Life + Style - 26 April 2019

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Simon Robinson (Senior Construction Manager), Aimee Gutsell (Quality Assurance Administrator), Daiana Price (Building Coordinator)

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Working hard and playing hard Celebrating 20 years of the Tauranga Home Show

It all began in marquees and sheds, and now the Tauranga Home Show is celebrating 20 years of building dreams in the Bay of Plenty.

Returning for its biggest show yet, on May 3-5, the event will be spread across two halls in the Trustpower Arena with epic outdoor displays and a gourmet food truck area.

Locally-owned and operated, Bay Events is proud to be part of the Tauranga community and working with local organisations.

“We’ve come a long way from those early days,” says Bay Events managing director Dana McCurdy.

“My mother and father started this show because they believed in the potential this city offered and wanted to support business, progress and people within the region.

“The show’s longevity and growth is a testament to them and the local people who have supported us along the way.”

Joining them, and more than 250 exhibitors, is Classic Builders, a fellow local success story that has been around for about 20 years.

And this year, Classic Builders is bringing something a little more playful to their display.

“We’ve always loved the Bay of Plenty region,” says founder and director of Classic Builders Peter Cooney.

“Matt Largerburg (co-director and founder) and I both grew up here and so we feel very fortunate to be where we are now - having a hand in helping grow our community.

All hands on deck at Classic Builders Tauranga bringing the Kids Playhouse to life.

Hilary Price Homes of Hope CEO Homes of Hope, Dana McCurdy Managing Director Bay Events, Matt Lagerberg Co-Director and Founder Classic Builders

“Home is everything; all Kiwis deserve to feel the warmth, security and peace a home brings,” says Peter.

“It’s always been a pillar of our business to give back to local charities, and support and invest in local initiatives from sports clubs and teams, to community groups and schools.

“So as part of our usual exhibit at the show, we’ll be bringing along the Ultimate Kids Playhouse – a project our Tauranga team have been working on for weeks and will be raffling off for charity.

“All proceeds will be going to Homes of Hope and a local family will walk away with a pretty awesome new playhouse,” says Peter.

Homes of Hope is a local charity that works to provide safe, loving homes where brothers and sisters in care together can stay together.

Their vision is to see children safe, in strong families and responsive communities; free from abuse, neglect and offending. They’re passionate about delivering the very best foster care services, providing a stable home and preventing siblings from being separated; ensuring stability of care for as long as it is needed.

Teaming up with local suppliers, some of which Classic Builders have worked with for decades, the Tauranga Classic Builders team are building the playhouse themselves – with all hands on deck.

Classic Builders operation manager Cameron McCullum is spearheading the project.

“We’re humbled to be able to support this awesome charity and the tireless work they do for our youth,” he says.

“It’s a fitting project for Homes of Hope; the symbolism is nice and of course unveiling it at the Home Show on their 20 year anniversary is perfect. It’s going to be a fun and challenging team project for us which we’ll all have a hand in bringing to life.

“We can’t wait to showcase the final product at the Tauranga Home Show in a few weeks.”

Classic Builders Tauranga branch manager Nathan Watkins is equally excited. “We’re so grateful to our suppliers who’ve pitched in to support us - Carters, NZ Windows, HK Kitchens and Precise Roofing all rallied to support us. And to the Tauranga Home Show – they’re as excited as we are to see this project come to life and help make it an absolute success for Homes of Hope.

“I can’t wait to see a family walk away with

this playhouse,” he says.

Classic Builders will have the playhouse on display in the arena foyer at the Home Show, and will deliver it for free to the winner anywhere in the Bay of Plenty area. All proceeds will go to Homes of Hope, helping them to provide foster care for neglected or abused children.

Tickets cost $10 each and are available at the Tauranga Home Show or now at: www.classicbuilders.co.nz/playhouse

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Lounge Expo Lounging in style The Lounge Expo will be run as part of the Tauranga Home Show, giving you access to a range of furniture at great prices in one location.

The Lounge Expo will have all you need to turn your house into your home, with fantastic lounge setups for you to enjoy – all under one roof of the Tauranga Home Show.

This one-time, exclusive event is part of the Tauranga Home Show’s 20th anniversary celebration show. This event and its fantastic pricing won’t ever be repeated. Make sure you get in and get a bargain with more than 1000 square meters of furniture on display.

The Lounge Expo will showcase some of New Zealand’s top selling lounge suites, all in one location and on sale for three days only.

Top brands Smiths City, Urban+Beach, Furniture Gallery, Contemporary Classics, Danske Mobler, Greerton Furnishings, Furnish and Modern Style will all be there, offering fantastic deals for visitors. A number of these retailers will have amazing displays of lounge settings available for visitors to look at and try – having these lounge settings on display will help visitors visualise what they would look and feel like in their own homes.

The hall will be packed to the rafters, showcasing top brands from quality manufacturers and retailers.

Come and browse in person the extensive range of designer, recliner and outdoor suites – including popular brands such as La-Z-Boy and Stressless in

leather and fabric – all under one roof and all at discounted prices for visitors.

But you could be leaving with more than just high-quality lounge suites at sale prices. Smiths City Tauranga and La-Z-Boy have come together to offer a three-piece fabric recliner La-Z-Boy lounge suite worth $5,699 as part of the Tauranga Home Show prize. One lucky winner will walk away with this luxurious lounge suite, as well as a brand new spa pool and $5,000 to spend on travel – a total prize value of over $25,000.

Each visitor to the show will be given an entry form when purchasing their tickets, so make sure you fill yours in, pop it in the entry box located in the Trustpower Arena Baypark foyer, and you’ll be in the draw to win.

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Bigger and better Everything under one roof This year’s Tauranga Home Show is now bigger than ever.

Spread across two halls – as well as a number of epic outdoor displays – you can browse, compare and draw inspiration from more than 250 exhibitors.

It’s the perfect place to take advantage of exclusive show specials and giveaways that you won’t find anywhere else in the Bay. A lot of thought and planning is put into creating the best home show experience for visitors, with a carefully selected range of categories to ensure options for the entire home are covered.

If you’re planning on building in the Bay of Plenty, the Tauranga Home Show has pulled together a range of new build specialists with house and land packages available.

Or consider building your dream with a custom created home made just for you.

If you’re thinking small, there will be a number of options in tiny and transportable homes, cabins and even caravans for you to explore at the Tauranga Home Show.

The full range of home renovations are covered; whether you’re looking for bedroom, living room, bathroom or kitchen upgrades. With paint, wallpaper, tiles, flooring, carpets, curtains and blinds, every project big or small will be covered at the Tauranga Home Show.

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The kitchen of your dreams could be just around the corner, whether you’re wanting to build new or just give it a new look.

Add appliances, filtration, tapware and accessories, then top it all off with the newest cookware.

Create a bedroom sanctuary with a range of bed and mattress options on display at the Tauranga Home Show, as well as luxury bedding brands at discount prices.

And don’t miss the exclusive Lounge Expo, with more than 1000 square meters of furniture on display – score huge savings off top brands.

Make the most of your precious outdoor space with landscaping, cladding and stonework, fencing, balustrades, louvres and shades. If you’re dreaming of a new pool or luxurious spa the Tauranga Home Show will have a huge range on display, along with barbecues and woodfired ovens to help you bring your life outside.

There will be real estate, finance and insurance exhibitors on-site and ready to help you secure your dream home and keep your investment safe – you can organise everything, all on the same day and in one location.

It’s the largest home show ever seen in the Bay of Plenty, and there’s something for everybody.

The Tauranga Home Show will be held at Trustpower Arena Baypark on May 3-5. Adults pay $10 each for entry, and children under 13 can enter for free.

For more information visit: www.taurangahomeshow.co.nz

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Jo Seagar Top kitchen tips World famous in New Zealand, home cooking expert Jo Seagar is making her way to the Bay for live cooking demonstrations at the Tauranga Home show.

She will be demonstrating some of her speedy favourites.

“I’m going to demonstrate some of my quickest, favourite recipes. I’ll be fitting quite a lot in to each time slot.”

And she has plenty of experience in the kitchen.

“I’ve been cooking since I was a child growing up on a farm in Hawke’s Bay,” says Jo. “I was the eldest daughter and my Mum’s righthand girl.

“She worked full-time so I often cooked the dinner and certainly helped with filling the biscuit tins and family baking.”

Although she spent a lot of time cooking and baking, making a living from it never really occurred to her.

“I never for the life of me thought this would be my career… when I left school I trained as a registered nurse!”

As a Kiwi, Jo says she’s got a recipe or two up her sleeve as her favourite, home-grown go-to’s.

“I can run up a pretty good chicken pie and I love oven roasted salmon with a rustic topping like a crumble of nuts; it’s particularly good with macadamias.

Jo says her cupboard is stocked with plenty of

good cookbooks, but she may have a special spot for one or two cooks in particular.

“I have everybody’s cookbooks! I have a huge library and good cooks always like to learn more.

“As far as my favourite cook … there are so many but I’m very fond of Nigel Slater, the English food writer, and Julia Child will always be my hero.”

With as much experience with reading and creating recipes as she has, Jo says she’s developed a unique “sixth sense”.

“I have trained myself to be able to almost taste a recipe when I read it,” she says.

“Coming up with new things is easy for me; I’m always onto the next thing and with all the travel I do taking my foodie tours, there’s a constant source of inspiration.”

And her best piece of advice for aspiring cook, chefs and bakers?

“Have a go! Follow the recipe exactly to start with before you start innovating and start with simple things first.”

Make sure you catch Jo Seagar in person at the Tauranga Home Show on May 3-5.

Jo will be in the BespOak Live Cooking Theatre kitchen at 11am and 3pm on Friday, May 3, Saturday, May 4, and Sunday, May 5. Seating is limited, so first in first served.

Jo will be available for cookbook signing and sales after each demonstration.

For more information on Jo Seagar’s live demonstrations at the Tauranga Home Show, visit: www.taurangahomeshow.co.nz/live-cooking-theatre

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The Tauranga Home Show is returning for its biggest show yet – and celebrating its 20th birthday – on May 3-5.

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The event will be spread across two halls in the Trustpower Arena with epic outdoor displays and a gourmet food truck area.

Tickets will also include entry to the oneoff Lounge Expo, where plenty of quality brands and manufacturers will be showing off their best lounge suites and selling at discounted prices.

The Tauranga Home Show will be held at Trustpower Arena Baypark on May 3-5.

Adults pay $10 each for entry, and children under 13 can enter for free.

For more information visit: www.taurangahomeshow.co.nz/ The Weekend Sun and Life + Style have five double passes to the Tauranga home Show on May 3-5 for five lucky readers who can tell us how many years the Tauranga Home Show is celebrating.

Enter online at www.sunlive.co.nz under the competition section. Entries must be received by Tuesday, April 30.

Food trucks abound Satisfy every craving It’s likely that you’ll get peckish while wandering around the amazing offers available at the Tauranga Home Show.

No need to fear though, the organisers have thought of everything!

The Tauranga Home Show is proud to feature plenty of exciting food trucks, a bar and live music for visitors to enjoy. Kick back and relax away from the hustle and bustle of the show and take a break before heading back to explore the exhibits and deals.

There will be an extensive range of food experiences to sample, and everything you need for a delicious lunch.

Food trucks that will be serving up a storm include the awardwinning Tia’s Tacos, super fresh gourmet burgers from Tag Burger, Vietnamese cuisine from Saigon Corner, gourmet sliders from The Homegrown Kitchen and huge filling smoked barbecue meals from The Big Smoke BBQ Co. If you’re more of a sugar-lover, you can satisfy your sweet tooth with ever-popular Lil’ Orbits doughnuts, loaded pancakes from NZ Crepes and refreshing Real Fruit Ice Cream.

If you’re looking for a boost of energy, get your caffeine fix with OCD Coffee. They are boutique coffee roasters who roast right here in the Bay of Plenty.

And start your weekend the right way with the featured, live musicians.

Hugely talented local musician Jack Kearney will be providing the soundtrack to the Tauranga Home Show on Friday, May 3, from 11am-2pm, and Camila and Santiago will be playing up a storm of their contagious Latin groove on Saturday and Sunday May 4-5 from 11am-2pm both days.

So clear you calendars for the Tauranga Home Show on May 3-5 at Trustpower Arena Baypark.

Big Smoke The best in barbecuing Big Smoke in name and big personality in nature.

Mike Jeffries, owner of Tauranga’s Big Smoke Barbecue Co. is a right character to chat to.

And he’s got a bit of a story behind how he got his passion for barbecued meats.

“I’ve been cooking American-style barbecue for about nine years now,” he says.

“I was living in the UK, in London, and I was helping a mate of mine do spit roasts on the weekends.

“I started researching some barbecuing, came back home, and found a guy in Texas that custom-builds barbecues.

“I told him what I wanted and we got our first one shipped over.

That’s right, Mike’s first barbecue travelled more than 11,600 kilometres so Mike could work on his love of one of New Zealand’s most popular summer pastimes.

And from barbecuing in foggy London Mike built a business that has expanded from Tauranga and now services Auckland also.

The Big Smoke Barbecue uses only the finest New Zealand meats, which are slow cooked, with care, over a charcoal and hardwood fire. This process, Mike says, makes a delicious, tender meal with “great taste and fantastic flavours”.

The Big Smoke Barbecue specialises in weddings and corporate functions and Mike says the barbecue option for weddings is growing in popularity.

“We get quite a few weddings – in Tauranga we

usually do between two and four a weekend.

“We have two barbecues in Tauranga and a few up in Auckland,” says Mike, “when we have more than one in a day in Tauranga I’ll do one and I’ve trained up some of my staff so they can take the other one.”

It’s an art form; a little more than just throwing a few snags on the barbecue. There’s a lot work and forethought in Mike’s meat.

“Pulled pork takes about 13 hours to cook, and brisket takes 11 hours, so it’s a lot of cooking,” he says.

And he must be doing something right – Mike’s barbecue is becoming world-renowned.

“I’m in a world championship barbecue team, and I’m off in May to the 2019 World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest in Memphis,” he says.

“We go over every year and compete.”

This barbecue competition is considered by some to be the ‘most prestigious barbecue competition’ and draws more than 75,000 attendees. So it’s sort of a big deal.

Mike will be bringing his ‘big deal’ barbecue skills to the Tauranga Home Show on May 3-5. He’ll be cooking up a storm as part of the Food Show section.

“I’m excited for the Tauranga Home Show, I’m looking forward to it.

“There should be great weather and plenty of people coming along.”

Catch Mike and The Big Smoke Barbecue Co. at the Tauranga Home Show, May 3-5, at Trustpower Arena Baypark.

For more information, visit: www.thebigsmokebbq.co.nz

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Orange is us Koningsdag – the Kings’ Birthday Warmly welcomed in to the monthly gathering of the Tauranga Dutch friendship group, I find myself surrounded by laughter and conversational buzz. This cosy, warm, comfortable and welcoming vibe is called gezelligheid.

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Nearly 60 people are seated at tables, a display of Dutch books is in one corner, and Henk van Zoelen wanders around playing his accordion, adding to the lively atmosphere. His wife Elly is serving delicious morsels.

The Dutch Friendly Support Network meets on the first Monday of each month at the Vintage Car Club Rooms in Cliff Rd at 10am for coffee. But it’s so much more than this.

A support network of mostly younger members regularly visit the older ones, ensuring companionship and providing help, particularly for Dutch immigrants.

Dorothy van den Hoven who had invited me along, takes me around the room before Patrick and Esther Stegeman start Bingo, to say hello and chat with various people. I’ve discovered that behind every person is a story. This day is no different.

Jack Hoven arrived in Tauranga in 1954, raised a family here, and for many years has helped organise multicultural events with other volunteers. He’s also well-known for his love of vintage cars, especially his Rosie Studebaker.

It’s probably through Jack’s connections that the group meets at the Vintage Car Club Rooms.

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Another thought comes to mind – Abel Tasman, a Dutchman, was the first European to discover the ‘land of the long white cloud’, although he didn’t stay. It’s a stunning and proud link for the Dutch to this country.

I was struck by how many of the group had emigrated to NZ during the 1950s.

On talking with James van Ameringen, I started to understand why.

Aged 97, and fluent in four languages, James arrived with wife Alice in 1952, retiring to Tauranga 28 years ago.

“After the war we had to leave the Netherlands because the situation there was very bleak,” says James. “The government gave us three choices.

Australia, Canada or New Zealand.”

Because he’d studied tropical agriculture in Deventer, it made sense to move to NZ, as it was the most subtropical of the three.

In 1940, 18 years old and Jewish, he’d hidden in many places to keep safe from the Germans.

“Sometimes I hid in cupboards. I was on a farm for a year, but I had to leave because the family would have been killed for hiding a Jew.” He lost family members to concentration camps, never seeing them again, and in 1943 managed to be smuggled over the border to Belgium then to France, ending up in England. After marrying Alice, they emigrated to NZ, first staying on a farm and eventually he settled into research work at the Rukuhia Soil Research Station.

On arriving in Tauranga, they discovered the friendship group.

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“Nearly 60 people are seated at tables, a display of Dutch books is in one corner, and Henk van Zoelen wanders around playing his accordion, adding to the lively atmosphere.

His wife Elly is serving delicious morsels” James van Ameringen

Later, Yolanda Benjaminsen introduces me to Jeannette Winters in her unit at Melrose Home.

Aged 96, she and her husband arrived here in 1951.

“I was 17 when war started. In the beginning it was all right. My father had a beautiful garden and grew vegetables. Then the Germans came.”

Her parents went into the underground network, Jeannette stayed at one place and her sister somewhere else.

“Our home was bombed many times. We’d see lights going past overhead at night to London, it was some kind of bomb.”

She recalls the men of the township being shot, and others taken away and never returning. She still wonders if they were taken to a local church which was then burned down.

“The war went on for five years. Not much food.

Lots of people in the cities died. Houses came down because in winter it was very cold and they needed wood for the fires. Lots of people left the cities for farms riding on bikes without tyres.”

She met her Polish husband in London after the war.

“He went through hell too. He was 18 when the war started in 1939 in Poland. He went to Russia, and they took him to a concentration camp in Siberia. He fought in Persia, Egypt and Italy.”

He died 21 years ago.

“A lady in Raglan used to send him letters and parcels during war time through the Red Cross. So when we came to New Zealand we went to see her and her husband.”

She joined the friendship club about 20 years ago,

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first as a volunteer. She has a daughter who lives in Australia, but no family here. When her husband died, she nearly returned to the Netherlands, where her sister and an old friend still live.

“My heart is in the Netherlands. I’ve been Dutch and I’ve been English and now I’m a New Zealander but I’m still Dutch.”

At the Friendly Support Network’s May 6 coffee morning, everyone is planning to wear orange, to celebrate Koningsdag or King’s Day. A national holiday in the Kingdom of the Netherlands, it is celebrated there on April 27, marking the birth of King Willem-Alexander. The group would like to invite anyone living in the Tauranga area who is Dutch to come and join them for their celebration.

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The road that wasn’t there Trick of the Light Theatre come to town In New Zealand there are some 56,000 kilometres of paper roads – streets and towns that exist only on surveyors’ maps. Or do they?

Ralph McCubbin Howell has written a deliciously dark fairy-tale called ‘The Road That Wasn’t There’, and will be bringing it alive on May 4 at Baycourt’s X-Space through puppetry, shadow play and music.

This of course appeals to my sense of imagination and a love of using light to tell a story.

“It’s set in St Bathans, a town in central Otago which has a population of nine people,” says Ralph.

“It was a gold mining boom town back in the 1860’s and 70’s and is now a much smaller place than it was but now has these old buildings.

“They built the settlement on the side of a hill and then dug away the hill searching for gold. When the mine closed it filled up with water, so the town is now precariously balanced on the edge of a lake.

Because it exposed a lot of minerals during the mining process, the lake has an unusual blue colour.

“It’s got a great pub, apparently the most haunted pub in NZ.” Directed by his partner Hannah Smith, and performed by Ralph, Paul Waggott and Elle Wootton, the theatre troupe, known as Trick of the Light Theatre will be in the middle of a 13-centre national tour. Ralph and Hannah have already played the curious tale to full houses in its premiere season at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

“This is the original production of it,” says Ralph.

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“It’s changed and evolved a lot over time but we first made it back in 2012 when we were living in the UK and wanted to take something to the Edinburgh Fringe.

“The first time we made it was very much on the smell of an oily rag. We made the puppets out of cardboard, recycled plastic bottles and things that we had to hand as we had no money.

“We took it up to the Edinburgh Fringe and did a month of shows up there. Since then it’s changed a lot and we’ve toured it around NZ and done various reworking.

“The story and staging developed at the same time, both informing each other.

“It’s a play about paper roads and the staging is around paper craft, shadow puppetry and puppets made of papier-mâché. So the two work in together.”

Trick of the Light Theatre is an award-winning New Zealand theatre company founded by Hannah and Ralph. The company has travelled the world and collected numerous awards for their productions which celebrate creativity and deliver playful, thought-provoking and resonant theatre along the way.

The Road That Wasn’t There’s accolades include Chapman Tripp Theatre Awards (Outstanding New Playwright, Outstanding New NZ Play, Most Promising Director, and Production of the Year), Auckland Arts Festival Award (Auckland Fringe), Children’s Event Award (Fringe World, Perth 2016), and Best Children’s Event (Adelaide Fringe 2016).

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“It’s a play about paper roads and the staging is around paper craft, shadow puppetry and puppets made of papier-mâché. So the two work in together.”

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“It’s not just puppets throughout the whole production,” says Ralph. “It’s sort of Russian dolls in that it has stories within stories. The framing narrative is told through live action and one of the stories is told through rod puppets. Some other bits of the story telling is through shadow puppetry.”

This shadow play reminds me of childhood Saturday nights during winter, when my sisters and I would entertain each other with reflecting our hand motions onto a far wall of the lounge. Wolves, monsters, frogs and birds. Pure imagination.

“There’s something really strange that happens when you watch a puppet show,” says Ralph. “In this one we’re not hiding as performers and not dressed in black or hidden out of the light which means we’re in plain sight.

“When you’re in the audience you see that what’s happening on the actors’ faces is happening on the puppets faces. But actually the puppets have fixed expressions, their faces don’t change.”

The backdrop fabric that is used for the shadow puppetry has a map of St Bathans printed on it, vastly magnified. The silhouettes move with the jaws of the monster opening and closing, and a girl moving across its landscape.

“On one level this is a fairy tale and on another level it’s a human drama about a guy coming home to pack his mum out of her house and possibly send her off to a retirement home. So it’s operating on a few different levels.

“It’s about possible worlds and possible journeys

you can take.”

This story about a girl who followed a map off the edge of the world and finds herself in a paper world is delightfully appealing. Ralph says it seems like a land of possibility but she soon discovers that things that happen in the fictional world can have frighteningly real consequences.

Don’t miss this award-winning production drawn from the twitchy edges of children’s literature but suited for captivating adults as well as older children.

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