery Best 20k - 40k kitchen – Custom Space Joinery Supreme Winner – Bays Joinery

Best stairs – Waimea West Joinery

Bays Joinery won the Supreme Award for their kitchen which was part of an extensive renovation of a 100-year-old cottage.

Blending into existing timber features, the design brings extra light into the open plan area.

The kitchen design by Bays Joinery also won best kitchen design and best use of timber. The final decision on the Supreme Award is made following an assessment of all of the winners, which ones had caught the judges’ eye, stood out and been talking points before announcing what Phil describes as ‘the best of the best of the best.’

Best bench top – The Sellers Room

“What’s evident, is that the cost and value of kitchens has really gone up in the last year and people are investing in their kitchen space.”

Reflecting the times, there were fewer entries in the Best Kitchen under 20k award, which went to The Sellers Room.

This project was described by the judges as a kitchen using conventional low-cost products, blended with a touch of indulgence. A lot of bang for the buck.

The Custom Space were winners of Best 20k - 40k Kitchen at this year’s awards. The judges commented that it was a kitchen that utilised natural materials and timbers but stayed true to the budget. A lovely space that satisfied the brief.

The award for best use of colour was won by Cooper Webley and indicated a shift in trends. “Colours tended to be a lot softer this year and there are more combinations of textures – that’s what people are going for,” said Phil.

Judges’ Comments Best apprentice – Liam Geddes | Nazareth Joinery “A high quality of work, mature work from a young apprentice who wanted a challenge. A well-deserved winner.”

Best stairs – Waimea West Joinery “To manufacture a spiral staircase for a three-level residential home solely from cross laminated pine would be difficult in Nelson. To manufacture it to the finest detail to be shipped and installed into a Sydney home makes this work of art a category winner.”

Best bench top – The Sellers Room “The shark nose edges fabricated to the four sides that then matched level at the top of joinery indicated accuracy and an understanding of product. The benchtop design of contrasting materials required planning and high-quality installation.”

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Best biophilic project – AK Joinery

Best use of colour, Emerging designer – Fiona Vidar | Cooper Webley

Best interior design – Bays Joinery

Best kitchen under 20k – The Sellers Room

Best spatial – Waimea West Joinery

Best creative lighting – Cooper Webley

Best biophilic project – AK Joinery

Best kitchen under 20k – The Sellers Room

“This project exudes the use of natural products and recycled timber from the floor to the doors, from the benchtop to the vanity. Connecting nature to the home.”

“Using conventional low-cost products blended with a touch of indulgence. A lot of bang for the buck.”

Best use of colour – Cooper Webley “Combinations of textures, a soft and embracing colour scheme.”

Emerging designer – Fiona Vidar | Cooper Webley

Best spatial – Waimea West Joinery “A functional big boy’s dream. A Formula One joinery piece.

Slick, to brief with some cool car related touches.”

Best creative lighting– Cooper Webley

“Monk Peterson and Quigley, all maturely and thoughtfully designed. The designs fitted closely to the brief.”

“A ‘Miami Vice’ party house, transforming the kitchen into two different spaces that work for two individual clients with contrasting tastes. Neutral by day - party by night.”

Best interior design – Bays Joinery

Best commercial fit out – The Sellers Room

“The kitchen adds to but also blends with the space, satisfying the challenge to maximise a compact space. Heights, mirrors, materials and colour.”

“Manufacturing to a client brief - shapes texture, homogeneous material choices, make this a very pleasant and innovative fitment.”

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Best fitment – Cooper Webley

Customer journey award – Cantwell Joinery

Best kitchen – Simply Joinery

Best kitchen design, Best use of timber – Bays Joinery

Best door or window – Waimea West Joinery

Best 20k–40k kitchen – Custom Space Joinery

Best fitment – Cooper Webley

Perfect fit for the brief. Clear and easy to comprehend plans.

A designer who got it.”

“Influenced by an art piece by Brian Strong, joinery was customised to complement and elevate. Functional and clever and terribly annoying to manufacture. The client and designer won this battle.”

Customer journey award – Cantwell Joinery “On time, in spec, happy client’s, happy customers.

A destination has been created.”

Best kitchen – Simply Joinery “Re-positioned, considerate design, principle of biophilic design. Connecting to the outdoors through material and light.

Conventional but irregular. Fantastic finishing and detail to a high level.”

Best kitchen design – Bays Joinery “Fantastic connection with the overall project.

An understanding of the environment and materials around.

Best use of timber – Bays Joinery “This project used a perfect selection of timber to add to the environment. American White Oak veneer at its finest.”

Best door or window – Waimea West Joinery “An architect’s whim turned into a beautiful installation.

More art than a door. A door that invites from the outside but secures from within.”

Best 20k–40k kitchen – Custom Space Joinery “A kitchen that utilised natural materials and timbers but stayed true to the budget. A lovely space that satisfied the brief.

This kitchen is truly the hub of the home.”

Supreme Winner – Bays Joinery

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AT HOME

A smaller home with a lot to offer WORDS: EMILY MARTEN

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n the tranquil Omaka Landing Subdivision is the Endeavour Homes’ temporary new show home and office at 52 Harvard Road.

Spread over 194m², the contemporary modern home encompasses three generous bedrooms, two well-appointed bathrooms, an open plan kitchen/dining area, a media room, a double garage and a magnificent wraparound deck overlooking a beautifully landscaped garden area.

“For a home of this size it has a lot to offer,” says Endeavour Homes director Nadine Norton, “such as two living areas, a well appointed kitchen, a spacious walk-in wardrobe and ensuite in the master bedroom. The floor plan was really well thought through and the space has been maximised throughout.”

This can be felt throughout the property in part due to the high ceilings which lend the home its light and airy feel. Oversized windows and doors also let in plenty of light while still retaining a

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sense of privacy thanks to the sheltered outdoor area.

The master bedroom is generously sized and features a walk-in wardrobe fitted with custom shelving and drawers and an ensuite bathroom which includes a tiled shower and double bowl vanity as well as stunning views across the Richmond Ranges.

“This house was actually built for our clients as opposed to specifically for the purpose of a show home,” says Nadine.

“It shows the quality of home we build for our clients where people looking around can actually imagine creating a home like this for themselves.

“The owners wanted to use black and white to break the house into two blocks and specified no roof overhangs at all.

It gives a very sleek and modern finish while also being very homely inside.”

The monochromatic vision is immediately evident upon arrival

at the property with the black and white exterior; the black vertical linear weatherboards create a stylish contrast from the white plastered aerated concrete panels.

The house has been tastefully decorated in keeping with the two-tone colour palette, with the addition of accents of colour and creativity such as greenery and modern art. The high quality wooden flooring and textured grey carpets continue the effective contrasting tones of the house, while the elegant tiled bathrooms complete the sleek appearance with white, light and bright fixtures and finishings.

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It shows the quality of home we build for our clients where people looking around can actually imagine creating a home like this for themselves.

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“With the owner being an artist it is clear that a lot of work has been put into the visual aspect of the property - from the window shapes and positions right through to the landscaping of the garden. The indoor/outdoor flow has been considered throughout,” she says.

The separate media room with strategically placed windows gives the street facing room a welcome sense of privacy in contrast to the open plan living area. The pleasingly neutral yet modern kitchen brings in the two tone aspect with grey cupboards as well as white, and the large window by the sink overlooks the recently landscaped garden.

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“The landscaping was all done by the owners, who even cultivated their own plants. The finished product really compliments the home and is a true testament to their hard work.

Both the large master bedroom and open plan kitchen/dining have sliding doors which lead onto the sheltered wraparound deck and garden.

“As a focal point of the property, it is well-suited to entertaining family and friends.

The outdoor area compliments the home.

“We moved in here just over four weeks ago now, and the house has been really well received, everyone has been loving it,” says Nadine.

“The Omaka Landing Subdivision is a relatively new subdivision and has already proven to be popular. The home is tastefully unique whilst being nicely in keeping with the local surroundings.

“The home would be suited to a family right through to retirees.”

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A quiet, hidden room offers an alternative living space.

The Endeavour Homes Guarantee Endeavour Homes offers a range of modern designs to ensure there is a floor plan that will suit every client’s lifestyle and financial needs. They allow for maximum versatility which means all their floor plans can be altered.

“We can pretty much come up with any plan that anyone wants, designing from scratch to meet our client’s requirements,” Nadine says.

Operating in Blenheim since 2001, Endeavour Homes is a 100 per cent locally owned and operated building company. Building with Endeavour is a guarantee of a superior home and the best customer experience, dealing with a professional and friendly team every step of the way.

From a granny flat for an independent relative to a large family home, they cater to all requirements. Always prioritising quality over quantity, the home is tailored to your individual requirements while always meeting the highest of quality building standards.

For your complete peace of mind each home comes with an independent Builtin 10 Year Builders Guarantee.

The Endeavour Homes show home and office at 52 Harvard Road, Omaka Landing Subdivision is open Monday to Thursday 9am-5pm, Friday 9am-4pm and Sunday 1pm-3pm. Closed Saturday and Public Holiday weekends.

Get in touch with your plans or enquiries via phone on 03 579 2282 or email at info@endeavourhomesmarlborough.co.nz.

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ART

Show Day.

Smoko.

Mike Ponder - Artist.

International artist makes Blenheim his home

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world-renowned artist and author, Mike Ponder has many strings to his bow olive pioneer, cattle breeder and former grape grower to name a few.

Although discovering a talent for art during his high school years in Lower Hutt, Mike didn’t seriously consider a professional career in fine art until his early thirties. Forestry, wine and olive oil have all played significant roles in his life.

and always with an accent of red. Although working with both oils and watercolours, his medium for painting is always the same - palette knives. Entirely self-taught, Mike attributes his unique and individual style to his lack of a formal training.

A founding member of the renowned ‘5 Artists’ group, Mike has supported new artists through teaching night classes and weekend schools.

Now with more than forty years’ experience in the art world, Mike has published three books which show some of the best examples of his recent work in both oils and watercolours.

Copies of his later books ‘My Way – A Touch of Red’ and ‘Oil on Canvas’ are still available.

As a former member of the NZ Forestry Council he has championed the cause of the small scale forest owner for over 40 years.

In 1987 Mike and his wife Di purchased 35 hectares of land on the outskirts of Blenheim Av ailable at the Mi Following the sale of Ponder Estate Wines in and planted their first olives and grapes the ke Ponder Galler y or Paper Plus.

2002 Mike wrote his first novel, ‘The Windsor following year. As Ponder Estate Wines they Conspiracy’. Published in 2007, it became an were pioneering in the development of New Zealand’s olive oil international best-seller. Following this, the sequel ‘Four Kings’ industry, which Mike documented in his best-selling ‘The Good was released in December 2012. He has recently released the Oil - Growing Olives in NZ’ book. latest instalment of the trilogy ‘For Queen and Empire’, which is Having retired to Blenheim with Di he now splits his time available for purchase now. between painting and writing. His unmistakeable art and writing View Mike’s latest work and purchase art cards and prints at his styles continue to earn him both national and international gallery at the Mike Ponder Gallery, 17 Francis Street, Blenheim. acclaim.

Open 11am-4pm, Wednesday to Sunday. For enquiries contact him on 021 117 3585 and visit his website at mikeponder.com.

His paintings are bold, full of texture, colour, amazing detail

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Sporting moments revisited Squash still plays a big part in the busy life of Megan Graham and daughter Ameika, a budding player.

WORDS: PETER JONES

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Squash star’s year to remember

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Megan Graham, nee Craig, has never been one to do things by halves.

n early 2014, the super-fit 21-year-old was a rising star on the international squash scene, her world ranking edging towards the top 40.

By year’s end she had captured her first national title in dramatic fashion, represented her country at the Commonwealth Games and undertaken a serious heart operation – making for an action-packed 12 months, even by her livewire standards.

Selection in the New Zealand team to attend the Glasgow Commonwealth Games during July underlined the Blenheimbased athlete’s potential.

However, a week before she departed for Europe, Megan was diagnosed with Wolff Parkinson White syndrome, a rare heart complaint. Surgery was delayed until after the Games, allowing Megan the opportunity to wear the silver fern.

Before heading to Glasgow Megan had regular contact with the NZ team chef de mission Rob Waddell, who suffered from a similar complaint during his rowing career.

“I was quite nervous,” recalls Megan, “and he spoke quite a lot to me about [the heart problem]. The selectors were wary about letting me go [to the Games] and he said he would talk to me

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about it while we were over there, because he had had the surgery”.

In Glasgow Megan quickly shrugged off her heart issues to turn in some world-class performances. In the singles draw she won her first match before coming up against world No 1 Nicol David, one of Megan’s favourite players, who prevailed 11-7, 11-6, 11-5.

“No-one compares to Nicol … she is so humble and an absolute class athlete. I had dreamed of being in the Commonweath Games or Olympics my whole life and then to play someone I had looked up to for so long on a glass court in front of all those people, with everyone back home watching. It was pretty unreal,” said Megan.

“I still have a picture of Nicol and I on my wall – I don’t have many pictures on my wall but that one’s up there.”

She fortunately got to play her hero twice, teaming up with Waikato player Kylie Lindsay in the first round of doubles against the singles champion and fellow Malaysian Low Wee Wern. This time the result was much tighter, in fact the Kiwis won the first game and worked their way to match ball in the second game before losing in three.

After returning from the Games, Megan trained on and, in August, claimed her first senior New Zealand women’s title - albeit in unfortunate circumstances.

After making her way to the final of the National Championships at North Shore Squash Club without dropping a set, Megan squared off against heavily-favoured world number four Joelle King, who had won bronze in Glasgow.

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The pair had a torrid battle in the first set, which Joelle eventually won 11-9. Megan led 3-1 in the second when Joelle crumpled to the floor in agony with a ruptured achilles tendon, obviously unable to continue.

Megan’s realisation that she had won her first national title was naturally tempered by the injury.

“I definitely didn’t do a fist pump, that’s for sure,” she recalled. “It wasn’t a nice feeling at all. I was more gutted that we couldn’t carry on playing to be honest, I was really enjoying the game.”

Ironically, a change in playing strategy, prompted by her father Grant Craig from courtside, indirectly led to the injury. “[Joelle] was going short and I was hitting long returns off that. Dad said to me ‘bring in the counter drop’, which means go short off her short one. So I hit this beautiful counter drop at 3-1 and she went back, then went forward for the counter drop and that’s when [her achilles] snapped. She initially thought I had kicked her - but I was actually in front of her.”

Megan, who had the heart op in November, described 2014 as one of the most dramatic years in her sporting career.

“It was like the highest and lowest … but I was fortunate to get the operation done and for it to be a success. I remember seeing the specialist and he said ‘you are lucky you haven’t had a heart attack, especially with all the stress you are putting on your body’.

“It certainly turned out to be a very memorable and lucky year.”

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GARDENING

Autumn Gardening Tips Key points for this month: • Continue to plant winter vegetable crops.

• Sow seed and plant winter flowering annuals.

• Get spring flowering bulbs in the ground - early April is the last opportunity to do this. If it gets too late consider tulips as they can be planted as the weather cools.

• Landscape your garden. April is the perfect time for this as it’s not too hot or too cold and you can plant trees and shrubs.

• Prune existing hedges and plant new ones.

• Do a final clean-up in the garden before winter sets in.

• Maintain lawns and sow new ones before the weather gets to cold and wet.

Kitchen Garden Sow green crops of lupin and mustard in any empty spaces of your vegetable garden for digging into the soil for green manure.

Harvest the last of summer crops.

Remove all finished vegetable plants from the garden; put them in the compost bin rather than digging in to the soil.

Prepare for winter crops by adding compost and sheep pellets to the top layer of soil.

Sow seeds: beetroot, broccoli, broad beans, cabbage, carrots, onions, radish, spinach, silverbeet. Transplant to the garden as the weather warms and when they are showing at least two sets of true leaves.

Broad beans can be planted directly in to the soil, stagger the sowing for a continuous harvest.

Plant seedlings: broccoli, brussels sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower, celery, leeks, lettuce, silverbeet and spinach.

Garlic and shallots can be planted in warmer regions.

Get a last crop of peas in before winter, in warmer areas you can also get away with snow peas.

Dust your cauliflowers, broccoli and brussels sprouts with Derris Dust to protect them from white butterfly and diamond back moth.

Protect seedlings from slugs and snails, scatter bait around each plant.

Garden Colour Re-plant your pots as necessary with winter annuals and add new fertiliser.

Sow seeds: alyssum, calendula, primula, polyanthus, poppies, cineraria, cornflower, lobelia, lupin, nemesia and stock.

Transplant to the garden as the weather warms and when they are showing at least two sets of true leaves.

Plant seedlings: calendula, cineraria, nemesia, pansies, polyanthus, poppies, primula, snapdragon, stock, viola and wallflower.

Prune, lift and divide crowded perennials.

Sweet peas can be planted now for winter colour. In warmer areas plant straight in to the soil, in cooler regions start in pots or trays.

Dead head roses as autumn flowering comes to an end.

Lift gladioli bulbs as the foliage dies away, remove excess soil, store in a dry place until September.

Harvest lavender flowers and lightly trim the bush to prevent them going woody.

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Adventures Of Lochie The (Lochmara) Dog

Lochie the Lochmara Doggie: The Invisible Dog – Part 2 Penned by the Unlikely Kiwi – Bruce Anderson

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ochie the Lochmara doggie thought he was invisible! He was rather excited and very keen to quietly sneak over to the barbeque and help himself to a sausage or perhaps even a large steak.

Wicky the Weka had told him that nobody could see him as long as he kept the magic red flower balanced on his head!

Lochie was now under the spell of several sizzling sausages, a lamb shank and a beef burger. He was in doggie dream world and could already taste the food as he crept slowly towards the giant pizza oven and barbeque.

she used her beak to remove the flower from Lochie’s head. “How does it look on my head?” she asked.

“Very nice, but I need it to get my sausages from the barbeque,” insisted Lochie.

“Has it dawned on you that you can see me?” hinted Kaila.

“Please give me my magic flower,” barked Lochie.

“So, you can see both the red flower and me?” Kaila continued.

“Oh – Now I see!” moaned Lochie.

Kaila the Kereru stretched out her wings and looked down towards Lochie. She had been watching Wicky and Lochie from a Manuka branch, high up in the canopy.

“Yes – now you see, indeed, you silly, silly doggie. It’s a very good job that you have friends like me to keep you out of trouble.

Your magic flower doesn’t really make you invisible.”

As she gazed down from above, she knew they were up to something naughty.

“But Wicky the Weka told me that…”

“Lochie! she whispered. “What are you doing?”

“Ssssh!” replied Lochie. “Can’t you see, I’m invisible and I’m going to steal some sausages?”

“Oh dear! That’s not a good idea and why are you wearing a red pohutukawa flower on your head?” Kaila asked, as she flew down to the ground and stood in front of Lochie.

“Well, this is no ordinary flower. It’s magic and it makes me completely invisible!” answered Lochie who was growing a little impatient. The food was just five metres away and the smell was driving him crazy.

Kaila looked at the flower.

“Red is my favourite colour!” she said as

“I”ll be having a chat with Wicky the Weka,” announced Kaila in a stern voice and with an air of authority. “That young Weka has been causing all sorts for trouble, what with Gabe the Little Piggy getting lost and flying in a helicopter!”

“Lochie!” shouted a voice from the barbeque. “Do you want a sausage old boy?”

“You see,” concluded Kaila the Kereru.

“Because everybody loves you, today you get free sausages without having to act like a Weka!”

“Thank you,” said Lochie as he gobbled up an entire sausage, followed by half a burger and a small piece of steak. Lochie, licked his lips. He was now feeling rather full and decided to go back to his favourite chair and have a long sleep.

RECIPE

Baked avocado INGREDIENTS

METHOD

1 whole avocado, halved and destoned

Caramelized onions:

1:1 Philadelphia Cream cheese and Blue Vein Cheese (e.g., 20g Blue Vein, 20g Cream cheese)

Put a dash of oil in the bottom of a heavy based saucepan, just enough to cover bottom, and put on a low heat. When oil is hot, place onions in pan and gently sauté. Do not let onions go brown.

4 tbsp brown sugar

Add brown sugar, maple syrup and butter and stir. Stir every few minutes, making sure onions do not stick to pan. Continue until onions are a medium brown colour and sticky.

This will take about 25-30 minutes

1 tbsp maple syrup

Place in fridge to use later.

Salt and pepper to taste

Preheat oven to 180C and prepare a baking dish with aluminum foil. You will want to make a loose ball, and then flatten the center – this will make sure your avocado does not fall over during baking.

Maple Syrup Caramelized Onions 3 large onions, sliced finely

Knob of unsalted butter Olive Oil

After you have halved and destoned your ripe avocado, get your cream cheese, blue vein and the onions you prepared earlier.

We use a 1:1 ratio of the two cheeses. Without both cheeses you will not get the same satisfaction and taste from the dish.

We place the cream cheese on the bottom, filling up the stone hole. Then place blue vein on top, followed by a handful of caramelized onions. Do this for both halves.

Place filled avocados into prepared baking dish and give a generous drizzle of maple syrup all over the avocados. This will give some moisture to the avocado while baking.

Bake the avocados for 20 minutes, or until brown and crisp on top.

To be served warm.

Can be enjoyed alone, or with a salad.

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Where does the inspiration or motivation for your businness come from?

I love seeing an idea from the initial stages through to completion and being involved with it every step of the way. I’m really a doer and make things happen, I spot ideas all the time and sometimes I have to rein that in because I already have three businesses! I love food and wine so it makes perfect sense that my businesses would be based around that.

What do you love most about Marlborough?

How did you find it being a business owner during the COVID-19 crisis?

I love my family and all the friendships I have - it’s an amazing community here in Marlborough. I also love the wine, excellent produce Marlborough has to offer, another bonus is living by the water. My daughter Eden’s singing career is taking off and it’s amazing to see her flourishing.

Obviously, it was very hard being in the hospitality and tourism sector during the pandemic. For me it’s really important to try and keep positive and maintain some sort of perspective on the matter. That being said it wasn’t easy! It’s going to be a tough winter, but I always believe in the saying ‘watch the pennies and the dollars will take care of themselves’. I also make sure that I take good care of my staff.

Have you always been business savvy?

Yes I would say I have - I ran a night club in Wellington at the age of 18 and subsequently brought into the business. I was actually entrepreneurial years before that! When I was 12 I sold blackberries and hired around 8 of the neighborhood kids. At 13-14 I won an award for selling the most manure at school. I came from a farming and fishing family who were total go-getters, they really taught me

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What is something about you that people may not know?

I used to be a singer and sung in restaurants around the age of 15-18. I also went to the drama school in Wellington but was also brought up in Southland and spent a lot of time on a boat in the Foveaux Strait, going between Riverton and Stewart Island.

Juliearna is the owner and executive chef of awardwinning boutique hotel Escape to Picton.

What three celebrities or special people would you love to work with?

Gordon Ramsay (for food), Madonna (I am big on the music industry), plus Bradley Cooper - purely for the eye candy!

What does the future hold for you?

I would love to franchise my Hop on Hop off Tours and maybe also expand Escape to Picton. I just hope to still be here when all this mess is over. I’m lucky to have great friends who help drag me out of my workaholic mode, so I hope I’ll get the opportunity to spend more time with the people I love.

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