Verve June 2013 Issue

Verve Auckland’s Boutique Magazine.

JUNE 2013

JUNE 2013 — TRENDS HOME FASHION BEAUTY HEALTH FOOD WINE TRAVEL EVENTS

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Editors’ Note Recalibrating With Verve Verve’s tight knit group of talent continues to recalibrate. The dramas, headaches and battles are all eclipsed by the thrill of that great collaborative moment when the frenzy of writers, photographers, advertisers, designer, editors, proofreader and printer come together to create the final product – the publication you see before you. We have done our utmost to cast out the Grinch who made its presence felt in Verve April. We apologise to any of you whose magazine became soggy in your postbox. This has spurred us on to make the decision to flow-wrap Verve from now on. We all put our heart and soul into these bound pages, and hope you the reader enjoy the experience, even if it is only five minutes of blissful magic.

Creativity drives everything. It is where it all starts, where energy and forward motion originate. We are incredibly

proud to bring you the beautiful feature on City Works Depot with its industrial look and clean design. The creative use of old factory/industrial buildings for retail and hospitality spaces is simply fabulous and adds to Auckland’s growing sophisticated and cosmopolitan feel. We could not resist shooting our cover here. The results speak for themselves.

Take a look at Hot Right Now (p50), charged with creative notions: Read about Otis and Sarah Frizzell’s latest venture, Google glasses and others.

Not to be missed is the June beauty feature. If you’re like us and believe that ‘maintenance’ is an everyday necessity, then you will be intrigued by Rebecco Restropo’s beauty tips, the Lori Hamlin interview and a one-to-one with local stylist, Hamilton Brooks.

Our Life Through a Lens competition means that you should get out that camera and start clicking. There are some amazing prizes on offer, including a Sony Alpha NEX7 camera and SEL18-55 lens for the winner (see next page).

We aim to get your attention. We want you to flip through the magazine and then stop as you rest your eyes on some unmissable piece of information, or divine image. We hope we have achieved all this with Verve June.

Here’s wishing you a warm cosy read.

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SPECSAVERS

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LIFE THROUGH A LENS ARE YOU A CREATIVE KIWI WITH A KEEN EYE FOR PHOTOGRAPHY? Specsavers Newmarket, Verve Magazine and Photo Remuera are encouraging eastern Auckland residents to get clicking and enter the Specsavers Life Through a Lens competition.

Simply take an imaginative photo that is symbolic of your hometown or community, write a brief photo caption and upload it to the competition tab at www. vervemagazine.co.nz for a chance to win.

Ten finalists will each win two complete pairs of Specsavers glasses and the winner will also win a $2,000 camera pack from Photo Remuera. Pack includes a Sony Alpha NEX7

camera and SEL18-55 lens, your winning photo printed on a canvas, a neck strap and 8gb SD card for the camera.

“This competition celebrates the many individual pockets of culture and identity present in the region and gives people the chance to put their creativity out there for all to see,” said Specsavers Newmarket co-owner and dispensing optician Kim Bingham.

The Specsavers Life Through a Lens competition judges include: Fran Ninow and Jude Mitchell (Verve Magazine), Hetal Patel (Photo Remuera) and Kim Bingham (Specsavers Newmarket).

Jude and Fran from Verve say the judges have a clear set of criteria in mind.

“Whether it’s your favourite shopping spot, heritage building or family member in the backyard, we’re looking for photos that portray originality and vitality.”

COMPETITION

DETAILS Upload your photo to the competition tab at

www.vervemagazine.co.nz Entries close Friday 19th July 2013

TERMS AND CONDITIONS The “Specsavers Life Through a Lens” competition (“Competition”) is organised by Specsavers New Zealand Limited Company Number 2116682 (and includes any related company as defined by the Companies Act 1993) (“Specsavers”). Entries must be submitted via www.vervemagazine.co.nz by 11.59pm on Friday 19 July, 2013. The winner and finalists will be contacted personally by Specsavers. You must be aged 18 and over to enter. You may not enter the Competition if you are a professional photographer or if you have worked as a professional photographer in the past (whether as an employee, contractor or freelance). Only one photograph per person may be submitted and multiple entries will be disregarded. Entrants will be judged on their photo’s originality, creativity and reflection of their community. Specsavers’ decisions in this regard are made in its absolute discretion and are final. No correspondence will be entered into. For your entry to be eligible, you agree to participate in any publicity arising from your entry into the Competition, which may include, but is not limited to, media stories or interviews. Publicity for the Competition using your supplied image, full name and region, may be undertaken. We will liaise with you when co-ordinating any media interview requests. If you do not agree to undertake any publicity activity, Specsavers may remove you as a finalist/winner and replace you with another entrant in the Competition in its absolute discretion.

The top 10 finalists as determined by Specsavers (in consultation with Verve) will receive: A voucher for two complete pairs of prescription glasses from any range in a Specsavers store. Each voucher can only be redeemed by one person. Both pairs of glasses must be made to your personal prescription. If you do not have a prescription your glasses may be fitted with plano lenses or a prescription may be provided to you following an eye examination (at your cost).

The winner will also receive: a camera kit provided by Photo Remuera including a Sony Alpha NEX7 camera and SEL18-55 lens, the winning photo printed on a canvas, a neck strap and 8gb SD card for the camera. There is no cash alternative for any prize and all prizes are non-transferable.

This Competition is not open to employees of Specsavers, Verve, Photo Remuera, their families, or anyone professionally associated with the Competition. In entering the Competition, you warrant that the photograph supplied was taken by yourself. You cannot enter the “Specsavers Life Through a Lens” Competition on behalf of someone else, or nominate anyone else. Specsavers reserves the right to require confirmation of your identity. Failure or refusal to do so if requested will result in your disqualification.

Entrants will be deemed to have accepted these terms and conditions and agree to abide by them when entering this Competition. The Competition organisers will not retain the personal information supplied with your entry, nor provide it to any third parties other than for the purposes of organising, judging or publicising the Competition. By entering the Competition you irrevocably assign the intellectual property rights in and ownership of the photo submitted to Specsavers to display or reproduce as it may determine in its absolute discretion.

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Contents DON’T MISS 08.

Come Shopping with Verve

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HEALTH

FOOD 4 THOUGHT JOURNEYS

GARDENS & PETS

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Homeopathy: The Low Down

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Water, Water, Everywhere!

Recipes from Atico’s Cocina

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Verve Essay: Life of Rice

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The Falkland Islands – An Unusual Travel Destination

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Down and Dirty in The Veggie Patch

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Indoor Plants

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Cover Story: The Man Behind Concept 10 10

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The Otago Rail Trail – One for the Bucket List

BEAUTY

FASHION

ARTS

MEN MATTER

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The Makeup School

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New York Makeup Artist: Lori Hamlin

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Health and Wellbeing Pure Sensory Delight with Lulu on the Second Floor

Scene Style with Amy

Bright and Sunny California Design

Lisa Hoskin Jewellery Gen-C: Bridget Celebrates 21 Years Costello

On track with MINI Paceman Maurice Williamson’s Big Gay Rainbow

Servilles Winter 2013 Campaign – Pretty in Punk

HOME

OUT & ABOUT

YOUNG AT HEART

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Real Time Ticks On

Matariki

At Home with Karakter City Works Depot Cover: Concept 10 10 Photography: Amy Mackay @ Harlow Design Clothing: Suit by Hallensteins Make up: Rachel Aylward @ Bling it on Beauty Ltd www.blingitonbeauty.co.nz

VerveMagazine — Editors-in-chief: Fran Ninow and Jude Mitchell Writers: Inger-Lisa Hurst and Jamie Desplaces Layout Design: J. David Contributors: Lulu Alach, Jackie O’Fee, Timothy Giles, Jenn Laidlaw, Paris Mitchell, Julien Erwin, Kate Walker, Brooke Steff, James McGoram and Chris Harrison

Published by Verve Magazine Ltd. Level 1, 430 Broadway, Newmarket, Auckland 1023 PO Box 99-288, Newmarket, Auckland 1149 GST: 90 378 074 ISSN 2253-1300 (Print) ISSN 2253-1319 (Online) Advertising enquiries: P: +64 9 520 5939 E: jude@vervemagazine.co.nz Editorial enquiries: P: +64 9 520 5939 E: fran@vervemagazine.co.nz Subcriptions: http://vervemagazine.co.nz/subscribe.html

What’s Your Horseonality?

Matters of Interest

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PR With a Conscience

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Bear Park: For Quality 22. Elizabeth Arden and Peace of Mind

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Kat Gee & The Child Cancer Foundation

22. Nude by Nature 22. Linden Leaves 98. Iain Stephens Floral Design

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The entire content of this publication is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without prior permission in writing of the copyright owner. Any material submitted for publication is at the owner’s risk. Neither Verve Magazine Ltd nor its agents accept any responsibility for loss or damage. Although every effort has been made to ensure accuracy of information contained in this publication, the publisher cannot accept any liability for inaccuracies that may occur. The views and suggestions expressed in this magazine are those of individual contributors and are not necessarily supported

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TIZO3 was developed specifically to offer unparalleled elegant sun protection, especially for those individuals with sensitive skin.

This mineral only SPF40 broad spectrum sunscreen feels like beautiful chocolate mousse on your skin with its smooth silky finish, producing a long lasting water resistant protection. Ideal as an elegant base for light makeup it is a premier product of unrivalled technology with no chemical sunscreen filters, parabens, dyes, fragrances, oils or preservatives.

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This product is offered in conjunction with Skin Science Company Aesthetic Solutions NZ.

FLAWLESS SILK LEGS WITH AIR STOCKING This amazing cosmetic product creates instantly beautiful legs with the best moisturising ingredients, no streaks, no stains or smells, non-oily, waterproof, dries in minutes, a choice of three colours, washes off with cleanser.

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Developed in a country where it was too hot to wear stockings but fashion was an essential part of business etiquette, Air Stocking is the premier product for creating beautiful legs.

Available in three fabulous colours, Coco, Terracotta and Natural, Air Stocking has a unique hydrolyzed silk base, with nourishing ingredients and amino acids including Green Tea, Caffeine, Serine, Glycine, Proline, Lysine and Arginine.

Regularly used in New Zealand television productions, this product is the professional’s choice because of its high quality finish and advanced formulation.

Contact us now to get your Silk Legs in a Can! This product is offered in-conjunction with Skin Science Company Aesthetic Solutions NZ.

NEW ANTI-GLYCATION AND ANTI-STRESS TECHNOLOGY MEANS BEAUTIFUL SKIN! Cell Therapy: Anti-Oxidant Boost This silky supple anti-stress and anti-glycation* serum is action packed with a special patented ingredient called Supplamine®, discovered during Diabetes research in the USA.

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Designed to reduce wrinkles, hydrate and calm the skin whilst helping create a youthful radiant glow Anti-Oxidant Boost also contains other powerful anti-oxidants including Indian Gooseberry which is high in Vitamin C, Grape Seed Extract, Evening Primrose Oil, Hesperidin and Comfrey Leaf Extract.

Allergy tested. Scientifically Formulated. Non-irritating Treatment. *Dermal Glycation is non-enzymatic process where excess sugar combines with proteins, including Collagen and Elastin to create ‘crosslinking’ and ultimately makes the structural layers of the skin brittle which results in early age lines and wrinkles.

Supplamine® is clinically proven to reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles around the eyes. www.meg21.com This product is offered in-conjunction with Skin Science Company Aesthetic Solutions NZ.

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THE WORLD’S MOST AMAZING SKIN CARE PILLOW CASE Designed and developed by award winning and eminent skin care researcher, Dr. Peter T. Pugliese ‘The Pillow Case’ helps to moisturise the skin and control sleep lines.

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After several years of research into ‘Sleep Line Dynamics’ it was determined that if the contributing factors or head pressure, fabric technology and water loss could be controlled, then sleep lines could be dramatically reduced or even eliminated.

The Pillow Case also helps to maintain Collagen strength through fibroblast stimulation, as well as minimising the critical factors causing sleep lines through its micro-nylon fiber fabric at 20,000 microfilament per square inch.

Dr. Peter T. Pugliese is the USA’s leading professional skin care researcher and educator, with over 40 years of experience researching, testing and formulating advanced skin products and accessories.

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FOOD SAFE; LONG-LASTING; RIDICULOUSLY GOOD LOOKING; EASY TO CLEAN; PERFECT FOR ANY KITCHEN. YOLKR® will be available in New Zealand from July and we already know they’ll be a hit. Ensure that you get yours by placing an order now.

Order your YOLKR® in advance. Delivery in July.

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The Man Behind Concept 10 10 Photography: Amy Mackay @ Harlow Design Make up: Rachel Aylward @ Bling it on Beauty Ltd Clothing: Suit by Hallensteins

This page: Concept 10 10 owner, Jay Kachelhoffer.

Opposite: Jay with wife, Melissa Smit

Concept 10 10: A high Intensity full body workout that takes just 20 minutes a week.

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COVER STORY

“I was about 27-years-old, when one day I realised I had developed a belly, started puffing on the stairs and struggled to carry my wife to the. . . um . . .never mind that last bit. . . ” As an ex-New Zealand sportsman, Jay Kachelhoffer knows a thing or two about being fit, active and what it takes to stay at the top of your game. Training hard at least twelve times a week for over an hour each time was customary and Jay earned the opportunity to represent New Zealand at an international athletics competition, bringing home two medals.

After university Jay spent time in the New Zealand Air Force where he continued a pretty full-on and active lifestyle, which included several sports tournaments and playing for the New Zealand Defence Force in a cross-Tasman volleyball tournament — all in addition to his actual full-time job in the military.

“I’ve certainly had my share of just about every type of fitness training you can imagine,” says the 31-year-old. Having come from a very active lifestyle, but now working full-time for a few years — frequently fifty to sixty hours per week, Jay noticed a change in his energy levels, body-shape and strength.

Jay had gone from being super-active, to about normal-active and then became very busy at work and not so active any

Jay was introduced to Concept 10 10 by his wife Melissa. “Melissa had experienced amazing results and ‘encouraged’ me to try it as well...”

more. The pressures of holding down a day job as well as owning a family business means Jay knows all too well how busy life can get and how hard it is to stay fit and active. When the busy work schedule started, the muscles started dropping off and weight piled on. The fact is that after the age of about twenty-five to thirty, we all start losing muscle and as a result we start gaining undesired weight.

Then Jay was introduced to Concept 10 10 by his wife Melissa. “Melissa had experienced amazing results and ‘encouraged’ me to try it as well, but at first I was really sceptical. I mean the Concept 10 10 approach seems to contradict what I was always taught and thought about working out — but oh how wrong I was.”

“Concept 10 10 immediately started rebuilding my lost muscle tissue and my body began toning up really quickly.”

After just a couple of sessions Jay was amazed and launched into research about Concept 10 10’s style of high intensity training and slow movement as well as the equipment used. He found a whole new world of health and fitness research and evidence. “It just made so much sense — it is crazy that this stuff is not mainstream yet, I mean there is over fifteen years of scientific research backing this training approach!”

Additionally, the results he could see in himself and Melissa convinced them to buy a franchise and bring Concept 10 10 to New Zealand.

“I’m now able to do one strength training session every five to seven days, I have an appointment — I block it off on my calendar and treat it as a meeting that I have to attend. I get great results and I can now spend more time on what I like doing — for instance, playing golf on the weekend. I’m feeling fitter and stronger than ever. It’s perfect for busy people.”

There is a paradigm shift happening in the world of health orientated fitness — the last fifteen to twenty years of research clearly shows that the training approach to which Concept 10 10 adheres, is more efficient and more beneficial for health orientated fitness than most of the old-school approaches, “it’s crazy that the mainstream fitness industry is so slow in adopting this change.” It is only just starting to take off in the United States and Europe but Concept 10 10 already celebrates its third year in New Zealand in June — once again showing that Kiwis are willing to lead the way. “So my challenge is. . . why have you not tried it yet?”

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“Concept 10 10 immediately started rebuilding my lost muscle tissue and my body began toning up really fast again.” After just a couple of sessions Jay was amazed and launched into research about Concept 10 10’s style of high intensity training and slow movement as well as the equipment used.

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BEAUTY

Q&A WITH

Gabrielle Jones & Dianne Ensor Directors of The Makeup School V: Can you tell our Verve readers a little about yourselves?

G&D: Both of us have been makeup artists for over 20 years and our careers have covered all genres of makeup specialising in film and television. Our work has given us some amazing travel experiences along with the opportunity to work with renowned actors and film technicians.

It was time to share our combined wealth of knowledge. In 2007 we launched The Makeup School in Ponsonby.

We felt that New Zealand was in need of an up to date training facility run by makeup artists from all different backgrounds who actually work in the industry and know their craft. Our vision, which we are proud to say we have kept true to, is to employ only tutors who have at least ten years in the industry and are still working.

We are also committed to using only actual industry defined products, whether it be a fashion/beauty brand or special effects makeup.

and industry experience as we can to each student walking through our doors.

The makeup industry, whether beauty, fashion or film/ television is all about having a competitive edge over the next person. We believe we provide our students with the edge they need to succeed.

We still absolutely love working in the industry whether it be on a movie starring Tommy Lee Jones (Emperor has just been released in the US), an offshore television commercial or promising students or graduates work with us on the bigger jobs. Witnessing those students working as professionally qualified artists is very rewarding for us and really completes the circle. We feel lucky to have a wonderful balance of tutoring and running TMS along with only taking freelance jobs that appeal to us.

We keep student numbers low in order to really focus on each and every student.

V: Perhaps let our readers know about a typical day in the life of The Makeup School.

G&D: No two days are the same here at TMS. We are lucky to have very cool premises, which we have slowly developed and expanded since opening, so coming to work is a pleasure.

We are passionately about this industry and understand how highly competitive it can be for graduates starting out. Our aim is to impart as much of our knowledge, technical skill

Depending on the syllabus you could walk into the studio one day and see some incredible fashion makeup/ hair being created and then on another day students could

be simulating a nasty burn or a shotgun wound. The body painting module is full of inspiring creations and gives the school a real buzz!

Along with full-time students in our main studio we have our lovely smaller studio and that is booked regularly for private, individual or small group lessons.

We interview potential students throughout the week with whom we prefer to meet individually (or in groups of two) so we can really focus on individual expectations of what the school offers along with discussing career opportunities after graduating.

We collaborate with lots of amazing people on many creative projects from short films to fashion shows and of course have a great relationship with MAC cosmetics and Dermalogica in particular, so there are people in and out all day from opening to closing time.

We also spend a lot of energy organising work experience or lining up jobs for both our current students and graduates. As you can imagine there is quite a lot happening!

V: You have developed fabulous teen classes – tell us about these?

G&D: We just felt that it was an area of training that had been overlooked and that young girls would really enjoy and benefit from this sort of workshop. We

have created a comprehensive three day holiday workshop that runs all year.

It teaches girls a simple approach to skincare using Dermalogica’s brilliant teen skin range ‘Clean Start’ along with learning a clean fresh polished day makeup, a soft smokey eye and loads of makeup tips and tricks using MAC cosmetics.

Feedback from these workshops has been amazing and we are really happy the girls are feeling positive about them.

V: Would you consider classes for women in their 50-70’s whose makeup regime made need a change?

G&D: Absolutely! We already offer one-on-one lessons that are open to anyone. A lot of our clients are mature woman who feel a little stuck in a rut with their makeup routine.

Our philosophy is less is more and we all know that our skin changes as we get older.

We need to rethink how we approach our makeup application to create a fresher more youthful look.

V: What do you think are some of the most common mistakes young girls and older women make when applying makeup?

G&D: Young girls wearing too much foundation is a common mistake. We want to see your beautiful skin girls! We try and teach an approach of breaking the skin into zones and concealing only where necessary.

Mature woman can run the risk of not updating their makeup and skincare regime – using incorrect products that don’t nourish the skin, wearing too much foundation and overdoing the shimmering eye shadow, all of which can be aging.

V: Do you have a favourite brand of makeup? Or do you both use a variety?

G&D: We have a strong affiliation with MAC and feel very lucky to be able to use their products daily in our classes and on freelance jobs but there are other great brands out there. When you open an experienced makeup artist’s kit you are bound to find many many different brands of makeup.

V: Can you see The Makeup School developing its own brand of makeup?

G&D: We currently have the TMS shop in our studio that supplies products to makeup artists but we are very excited to be working on our own brand ‘Makeup Collective’

which we hope to have up and running by Christmas with an online shop.

VERVE CHATS WITH GRANT STAPLETON OF HUE

Although we will have products that every woman can purchase, we will be focusing on makeup artists in the industry.This will include makeup brushes, kits, t-shirts and other amazing ‘must haves’ for working as a freelancer. This is a huge expansion for us along with everything else we are doing but we really want makeup artists to be able to buy locally instead of everything having to be imported.

New Zealand has come a long way in the fashion/beauty/film industry and it’s only going to get better!

Opposite page: Gabrielle Jones (left) and Dianne Ensor (right) Photo by Jeremy Jones, Propeller Motion.

Hue salons have taken the Auckland hairdressing scene by storm in the past five years with their fresh concept of being exclusively a colour-only salon. With five salons around Auckland and plans to take the successful business model global, Verve caught up with Hue Director Grant Stapleton.

V: How did the concept for Hue develop..was it modelled on an international chain?

G: Hue has segmented the hair industry creating a stand alone business by just offering colouring and no cutting. It’s not modelled on anything international it was developed here in New Zealand once the opportunity was identified. Kiwi’s are pretty entrepreneurial and we think Hue falls into that same category.

V: There are five Hue salons around Auckland, why do you think Hue has been so successful?

G: It fills a specific niche that nearly 40,000 customers have found appealing. We save people time and money. You can have your hair coloured quickly by professional colourists in a warm environment without sacrificing the quality of service and you can have it done for substantially less than many other reputable salons. Hue has been built customer focussed research.

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V: What are the future plans for Hue...going global?

G: We didn’t start this business to just do a few salons in Auckland. We have a ten year plan and if we are successful in achieving that then you will see Hue in multiple cities in multiple countries.

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Bamboo – Nature’s Own Performance Fabric Take advantage of the opportunity and experience the great qualities of organic bamboo fitness and leisure apparel at the Liz K Body Transformation Studio in Parnell.

New Zealand’s unique boutique fitness studio, Liz K, not only offers bespoke personal training programmes for women, but also a line of fitness and leisure apparel that is an exclusive in New Zealand.

Designed in London and manufactured in Portugal, the range is super high quality and centres on organic bamboo.

Usually, sports companies around the world use cotton or manmade fabrics like Supplex and Polymide to produce their clothing.

Unfortunately, cotton is not a good performance fabric, as it absorbs perspiration which stays there until it dries, which is why after you work out, it can go stiff and show those unsightly marks. Sensitive skin can be irritated by man-made fabrics, which are also expensive to manufacture.

There is an alternative: “Bamboo is the ultimate high performance, natural fabric. New Zealanders understand the benefits of merino, as opposed to cotton or man-made materials, but bamboo is streets ahead when it comes to fitness wear. It is odourless, highly sustainable, eco-friendly, incredibly soft and gorgeous. On top of that, it is much more costeffective than merino, which makes it the ideal material for my fitness apparel line,” says Liz Kolovos of Liz K Studios.

As one of the fastest growing plants in the world, the yield with bamboo is ten times greater than that of cotton. Because it has its own built-in defences, bamboo requires no pesticides or fertiliser and only very little water to grow. This makes it the perfect sustainable, eco-friendly fabric that is naturally organic. Also, bamboo has millions of micro-gaps in the fibre, which enables it to sweep perspiration away from your body and keep you cool when you need it the most. Bamboo is naturally anti-bacterial and anti-fungal, which fights the nasty odour fitness gear tends to acquire over time. It is a great, hypoallergenic option for people with sensitive skin, as it is amazingly soft and fluid to wear and lends itself to gorgeous flowing designs, which is what Liz K wanted to achieve with her unique apparel range.

“One of the important things about this clothing line is that it has been designed to fit women of all shapes and sizes,” says Liz. “As women age, our bodies change in shape, even when we work to stay fit. I want New Zealand women to feel sexy, confident, comfortable, stylish and attractive in these unique pieces, whether they’re exercising with me or out and about in their busy lives. This is a range with real quality, flexibility and class.”

Liz K is holding a clearance sale to make way for newly arrived stock.

This weekend offers a one-off opportunity to purchase at up to 50% off. Come to the sale on the 15th/16th of June at the Liz K Body Transformation Studio (10am to 4pm) to experience the quality of bamboo performance clothing. See next page for more details.

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VERVE CHATS TO

Hamilton Brooks V: ‘Make Peace With Your Hair’ — Hamilton, is this what we should all do?

We all have different hair, there is no ‘bad hair’. I guess any good hairdresser can work with all types?

H: I have definitely seen some bad hair in my time! An experienced stylist should be able to work even the most difficult hair into a wearable style. They should know which style suits different hair types and face shapes and also provide the ongoing hair care education for their client to keep it looking its best between appointments.

V: What do you think has made your salon a winning formula?

combined with a genuine love for our work and an appreciation for our loyal clients – I guess that has resulted in a winning combination!

V: Tell us about the award that your salon Hamilton Brooks has won?

H: We have just won ‘Creative Team of the Year’ at the Industry New Zealand Hairdressing Awards. It was a great complement to come out on top against some tough rivals and also a career highlight for me. I think this award reflects our highly skilled team, their attitude and the great team atmosphere in the salon.

V: Is creating beautiful hair an art form?

H: Part of the success of the salon is having a team that is completely client focussed. We take time to listen to and meet our clients’ expectations while delivering amazing service. All of this

H: I’ve found hairdressing to be a highly artistic career — we are always evolving and combining the latest and freshest directions in hair design by creating a

Top: Hamilton Brooks salon in Newmarket

beautiful and wearable style for each individual client.

V: What has been your favourite style since you started in the world of hairdressing?

H: It’s hard to pinpoint one particular style but the bob is a classic that has so many variations from short and sleek to long and textured.

Hamilton Brooks – 23 Nuffield Street, Newmarket 09 520 7494 www.hamiltonbrooks.co.nz

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VERVE CHATS TO Have you always worked in New York?

I am based in New York City but am lucky enough to have developed a career that enables me to travel all over the world.

How did you begin in the world of beauty?

When I was fifteen years old, my friend’s mother offered to pay me five dollars to help her with her hair and makeup before an evening out. I never dreamed I’d be fortunate enough to be doing this as a career twenty-five years later.

Thank you Peggy Falcon! I am so grateful.

What is the day in the life of Lori like?

Every day is different depending on which client is booking me. In one week, I may do makeup for a photo shoot, accompany an actor or actress who is doing press for a new show or movie, get someone ready to walk the red carpet, or create and execute a look for 30 models for a runway show.

As a highly demanded makeup artist, are there celebrities with whom you would still like to work?

Of course! It is a privilege to work behind the scenes with a celebrity, but it is very fulfilling to watch the transformation of any woman, celebrity or not.

What is your signature style that you are known for?

Extraordinary lashes!

What is the most important beauty advice you can give a woman?

There is nothing more beautiful than a woman who has learned to love herself.

Do you feel you have achieved all of your goals in the makeup world?

My goals are constantly evolving and changing. With each accomplishment, there is a desire to achieve something greater.

What are some of your favourite products that you use?

There are too many to name! To find my favorites, ‘like’ my Facebook page (Lori Hamlin Makeup Artist), or follow me on Instagram (LoriHamlin). I often brag about my favourite things on my website www.lorihamlin.com, as well.

What is the best advice you can give a 50 – 70 year old women regarding her makeup regime? Less is more?

After 20-years of doing makeup, I have found that most women are still doing the look that was taught to them when they first started wearing makeup. Few women can explain why they use the products they use, or believe that what they are doing is the best option. They apply their makeup out of habit. The most important advice that I can give a woman is to seek assistance to learn what works best for her. As we age, our needs change. Our makeup routine should change as well.

Do you have a message for all the teens out there who dream of becoming makeup artists?

Dream big! And then dream some more. Anything is possible when you set your mind to it.

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Elizabeth Arden 1920s Beauty Tips – BY REBECCA RESTREPO, GLOBAL MAKEUP ARTIST 01

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To incorporate the 1920’s smokey eye look into an everyday look I recommend using a soft, medium shade along the lid and bottom lashes. My favourite is Beautiful Color Eye Shadow in Truffle (6). Then, add a line of Beautiful Color Smoky Eyes Pencil in Gunmetal (2) along the lash lines. Finish the look with black mascara, such as Beautiful Color Lash Enhancing Mascara (1).

Porcelain skin was a popular look in the 1920’s. For a modern take on this trend, I like Flawless Finish Sponge-On Cream Makeup (4). Its micronised diamonds diffuse light, giving the appearance of flawless skin with a more natural finish. The best way to apply a creamier foundation is to start at the center of the face and work outwards. This way, a woman can be certain she has covered any imperfections to achieve a flawless, porcelain finish.

02 To pump up a smokey eye look for night, I like to add a rich shade along the edge of the eye on top and bottom. Bold shades like Beautiful Color Eye Shadow in Sparkling Sable or Shimmering Emerald (5) are really on-trend.

03 One of my favourite looks from this era is a rich red lip, it’s dramatic and expressive.

All shades of red work for both day and night, but if you pair it with a stronger eye, I suggest using a lip tint like Eight Hour Cream Lip Protectant Stick Sheer Tint SPF 15 in Berry or hydrating gloss, such as Beautiful Color Luminous Lip Gloss in Red Door Red (3).

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05 Brows were as big a trend in the 1920’s as they are today; however, the look is very different now. In the 1920s brows were thin and arched down, which can be aging. Now the trend is a naturally full and well-groomed brow, the softer look creates a more youthful balance to the face. To achieve this brow look and fuller lashes I swear by PREVAGE Clinical Lash + Brow Enhancing Serum, Beautiful Color Lash Enhancing Mascara and Beautiful Color Brow Shaper and Eye Liner.

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Pretty Punk V: Tell us about the inspiration for this campaign?

P: Our campaigns are always about what’s inspiring us each season. This collection is slightly more edgy than our past campaigns – we were inspired by the extreme but made it street-wearable.

The two styles in dusty teal and mahogany both mix in contrasting long and short layers and are reminiscent of Ziggy Stardust, a huge inspirational influence of mine.

The navy shorter cut is a more extreme version of the pixie cut and the textured yellow bob are our versions of these classic cuts.

Verve chats to Servilles owner and director, Paul Serville about the Servilles Winter 2013 Campaign – Pretty Punk

V: What’s your favourite look from the collection and why?

P: The mint-coloured dusty teal style is my favourite look, it truly showcases the feeling behind the name ‘pretty punk’ – it’s strong, yet sexy at the same time.

V: Are pastel colours for hair still popular this season?

P: Absolutely, especially deep pastel colours at the base that fade out.

Think rainbow colours and variations of ‘my little pony’ style colour.

V: What are your favourite hair trends at the moment?

P: I love colour, any colour is possible at the moment but I especially love the softer ‘dusty’ colours as I call them, like the dusty purples, teals and yellows you see in the collection.

V: Is the Balayage or ‘dip-dye’ look still current?

P: I predict it will be around for a long time, but will continue to change slightly each new season. The current theme seems to be a heavier, stronger base colour with a deeper Balayage right through the mid-lengths to ends.

Style-wise I think precision cutting is very current, reminiscent of the Vidal Sassoon cutting style. I’m loving Nicole Richie’s latest style too.

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Clinic 42: DERMAPEN Q& A’s What is Dermapen®?

Dermapen® is a fractional micro-needling device that is used to treat acne scars, surgical scars, stretch marks, pore size, and general skin rejuvenation.

What is a Dermapen® treatment like?

During a treatment, your skin is cleansed and then a strong topical numbing cream (Lidocaine and Tetracaine) is applied for 20-25 minutes. Your skin is then cleansed again and the Dermapen® is applied to the treatment areas. The device uses collagen induction therapy and involves making ‘micro injuries’ to the skin with very fine needles, it allows us to infuse various products into the skin to attain maximum penetration and effect. These ‘injuries’ prompt the skin to go into healing mode, which includes the release of collagen, elastin and the stimulation of new supporting skin cells – fibroblasts.

This in turn reduces the signs of aging, like sagging, wrinkles, hollows and uneven skin tone.

What skin problems can be treated with Dermapen®?

Dermapen® was originally developed to treat scarring such as mild to moderate acne scars, some surgical scars, and stretch marks. However, it is used effectively to treat enlarged pores and for general skin rejuvenation and pigmentation. It can be combined with other treatments such a PRP and photofacials (LED).

Is the treatment painful?

There can be some discomfort with a Dermapen® treatment. The tiny needles are the size of acupuncture needles, but topical numbing is recommended.

Most people then find that the treatment is very easy to have done and easy to recover from.

Is there any preparation for Dermapen® treatment?

There is nothing you need to do prior to treatment except be sure that any scar being treated is closed and healing.

How many treatments are needed?

The number of recommended treatments

varies depending on the condition. For scarring, six to eight treatment (two to four weeks apart) are ideal. It takes more than one treatment to begin to notice the difference in your skin. For general skin improvement, three treatments are usually recommended (four weeks apart).

Will Dermapen® completely remove scars?

No, Demapen® is a highly effective treatment that minimizes scarring by stimulating collagen growth beneath the scar. Multiple treatments are required, but little down-time is needed. There are no current treatments that completely remove scars.

How long does a treatment take?

Although the actual Dermapen® needling treatment takes only a few minutes, we schedule you for a one hour appointment so that we can comfortably numb the area prior to treatment and so a soothing topical can be applied afterwards.

Q. Does a Dermapen® treatment hurt or make you bleed?

Depending on the depth or aggressiveness of treatment, it is possible to experience pin-point bleeding during the treatment but not on-going bleeding. You may find temporary redness of the skin for an hour or so, or possibly for a day, depending upon the age of the skin and treatment depth.

Q. Are there any side effects or risks associated with skin needling?

Side effects experienced with the Dermapen® will usually subside within 2448 hours. They include erythema, stinging, itching, and tightness of the skin.

Is there down-time?

On the day of treatment, the treated area will be red and mildly uncomfortable. It will look a little like you have sunburn. The day posttreatment, you will be able to apply make-up as usual and will appear slightly pink. Some people have mild peeling of sloughed dead skin three to four days after the treatment.

Aftercare for a Dermapen® treatment?

After your treatment, you will need to continue to use a good sunscreen. Do not use any active products 48 hours after your treatment. Your therapist will recommend the appropriate product for you.

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Five Things You Should Know About Skin Cancer – FROM A PLASTIC SURGEON 1. Related to chronic sun exposure, non-melanoma skin cancer is relatively common in New Zealand and Australia.

These cancers are known as basal cell cancers and squamous cell cancers (known by the abbreviations BCC and SCC).

When these are small they are simple and easy to treat surgically. If neglected, they are still treatable but more major surgeries are required. Recommendation: ask your family doctor to check any lesion that have appeared within the last month and not heeled itself naturally.

2. Sun damaged skin may display pre-cancerous changes known as solar keratoses. These are suitable for topical treatment with liquid nitrogen or an anti-cancer cream (Efudix), both available from your family doctor.

Recommendation: ask your family doctor.

3. Melanoma is a less common but more serious skin cancer involving the pigmentproducing cells of the skin. The most common early sign of melanoma is any change in the colour, border or texture of an existing mole. Your family doctor will know the early signs of melanoma and will seek specialist advice in most cases.

The survival rate after the diagnosis of melanoma in Australia and New Zealand is high, around 89%, because today most

melanomas are diagnosed early when they are thin and not as aggressive.

Recommendation: tell your doctor if any mole or pigmented spot on your skin has changed recently.

4. Prevention is the best policy – so be particularly careful about over-exposure to the sun if you are fair-skinned, of celtic heritage or with a family history of skin cancer. Recommendation: get your family doctor to perform a comprehensive fullbody skin check at least annually if you are at risk or over 30-years of age.

5. At Parnell Surgeon, we specialise in the diagnosis and treatment of skin cancer and other skin conditions. We will see you urgently, even on the weekend if necessary and we offer ‘see and do’ minor surgery appointments – same-day immediate diagnosis and treatment, with no waitinglist. We also offer reconstruction with direct repair, shave excisions, skin grafts and/or local flaps, all available under local anaesthetic in the surgery. We also operate at OneSixOne Gillies Ave (an Epsom private hospital) if sedation or general anaesthesia is required. Call Karen our secretary on 09 215 8152. We will work closely with your family doctor.

Recommendation: be proactive in the fight against skin cancer – your skin matters.

“Melanoma is a less common but more serious skin cancer involving the pigmentproducing cells of the skin. The most common early sign of melanoma is any change in the colour, border or texture of an existing mole.”

Mike Klaassen FRACS Plastic Surgeon at PARNELL SURGEON Specialist Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery 258 Parnell Road, Parnell P: 09 215 8152 F: 09 366 4698 www.parnellsurgeon.co.nz m.klaassen@parnellsurgeon.co.nz

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/ Liver and Kidney Detoxification / Negative ions may help to neutralise free radicals and pollutants / Lower acidity may reduce pain and joint problems / Increased energy and wellbeing / Helps the detoxification of chemicals and heavy metals

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HEALTH

Homeopathy In health and healing small things make a big difference, this is the basis of homeopathy: a therapy of subtlety.

The name homeopathy comes from the Greek homois meaning similar or like and pathos meaning sickness. This is reflected in homeopathy’s principles: ‘less is more’ and ‘like cures like,’ and that the agents that make a healthy person sick can return them to wellbeing.

In practice homeopathy uses essences from plants, animal materials, and naturally occurring chemicals to make up remedies to correct imbalances and illness in people and animals. The essential skill of a homeopath is in the correct application of remedy to malady.

Homeopaths see every one of us as a unique and dynamic entity. Homeopathy sees us as vibrating on a bodily and cellular level at a specific frequency. Illness disturbs our energy reflecting a cellular imbalance. An expertly chosen homeopathic remedy corrects that energy, restoring the healthful frequency.

There are two distinct types of homeopathic consultation, the early in-depth ‘constitutional’ consults and then briefer ongoing consults. So initial outlay may seem expensive but in the long-run homeopathy is an inexpensive option. Remedies are inexpensive and are usually included in consultation cost.

No homeopath of standing seeks to replace doctors; all believe in the importance of GP’s and many GP’s are themselves trained in homeopathy. Check the Council of Homeopathy at homeopathy.co.nz. If a homeopath is not listed they are not registered and not bound to a code of ethics or practice guidelines.

A winemaker friend of mine with a postgraduate degree in chemistry sends his children to a homeopath. When I asked him about the science behind homeopathy his answer was clear, “As a scientist, no I can’t explain it, but as a father and what it’s done for my boys, I can’t do anything other than commend it.”

Words: Timothy Giles

The Three Principles Homeopathy’s founder Hahnemann in 1807 established three fundamental principles: 1. The Law of Similars Substances that in large amounts cause a disease or condition will cure that same condition in minute amounts.

2. Single Remedy Use only the substance that causes reaction most closely imitating the symptom of the disease.

3. Minimal Dose The more a substance in a remedy is diluted, the deeper it acts on the body. Homeopathic remedies are tinctures of natural substances diluted so many times, that in some homeopathic remedies, none of the original substance can be traced.

Randomised controlled trials (RCT’s) of homeopathy have reported positive effects for: allergies and upper respiratory tract infections; childhood diarrhoea; rheumatic disease; seasonal allergic rhinitis; vertigo; fibromyalgia; osteoarthritis and sinusitis, headache/migraine, neurotic disorders, dermatitis and hypertension.

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PARNELL DENTISTRY WELCOMES KELVIN KWONG. BDS Parnell Dentistry is proud to introduce a new dentist to our practice, clinician Kelvin Kwong Grad.Dip.Clin.Dent(Melb).

Dr. Kelvin Kwong graduated from the University of Otago in 1991, and he furthered his studies in dentistry at the University of Melbourne. He has spent his years since completing his studies in private practices, in both Auckland and Australia. Kelvin is committed to continued education as it allows him to provide the best possible care for his patients.

So, as well as our two female Dentists - Andrea Copplestone (practice owner) and Dr. Clare Goldwater, we now have an option for patients preferring a male dentist.

Kelvin practices on Wednesdays and in the near future Thursdays as well: welcome Kelvin!

We still have Sonia and Sarah on reception to assist you with your enquiries and Lynda as chair-side assistant. Michelle Fleet, our hygienist and therapist still caters to our younger clients via our Kid’s Club (up to age 18-years old) and for all our patients’ preventive care appointments. So please call us now for an appointment. We welcome new patients.

Andrea Copplestone BDS (Otago)

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Water, Water, Everywhere…

Words: Brooke Steff

I would personally like to congratulate you on your gratifying decision to drink more water.

If you have been sticking to it for a while, your health has probably already seen an improvement. If the title of this column was simply that-one-last-reminder and you have opted for the ‘if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em’ stance, then good luck on your quest!

This is why I encourage patients to add something to their water, such as freeze-dried or powdered coconut water – a great electrolyte source. Or even just a pinch of celtic sea salt – not refined table salt! Simple things can do wonders for the body!

P.S. Powerade is not okay.

To see my ad in Verve’s Market Place, go to page 111.

However, I must warn you of some unknown perils that lurk behind the ‘you can’t drink enough water’ ethos.

THE KIND OF WATER YOU DRINK By now, I think everyone is aware that the choice to drink filtered water is a smart one. Obviously, not all filters are created equal, however that particular digression is not the aim of this column. If you can invest in filtered, alkalized water, you are doing yourself a great service, as tap water is quite acidic (low pH) and most unfortunately, contains many debatable compounds such as chlorine and fluoride.

DEMINERALISATION Let this be clear – while your intentions have been good ones, drinking exhaustive amounts of water will not serve you well for too long. Water has and always will be the universal solvent. This means that it has the ability to dilute anything, including the many beneficial chemicals in your body. The more plain water you drink, the more micronutrients (vitamins, minerals) you will lose.

Brooke Steff (B.Nat, Dip Herb Med) is a naturopath and medical herbalist based in Remuera, specialising in hormonal balance, environmental medicine, detoxification and mental health. She is also a Level II Biosignature Practitioner and a Level II Strength and Conditioning Coach with the Poliquin International Certification Programme(PICP).

You can contact Brooke via clinic phone 09 522 6759, email brooke@ webintegrativehealth.com or visit her website www.webintegrativehealth.com for any queries or appointment/bookings.

BREATHING SPACE YOGA GROUP WELCOMES KATY CARTER TEACHING TUES/THURS FLOW CLASSES 12.10PM TO 12.50PM (starts June 11th) / NEW WEEKEND CLASSES SATURDAY 9.45am to 11.00am with Katy (flow yoga) SUNDAY 9.00am to 10.30am with Barb (Iyengar yoga) / NEXT INTRODUCTORY IYENGAR YOGA COURSE Starts 31st July. Bookings essential For more information visit our website below Classes and private lessons available. Breathing Space Yoga Group, 19 Mauranui Ave, Newmarket. www.breathingspaceyoga.co.nz

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Something Different About This Pilates in Parnell Known for keeping ahead of health & fitness trends, the exercise room is the only place in Auckland where you can now get on-on-one reformer pilates in conjunction with your gym workout.

The Exercise Room opened nine years ago as one of Auckland’s first boutique gyms, after owner Jane Wilson was left wanting more from her commercial gym. Once again, Jane has identified a niche in the market — offering personalised pilates that incorporates other aspects of traditional gym training – cardio and weights.

“Reformer exercise takes your pilates training to the next level,” says Jane, “but requires meticulous quality of movement, and constant attention to detail. Trainers

need to be on hand to assess and correct their clients’ moves. This is not possible in a group session – and group sessions are what most pilates studios in Auckland offer. The alternative is costly one-on-one sessions of pilates only. But this means the client then has to spend additional time and money on cardio and weight training at another facility.”

Now with the addition of a stateof-the-art pilates reformer at The Exercise Room, your workout can include cardio machines, weight training and reformer Pilates – the perfect package to reach your goals faster!

The reformer itself makes pilates at The Exercise Room extra special. Not all reformers are created equal. The most successful reformer ever made

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and one of the most popular in the industry is the Allegro Reformer from the USA. The new and improved Allegro 2 has just been released and is the reformer of choice at the exercise room, making it the first one in New Zealand If the Allegro 2 Pilates were a car it would be the Porsche 911 – defined by its form and function, it is sleek, sexy, innovative and a market leader, the one everyone wants but can’t afford. It offers over 30 extra exercises than it’s competitors.

All exercises are tailored to the individual and overseen by expert Pilates trainer Bonnie Turner. Bonnie has come from an elite Pilates studio in Notting Hill, London to solely teach at the exercise room.

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Bonnie is offering 20 Verve readers a special Reformer Pilates Starter Package.

For only $395.00 receive eight oneon-one sessions over four weeks (valued at $640.00). Limited to the first 20 people before 30th June, 2013. Call Bonnie on 027 952 6809 or email info@theexerciseroom. co.nz

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HEALTH & WELLBEING WITH LULU

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Au Naturale It’s getting easier and easier to reduce the nasty chemicals in our lives...now it’s possible to get salon hair care products and permanent fashion hair colours with 89-92 per cent naturally derived ingredients. Angel Provence shampoo and conditioners are sulphate and paraben free and the Goldwell Nectaya hair colour range is ammonia free.( both are available at LAN Hair). This is the evolution of years of extensive research using argan oil-based products that act like a conditioning treatment to the hair while delivering gorgeous permanent colour..a long way from the hippy henna days of natural hair colour!

Using plant essences, plant extracts and essential oils, this new era in hair care and colour is safer and more environmentally friendly. For those who have an aversion to ammonia and chemical smells, this new technology gives a truly luxurious experience that doesn’t damage hair but actually adds condition and shine..an amazing breakthrough!

Next time you’re due for a hair colour or you’re purchasing hair care products make an environmental and health conscious choice.

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Putting Your Best Foot Forward Many of us take the simple pleasure of walking for granted… that is until it is no longer a pleasure. Foot, ankle, lower leg, knee and even hip and back pain can all be caused by incorrect alignment or issues originating in the feet.

I’ve had a problem with my left knee for over a year…pain and swelling, especially during and/or after exercise. I couldn’t figure out why my knee never recovered, even after long breaks from exercising, wearing a compression bandage, taking antiinflammatory medication and undergoing physiotherapy.

Parnell Health and Injury Clinic Level 1, 177 Parnell Road | 09 354 4427 www.aucklandsportspodiatry.co.nz

I had noticed, however, that my left foot seemed smaller/lower than my right. It was nonetheless a revelation when I had a consultation with Cam at Auckland Sports Podiatry, that my left foot is quite flat in the arch, unlike my right.

Cam checked my foot function and found my left foot was definitely related to my knee problems on the same side. Cam’s communication with me about the type and exact location of pain within my knee was spot on. It’s very exciting when a professional gets to the root cause of your pain, as a correct diagnosis allows for the best line of treatment and possible cure. I was relieved to know I was not ‘just getting old’ as people had been telling me!

Cam fitted me with some ‘orthotics’ (built-up sole inserts) for my shoes, which you break in over a few weeks with a couple of checks

by Cam when he may tweak for comfort and other requirements.

I am very excited to be fit and able to walk, run, dance and enjoy exercise (and daily life) without debilitating pain now.

If you are experiencing anything similar to what I’ve mentioned in this article, I urge you to start from the bottom up: foot and ankle issues are very common. Go and see Cam – he is one of Auckland’s best – and get a new lease on life!

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Leaf Relief Recently I came down with a nasty virus that sapped all of my energy, had my nose running like a tap and it just wouldn’t go away. After a week with it still ruining my life, I had to do something! I remembered what a great immune booster Olive Leaf Extract is and promptly purchased some. I took it three times a day and after three days, to my relief, my virus subsided.

Most of us have heard that extra virgin olive oil is full of antioxidants; these are even more concentrated in the leaves, thirty times more so. Good antioxidant levels in the body protect us from the

continuous activity of free radicals that cause cellular damage and compromise our immune systems.

Olive Leaf Extract is safe for the whole family to take and boasts multiple health benefits and immunity support due to its concentration of antioxidants.

It can be taken daily and year round for health protection. So much valuable time and quality of life is lost when we are battling colds and flu, not to mention how awful it is to endure the symptoms they bring. Take action to prevent the lurgies from getting you this winter with Olive Leaf Extract.

Lulu is passionate about health and wellbeing and is committed to helping people live happier, healthier lives. If you have any questions or feedback for Lulu please email: lulu@vervemagazine.co.nz

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Sparklewhite Teeth and Total Health Dentistry For many of us there are two reasons why we don’t use or go to see a dentist on a regular basis: pain being one and the rising cost of treatments the other. At Sparklewhite we recognised this some time ago, with a high percentage of our clients requiring referrals to either a hygienist or a dentist for minor treatments and in some cases tooth extraction, with a large number also having gum disease that can lead to bad breath and tartar. In fact over 70 per cent of New Zealanders have one or more types of periodontal disease.

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Eventually, the tooth becomes loose and falls out or needs to be extracted. According to the American Academy of Periodontology, people with periodontal disease are almost twice as likely to have coronary artery disease (heart disease).

One study found that the presence of common problems in the mouth, including gum disease (gingivitis), cavities, and missing teeth, were as good at predicting heart disease as regular visits to your GP. Another major concern is oral cancer, which is very common although we rarely hear of those that have this disease.

With all this in mind I wanted to change and improve not only my own oral health but the health of our clients at a price that was fair and affordable.

Then a chance meeting with Dr. Jake Goldenburg this year made all of this possible. One of the first things Dr. Goldenburg said to me was, “do you know that it is more expensive to have dental work, implants, crowns etc. here than in the States? So let’s do something about it.” And that is exactly what we have done!

We offer painless dentistry and complimentary oral cancer screening to all clients. We also offer the best rates for implants, crowns and veneers.

Additionally we offer tooth-whitening treatments at the best value for money using the most up-to-date products available and it is all pain-free.

Dr. Goldenburg has performed over 7000 implants and wants to continue at the best value possible – with savings of up to 50 per cent from your regular dentist. We have agreed to do the same with whitening, in order to offer affordable dentistry at affordable prices. Furthermore, we offer our clients 18 months interest free treatments – allowing you to get the smile you want now at no extra cost.

Top: Sparklewhite Remuera Left: Biance of Sparklewhite Remuera

If you require any dental or hygienist work or want tooth whitening, call us first for a free consultation or bring us a quote from your regular oral healthcare provider and we will beat the price.

Your health is our major concern, so call now.

CHECK OUT THIS MONTH’S SPECIAL OFFERS: with Sparklewhite Teeth and Total Health Dentistry.

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4. Comprehensive intra-oral photos, valued at $600.00 for just $185.00.

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He has conducted over 7000 implants.

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Words and photography: Amy Mackay

KAREN WALKER PONSONBY The grand opening of the new Karen Walker store in Ponsonby was such a wonderful way to spend a bleak Auckland Saturday morning! The small store was warm and packed full of smiling faces but it was the intoxicating aromas of cakes made by ‘The Caker’ that made the event extra special (the free Moët bubbles also helped). Everyone was seen to be having such a great time, especially those having conversations with Karen herself. You will be pleased to know that the new store stays true to the classic Karen Walker style of impeccably displayed clothing and exquisite cabinets full of beautiful things – make sure you head there soon to check it out!

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PoPs uP in newmarket The finesT labels all under two roofs!

Gucci to armani Margiela to dries Walker to Cooper Verge to loobies sylvester to hogan as well as new samples to one-offs...

279 Ponsonby road, Ponsonby. Ph. 376 1667 and now at 18 osborne sT, neWMarkeT. Ph. 520 6582

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Lisa Hoskin Jewellery Celebrates 21st Anniversary In 1992 Lisa Hoskin returned from Italy bringing with her a beautiful and unique range of jewellery developed over her previous year in Siena, Tuscany. Initially selling the jewellery exclusively through Zambesi Fashion stores she is still designing gorgeous pieces 21-years on and has recently opened to the public her newly renovated showroom at 5 Emily Place, Auckland CBD next to The Britomart Precinct.

The sterling silver and brass/silver ranges are proudly made in New Zealand – all soldering is done with silver and an open flame using her original technique.

Links are individually soldered closed and the designs have become more delicate and intricate over time. Sand blasted crystals are a unique feature of the jewellery and a number of different etchings are available including your own initials, hearts, cameos, and even poetry embedded into the crystals.

The latest Serenity Necklaces are now available in a gorgeous selection of coloured and sandblasted stones.

These include an elegant dark topaz, pink champagne, gold, red gem, turquoise, silver, olive green and many more. This necklace has the perfect feel-good sentiment for many occasions

Top: Sterling Silver Serenity Necklaces Photo: Alice Brimer

Bottom: Lisa Hoskin at the 5 Emily Place Showroom Photo: Richard Brimer

from anniversaries to bridesmaids gifts complete with tiny hearts, hugs and kisses indented around the sterling silver setting and a ‘daisy’ or ‘kiss’ engraved on the crystal. Matching rings and earrings are available to complete the set.

Also new in store is the Screen Idol range using new intricate filigree chains and a further exciting 21st collection to be released this spring.

Contact 5 Emily Place, Auckland City 09 307 1506 www.lisahoskin.co.nz

Visit the Store at 5 Emily Place, Auckland City for charming and original jewellery, Iittala glass boxes, Moma watches, Italian made cards and special gift wrapping. Check out facebook for regular giveaways or the online store for convenient shopping with free delivery nationwide.

Facebook Like us on Facebook today at www.facebook.com/Lisa-Hoskin-Fashion-Jewellery

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Sole Sisters Sole Sisters want your feet! They want to fit them into luscious shoes. Shoes you will wear, and that wont wear you! Sole Sisters offer you a range of gorgeous boots and sassy shoes for all your winter needs. They also stock beautiful handbags, as well as Karen Walker and Simply Italian jewellery. What are you waiting for? Visit them at their Epsom store now.

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All available from Sole Sisters:

Shop 6, Green Gables, cnr Hastings & Beach Road, Mairangi Bay 09 479 6798

555 Manukau Rd, Greenwoods Corner, Epsom 09 630 0240 E: solesistersltd@gmail.com

Join the Sole Sisters Shoe Worshippers Club.

Visit www.sole-sisters.co.nz/SWC and fill in your details

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BOOTS MADE FOR WALKING ALL OVER WINTER How high are they wearing boots this winter? Who cares? There is SO much variety out there. Boots are offered in every colour, every leather and every patina under the sun. Take your pick. Tough and clunky or classy and elegant… such fun! It’s WINTER and boots are in.

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PETITEGRAND Unique in its simplicity PetiteGrand offers effortless style, with easy pieces that can be worn all day at work, and look great in the evening too.

They are little pieces of luxury you can build on and layer to create your own expression.

MET GALA: Each year, the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art holds the Met Gala, the fashion event of the season and the party of the year. Verve’s Met Gala favourite: Ashley Olsen wearing a Vintage Chanel dress and Vintage Balmain coat.

Bead Chain Earrings from Black Box Boutique $119.00

VERVE READS: STORY TELLER Fashion photographer Tim Walker’s episodic narrative fashion stories are breathtaking. A lovely gift idea or a treat for your coffee table.

‘Story Teller’ by Tim Walker from Unity Books – 19 High St, Auckland City. $130

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Tamara Day Spa, Auckland and now Wellington offers a spectrum of contemporary treatments and experiences in a soothing ambience.

The interior space has a relaxing, natural undertone that allows the individual to leave feeling beyond pampered.

Signature day spa treatment offered is Chakra Surya Massage, which entails dripping warm herbal oil on the chakras. Along with this the body is massaged with an array of repetitive and slow movements like kneading, squeezing and rubbing.

AUCKLAND 16 Blake Street, Ponsonby Ph: 09 358 2284 spa@tamaraspa.co.nz WELLINGTON 58-60 Oriental Parade Ph: 04 384 474 wellington@tamaraspa.co.nz

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TRILOGY: Trilogy Certified Organic Rosehip Oil is a powerful 100% natural skincare product that helps improve the appearance of wrinkles, scars, stretch marks. Its potent active ingredients make it highly effective for other skin concerns including dry and dehydrated skin, ageing skin and uneven skin tone.

Trilogy Certified Organic Rosehip Oil, $23.90 (20ml) and $39.90 (45ml) For stockists and further information, visit trilogyproducts.com.

NARS: LIMITED EDITION PALETTES A new limited edition palette, based on the top-selling, universally flattering, must-have shades of the season. Elevate any look with four evocative eyeshadows. NARS The Happening eye & cheek palette – $138

PETALHEAD: BOTANICAL BEAUTY Healing and holistic, Petalhead is a fresh, all natural skincare range made at Muriwai Beach, New Zealand, using uniquely blended botanics.

Petalhead is stocked at Lucy and the Powder Room The Department Store, 10 Northcroft Street, Takapuna) and also at Bioattic - 62 Ponsonby Road, Auckland.

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Mikko Shoes Ambling through European shoe fairs sounds very glamorous, but for Michaela Inger it was the hard work required to bring European shoes to Remuera.

Michaela opened the doors of Mikko Shoes Remuera on April 26, following months of research, travel, careful buying and even making a pair of shoes herself.

This is the second Mikko Shoes store, after the successful opening of Mikko Shoes Milford in early March this year.

“I hunted for my brands and I’m really happy with the ones I have secured,” she said, having now built a strong range of internationally recognised brands, many exclusive to Mikko Shoes.

“You can’t just walk up and choose what you want. You have to build relationships.

It’s a lengthy and important process.

Not only does the brand need to fit with Mikko Shoes, Mikko Shoes needs to fit with the brand.

“It’s great that many of the suppliers back me because of my youth. It’s an advantage being one of the youngest in the industry as my ideas and my approach are different, new and fresh – exactly what the industry needs.”

She said the buying process is not as easy as many people think.

“You have to make sure that the product is marketable. There was a lot I had to say no to.“ Michaela searched and found quality shoes which encompass Mikko Shoes’ philosophy; that comfort, style and value should always go together, whatever the occasion.

The next step involved critiquing top retailers across New Zealand and Australia to bring the best customer service to Mikko Shoes.

Designing the fit-out and cabinetry was also a creative outlet for Michaela, who graduated in Fashion Design at Auckland University of Technology (AUT) and worked in the clothing industry following her study.

“You need a balance in life to allow yourself to work on such a large project.

The creative parts of the business are my favourite parts but I wouldn’t have got to this point without a steady head and a realistic approach.”

Top: Inside Mikko Shoes Milford

Bottom: Michaela Inger (left) and Jo-anne Walker, Manager of Milford store

The store’s fit-out was not all creativity, she said. It was also project management and ‘expecting the unexpected’. The end result is a world class “European feeling” store which opened as planned on April 26.

“It’s about realistic solutions. Because he has been in retail for so long it’s second nature to him.”

Michaela said she is excited to be a retailer in Remuera and is also looking forward to both stores working as a team and is looking towards a third store for the coming summer season, as well as a comprehensive website.

“Suppliers take you seriously when you are expecting to be successful. If I didn’t have the second store it wouldn’t be as serious for some of the brands.”

A supportive and involved family has also been instrumental in putting the business together, whether it was quality checks and feedback from her mum and sister or retailing advice from dad – The Warehouse Group co-founder, Glen Inger.

“With his retail background, Dad is my mentor. I’ll come up with an idea and he’ll tell me if I am being crazy or not.”

The store has a wide selection of shoes suitable for a range of customers, from small and large sizes to wide and orthotic friendly fittings.

So far the shop has been filled with excitement as the Remuera community checks out the new addition to their main street.

“I’ve been really surprised by the allencompassing age bracket. I’m glad that ladies of all ages are starting to recognise quality.”

“Everyone is excited for Mikko Shoes.

Remuera society is excited. I’m excited.

I can’t wait to see the reaction as people start to find us and experience our quality shoe brands.”

For Mikko Shoes details, please see our ad on the next page.

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LESSONS IN LAYERING Ahhh – nothing like the pre-winter cold snap to make us realise that soon we’ll be totally rugged up against the elements! Although the cooler months leave many of us wishing we can hibernate away until summer, the reality is most of us can’t. Instead of hiding this winter, why not try adding a little ‘WOW’ to your wardrobe?

Of course, winter is the best season to layer up, and it’s a commonly held belief that New Zealand women love layers.

Interestingly though, I often hear from my clients that they “don’t know how” to do layering. I wonder if layering is something we tend to over-think – we imagine clever textures and fancy additions that somehow create a magical effect or we worry that wearing so many extra garments may swamp or overwhelm us. The reality is that layering is a truly simple way to add an extra element of style to elevate an otherwise fairly ordinary ensemble to a far more glamorous level.

The ‘rules’ (and I’m not actually a fan of rules – let’s call them guides) of layering are that each layer should somehow reference the one underneath. That simply can be by colour or hue – light with light, deep with deep, or bright with bright. This ‘similar hue’ is why grey layers beautifully over blue, and oatmeal plays well with khaki. It can work with having blue and camel in your scarf and a camel pair of boots. When you work your layers this way, with each layer complimenting a colour worn elsewhere in your ensemble it provides a cohesive over-all effect. You can also layer with texture, again use a similar colour but add a differing texture; perhaps some fur in a vest or scarf, a soft leather jacket, wear an asymmetrical line cardigan or knitted poncho over a simple tee and team with a scarf. Layering can really be that simple.

If you’d like to know more, why not spend a complimentary 15 minutes with us? Call Signature Style on 09 529 5115 and arrange to have a no obligation chat with one of our team – we make great coffee and tea and we’d love to meet you!

See Signature Style’s ad in Verve’s Market Place on page 111.

Words: Jackie O’Fee

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STYLE FILE Invest in a colourful jacket this season for your updated winter look. Wear it with layers of warm chunky knits and add textures with colourful scarves, hat or jewellery to give a shot of colour. Sweetie has fabulous designer jackets from Alexander McQueen, Trelise Cooper, Philip Lim, Charlie Brown with new stock arriving daily.

With its uniquely intimate atmosphere, friendly service and exceptional value you can easily create your wardrobe with top designer pre-loved fashion from Sweetie. Pop in to see Tracy and the Sweetie team to help style your wardrobe and clear out the clutter to make space for new season treasures.

Top: Charlie Brown jacket with Magpie Magic necklace (available for rental) Bottom: Sweetie owner, Tracy Lancaster

SWEETIE Tue-Fri 10am-5pm, Sat 10am-3pm 1 Street Vincent Ave, Remuera (opposite Remuera Library) Customer parking available P: 5222 594 www.sweetie.co.nz

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Real Time Ticks On Words: Jamie Christian Desplaces

I knock on the door to the back of the store but there’s no answer, so I browse. It’s probably a good ten minutes before owner Peter Rogers shows up and suggests we sit at one of his tables out front. You’re very trusting, I tell him, leaving the shop unattended for so long.

“Once I left it open all night,” says Peter. “When I arrived in the morning someone had left sixty dollars and a note saying ‘couldn’t find you, thanks for the sunglasses.’”

It wasn’t the only occasion. Real Time, for Peter, is an opportunity for social celebration over financial acquisition (much to his accountant’s disdain, he later tells me). The iconic Ponsonby shop has recently turned 40 and Peter’s incredibly youthful 64-year-old face implies there haven’t been too many sleepless nights.

In fact, he seems like one of the happiest men I’ve ever met.

“It’s been fabulous,” says the shopowner. “I’ve seen everyone grow up in the neighbourhood. I know their kids and their kids’ kids — it really has been a great privilege.”

Real Time is as renowned as a local hang-out as much as for its array of cool goods. Fellow Ponsonby storekeepers and customers gather to eat, drink, smoke and generally shoot the breeze. There’s a box of ‘street blankets’ to fend off the chills, while Peter tends to his hosting as he selects from his piles of classic LP’s.

Bobby Womack and Neil Young are in favour at present. Later today, he’ll be mixing cocktails. Sometimes live acts play out front, with past performers including his daughter’s now-famous band, Street Chant: “I soon learned to manage it.

There’s usually around 40 minutes before the noise complaints kick in so we wrap it up before then. Since I’ve been here, we’ve had 26 noise control notices!”

Peter isn’t musical though, except for when he’s had a few at the karaoke. He wanted to be an architect but dropped out of art-school sans degree (“I spent most of my time kissing girls”) and then started up a trading business. At one point, he headed five shops in the area, including his wife’s art gallery, but scaled

back the business into the existing Real Time (the building previously served as their family abode). It’s an old-school browsers’ paradise that sells pretty much everything for the home along with vintage clothing, books, records, paintings and instruments, all arranged in a way that could only be described as organised chaos. The shop has as much character as its owner.

“I’m anti-minimalist,” says Peter. “You either love it or you don’t. There’s so much stuff in here that some people can’t handle it, I don’t sell much to those who frequent regular shops where everything is spaced further apart. People nowadays have an attention span of about one minute and fifteen seconds.”

Peter is a fan of Art Deco. He enjoys collecting bronzes, English ceramics and clothes from the 1920s. He calls himself a ‘hunter-gatherer’, spending his mornings searching out treasures before opening the doors at midday. “The old stuff,” he says, “tends to be bulletproof with designers making the mistake of

manufacturing goods to last.” He’s a romantic, and he’s right, too: “I sell a lot of things that are useful, coffee pots and cast iron goods that once polished will last for another lifetime.”

He once found an old table in a hedgerow, cleaned it up and sold it for six hundred bucks. Inside Real Time, countless lampshades hang vine-like from the ceilings.

“I’ve always liked lighting,” says Peter. “I think it’s left over from my architecture days. Space is modified by light – good lighting always makes a building more interesting.”

It certainly is one of Ponsonby’s most interesting spaces, and Peter laments that it may be one of the last: “Ponsonby village is a wonderful community. I’ve witnessed its gentrification, and what’s a shame is that as the mainstream shops move in, the quirky ones like mine will die. But it’s been a great journey for me.”

Plus, he smiles, he gets his gold card this year.

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Hot Right Now Words: Inger-Lisa Hurst

1. THE LUCKY TACO

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Having spent the last two years travelling, researching and picking up the skills required for their very own food truck, Otis and Sarah Frizzell have finally started living their dream. While they have only been operating for a number of weeks, The Lucky Taco has already seen huge queues and great reviews, serving up a variety of meat, fish and vegetarian taco’s to suit all tastes. Their most frequent location is 230 Ponsonby Road, but follow the duo on Facebook or Twitter to keep up to date with their ‘where’s and when’s’.

For more information visit theluckytaco.co.nz

2. TIMBERLAND BOOTS

According to fashion blogger Katherine is Awesome, “about a thousand million girls are going to be in Timbs [Timberlands] this winter, you mark my words.” Established in 1978, Timberlands have been globally renowned for their quality and resistance for over 30 years, ducking in and out of the fashion spotlight throughout that time.

Featuring in a number of Autumn/Winter fashion shoots, such as New Zealand fashion label Huffer- it looks like it could be their time to shine once again...

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3. THE GLOWING PLANT PROJECT

Californian scientists have replicated the glow from glow-worms and have now started working on developing plants that give off their own night-light. Visions are afoot of these glow in the dark plants leading to trees replacing street lamps and potted flowers that give off enough light to read by, giving a whole new meaning to the term ‘natural light’.

For more information visit glowingplant.com

4. GOOGLE GLASSES

Two years in the making, Google Glasses are now out in the market being trialled by every day people. After seeing Sergey Brin (co-founder of Google) preview the glasses at New York Fashion week last year, the world has been abuzz about the glasses capabilities and what it means for our technological future. With the intention of giving you all of the tools of Google activated by the sound of your voice, Google Glasses free up your hands, your eyes and ears (by sending sound directly through your cranium – “a little freaky at first, but you get used to it,” says Brin.)

To stay informed on the progress of Google Glasses sign up at googleglass.com.

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The Good Life with Ingrid Memlink Words: Inger-Lisa Hurst

Successful entrepreneur Ingrid Memelink is more than aware that nothing stays the same in business.

In the 18-years since she first established fine linen and design accessory store Harrowset Hall, she has left Auckland for the South Island and developed an instinctual awareness for changes in buyer demands and fashion trends.

“Keeping up with change in business is a very creative process,” says Ingrid. “I think people underestimate how creative running a business is, but that really is the fun of it.”

The Harrowset Hall concept began on Broadway in Newmarket, selling bed linen alongside Ingrid’s existing lingerie business. When the doors to Harrowset Hall first opened, it was the only store selling 100% cotton linen at a time when the norm was poly-cotton blends.

Seven years ago, Ingrid took the plunge and relocated to the South Island, choosing Dunedin over Christchurch due to the affordable housing. Being able to purchase a beautiful 1910 brick mansion with harbour views was a luxury that was becoming unaffordable in Auckland. “At the time it seemed a bit mad to move so far from my business but it has taught me to manage my business better and due to my excellent team, over the years, Harrowset Hall continues to blossom.” Says Ingrid.

Ingrid’s move to Dunedin was also motivated by wanting better lives for herself and her two daughters enabling education and lifestyle opportunities, which she struggled to manage in Auckland while maintaining a work/life balance as a single parent. “Music lessons and sport became a five minute drive rather than 50 minutes,” she says. “That’s why they call Dunedin the five minute city. Lots of my friends were beginning their European sojourns and I realised that I hadn’t yet seen much of the South Island. Now we regularly take a quick break to Queenstown or Central Otago and really feel like we have been away!”

Ingrid now looks forward to her commutes to Auckland, enjoying the city for work and appreciating the lifestyle more now than when she lived here. “I commute once a month and enjoy catching up with suppliers, my team and seeing many of our regular customers still shopping with us after so many years and what feels like for me so many changes and challenges overcome.”

“Since 2008 there has been a big trend back to quality,” says Ingrid. “My customers are wanting a theme in their bedrooms that will last for a long time.” The integrity involved in supplying a product that will last the test of time has always been a key element in the success of Harrowset Hall. “I believe in quality products and quality service at a fair price,” she says. “That means it is fair on everybody involved in the

“Keeping up with change in business is a very creative process,” says Ingrid. “I think people underestimate how creative running a business is, but that is really the fun of it.” trade, from cotton pickers right through to retail. The current market focus on price and discounting can erode this.”

Sitting on the cusp of winter, it is an exciting time to see the new ranges in Harrowset Hall. “Our velvet collection has just landed,” says Ingrid. “Velvet is always an exciting addition to beds for winter.” There is a lot of soft blush and duck egg blue along with a natural linen collection in moke, pearl, charcoal and naturals. Coming later in the season is a new peacock motif series by Bianca Lorenne that is trending from European textiles in curtains and bedding.

Ingrid Memelink continues to be excited by her business and the changes it brings with it. With the closing of her iconic Herne Bay store comes the understanding that it is no longer necessary to have periphery stores, but is more important to focus on the central hubs such as her flagship store on Nuffield Street, Newmarket and the growing business from the internet that makes sourcing and supplying even easier for the consumer.

To view Harrowset Hall online visit harrowsethall.co.nz or pop-in to Shop 7, 21 Nuffield Street, Newmarket.

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Trenzseater Rejuvenates Christchurch Home We were approached by Mike and Rachel to do the interior design work for their home in Christchurch which was situated on the Wairarapa Stream.

This architecturally designed home by Darren O’Neil featured beautiful large canterlevered eaves, large scale sliding doors which opened onto a loggia and pool area and featured a lot of schist both on the exterior and interior of the home.

It was important for Mike and Rachel to keep continuity and flow throughout the home, allowing each space to have the feeling that it could be lived in and not too precious. The interior had to compliment the architecture without competing with it, which gave us a good basis and platform to suggest an appropriate layout through the furniture and textiles.

To achieve this result we used an eclectic mix of products – elegant Italian hand- carved Louis armchairs, rich sumptuous velvets complemented with antiqued leathers, stud and buttoning details on sofas and armchairs, shiney steel and nickel lighting and trunks – all with tailor made rugs.

We worked with Mike and Rachel on this project for several months, it was a pleasure working with them to achieve a result that they were delighted with and we have since been approached to look at another project of theirs to be completed.

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“To achieve this result we used an eclectic mix of products, elegant Italian hand-carved Louis armchairs – rich sumptuous velvets complemented with antiqued leathers...”

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Top: Gorgeous buttoned sofas sit paired with classic rolled armchairs which were specified by TRENZSEATER for the formal living room at Mike & Rachel Pero’s home.

Bottom: Interior Design by TRENZSEATER compliments the refined architecture of this beautifully presented home in Fendalton, Christchurch.

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Star Drycleaning

An Environmentally Friendly Option Star Drycleaning is a family-owned business. The Lim family has been in the dry-cleaning business for ten years. In establishing their latest outlet the family decided that they would like to ensure that they were in touch with their customers’ growing desire to be environmentally friendly.

Their new shop in Quay Street is a tribute to this objective. It has an array of the most modern drycleaning equipment with all machinery purchased new for the store.

Star Drycleaning use hydro carbon which is a non-toxic solvent – this product is both environmentally and garment friendly. “Even though this method is more time consuming and requires more finishing touches, it is important for our customers’ clothing. It is gentler and particularly good for delicate items,” says Mr Lim.

“I now love the smell of my clothes!

Since I started using Star Drycleaning.

I never have to worry about airing anything and my skin (which is so sensitive) is safe from harsh chemicals The alteration service is really convenient – I just drop in and get fitted, then collect a few days later. And the quality of the alterations is astounding. I would never hesitate to recommend Star Drycleaning.”

– Jennie Levarre-Waters

More than just dry-cleaners Star Drycleaning are specialists in a range of high-value items such as wedding gowns, delicate leather and suede handbags along with shoe cleaning. For clients who are needle and thread challenged you can also drop in items that require repairs and alterations.

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CHEMICAL-FREE MATTRESS CLEANING AND SANITISATION Have you heard the one about our mattresses doubling in weight over the course of ten years due to dust mite debris and skin cells?

Urban myth or the truth?

Gross though it may seem, it’s a fact.

Over the course of just ten years, your mattress could double in weight because of the accumulation of dust mite debris (and let’s be real here: dust mite poop), your dead skin cells, moisture, mould, fungus, etc.

Did you know a single dust mite produces about 20 waste droppings each day, each containing a protein to which many people are allergic? Yuck! And what is worse is that almost certainly there are over a million dust mites living in the mattress you will sleep on tonight, not to mention your pillows, the duvet etc.

Just thinking of these millions of dust mites living in your sanctuary of rest, eating your dead skin and hair, is enough to make you sick (literally and figuratively), especially when you consider vulnerable individuals, like your children or your elderly parents and grandparents.

So how do you ensure your child is raised in a fresh healthy environment when dust mites and bacteria can fully populate your household bed’s within six months of purchase?

Fortunately there is an answer: CleanBed. They have a solution that will spruce up your beds and get rid of dust mites. Using the latest chemical free technologies to deep clean your bed and get rid of the nasties, CleanBed’s services are essential for asthma and allergy sufferers, but also a great idea for anyone concerned with healthy living.

CleanBed controls dustmites by: •

Giving the mattress and bedding a real heavy-duty vacuum, which vibrates and shakes as much of the dry debris as possible out of the mattress. It also has a germicidal U.V. function.

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Steam at 120°C is used to kill remaining mites. The fine steam particles penetrate deep into the mattress, and the mattress is left almost dry.

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This step is optional and includes the use of an antimicrobial which kills bacteria, moulds and spores for future protection.

The great thing about CleanBed is that they ensure that your bed is a healthy place to be. And not only your beds – they can make your carpet, curtains, sofas and strollers healthy environments for your family too.

Contact CleanBed to get an easybreathing, fresh sleep for you and your family.

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AT HOME WITH KARAKTER: Gordon Russell’s Helix sideboard Having founded Gordon Russell Ltd. in 1923, within a matter of years the company had built a reputation as one of the leading designers of British modern furniture and Gordon Russell was elected a royal designer for industry in 1940.

In 1951, Gordon Russell (by then also the Director of the Council of Design) commissioned David Booth and Judith Ledeboer to produce a sideboard to showcase leading design of the post-war era for the Festival of Britain. What emerged was the Helix sideboard.

This distinctive sideboard is now a collector’s piece and is featured in the collections of the Geffyre and Victoria & Albert museums in London.

We love the simplicity of design and the craftsmanship, with the trademark helix shape created by cutting the Bombay rosewood veneer doors to reveal white birch beneath. Also notable is the direction of the grain on the top and side, which runs front to back. We have seen two versions, which differ only in the position of the cutlery drawer and internal shelf layout.

Crafted in limited numbers, the sideboard has gained in popularity and value in recent years and quality examples can create a stunning centrepiece complementing other modern design.

BUYING GUIDE / As far as we know, this design has never been copied so if you’re in the market for a Helix sideboard you just need to focus on the condition of the piece. / Good examples have a lovely uniform warm patina, with little to no misuse or sun fade, even after 60 plus years. / Check the structure. They are well made pieces and should be fine but it’s always worth checking thoroughly when buying vintage pieces.

If you’re lucky you’ll find a ‘Russell of Broadway’ badge on the reverse. Not all have them but some remain in place.

Karakter sources the finest examples of mid twentieth century furniture from Europe and is delighted to have one of these rare Helix cabinets in great condition in their showroom. See Karakter’s ad in Verve’s Market Place on page 113

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Something Old... Something New Antonia Marino, owner of Voodoo Molly Vintage, transforms tired furniture into treasured pieces with a little help from husband Lyall and daughter Stevie.

At Voodoo Molly Vintage we up-style furniture, and we’re skilled in custom paintwork on semi-antique, midcentury, modern and industrial pieces.

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At our home-based workshop in Papakura, we specialise in the distressed and faux-aged look and pieces finished by hand. With distressed or fauxaged furniture we minimise but do not eliminate all character marks by working with natural wear patterns.

It started as a hobby doing simple furniture painting and upholstery on a small scale.

The interest began after I became frustrated with buying a dressing table and chair…so I bought a rough looking set and up-styled it myself. That led to something else, which led to something else and before I knew, it had turned into a hobby on steroids. The only thing slowing me down – keeping me from doing it fulltime – was a medical mobility issue. A couple of years ago I had surgery on my spine and both hands to give me more mobility than I had ever had before... and within a few months post-recovery I had turned my hobby into a fully fledged furniture painting business. It has been growing steadily ever since. Nowadays, we often have a four-week waiting list for commissions. It proves the point that physical disabilities do not need to hold you back, or limit your dreams.

We have an amazing range of Voodoo Molly Vintage paint colours, which can also be blended together to make custom colours to fit your requirements.

We also supply a small range of finished furniture items for purchase in our online store. These are all up-styled by us and we try to keep it stocked with a variety of finishes and characteristics.

We also recycle un-restorable furniture by reclaiming timber and fittings and turning them into recycled homewares, including crates, totes and racks.

Turning old furniture into new - is the ultimate way of recycling: it gives a piece a fresh new look and keeps it from ending up in our landfills.

- Antonia Marino, owner of Voodoo Molly Vintage For more information see www. voodoomolly.co.nz or find us on Facebook.

What got you into this type of work?

Have you always been in the furniture business?

I have a background in art and business, but was never in the ‘furniture business’ until recently.

I have been an award-winning sculptor in metal-weaving, and a successful full-time contemporary painter in oils.

I had several successful solo exhibitions during my artistic years and exhibited in a few North Island galleries.

I also have a background in business having worked in several industry related jobs over the years. During this time I started a bachelor degree majoring in finance.

Are you a collector of furniture in which you can see potential?

Unfortunately yes! I have a storeroom full to the ceiling of my own collected items gathered over the years. Many people might see them as junk, but I can see the glamour and potential in every one!

Items range from mid-century chairs and lounge suites, to dining sets and drawers. This is my own private ‘stash’ that I occasionally dip into between commissions. I’m slowly whittling my way through my stash, adding a completed piece to the on-line store every couple of weeks.

Do you deliver your finished furniture back to the client when the job is complete and looking stunning?

Our ‘Molly Van’ is available for pickups and deliveries throughout the wider Auckland area. It’s brightly sign-written with our company branding so is fun and eye-catching.

We have had people wave at us on the motorway after recognising us... so we have lots of fun travelling around in the Molly Van. Starting in June we are offering free pickup and delivery service for all commissions valued over $300.

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FOOD 4 THOUGHT

Atico Cocina Words: F. Harrison

There is a lot going on in Drake Street these days. There’s my favourite coffee stop, Allpress, the all-new fabulous Victoria Park Market, and there is Atico Cocina with its look and feel of South America. Walk through Atico Cocina’s bright red doors and be greeted by an intriguing historic space: rustic brick walls, wood finishes and splashes of toasty warm colour – a welcome prelude to a delicious experience.

Central to the restaurant is an oblong shaped bar, which true to tradition serves a wonderful selection of tropical cocktails and of course, the perfect Mojito. “It’s all about having fun,” says co-owner Giovanny, “plus cocktails are a perfect match to the food we serve.” The wine list is extensive – so if cocktails are not your thing, there are plenty of other choices.

Atico’s menu focusses on food from the northern end of South America, with an emphasis on the Caribbean, and boasts dishes inspired by celebrations of the Day of the Dead in Mexico, Carnival in Rio, Oruro and Trinidad, San Juan in Venezuela and Christmas anywhere (so says the menu). Try reading the dishes on offer out aloud. Names like Berenjena Domincana, Venezuelan Arepas and Pollo Achiote, tell their own flavoursome story.

Your waiter/waitress will encourage you to order a number of dishes to share, which of course, adds to the fun. And while you wait for your mains, you have got to try their Arepas, traditionally served with Queso Fresco (fresh cheese made on the premises). This skillet cornbread ticks all the boxes. It is simple, fresh, and a great accompaniment for a raft of dishes – excellent for gluten sensitive and vegetarian diets too. If you have room for a dessert, the Delicia Cubana is blissful: wickedly rich, chocolaty, and creamy.

Calories galore!

Co-owner Giovanny Barragan (born in Colombia, lived in Mexico) always had a passion for food. “I have spent time in many different countries and have tried a diversity of cuisines, but always go back to my roots. As an urban designer for Auckland Council I realised that there are plenty of opportunities to make Auckland a better, more vibrant city. The future

of Auckland lies in being a welcoming inclusive city, with plenty of choice and access to different experiences. Atico Cocina is my contribution to this process: a platform for things a little bit Spanish, sometimes a little more French, with maybe a bit of Creole, but always a reflection of Latin American and Caribbean culture and people just having fun. “Auckland is changing and so is its restaurant scene, and with a rush of Latin American places opened recently, Atico Cocina prouds itself of offering the whole ‘Latino’ experience with a point of difference in a stylish setting”, says Giovanny.

Atico Cocina co-owner, Giovanny Barragan

“We have live entertainment like Cuban Musica and Latin Jazz and every Sunday Brazilian artist Ricardo plays relaxed acoustic music. Our intention is to serve you really good food and drink that you can mix and match, so you can try a bit of everything. We invite you to listen to great music, have good conversation, and make yourself happy without spending a whole lot of money.

19 Drake St, Freemans Bay Phone: (09) 354 4030 Website: www.atico.co.nz

See you at Atico Cocina soon.”

For special events check Atico Cocina’s website or Facebook page

Open midday till late for lunch and dinner, Tuesday – Sunday On street parking and Wilson car park (free on weekends) Great venue for functions for up to 180 people

BACK AGAIN – STILL GREAT! The atmosphere and service had not faltered one bit – still as welcoming as the first time we went. For an entree I recommend the cerviche. It was exceptional, as was the goat curry I had for my main course. My husband had seared tuna for a main and is still raving about it. This time we went on a Friday evening and were treated to a Salsa dancing display, and a lesson for those game enough to try! After a glass or two of Chilean wine we were limbered up enough to give it a go and had a ball working off the dinner.”

As seen on TripAdvisor.

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From Atico’s Cocina Skillet Cornbread INGREDIENTS 2 cups yellow cornmeal 1 corn cob or 1 cup yellow corn kernels 350ml buttermilk 2 free-range eggs 75g butter 50g Queso Fresco 80g sour cream 1tbs caster sugar 1tsp baking powder 1tsp salt 2tbs fennel seed, toasted 2tbs olive oil 2tbs canola oil

METHOD 1. Place canola oil in a 20cm skillet or cast-iron pan.

2. Heat pan in 200°C oven for 15 minutes.

3. In a large bowl, mix together corn, cornmeal, Queso Fresco, salt, baking powder, caster sugar and fennel seeds.

4. In a separate bowl, whisk eggs, then beat in buttermilk, sour cream, melted butter, and olive oil.

5. Fold wet and dry mix together until just combined.

Don’t overwork it.

6. Remove skillet or pan from oven. Carefully swirl the oil around to coat the pan, then discard half of the oil.

7. The cornbread mix should be a thick but still just pourable batter. You can adjust with more cornmeal or buttermilk if required.

8. Pour batter into hot pan and bake in oven at 200°C for 20 – 22 minutes.

9. When ready leave on bench to cool for 10 minutes, then turn out of pan on to chopping board and cut into wedges.

YIELD: 8 PORTIONS

Queso Fresco INGREDIENTS 2 litres milk 1tbs flakey sea salt 6tbs lime juice

METHOD 1. Place milk and salt into stainless steel pot. Simmer gently on a very low heat until mixture reaches 82°C. 2. Add lime juice almost immediately. Milk will separate into curds and whey.

3. Remove from heat and leave for 5 – 10 minutes, until cheese is cool enough to handle.

4. Pull the cheesecloth around the cheese and squeeze through the excess whey.

5. At this point the cheese will be crumbly and ready to eat OR you can place in a cheese mould to make a firmer round disc.

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If you love to cook and the excitement of trying something new – exploring the cuisines of South America could be a rewarding challenge with tasty results. The recipes provided on this page are central to many traditional and Nuevo Latino dishes. Skillet cornbread can be served warm or at room temperature for brunch, lunch and dinner, with butter, jam or savoury tostada-like toppings. Queso fresco (or fresh cheese) – a mild, unaged cow’s milk cheese, can be used with your skillet corn bread, or in salads, crumbled over rice and beans, and even used in sauces. Mmmm enjoy!

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‘10’ is a Mercy Hospice Auckland fundraiser where dishes from ten top Auckland restaurants are matched with wines from ten top New Zealand vineyards for guests to enjoy. This year’s event at The Pullman is on Sunday 23rd of June beginning at 11am. It includes restaurant favourites Andiamo, Molten, The French Café, The Commons, The Esplanade Bar and Grill restaurants alongside Villa Maria, Coopers Creek, Terra Sancta and Rochfort Rees wineries. Fabulous auction items will be available to bid on. Tickets are $200 per person or $2,000 for a table of ten. Tables are selling fast so book yours today.

Call Lesley Dawson on (09) 376-7571, email lesley.dawson@mercyhospice.org.nz or book online at www.mercyhospice.org.nz.

Above: Guests will be treated to delicious cuisine such as roasted quail with wild mushrooms, chestnut, bacon, croissant sauce and black truffle from The French Café.

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VERVE ESSAY

Life of Rice Words: Jamie Christian Desplace

Rice, it’s the staple diet of half the world’s population and accounts for 20 per cent of global calorific intake. Consumed for thousands of years, it even played a significant role in the domestication of nomadic man, its tiny grains serving as the building blocks of early civilisation.

“Fifteen thousand years ago, we were hunter-gathers,” says Dr. Graeme MacRae, anthropologist and lecturer at Massey University. “By around 10,000 years ago we had figured out that there were grasses and seeds that could be ground-up and also nutritious. Those wild grasses, including rice, became our main grains. We became agriculturalists – villages, towns and eventually cities blossomed.”

Dr. MacRae has worked in Bali for twenty years as an anthropologist, during which time he noted that everyone had prospered except those in agriculture, namely rice-growing farmers. He embarked on a campaign to encourage growers to adopt organic methods that not only reduce production costs and environmental impacts, but increase potential sale value. Over the past two years, he’s been studying the basmati rice industry of northern India.

“There are places in the Himalayan foothills where farmers are growing basmati as cash crops and their neighbour’s are growing tens of different crops for subsistence,” says Dr. MacRae. “Only around five per cent of rice is an export crop, the vast majority remains subsistence. It’s a huge part of world production, but not a big part of world trade.”

Of that, nearly all the world’s basmati is grown on the plains of northern India and Pakistan, which, surprisingly, were not traditional riceeating regions. Fragrant, delectable basmati is now seen as a status symbol among India’s burgeoning middle-class.

“Stories of basmati go back hundreds of years, it was the rice of choice for kings,” Dr. Dr. MacRae tells me. “The price for good packaged, branded basmati in Delhi is now the same, if not higher, as the export price.”

The handful of major global basmati companies, such as those that import here, started life as local market traders only 30 or 40 years ago.

With the liberalisation of the Indian economy during the 1990s, they took full advantage of export opportunities and within the space of just a few years became multi-national giants. The

“The Green Revolution too, through the use of petro-chemical fertilisers facilitated an abundance of high-yield crops, practices that are still widely used today by those major firms” Green Revolution too, through the use of petro-chemical fertilisers facilitated an abundance of high-yield crops, practices that are still widely used today by those major firms. China is now even developing GM strains of the grain.

A new low-tech approach, known as System of Rice Intensification (SRI), is based on simple methods such as careful seed selection and planting techniques, using less water and more organic fertiliser, which has been shown to increase productivity enormously.

“This obviously scares the hell out of the research institutes and big rice companies,” says Dr. MacRae. “It’s very difficult to get the traders to speak, they’re notoriously secretive like many business people. I thought they’d at least try to give me some public relations spin. There’s a vicious campaign that’s trying to discredit the SRI. Until the Green Revolution, rice was organic. Since then, all large-scale agriculture used petro-chemical fertilisers so there’s a whole generation of farmers who grew up not knowing any other way.”

Global warming too, is taking its toll, particularly on northern India’s water supplies, further emphasising the need to adapt a more eco-friendly approach.

“It’s becoming a critical issue as basmati is a very water-hungry crop,” Dr. MacRae says. “There is a growing awareness of the environmental effects of petro-chemicals on the land, animals and water supplies, but getting them to do something about it is another matter. It all boils down to economics. If you can guarantee organic products will sell for a higher price, then that’s when they’ll be interested.”

Two thousand feet up on the carved terraces of the Himalayas, there are countless farmers still growing the old varieties the old way. Every village has its own variety with differing names for their basmati-type rice. It’s lovely, says Dr. MacRae, though not as spectacular as the commercial stuff, for obvious reasons.

It must have been strange seeing a Westerner traipsing across their land to examine the humble rice grain?

“It’s a bit of a surprise for them,” says Dr. MacRae. “But on the whole, mountain and farming people, like village people everywhere are very friendly and quite delighted that someone else is taking an interest.”

(For those looking to find high quality rice in central Auckland, Dr. MacRae recommends heading to Sandringham).

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Second Floor Pure Sensory Delight Words: F. Harrison

At the top of a wrought iron spiral staircase, in the charming olde worlde looking building (next door to Verve Café) at 317 Parnell Road, is a little piece of dining heaven, aptly named – Second Floor. And although the spiral staircase can be a means of entry, no need to panic, there is a normal staircase too!

Décor is honest, no nonsense, clean and crisp, the warm wooden floors echoing bygone country charm.The hosts and waiting staff understand their craft, having grown up in the Chinese restaurant tradition. There is little they do not know about the simple pleasures of eating and drinking. Service is prompt and efficient, with dishes steaming hot.

Some served on stone and others on a variety of eye-catching plates or dishes, each a perfect fit for the food they carry.

The menu spoils one for choice – so in the tradition of modern dining we ordered several dishes and share. Subtle and tender crispy beef, hot spicy and succulent squid, sweet and vinegar spare ribs served sizzling on slate, velvety soft kumara and Chinese yam. And then a zesty prawn curry, yummy chicken with peanuts and chillies, and light-as-air tofu with thinly sliced mushrooms in a really morish sauce (vegetarian’s delight). There was hardly room for dessert but who

could resist trying something with a name like red bean paste cake? Unusual it was – and tasty to boot.

The wine list is comprehensive with something for everyone’s taste, offering a good selection of New Zealand and Australian wines, bubbles and beers (including the world’s top selling Chinese beer, Tsingtao).

So – if you feel like trying something new tonight, no matter whether it’s just you and your partner, or a whole lot of you, Verve recommends you give Second Floor a go. Truly it is the perfect casual dining solution for friends and family, and especially good if you enjoy modern Chinese cuisine.

“Having had the benefit of several years of visiting different parts of China on business I have been hosted across the range of eating establishments from roadside to fine dining.

The food experience at Second Floor, I would position in the fine dining end of the spectrum. The dishes were exquisitely presented – a rare visual feast, with delicate tastes to match.”

- G.W.

A La Carte, Chinese, Asian

317 Parnell Road (upstairs) Parnell, Auckland www.secondfloornz.com 09 368 5788

Open Monday – Sunday 11.30am-3pm, 5.30pm-10pm.

Closed Tuesday Functions catered for – up to 50 people.

Parking in the street or diagonally across the road at 290 Parnell Rise car park.

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FIT FOR SUCCESS? Failing to plan is planning to fail. When it comes to dietary intakes and health, planning is vital. There is a reason some women age faster, have increased fatigue, cellulite, feel bloated and are over the place with their desired weight. We can’t always help what life throws at us but we can control what we put in our mouths. Planning to make nutritional adjustments is crucial to be able to stride through and accommodate life’s challenges. For example, if you can’t exercise then accommodate this by reducing your overall calorie intake by a couple of hundred calories – this may mean skipping a latte and/or glass of wine. Food is meant to be celebrated and enjoyed – we just need to make sure we are getting the right types and amounts.

BEAUTY TIPS FOR SUCCESS: 1. Reduction in cellulite – plan to drink 2-3L of purified water per day. Reduce/eliminate alcohol and refined sugars for liver detoxification.

Best foods for your liver: Garlic, grapefruit, green tea, leafy green and cruciferous vegetables, avocados, wholegrains.

Reduce bloating with teas like peppermint, fennel or chamomile.

2. Improved skin tone – hydrate! Include in your diet high level of Omega 3 fatty acids and Vitamin E. Best foods: Salmon, sardines, walnuts, linseed, chia seeds (Omega 3) and wheatgerm, vegetable oils, nuts, eggs, seeds, fish and fruit (vitamin E). You can also take high quality supplements like fish, flaxseed oil or krill oil.

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Improved energy and mood – omega 3 intake from fish or from krill/fish oil supplements. Address any underlying bowel issues. Avoid sugar and refined carbohydrates.

Best foods: Incorporate a range of phytochemicals and antioxidants from fruit and vegetables (fice to eight per day). Vitamins and minerals found in protein sources like fish, lean pork, chicken, beef, legumes, lentils, eggs, seafood, bran and wheatgerm.

4. Weight reduction – identify your eating habits on portion sizes, types of snacks and meals, timing of meals, drinks.

Write everything down and analyse.

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Reduce bloating – peppermint, fennel or chamomile tea, pure aloe vera juice. People have different reasons for bloating.

Take a course of probiotics to help restore gut flora.

Need some helpful planning to ensure your health success?

Call the Liz K Transformation Studio on 09 379 2706.

Kate Walker is a nutritional and wellness consultant at Liz K Transformation studio.

For confidence, direction, accountability and support in dietary and food habits to help reach your goals, contact Kate Walker at the Liz K Transformation Studio on 379 -2706 or kate@lizk. co.nz. Please refer to her ad in Verve’s Market Place on page 111.

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EVERYONE LOVES CHARDONNAY Everyone goes on and on about Pinot noir, often for good reasons. You’d think the other grape varieties would be jealous of Pinot Noir, they’re not, the other grape varieties are just relieved they are not Chardonnay.

For reasons unclear Chardonnay gets a hard time. It shouldn’t, Chardonnay makes some of the world’s most sought after and loved wines. Chardonnay is a significant component of all the best Prestige Cuvee Champagnes and the top end white Burgundies are the most expensive white wines in the world.

Winemakers love Chardonnay. It grows well in most wine regions throughout the world. It can be cropped heavily to make great value cheaper wines, or it can be cropped lightly to make complex wines with layers and layers of intrigue. Chardonnay’s can be un-oaked, crisp, clean and elegant or they can be huge oaky, buttery, knife and fork style wines – and everything in between. Which is why consumers love them too.

So what is there to hate? Maybe it is their versatility, their ability to be many different things to many different people. There is a Chardonnay to suit every palate and every wallet. It doesn’t seem fair to be down on Chardonnay for those reasons.

Ok, ok – badly made cheap Chardonnay can be bland, very bland. But who drinks those? We don’t. We love Chardonnay at Glengarry. We treat it with the respect that it deserves and never let a bland one enter our shops. Come and see us at Glengarry Newmarket, we can talk about Chardonnay for hours – if you want. Or better still drop in on a Friday afternoon in June and we will open a few and then talk about them for hours….

Fashions come and go, but Chardonnay is a classic and will outlive any trend. The other grape varieties may envy Pinot noirs attention, but deep down they wish they were Chardonnay.

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ARTS

Sunny California Design Brightens up Auckland this Winter Brighten up your winter at Auckland Art Gallery and visit California Design, 1930–1965: Living in a Modern Way which opens on Saturday, 6 July.

See some of the world’s most iconic objects and view designs that are as fresh and relevant now as they were when first created. Original furniture by Charles and Ray Eames, the world’s first Barbie doll and graphics by legendary designer Saul Bass are just some of the highlights in this extensive exhibition, which boasts more than 250 objects including furniture, textiles, fashion, graphics, industrial design, ceramics, jewellery, metalwork, architectural drawings and film.

An exciting programme of talks, film screenings and popular Open Late events will allow visitors to immerse themselves fully in mid-century Californian style and to learn more about this creative community that shaped the world around us. Auckland Art Gallery senior curator New Zealand and Pacific art Ron Brownson says this unforgettable exhibition presents the most significant design period in California’s recent history.

Keeping up with today’s modern lifestyle, a free California Design app for iPhone, iPod and Android users features access to original video interviews with California designers, images, essays and more.

Discounted earlybird tickets ($12) are available from June to 5 July via www.evenfinda.co.nz and give holders priority access. California Design, 1930 –1965: Living in a Modern Way, will run from 6 July to 29 September 2013.

Visit www.aucklandartgallery.com for more information.

Top: Elephant, by Charles and Ray Eames, 1945.

Molded plywood, 16 1/2 x 30 3/4 x 16 1/4 in.

Bottom right: Bottom left: A Season In Hell by Arthur Rimbaud, © 1945 by Alvin Lustig. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.

Lounge Chair and Ottoman, by Hendrik Van Keppel and Van Keppel-Green, designed c. 1939; made c.

1959. Enamelled steel, cotton cord (replaced) Chair: 24 ½ x 20 ½ x 33 in.; Ottoman: 12 x 20 ½ x 21 in. LACMA, Gift of Dan Steen in memory of Taylor Green

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ARTS – GEN-C

From Auckland to West End with Bridget Costello Words: Inger-Lisa Hurst Photos: James McCully

Starting ballet at only three years old, Bridget Costello has always loved dancing and music.

Though never shy on the stage, her mother thought singing lessons might also help the quiet youngster come out of her shell. “Mum put me into singing lessons when I was ten, because I was quite shy and she thought it would be good for me,” says Bridget. “It turned out that I really loved it and took to it and have done it ever since.”

Bridget went on to achieve Advanced Foundation in ballet with the Royal Academy of Dance at only 16 as well as spending four years studying classical singing at Victoria University.

Now the 23-year-old is about to embark on the adventure of a lifetime, heading to London to complete a Post Graduate Diploma in Musical Theatre at the Royal Academy of Music. “It’s very competitive,” she says. “I am one of only 15 girls to get in, and the fourth New Zealander to be accepted on the course in 20 years, so it is a huge privilege.”

With her ticket booked to fly to London in late August, Bridget is busy preparing for what will be an intense year, where she will be given personal singing and

dance lessons as well as acting coaching from world-class tutors. Along with her course mates, Bridget will also be performing in numerous productions throughout the year with rehearsals every evening and weekends when needed. “I can’t wait to work with the teachers – they will be incredible,” says Bridget. “We will also have guest teachers – international directors, composers, writers and performers who come in and do workshops and master classes. That’s why you need to go to a school like this one, because you get the connections, opportunities and the best training.”

With such a busy schedule, Bridget is aware that she will not have time for a job in London, so she is creatively finding ways to fundraise the $48,000 she will need for her fees and living costs. On top of working as a nanny and singing teacher, Bridget is organising two fundraising concerts, one in Auckland and another in Blenheim, where she will perform musical theatre and opera along with a few of her like-minded friends.

She has also been busy contacting local Auckland businesses in the hope of finding a benefactor. “Putting yourself out there and talking about money is not easy for me,” says Bridget shyly. “But I have to keep reminding myself that it’s for a great cause, it is such a great opportunity and I need to find someone who is willing to help me out. Someone who see’s the opportunity.”

On top of working as a nanny and singing teacher, Bridget is organising two fundraising concerts – one in Auckland and another in Blenheim, where she will perform musical theatre and opera along with a few of her like-minded friends.

Bridget’s Auckland fundraising concert will be held at the Rose Centre in Devonport on Friday 19 July. Tickets are $35 for adults and $25 for students. For more information contact bridgetmary.costello@gmail.com.

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Emerging Talent and Revived Buildings Star in New Zealand Architecture Awards

Clockwise from top: The Imperial Buildings, Auckland, by Fearon Hay Architects. Photo: Patrick Reynolds Geyser, Parnell, Auckland, by Patterson Associates.

Photo: Simon Devitt S House, Mt Eden, Auckland, by Glamuzina Paterson Architects. Photo: Patrick Reynolds

Nineteen architectural projects ranging in scale from a big indoor sports centre in Wellington to a micro-bach on the Coromandel Peninsula, and sited in locations as various as Rotoroa Island in the Hauraki Gulf, the shores of Lake Hawea, and The Mall in Washington, DC, have been acknowledged in this year’s New Zealand Architecture Awards which were announced in Auckland last month.

Alongside the awards bestowed upon exemplary buildings, the New Zealand Institute of Architects’ Gold Medal for career achievement was conferred on Auckland architect Pip Cheshire.

The New Zealand Architecture Medal, which is awarded to the most outstanding of the New Zealand Architecture Award winners – the best of the best – was presented to The Imperial Buildings, a group of heritage buildings on Auckland’s Queen Street which have been restored and revived by Fearon Hay Architects.

Speaking on behalf of fellow jurors, Auckland architects Jane Aimer and Pete Bossley, and Sydney architect Rachel Neeson, Andrew Barclay said “the conversion of older buildings to new purposes may be a symptom of current economic circumstances, but it also signals a greater awareness of the worth of existing buildings, and of the possibilities they offer to imaginative clients and architects.”

Barclay said the 2013 New Zealand Architecture Awards also revealed the emergence of young architects such as Glamuzina Paterson Architects, which won Awards for the S House in Auckland and the Lake Hawea Courtyard House in Central Otago. Other newcomers included Assembly Assembly Architects, designers of the Wellington Zoo Hub and Kamala’s Pavilion, and the Victoria University team which entered the First Light House into a highly selective international student design competition in the United States.

“The awards affirmed another encouraging development – the breakthrough of established but still youthful talent into largerscale work,” Barclay said. “It’s hard to make the step up, in a small country, but Fearon Hay Architects are now bringing the same high standards to commercial projects that they bring to their bespoke houses.”

Projects promoting sustainable values and enhancing the civic realm also featured in the New Zealand Architecture Awards. Patterson Architects’ 6-Green Star Geyser building in Parnell, Auckland, received awards in both the commercial and sustainable categories.

Sustainability, in both the environmental and social sense of the term, was the impulse behind the establishment of Re:START, the morale-boosting container retail precinct in central Christchurch designed by The Buchan Group, and also informed the design, by Architectus, of the Karanga Plaza and Kiosk in Auckland’s Wynyard Quarter.

Architectus won a second award for the practice’s design of St. Cuthbert’s College Performing Arts Centre in Auckland, a building praised by the awards jury for attending to both its functional requirements and its relationship with its residential neighbours.

Several smaller projects, the jury said, captured the rare quality of delight. One, the Cloudy Bay Shack designed for a Marlborough vineyard setting by Paul Rolfe Architects and Tonkin Zulaikha Greer Architects, was described by the jury as “an exquisitely sited and thoughtfully planned building” that complements the high standards of an iconic New Zealand winery.

An even smaller residential building that won over the awards jury was the Hut on Sleds, a tiny Coromandel bach designed

by Crosson Clarke Carnachan Architects (Auckland). “If brevity is the soul of wit, then this little beach house is bound to put a smile on the stoniest of faces,” the jury said.

At the same event in which the New Zealand Architecture Awards were announced, New Zealand Institute of Architects President David Sheppard presented the Gold Medal for career achievement to Pip Cheshire, architect of such acclaimed buildings as Auckland’s Q Theatre, the Leigh Marine Laboratory, the Congreve and Stringer Houses, and master architect of Auckland’s Britomart precinct. The New Zealand Institute of Architects praised Cheshire’s design skills, and also his contribution as a writer, teacher and mentor of young architects.

The New Zealand Architecture Awards is a programme of the New Zealand Institute of Architects, supported by Resene.

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Ingrid Boot Little Lady Pin Ups Preview: Tuesday 11 June, 5:30pm

Following on from the success of her show in 2012, Ingrid Boot’s Little Ladies return to Parnell Gallery on June 11th.

With a love of fashion history, Ingrid has designed each and every item of clothing for her Little Ladies based on the outfits worn in the mid twentieth Century. As always, the ladies are elegant and stylish, and a little bit posh. There’s nothing like a tipple of bubbles (pink of course!) to make one’s day.

Developing her vintage theme, Ingrid has created her own unique style by combining her Little Ladies with traditional Pin Up art from the 1950’s. The result is innocently flirty, tasteful with just a hint of sauce! Inspiration has come from the likes of Gil Elvgren and Alberto Vargas, two great pin up artists of the 50’s. A new direction in Ingrid’s work has seen the introduction of an equestrian theme as part of the show. Knowing little about the world of horses, Ingrid studied this subject in great detail – from the different disciplines of competition to the characteristics displayed by the riders themselves, and has captured the essence on canvas. Dressage riders primly reapply their lippy whilst sipping their bubbles,

while in contrast the cross-country competitors come in torn, tattered, cold and wet, swigging from a hip flask after a hard and challenging course.

Ingrid’s work is beautifully finished, her elegantly entertaining ladies supplying a gorgeous sense of fun and escapism through their lilliputian antics. Hallmark elongated limbs and exaggerated feminine gestures channel the romantic idealism of the 50’s and bring the ladies into the contemporary art world with aplomb. The artist’s training in illustration and love of fashion promote a sense of storytelling full of cheeky joie de vivre.

Blue skies, gleaming surfaces, perfectly manicured fields and greens provide the appropriate fantastical setting for each scene. Executed in acrylics, with clear colours and consistent attention to detail, each piece from this highly skilled artist is a pleasure to view.

Ingrid attended Westminster University where she completed a foundation course in art, followed by a three year Illustration degree at De Montfort University. In 2000 Ingrid immigrated to New Zealand, and she has exhibited In New Zealand, Italy and the United Kingdom since 2004.

Little Lady Pin Ups will be on show at the Parnell Gallery from 11 – 25 June.

263 Parnell Road, Auckland 09 377 3133 www.parnellgallery.co.nz

Clockwise from top left: Bubbles and Frills, 1000 x 500mm Jimmy Choos, 500 x 1000mm Bottoms Up, 900 x 900mm Cross Country, 760 x 760mm

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OUT & ABOUT

Coming up at the Movies 1. BEFORE MIDNIGHT IN CINEMAS JULY 4TH We meet Celine and Jesse nine years after their last rendezvous, in Before Sunset. Almost two decades have passed since their first encounter on a train bound for Vienna in Before Sunrise, and we now find them in their early forties in Greece. Before the clock strikes midnight, we will again become part of their story. Bolstered by an increasingly refined onscreen chemistry between lead actors Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke, Before Midnight is a fitting third chapter in one of the great love stories of American independent cinema.

Directed by Richard Linkalater Starring Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy Runtime 109 minutes | Rated TBC

2.THE LOOK OF LOVE IN CINEMAS JULY 4TH Winner of the Best Actor and Best Screenplay awards at the Berlin Film Festival, Michael Winterbottom’s The Look Of Love stars Steve Coogan (Tristram Shandy, The Trip) in the true-life story of Paul Raymond, the man behind Soho’s notorious Raymond Revue Bar and Men Only magazine. Paul Raymond began his professional life with an end of the pier mind-reading act. He soon realised that the audience was more interested in watching his beautiful assistant, and that they liked it even more if she was topless. He quickly became one of Britain’s leading nude revue producers. The film focuses on Raymond’s relationships with the three most important women in his life: his wife Jean (Anna Friel), his lover Fiona (Tamsin Egerton) and his daughter Debbie (Imogen Poots).

Directed by Michael WInterbottom Starring Steve Coogan, Imogen Poots, Stephen Fry, Anna Friel, Matt Lucas, David Walliams Runtime 101 minutes | Rated TBC

3. WHITE LIES IN CINEMAS JUNE 27TH Paraiti (Whirimako Black) is a medicine woman. She is the healer and midwife of her rural, tribal people – she believes in life. But new laws are in force prohibiting unlicensed healers. On a rare trip to the city, she is approached by Maraea (Rachel House), the servant of a wealthy woman, Rebecca (Antonia Prebble), who seeks her knowledge and assistance in order to hide a secret which could destroy Rebecca’s position in European settler society. So Paraiti, Maraea and Rebecca become players in a head-on clash of beliefs, deception and ultimate salvation.

Directed by Dana Rotberg Starring Antonia Prebble, Rachel House, Whirimako Black Runtime 95 minutes | Rated M with violence and nudity

4. TWICE BORN IN CINEMAS JULY 11TH Gemma visits Sarajevo with her son, Pietro. 16 years earlier, they escaped the war-torn city while Diego, the boy’s father, remained behind and later died. As she tries to repair her difficult relationship with Pietro, she also confronts her past. Gemma first met and fell in love with Diego in Sarajevo. They desperately wanted children but she could not conceive. Amidst the siege of 1992, they found a possible surrogate, and Gemma pushed her into Diego’s arms, only to be overwhelmed by guilt and jealousy. Now, a revelation awaits her – one that will force her to face the full extent of her loss, the true horror of war and the redemptive power of love.

Directed by Sergio Castellitto Starring Penelope Cruz, Emilie Hirsch Runtime 127 minutes | Rated TBC

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Shopping: From Kapati Coast to Cannes Set in 1981, New Zealand, in a world of muscle cars, racial tensions and a thieving bird, this movie is about a chance encounter between small town lad Willie with charismatic thief Bennie and his close-knit gang of ‘shoppers’ which leads to their two worlds colliding with shattering consequences.

Shopping has been recognised across multiple international film markets and competitions from Cannes to Sundance to Berlin. Verve was delighted chat to one of the stars of the show, Kevin Paulo.

V: Tell us a bit about yourself – where you grew up and how you were selected for your role in the movie, etc.

K: I was born in Lower Hutt (July 1991) but did most of my growing up on the Kapati Coast. One day I was in Coastlands (shopping mall) on my lunch break (from a roofing job) waiting for my butter chicken take-out, when the two guys (Mark Albiston and Louis Sutherland) behind me in the queue asked if I would like to audition for a part in a movie they were making.

They said that I looked the part. So I said yeah why not, auditioned and got the part. I had never acted before in my life, but had had quite a bit of practice at playing the clown with my friends – so maybe that helped.

V: Your life has changed since that chance meeting in Rangolis – buying your butter chicken. A series of coincidences do you think or was it destiny?

K: It seemed like pure luck me being just ahead of Louis and Mark in the line. But some things have since stood out for me.

My uncle passed away just before I got the part in the film. He always said to me that I should look at modelling and acting. I had thought to take his advice but had done nothing about it.

When I was offered the part of Willie, it almost felt as if my uncle had something to do with it.

Also there are a lot of similarities between the movie character Willie’s, Louis Sutherland’s (writer, director) and my life; we are all half-caste for instance (my mum’s European and Dad’s Samoan). These sorts of things do a lot to influence and build your character.

V: What were some of the best things about working on this movie?

K: Everyone that worked on the film! We were like a tight knit family. Everyone was just trying to lift each other up – we were the perfect team. And I met Laura – the female lead. We are in a relationship now – enough said.

SHOPPING IS CURRENTLY SHOWING AT A MOVIE HOUSE NEAR YOU.

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DATING AGENCIES - GOOD ENOUGH FOR CELEBRITIES Think you’re above using a dating agency to find love? Then you must have done something mind-blowing to develop the ego of the century, because celebrities have egos that can’t fill the Sky Tower, and yet they have no problem using dating agencies.

Some even claim to prefer it. This is where you gently tuck your ego away in your pocket and realise love may be easier to embrace than you think if you’d just contact the right person.

Don’t believe me? Here’s a list of a few dating agency cronies: Jennifer Aniston (female actress) Katie Holmes (female actress) Paula Abdul (female singer/choreographer) Elisabeth Biondi (female Visual Editor of The New Yorker Magazine) And the list goes on and on…growing larger every day. Even if the above named had only three qualities going for them: 1. Being rich 2. Being really, really good looking 3. Having notoriety One might imagine their dating card to be full, possessing such qualities. But, that’s just not real life, is it? Anyone, no matter how blessed he/she is by society’s twisted standards, can find love elusive. Love is slippery. Companionship is confusing. Passion can be obliterating.

So considering the fickle nature of love and that putting yourself out there means forfeiting time to the dating world, dating agencies start to make a lot of sense. No wonder people, even the famous, use them. They’re convenient. They’re experts.

They’re run by experts — real humans screening real humans, not gigabytes and logarithms deciding who’d make you laugh the most. Matchmakers are for smart people, even really hot, successful, funny and sexy people.

The moral of the story is dating agencies are a fantastic way to start dating again, and possibly find the love of your life.

They’re a qualified, safe approach to coupling. They know hundreds of fantastic singles who are genuinely looking for a partner. Their clients are successful, sane, happy and desirable people who don’t have the time or desire to go trawling in clubs or pubs for a connection. That’s all.

Find yourself single? If you’re feeling intelligent, give me a call.

Easy as that.

For more information about Two’s Company visit our website www.twoscompany.co.nz or email sasha@twoscompany.co.nz.

Sasha Madarasz 0800-021-522 sasha@twoscompany.co.nz www.twoscompany.co.nz

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Book Reviews Contributor: Doris of Arcadia Books

1. IN THE RING Don McKinnon Former Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand, who became Secretary-General of the Commonwealth Nations, gives the reader a great behind the scenes look into the world of political drama and some of the more turbulent episodes in modern history from around the world.

Well respected as a leading statesman, Don McKinnon explains in a clear accessible way the complications of diplomacy and how the Commonwealth really works. An insightful foreword by Madeline Albright completes this well written and interesting memoir.

paper patterns so they can be recreated in the original style or with a modern twist. Complete with detailed instructions, Famous Frocks is a home sewer’s heaven and a book to inspire you to visit your nearest fabric shop and give your humble wardrobe a whole new fabulous look.

A great present for that hard to buy for girlfriend and fellow sewer.

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2. VINEYARD VIRGINS Kim Goldwater Not only did Kim and Jeanette Goldwater plant and nurture their Waiheke Island vineyard and acquire various others, but they went on to produce some of the best wines made in New Zealand. For over thirty years they put their heart and soul into growing the best vines they could.

This is their story - full of ups and downs, pleasure and pain, and ultimately a huge international success story with a fairytale ending. Inspiring reading - especially with a glass of Goldwater wine close to hand.

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3. A YEAR IN THE LIFE OF FACEHUNTER Yvan Rodic “It’s not about fashion people inspiring fashion people anymore, it’s about real life inspiring real people - all over the world,” says Yvan Rodic - the man who made his name posting pictures of interesting people on his Facehunter blog. From the streets of Paris to New York and beyond, Yvan has travelled hundreds of thousands of miles a year to capture real life and real fashion in the world’s most creative cities; this is his pictorial travel diary of what the people are wearing. Look good everyday courtesy of Facehunter.

4. FAMOUS FROCKS Sarah Almand and Hannah McDevitt This is one of those clever books that make you wonder why no one has thought of it before. Take a rack of iconic dresses from Rita Heyworth to Jackie O, Madonna to Audrey Hepburn, and then include the Arcadia Bookshop 26 Osborne Street, Newmarket (09) 522 5211 www.arcadiabookshop.co.nz

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This page: Matariki rising over the Church of The Good Shepherd.

Photo by Alex Cherney, www.terrastro.com

Matariki Words: Jamie Christian Desplaces

In the constellation of Taurus sits a cluster of stars known as Pleiades, or the Seven Sisters. The cluster has served as a seasonal marker and navigation aid throughout the world, and first appears in the Aotearoa skies in late May or early June (usually around the 12th for Auckland). The pre-dawn event, known as Matariki, heralds the beginning of the Maori New Year (Te Tau Hou Maori).

Historically, celebrations took place over the following month – some iwi did so immediately, others waited until the first full moon. It was traditionally seen as a time to give offerings to the gods, educate the young and celebrate the earth and sky. Many of the Matariki festivities died off throughout the last century but have seen a revival since the turn of the millennium. The Auckland festival from 22 June until 22 July offers the chance for all to get involved.

The beautiful opening ceremony will take place on the morning of the 22 at 6am from atop of One Tree Hill. The moon will be at its closest to us and as it sets you can marvel at the rise of Matariki.

The goodwill atmosphere will be further enhanced by Maori prayers and chanting (karakia). Take along some binoculars for the best view.

The following four weeks are packed with exhibitions, dances, magic shows, arts, crafts and children’s workshops.

Maori Queen of Cuisine, Anne Thorp, will be demonstrating her simple, healthy native food at Mangere Arts Centre on 9 July and three days later Native Noise will make its return to the Town Hall. The roots-reggae line-up includes Che Fu & the Crates, Three Houses Down and 1814. The 2degrees Kapa Haka Super 12’s will be another highlight, with 12 teams of 12 performers each taking to the stage for 12 minutes to win $12,000.

It promises to be a month to remember, check out www.matarikifestival.org.nz for further details.

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BEST UGLY Al Brown and his team make Montreal style, hand-rolled woodfired bagels in a converted workshop in the City Works Depot. Best Ugly bagels are crispy on the outside, yet chewy on the inner, with an airy texture. Come down and watch the team at work - rolling, folding & baking right in front of you as you order topped bagels or take home packs. For more info check out bestugly.co.nz

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BROTHERS BEER Brothers Beer is a must-visit destination for beer lovers. With over 200 beers on offer – 18 of these on tap – there is a beer for every taste. Alongside the working brewery where the ‘Brothers’ make their own brews on-site, there is a comfortable tasting lounge with leaner tables made from recycled weatherboards and lounge suites that look like they were taken straight from someone’s grandmother’s place! Another flash-back to your youth is the collection of old toys, from Tintin and Thunderbirds to Japanese robots and Tonka toys. Delicious thin-crust pizzas are also made to order. A perfect place to spend a day sipping lager in the sun, or hiding away from the rain with a warming stout.

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THREE BEANS Three Beans opened their doors to the public last December with a fantastic industrial space in the City Works Depot development incorporating their pride and joy – a 1923 restored Whitmee coffee roaster. Here, they serve a range of single origin coffees and of course their famous Gangster Rabbit and Raging Rhino blends through a variety of espresso and non-pressurised methods. There is a wide selection of their beans for sale to take home too.

Having started Three Beans in 2010, Director Jonny McKessar has grown a business out of years of knowledge in the industry as well as serval trips through Central and South America to meet with coffee farmers and to get a better insight into the industry from bean to cup. Three Beans is now one of the top boutique coffee roasters in Auckland.

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THE FOOD TRUCK Chef Mike Van de Elzen has brought the much loved TVNZ Food Truck series to life. The Food Truck Garage has opened in the popular and fast growing City Works Depot. The casual eatery is all about healthy fast food with the menu featuring favourite dishes from and inspired by the series. The famous Food Truck is on show just outside the garage serving food for curious fans to take a closer look. Open six days a week for lunches and dinners from 11.30am.

For more information go to www.foodtruckgarage.co.nz

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DRY & TEA Dry & Tea, known for perfect blow waves has just launched High Tea! Keeping in the theme of ‘affordable luxury’, for $25 you get fluffy scones with jam & cream, ribbon sandwiches and incredibly delicious sweet treats served with the perfect pot of tea or your favourite Allpress Coffee! The traditional yet contemporary High Tea is available at both Newmarket and Cityworks. Dry & Tea Cityworks is licensed so you can order French High Tea for $40 including a glass of French champagne. And for the lads, for $35 High Tea includes a beer or Whiskey. There have already been several bookings

as it’s great value for such an incredible offer in the beautiful environment designed by Cheshire Architects.

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DRY & TEA: ONE LUCKY WINNER WILL RECEIVE COMPLIMENTARY HIGH TEA FOR 2, VALUED AT $50.

THREE BEANS: ONE LUCKY WINNER WILL RECEIVE 500G IN EACH OF THE THREE BEANS BREWS.

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JOURNEYS

The Falkland Islands – An Unusual Travel Destination Words and photos: Chris Harrison

It began with the trip of a lifetime to celebrate a fiftieth birthday, when we travelled to the Antarctic Peninsula from Ushuaia in Tierra del Fuego. Our boat trip included a two-day visit to the Falkland Islands en route to South Georgia, before continuing on to the Antarctic Peninsula.

At the time we were very taken with these isolated, but beautiful, wild and windswept islands where we encountered marine wild life at close quarters and fascinating people who worshipped Maggie Thatcher.

Fast-forward four years, and in the spirit of the best novels, it continued with a chance meeting in a Santiago Hotel bar between friends from the UK and an Australian traveller. The friends were returning from South Georgia where they had been experiencing a remote and wonderful landscape when the conversation turned to the Falklands, which the Australian knew well. If you enjoyed South Georgia, you should really visit the Falkland Islands was his advice.

So crystallized an idea. The Falkland Islands are much more than a source of political tension between the United Kingdom and Argentina: they are a criminally under-recognized archipelago of rugged beauty somewhat akin to

a cross between Central Otago, the Chatham Islands and Stewart Island, where there is almost unparalleled access to marine bird and wild life, and populated by three and a half thousand people who are unmistakably British.

Unlike the Antarctic and South Georgia, there is much more opportunity to linger at one’s own pace, rather than being moved along on the tight schedules that tours to the above stick to.

The e-mails flew, with the result that nearly a year later we rendezvoused with our UK friends in Santiago, an easy twelve-hour flight from Auckland. After two days in Santiago recovering from jet lag, and sampling this South American capital, we flew to Mount Pleasant Airfield, about an hours drive west of Port Stanley in the Falklands, and a welcome by product of the 1982 Falklands war. We would come to understand from the many Falkland Islanders we met during our stay, that the 1982 Argentinean Invasion, and subsequent British liberation was very much a defining moment in Falkland Island history and evolution. Everyone, even those very young at the time, can tell you where and how they were affected.

We were met at Mount Pleasant and driven by the ubiquitous Land Rover

to our first evening, which was spent at Darwin settlement, population eight, and not far from Goose Green village where a major battle during the Falklands war took place, and where the legacy in the form of military memorials was difficult to avoid.

We were blessed with beautiful weather and were able to roam unfettered to appreciate the landscape and bird life.

Over the next two weeks, courtesy of FIGAS, or Falkland Island Government Air Services, and their Britten-Norman Islander aircraft, we were ferried around for two and three night stays on four separate islands across the length and breadth of the Falklands group, following which we had a night at Volunteer Point on the main Falkland island - where there is the world’s largest King Penguin breeding colony outside of Antarctica, before one final night in the ‘metropolis’ of Port Stanley.

Our stay was memorable for the incredible wildlife and birdlife experiences, the amazing scenery, but mostly for the unforgettable hospitality of our islander hosts. Lodge accommodation was very comfortable, and even three nights of self-catering on Saunders Island, an hour’s four-wheel drive from any other civilization, was warm and comfortable.

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We were more than a little sad to leave these islands. Our two-week stay left us with many lasting memories and the thrill of having travelled somewhere not many have been to, plus some rewarding insights into a fascinating colonial and social history.

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: The Lodge on Carcass Island - note the New Zealand Cabbage trees

As somewhere a little different, of wild and unspoilt beauty, these islands simply cannot be beaten!

The Falklands : Access to the Falkland Islands is possible from Santiago on a weekly basis flying on LAN via Punta Arenas on the Magellan Strait. This weekly flight is the only commercial air access to the islands.

: The Ubiquitous form of transport - Land Rover and Britten-Norman Islander aircraft

It is also possible to fly from Brize Norton airbase in Southern England on the weekly RAF flight via Ascension Island in the Atlantic. For a fee!

An itinerary was put together for us by a company in Port Stanley called Falkland Island Holidays. They arranged accommodation and transport around the islands for us. Most accommodation was fully catered.

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The Otago Rail Trail – One for the Bucket List Words and Photos: Jennifer Laidlaw

When I told a friend recently that I was doing the Otago Rail Trail she replied with, “Wow, you guys do such interesting trips.” Read: “You guys are crazy.”

I will be the first to admit that I was daunted by the idea of cycling 150km, and maybe a bit underprepared. My pre-trail ‘training’ included a few casual Sunday rides from the CBD to Mission Bay and back. I was reassured by the fact that trains can’t handle the strain of steep inclines any more than you or I can.

This is not to say that the rail trail – which follows the former Otago Central Branch Railway – does not have its difficult moments. There are some pretty long, but gradual hills – yet like the tortoise and the hare, slow and steady can win this race, and when you reach the highest point of the track at 618 metres, you might just burst with pride.

The trail snakes alongside rivers and over ridges between the towns of Clyde and Middlemarch. The wind is the main factor when considering which end of the trail to start at, but when you book months

Above left and right: The former gold-mining settlement of Ophir is worth the extra few kilometres off the track from Omakau. The record holder of New Zealand’s coldest temperature of 21 degrees Celsius, Ophir boasts many original stone buildings from the 1800s including the Cottages on Swindon, and Pitches General Store, as well as one of the last surviving suspension bridges in the country.

in advance you’ll have no idea what the weather has in store. General consensus is to go from Clyde to Middlemarch in order to get the longest and steepest sections out of the way first.

Most people ride the trail in three to five days. Those who do it in two are clearly not in it for the scenery and fresh air. Five days allows plenty of time to enjoy the rolling hills and golden fields, stop for picnics and even try your hand at curling. Thanks to the conditions and predominantly Scottish ancestry of Otago’s early European settlers, Naseby has the only indoor curling rink in the Southern Hemisphere.

One of the great highlights of the trail is the country pubs offering over-sized, home-style meals. The pea, pie and pud at Clyde’s Post Office Café and Bar is to die for, and the ham steak at Stanley’s Hotel at Dr. MacRaes Flat was the talk of the trip.

For more information about Otago Rail Trail with links to accommodation and bike rentals visit www.otagocentralrailtrail.co.nz.

Right: Stanley’s Hotel, located at Dr. MacRaes Flat is an 18-kilometre shuttle ride from the trail crossing at Hyde, but well worth the trek off the beaten path.

If you have time, explore the contrast of the old Gold Point Battery with the modern Dr. MacRaes Gold Mine.

Where: Otago, South Island.

Don’t miss: The optional river track between Clyde and Alexander, Ophir township, Naseby Indoor Curling Rink, Stanley’s Hotel at Dr. MacRaes Flat.

Best for: Everyone. Our group ranged from the 28-year-old surfing type to the almost retired, and included those with nil cycling experience and fairly recent heart stents. There were even primary school kids on two-wheelers and parents towing bike trailers behind their own bicycles.

Pack: Cycling shorts, thermals, headlamps (for tunnels), cash (not all towns have a money machine), snacks and sandwich fixings to keep eating costs down.

Book: The key is to plan ahead.

Accommodation books up months in advance, especially during school holidays.

Autumn is fantastic for its stunning colours.

For Autumn 2014, start planning now.

Costs: Costs vary and are approximate.

Bike hire – $40 - $60/day. Bag transfer service to each hotel - $10/day per bag.

Accommodation – $80 - $130 for a double.

Shuttle transfer from end of trail back to beginning - $50. Dinner - $20-30.

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13 CLIFTON ROAD, TAKAPUNA 1163m² waterfront site: approx 500m² home: 2 living: theatre: office: 5 bedrooms: heated pool: triple garage: 3 bathrooms Web: www.open2view.co.nz/292317 Price: $6.8 mil

Built to the strictest standards this home exudes attention to detail with its distinctly Italianate styling, featuring solid handmade cedar joinery throughout its very spacious, near 500m2.

Structured, well-tended gardens lead you to the house and continue on to a seaside conversational retreat with an exclusive backdrop of sea and aged Pohutukawa trees.

Ground floor living flows to sunny sheltered patios where you can dine alfresco or lounge poolside while taking in the gulf views to Rangitoto and beyond.

There is a well-positioned office for visiting clientele, home theatre and gym all connecting to the main house via the atrium. The timeless and well-equipped kitchen faces the ocean with a feature circular fine granite bench top to make entertaining a pleasure for guests and hosts alike.

The upper level contains the master bedroom retreat, with the luxury of absolutely stunning northerly gulf views stretching all the way to Great Barrier. A separate guest/children’s wing provides three large bedrooms and being on the same level as the master, is suitable for families of any age. Meanwhile a further guest bedroom, currently a gym, plus bathroom on the lower level have separation and privacy for visitors or an au pair.

Applaud the ample off-street parking for guests. There is also triple garaging and the subtle façade is discrete for the impressive home hidden behind – at the same time providing security. All this within an easy walk to cafés, Takapuna Grammar, with beautiful Takapuna Beach just down the end of your road, where you can enjoy a swim on summer days or those winter seaside walks.

A snug gas fire creates ambience whilst underfloor heating and heat pumps provides everyday winter comfort.

The current vendors secured the site in 1999 and commissioned architect John D’Anvers with a comprehensive list, specifying requirements for their family of five. The owner being part owner of a timber treatment plant, only wanted the best for their family home, and therefore used H3.2 treated timber for framing and cedar for exterior joinery – with predominantly Italian clay tile roofing.

A remarkable property! Paradise is not lost.

All this within an easy walk to cafés, Takapuna Grammar, with beautiful Takapuna Beach just down the end of your road, where you can enjoy a swim on summer days or winter seaside walks.

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MEN MATTER

JAMES’ ELEVEN Building the right team for a successful online heist.

You’ve decided to upgrade the company website. Being canny you’ve sourced three quotes and you’re about to pick the cheapest. Before you go any further think long and hard about what you’re trying to achieve: are you out to save money, or are you out to make some?

If you’re looking to get more from your website you need to hire somebody motivated and competent, actually, you may need to hire several. Websites are not only made of code, they’re made of words, photos and brand graphics too.

Most web designers are not brand designers. Nor are they photographers, and they definitely don’t know how to write (present company excluded, of course). So think about your project almost like a heist movie – it’s your job to assemble a crack team that is going to break the internet wide open for your business.

When establishing the budget, make an allowance for quality copywriting. Ask your web designer if they have a writer on staff or a contractor they regularly use. Likewise, product photos taken with your phone on a cloudy day are not going to cut it for your online audience: when they’re engaging with you via a website, the photo is going be what seals the deal. This is something that any real-estate agent knows, and there’s no way they’d ever allow a few blurry shots of the front porch to be uploaded for any of their new listings.

So although photos and text cost money, it’s important to remember that they can turn a good website into an exceptional one.

There’s one final cost you should allow for in your initial budget: advertising & marketing. Once the site is built, you’ll need to promote it. If you don’t, you’re left with a beautiful but lonely site that never gets to shine. My tip is to think of your annual web budget in thirds: one third for the site, one third for copy and photography, and one third for online marketing. With the right team in place (covering design, code, imagery, text and marketing), you’re going to steal the show.

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Auckland Auto Clinic provides friendly personalised service, you’ll even get a complimentary loan car while they work on yours, and although they charge far less than the dealerships, you’ll still get all the extras like a complimentary valet at the end of the job.

Their team of skilled mechanical and automotive experts handle not only general mechanical repairs and servicing to all makes and models, but also transmission servicing, tyres, auto electrics, electronic diagnostics and WOF’s. They’ll tell you what needs to be done in honest, easy to understand language.

Need advice on how to buy a new car? Just call 0800 FIX CAR for free impartial advice. They’ll even show you how to check your oil and tyre pressure.

Auckland Auto Clinic was the first mechanical repair workshop in New Zealand to achieve the prestigious ISO 14001 Environmental Management Systems. So they won’t just fix your car, they’ll make you a greener driver.

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James McGoram is an author, designer and the director of Messiah Studio, a web-design company based in Parnell, Auckland. Visit www.messiah.co.nz for your free online business guide.

Above: Adrian Is a highly qualified mechanic with over 20 years experience in repairing European vehicles, having worked at prestigious dealerships Continental Cars and Archibald and Shorters.

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On Track with the MINI Paceman Words: Jamie Christian Desplaces

Such was the ferocity of the weather come the morning of the test drive, there were concerns that we may have to swim to Hampton Downs.

As it turned out, the biblical downpour only served to highlight the spectacular handling of MINI’s latest arrival, the Paceman.

The first thing that strikes you is the size. It’s by no means a big car, but certainly bigger than what we’ve come to expect from the brand, easily fitting four adults inside (comfortably). The seventh addition to the MINI family is the first sports activity coupe, borrowing from the compact SUV platform of its Countryman cousin. The Paceman sits lower though, and its sloping roof and rising shoulders lend it a far more intimidating and athletic look. Indeed, it has been designed with the male customer in mind, but its square jaw-line and muscular back-end will certainly attract advances from the ladies too.

It’s equipped with a punchy 1.6-litre 4-cylinder twin scroll turbocharged engine that will propel you to 100 in seven and a half seconds, riding on a choice of highly attractive 17 or 19-inch alloys. A Sport Button with traction control and lowered suspension come as standard, further enhancing its iconic go-kart-like drive. Choose from a six-speed manual or automatic transmission, a range of eight colours, including the all-new Starlight Blue metallic and options such as contrasting roof and mirror caps.

Inside, there’s a lounge atmosphere with the rear split into two comfy armchairs separated by a rail, handy for coffee cups and the like. The interior design boasts the typical retro-meets-contemporary flair with a choice of cloth or leather upholstery and a mix of chrome, gloss

and matt black trim. The boot is nice and roomy too.

Once we were done throwing the Paceman around the track, we were invited to compare it with its other family members.

Noticeable was that the extra weight had certainly made for a grippier drive, handling that slick surface with ease. A thoroughly enjoyable session was brought to a thoroughly enjoyable end on the skid pan. If anyone ever needs a getaway driver capable of performing 180 degree handbrake skids (sometimes), just holler.

The MINI Cooper S Paceman starts at $53,500

The interior design boasts the typical retromeets-contemporary flair with a choice of cloth or leather upholstery and a mix of chrome, gloss and matt black trim.

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Maurice Williamson’s Big Gay Rainbow Words: Jamie Christian Desplaces

According to a media monitoring unit in America, Maurice Williamson tells me, that speech has been watched by an estimated one billion people worldwide. It has been translated into seven languages, referenced by politicians in the French parliament and passed around Washington’s government cabinet. Emails, calls and cards have poured in from every corner of the globe along with an invitation to appear on the Ellen Show which Williamson had to turn down due to scheduling conflicts. The minister has been the subject of Hollywood A-listers’ tweets and has received commendation from former US president Bill Clinton. He must be on quite the high, I ask him, but Williamson shrugs it off. Further anecdotes and the sprightliness of his voice, however, betray his coolness: “John Banks told me he has two friends in the Zimbabwean army who were on manoeuvres. They stopped to watch the news one night and I was the lead story! The global coverage has been unbelievable. No one could have guessed anything of this nature would have occurred from a five minute speech I gave in Parliament one night.”

It was a diatribe against religious bigotry and narrowmindedness delivered with a balanced sprinkling of reason, wit, and wisdom. It was about more than same-sex marriage, he says, it was about civil rights and tolerance. It was a monologue that transcended party politics. By the minister’s own admission, he may be ‘blue’ but when it comes to social causes his leanings are of a liberal nature: “I take the view that if what we are passing has no impact on anyone other than those involved, then there is simply no issue.

What my speech did was nullify the debate, it made light of it in a way that said that it won’t affect you so let’s get on with the things that matter – education, employment and so on.”

On the evening of the bill’s vote, Campbell Live ran a public poll which showed 78 per cent of viewers were against samesex matrimony, a result which shocked even the show’s host.

Williamson believes it more a reflection of the audience demographic than the true feelings of what he praises as a “very tolerant society.”

“Compare us to France. They passed the same act a few weeks before and there was rioting on the streets of Paris. We passed the gay marriage bill then went off and had dinner. If we had been making gay marriage compulsory then I wouldn’t have voted for it. But, if you love somebody and want to have that love recorded then it’s your absolute right to do so.”

He compares it to the furore over Sunday trading, which some believed would “destroy the very fabric of our society.” One of the most ardent opponents was the Church, and with the passing of the latest act came further threats from the clergy that Williamson caustically slapped down in Parliament.

“The people that use the tag ‘Christian’,” he tells me, “are often the least Christian in their behaviour. I gave up being scared of bullies at primary school and for me it has the reverse effect. If you want to start threatening me, bring it on. If you want to talk rationally, I’ll listen.”

Are you religious?

“I was brought up a Catholic and I believed until I studied physics at university. I’m agnostic verging an atheist, but I’m very staunch in supporting the rights of others to whatever beliefs they want. So long as they don’t try and force their views on others.”

Religion and politics should always be separate?

“It’s appallingly wrong to mix them. You can have differing faiths in a government but it should never contaminate policy. That should remain strictly secular.”

Do you think that it was important that such a speech was made by someone from the centre-right?

“I think it gave it more, yes. If it had come from someone on the hard-left, the Greens or a gay person then it probably wouldn’t have had quite the same effect.”

Such has been its effect throughout the world, Williamson jokes he feels like ‘Gangnam Style’. He says it went global because “it’s a global issue that was delivered at the right time, with the right amount of humour with enough nuggets of substance for a serious message.”

Perhaps one of the most impressive aspects of the speech is that it was largely off-the-cuff, the minister ad-libbing from a list of four bullet points he had scribbled down beforehand.

The first read “2.1 second furnace” in reference to the fact that burning in hell for eternity is physically impossible, the second read “gay onslaught” and the third “gay rainbow over electorate.” The fourth note, of course, was the speech’s closing line, a quote mischievously lifted from the bible with ironic aplomb: Be ye not afraid.

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Lotto Guy: There’s More than Meets the Eye Joe the Busker, the shaggy-haired star of those heart-warming Lotto ads is one of the most recognisable faces in New Zealand. Michael Self, however, is much more than ‘The Lotto Guy’: a south Taranaki district councillor, environmentalist, farmer, presenter, producer, model and Morris dancer too.

You don’t hear of Morris dancing very often these days?

“It was a great feeling of finding my culture, the earth culture and all that’s associated with the Morris. It’s a great equaliser, there are no partners and everyone’s a dancer, that’s the magic of it.” It was through an old girlfriend-to-be that he became involved with the ritual: “I was big fan of the post-Morris rewards!”

Michael proceeds with a brief history of the dance. Its pagan roots, how Oliver Cromwell tried to ban it and of how one British town has danced it every Whitsun for four hundred years straight, allowing women to take over when the men were at war. Michael knows all about it. In fact, he seems to know all about a lot of things.

He’d be a great guy to have on your pub quiz team. Speaking of pubs, Michael’s very excited about his investment in an apple orchard: “We’ll be pressing our first batch of cider shortly. We just need some virgins to swim in it before we bottle it!”

Michael is one of Taranaki’s most prominent opponents of hydraulic fracturing. He is currently working on a fracking documentary with his TV production company, Garden Rambles, through which he also presents rural and agricultural shows. In the past he’s appeared in Kiwi television programmes, but the Lotto ad was his first big gig.

“It’s been fantastic, a great learning experience,” says Michael. “It is such an eye-opener in terms of witnessing our ad-making craft which is a vibrant and internationally renowned industry. I’ve been told that they’re using the ads as part of the British lottery now, but they’ve changed the voices of course.”

So you’re not just world-famous in New Zealand anymore?

“Haha, the dog certainly – he’s the true star! He even gets his own body doubles just like Lucy Lawless.”

They say never work with animals at the best of times. Has the celebrity status gone to his head?

“He did bite me once! When we were doing that James Bond spoof scene coming out of the sea, he ran off down the beach and I went to catch him. But he’s all good. I’ve never been a terrier person, but having worked with them, they’re very capable animals.”

The first dog in the ads we witness hightailing it through third-world slums, tropical jungles and market bazaars with the winning lottery ticket in his jaws was left in India due to quarantine regulations.

He’s now lapping up the luxury trappings of a real-life lottery winner.

“He’s with a Kiwi family,” says Michael.

“I’m told he has his very own personal servant and boy. He’s very well loved, every boy needs a dog.”

Michael tells me some believe the tale of the down-on-his-luck busker finding a winning ticket is his actual life story and many more will come up and touch him for luck. He rarely plays Lotto, but if he were to win he’d invest in organic farming and restore his Morris Minor to its former glory. Joe the Busker, of course, bought a speed boat:

“That was a wonderful six hours of filming, driving that big machine up and down the Hauraki Gulf with the director screaming at me from the helicopter overhead to go faster. I didn’t have my glasses on and couldn’t see where I was going so was hitting waves at funny angles and all sorts.

It was a real ball.”

He has since secured a small part in The Hobbit, laughing that he was one of the few people that didn’t require make-up.

Michael’s generously maned head also won him the role of Santa in a beer campaign regarding the dangers at Christmas.

The story begins with him descending chimneys and tasting tipples that have been left out. Eventually inebriated, he marauds down Ponsonby Road and passes out on someone’s driveway wearing nothing but gum boots and his Santa hat: “Afterwards, I had to accost the film crew to give me back my clothes!”

You don’t embarrass easily do you Michael?

“You learn not to,” he smiles. “When you’ve been a Morris dancer for 30 years nothing can embarrass you.”

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Ninja Kiwi Blooms Gaming is one of the fastest growing, most profitable industries on Earth and flying the flag for New Zealand is Auckland-based Ninja Kiwi. The firm which gave us the iconic balloon-popping monkey of Bloons has certainly come a long way since brothers Chris and Stephen Harris founded it in 2006.

“It’s such an exciting industry to be in,” says Chris. “In the past six years we’ve experienced the true birth of mobile gaming. There has been an incredible evolution within the industry, people playing that would never have been interested before – my 44-year-old sisterin-law is hooked on her iPad games! The sheer number of people you can reach is extraordinary and it will only get broader.”

Ninja Kiwi now has over 60 games. Their last Bloons offering, Tower Defense 5, went to number two within the first week in America’s iTunes App Store, rubbing shoulders, or wings, with the likes of Angry Birds. It is the latest in a long line of achievements that has seen their awardwinning productions played billions of times the world over. Was there a defining moment when they realised they’d truly hit the big time?

“I’m very lucky – I have that feeling pretty often,” says Chris. “We just took on some more staff and I realised we’d need another bank of desks in the office. I had this little moment where I thought how cool it was that my brother and I have built this business with 40 employees in two countries. I don’t know if it was a feeling of hitting the big time, but it was one of great satisfaction.”

How is it working so closely with a sibling?

“It’s been fantastic. In many respects, we’re very different but we have a similar sense of humour having grown up watching Blackadder over and over again!

There are rarely raised voices between us over anything.”

The brothers have acquired Digital Goldfish, a Scottish firm that previously developed their mobile gaming platforms, “they’re really good guys.

They’ve built an amazing team out there and it made sense for all involved, things are working out well”. Last financial year saw a turnover of $5 million. They expect to double that this coming year.

Since the company’s inception, revenue growth has been 50-70 per cent per annum and they’re one of the ‘Top Ten Emerging Companies’ on the TIN100 list.

December saw them move to new offices in a converted boat-building warehouse in Kumeu. It’s a very funky space. Spread over two levels, it boasts a mammoth open-plan office, pinball machines, retro arcade games, a gym, bean bags, ping-pong and pool tables. A real Silicon Valley vibe. Though, I notice, no pets.

“They’re kind of a distraction,” chuckles Chris. “I did bring in my kittens once but they went berserk and tried to chew through all the cables.”

They have no plans to move to Silicon Valley, but certainly enjoy their trips out there for the annual Games Developer Conference. “Some of them are worth

Ninja Kiwi now has over 60 games. Their last Bloons offering, Tower Defense 5, went to number two within the first week in America’s iTunes App Store, rubbing shoulders, or wings, with the likes of Angry Birds. It is the latest in a long line of achievements that has seen their award-winning productions played billions of times the world over.

This page: Chris (left) and Stephen Harris Opposite page: Extra-curricular entertainment includes classic arcade games and pinball

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hundreds of millions of dollars, but you’d never know,” Chris tells me. “They’re all just really cool, regular guys.” It’s also a great chance, he says, to learn from some of the brightest minds in the industry: “You can easily fill 12 hours a day for five days with meetings and parties. We always come back with some reasonably significant adjustments to our thinking in some areas of the business.”

In 2010, Ninja Kiwi secured the services of Scott Walker from gaming giants EA. It was a huge coup and I ask Chris if it’s difficult to find Kiwis with the necessary skills.

“We haven’t had trouble so far,” he says. “But we’ve mainly hired junior guys who’ve come straight from design school. As we grow, we’ll need more skilled and senior programmers which are more difficult to come across.” Chris admits he’s not a huge fan of giving press interviews, but the main reason he does is to share his experiences and inspire others to get into the industry (anyone interested should head to Auckland Media Design School on the first Wednesday of the month for the game developers’ meet-up).

Chris had zero industry experience when he joined forces with Stephen who had completed Media Design School’s first Graduate Diploma in Game Development before developing in-house games for Saatchi & Saatchi. It was Chris who designed the legendary Bloons ape: “In the early days I was the artist, but I couldn’t really draw very well and just sketched what turned out to be the monkey. The only contribution I have to game art these days is telling the artists if I think something should look a bit different, which I don’t do very often!” He still paints at home, but says the results are too abstract to be used for their work.

He’s excited that Bloons TD5 is currently being translated into 16 languages, a total of more than 14,000 words: “I love the fact that by the end of the year there will be people in China, Korea and Japan playing it in their own language.” Chris’s biggest fans, however, are undoubtedly closer to home, having three sons aged from six to ten. In their eyes, his job must be of superhero status?

“Yeah, one of my many blessings is being a parent that gets to come home and share my work with my kids,” he says. “They get to see what I do and see that I’m happy. It’s pretty special.”

WINTER SWIMMING HELPS TO KEEP FLU AND COLDS AWAY At Hilton Brown Swimming they notice that some parents withdraw their children from swimming classes when winter arrives. Two things can happen then: their children’s swimming progress takes a step backwards, and the chance of getting sick in winter increases. Many children who continued swimming with them last winter said that it was the first winter ever that they didn’t get a cold or the flu. Higher fitness levels are gained through swimming year round, and better fitness makes the immune system more resilient to stress and illness. Recently a group of US researchers found that those who exercised the most were least likely to suffer from colds in the winter months. And when they did catch a cold, it was much less severe.

The message is clear. Along with eating well, staying fit can help your children avoid sickness this winter. “Don’t go out in the cold and rain, you’ll get sick!” Sound familiar? This is an old wives’ tale with a touch of truth in it.

A continual reduction in body temperature challenges your immune system. So having wet hair or standing around with a wet body in a draught may cause a breakdown in resistance, which can give cold and flu viruses the opportunity they were waiting for. That’s why they keep things warm at Hilton Brown Swimming. Their swimming pools are kept at a comfortable temperature all the year round.

Tips for winter swimming lessons: • Wrap children up warmly before and after lessons • Don’t stand around wet and shivering • Dry your children’s hair after the lesson or get them to wear a woolly hat • Make sure children put warm shoes on before going home Any questions? You can talk to Hilton Brown Swimming any time on 09 529 0177 www.hiltonbrownswimming.co.nz

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Bear Park: For Quality and Peace of Mind With so many different options on offer, finding the right childcare centre for your child can be a difficult decision to make, but you will have no regrets when you choose Bear Park.

With ten established centres around Auckland and Dunedin with a reputation that’s second to none, Bear Park provides quality pre-school education and childcare for children from three months to five years, along with peace of mind for parents.

The steady growth since the first centre opened in 1986 can be attributed to the dedication of the passionate staff, and the loyalty of families — many of whom have sent siblings along to the same Bear Park over the years.

All of the centres owners and managers are actively present, visible and known by the parents. “For us all it is more than just running a business, it is a way of life and something that we are all extremely proud of,” says Leigh Reddish, from the Bear Park pedagogical team.

The group’s founder Sue Stevely-Cole has always believed in providing quality education and care for children. This is evident throughout all the centres which are inspired by the New Zealand Curriculum Te Whaariki and strongly influenced by the Reggio Philosophy from Reggio Emilia, Italy.

Created within each Bear Park centre is a unique and respectful environment that offers children many opportunities to grow and blossom into competent learners and researchers.

“Our learning spaces are carefully prepared and richly resourced to encourage children’s curiosity, creativity, self-esteem and social interactions”, says Sue. “We believe that all children are already confident and capable with whom they are and that it is our job as teachers to work alongside them to ensure that they reach their full potential. We want our

The group’s founder Sue Stevely-Cole has always believed in providing quality education and care for children. This is evident throughout all the centres which are inspired by the New Zealand Curriculum Te Whaariki and strongly influenced by the Reggio Philosophy from Reggio Emilia, Italy. children to have that strong sense of being valued, and of self-worth. We allow the children to explore their own ideas and theories supporting them, without simply telling them the answers.

This is because for us it is important to ignite the passion for learning and wonderment in our children.”

The philosophy of listening to the children and creating a nurturing environment has assisted in creating close relationships between the parents and the centres. Bear Park has on-going involvement with parents, genuinely acknowledging their voice through independent parent committees which further ensure that the relationship is truly valued and is one of mutual respect.

Should you be interested in embarking on this exciting journey with the Bear Park team please contact your nearest centre to arrange a time to visit.

For centre locations and more information visit: www.bearpark.co.nz or phone 0800 232 772

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Kat Gee & The Child Cancer Foundation Looking after a child with cancer is a heart wrenching new reality for 150 New Zealand families each year. The Child Cancer Foundation (CCF) plays an imperative role in supporting not only children with cancer but also their families who can often spend months on the tumultuous road of uncertainty, while their child goes through countless tests, procedures and examinations.

Words and photos: Inger-Lisa Hurst

One of the many tools the Child Cancer Foundation use to support sick children and to recognise what they go through are the Beads of Courage®; beads that are used to recognise a child’s strength and courage when undertaking cancer treatment. Each bead represents different procedures, experiences and milestones undertaken.

In keeping with the Beads of Courage®, Kat Gee recently teamed up with CCF to give some children an opportunity to learn about jewellery design and to use different beads to make a bracelet to give to their mothers for Mother’s Day. “For us it’s an experience for the kids to work together, learn and create, but also it is so wonderful for the children to be able to make something for their mums. Child cancer affects the whole family, and it is lovely that the kids get the opportunity to give something back to their mothers,” says CCF PR and Communications Manager, Megan Horsburgh.

‘Jewellery Queen’ Kat Gee, who was a finalist at the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Awards in 2012, started her business seven years ago and now has 270 stores as stockists and 20 full-time ‘gems’ on her payroll. “I have learnt a lot along the way. I’ve learnt I am always learning, the value of perseverance and that you ‘can’t fail until you quit,’” Kat smiles, quoting Michael Hill.

Kat Gee has made CCF her charity of choice.“I love the work they do,” she says. “Supporting the families during these difficult times is crucial and we want to help any way we can.”

To raise funds for CCF, Kat Gee and her Kagi ‘gems’ have designed a turquoise friendship bracelet, where $10 from every bracelet sold goes to CCF. The bracelets are available for purchase from the many Kagi stockists across the country.

For more information or to find your closest stockist visit kagijewellery.com.

Top: Kat Gee Middle: Jewellery designer, Summer Brooke Bottom: Young beadworkers, string beads of courage.

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MINI MASTERCHEF COMES TO NEW ZEALAND SCHOOLS MasterChef NZ judge Simon Gault will crown New Zealand’s first Mini MasterChef at King’s School on June14 For the first time in New Zealand a Mini MasterChef competition is to be held for school children. It is being introduced by MasterChef NZ finalist, Vanessa Baxter and commences at King’s School in Remuera, Auckland.

Vanessa hopes to take the competition format to other schools following this first competition.

All boys attending King’s School, from Year 5 to Year 8 (aged 9 – 13 years) will take part in this exciting competition and will get the chance to show off their home cooking skills.

Boys will each have a pan and all the equipment they need to complete their cooking challenge, just like in the TV series of MasterChef.

The winners will go on to compete against the other finalist contestants in their year group, until the final four boys are ready to compete in the Mini

MasterChef Grand Final, which takes place in front of the whole school on Friday 14 June. The Grand Final will be judged by MasterChef NZ’s own judge, Simon Gault, final contestant Paula Saengthian-Ngam and Loaf Handcrafted Breads’ celebrity chef, Sean Armstrong.

King’s School is a leading independent boys’ primary school in Auckland for Years 1 to 8.Headmaster, Tony Sissons is delighted to be able to bring Vanessa Baxter in to the school to allow the students a chance to compete in a cooking competition such as Mini MasterChef.

“Boys love competition,” Mr Sissons explains. “A competition such as this will inspire all our students to really get behind the concept of being able to prepare something in the kitchen and to express themselves in a creative and fun environment.”

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Nicole Sharpe: Early Childhood Whisperer Words: Lulu Alach

Nicole Sharpe is Auckland’s and perhaps New Zealand’s most trailblazing infant and early childcare expert. The manager at the new Tiny Tuis Early Learning Centre hasn’t just had13 years experience in the industry but is also one of only a handful of people to hold the honour of studying at the Pikler Institute in Hungary named after the Hungarian Paediatrician who started the Institute, Emmi Pikler.

Emmi Pikler developed innovative theories of infant education and put them into practice at an orphanage she ran in Hungary. These theories have gained popularity around the world being especially popular in France and the United States of America.

Nicole has brought all of this knowledge to New Zealand, having twice been to Hungary to complete stages one and two of Pikler training, and brings these philosophies to her position as manager at Tiny Tuis.

Verve spoke to Nicole about her amazing experiences and how she brings them to the newly opened, ultra-modern childcare learning centre Tiny Tuis.

V: Tell us, how did you get into childcare?

N: I have always known that I wanted to work with children. I went to Auckland University and did a BA in Psych and Sociology. I then got a job working in a childcare centre in Remuera and when I finished my BA I went on to complete my BEd ECE. V: In 2004 and 2006 you went to a Hungarian orphanage to study Resources for Infant Educators – the Emmi Pickler philosophy. What is that and what was that experience like?

N: In 2004 I was working in a fantastic centre in Remuera and had the most amazing manager. As a centre we were using some of the principles of the Pikler philosophy. I found out that an orphanage in Hungary was running the first level of training in the Piklarian approach in English. I was given the opportunity to attend this course in Hungary; it was for two and a half weeks and it was the most amazing experience.

Two years later in 2006 the orphanage ran the second level and I was again given the opportunity to attend.

Both times were amazing. The rooms are separated by age groups. Each of the age groups has a ‘nurse’ who looks after them. The nurses document each child’s day, new gross or fine motor movements they have achieved, words, interactions with other children. As a result there is an incredible amount of research and knowledge at the orphanage. I was lucky enough to learn it right at the source.

V: Tell us about respectful caregiving?

N: Most people/places will say ‘of course we treat children with respect’ but when you come down to really looking at it, quite often things are done to children that we would be horrified by if it happened to us; picking children up from behind, not communicating whilst changing their nappy etc.

V: At Tiny Tuis there are no highchairs, walkers or walking assistance for the babies/children how does this assist development?

N: Another huge aspect of our philosophy is Gross Motor Development. We very much believe in children achieving their milestones on their own and in their own time. Often adults are in a rush for everything to happen so quickly, this should not be the way with babies and their development. We refrain from placing babies in positions they cannot get into themselves, for example we don’t prop up babies in a seated position. We don’t have equipment such as excersaucers, jolly jumpers and walkers, as research from the Pikler Institute shows that these are detrimental to a child’s development. We don’t use highchairs either.

The reason for this is two-fold. One because often babies are put in highchairs before they are actually sitting and all too frequently in group settings babies are placed in highchairs for extended periods of time (it goes beyond being in the highchair to eat their food). Our babies are fed on the teacher’s lap (bottles and solids) and the teachers hold them in a supportive position

(ensuring correct posture). We also view feeding time as a key caregiving moment – precious one-on-one time with a child. So when they are on the teacher’s lap they are receiving full attention.

V: What do you enjoy most about your work at Tiny Tuis?

N: It has been great coming back into the workforce. It was a bit of a hard decision at first, I had been at home with my children, Oscar and Ava and I loved every minute of that. Tiny Tuis is a great centre to be working in, Adrian who owns Tiny Tuis is fantastic and he is also passionate about creating something a bit unique. We also have an amazing group of educator’s here.

Our teachers are qualified and either fully or provisionally registered, each having a unique skill set and each each one passionate about early childhood education. As a teaching team we love to have fun, so there is always laughter resonating throughout the building.

V: What are the plans for Tiny Tuis going forward?

N: I would love to see Tiny Tuis as a benchmark for high quality early childhood education. We are currently establishing a strong ecological approach here and are working with the Eco-Store, using their products in the centre. We source organic fruit and vegetables where possible. We teach the children about recycling and composting. Whilst we are not a certified green building, we have used a lot of natural materials in the construction. It makes for a really nice atmosphere which I have noticed the children respond positively too.

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For the very best care & learning for your little ones.

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Down and Dirty in The Veggie Patch

Veggies, like human beings, need a warm bed, plenty of nutrition, lots of sunshine, protection against harm and a partner to nestle with. Then – they are as cool as cucumbers.

Words and photos: Julien Erwin

A nurturing environment is essential for all living things and tending your own patch brings much joy and many hidden benefits. Radish are good listeners, carrots have a great sense of humor, basil is full of sage advice and beans – being fast runners – flirt with the wild side.

Vegetables need partners. They need to cosy up, they need to share, to protect and to feel protected. If you want to encourage your potatoes to plump up and your tomatoes to blush then be a matchmaker and pair off the partners in your patch. ‘Companion planting’ not only increases your harvest it also reduces the need for chemicals and facilitates a healthy, natural biodiversity that is less demanding on the soil.

Trap crops like onions, radish, nasturtium and eggplant are the heroes of the vicinity, attracting a huge variety of pests and diverting them from feasting on their favorite veggies. Trap crops sacrifice themselves for the good of their friends and after overall health of the patch. Plant these willing martyrs to help you keep marauders at bay and save yourself time weeding, deworming and battling diseases.

CARROT AND ONION

These partners have a lot in common – they share likes and dislikes. Onion’s odious smell is not to everyone’s taste in perfume

but carrot laughs it off and live with it as it acts as a great turn off for its arch-enemy – the carrot rust fly. So this is a relationship based on great compromise. Besides, they both like to keep their affair underground.

Time and place: for a bumper crop sow carrot seeds directly into a well-prepared bed in early spring as they can withstand a light chill. If you keep their bed loose and fluffy, so that it drains well, you can plant carrot seeds right up until autumn. Sow seeds at least 25cm deep in a mixture of compost and loose soil enriched with potash, humus and lime.

Plant both veggies in alternate rows 710cm all round. Onions are best planted from ‘sets’ or transplants but you can also sow seeds.

Desires: both need a lot of sunshine so bed them down in an exposed position all by themselves – they don’t like to share!

Protect this couple from stifling heat and keep dill well away from carrots! Do not over-water carrots but it is important that you keep the bed moist so that the leaves can push through the surface. Do not overwater your onions either – they can turn to moosh if you do. If the tops of the onions turn brown and start sagging pull them up immediately. After gathering in your onions for the kitchen keep their tops on while they dry. Weed the bed regularly

– this couple cannot tolerate trespassers!

LETTUCE AND RADISH

This is a match made in heaven – both love life, enjoy lower temperatures and weak sun so they are cool with just hanging out together. Radish is hot blooded so the cool calming influence of lettuce keeps the relationship nice and stable. They are a devoted couple and prolific procreators right throughout the year. Both lettuce and radish come in many varieties and sport snazzy colours and are happy to strut their stuff on your dinner table.

Time and place: plant both from seeds in alternate rows or grids in well-prepared soil. Sow lettuce seeds 0.3cm deep, early spring and again late summer. Both radish and lettuce can be planted successively year-round in two to three week cycles in conducive conditions. Radish also likes a shallow bed so push the seeds in about 1cm deep. These veggies are the least demanding of all – just give them well prepared soil, keep it moist and they will reward your efforts generously – what more could a gardener ask for!

Desires: cooler temperatures, weak sun even chilly soil. Harsh sun is a no go so do them a favour and plant them under the taller growing vegetables for shade. Wage war against aphids that prey on lettuce’s

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be scattered over frozen ground and left to germinate as the spring arrives. Sow successive crops for a couple of weeks and leave them to do their thing before the arrival of the hot weather. Sow again late autumn so you can enjoy spinach well into late summer. Sow 12-15 spinach seeds 1cm deep for every 30cm. When plants are 2.5cm tall, thin out to 10cm spacing.

Grow pepper seeds indoors late winter and transplant when 30-45cm outside in early spring.

Desires: pepper needs warm sunshine and its roots need sulphur so introduce when planting. Cool, moist conditions are spinach’s choice but compromises with the peppers’ slow start indoors as seeds.

Pepper’s growth slows down radically when the cold gets too much to bare.

To protect spinach more effectively from pests plant a ‘trap crop’ like radish that will sacrifice being eaten by all manner of nasties in favor of the survival of spinach.

These partners have their dislikes – spinach doesn’t get along with potato and pepper dislikes fennel so keep them apart. succulent leaves by blowing them off with a harsh blast from your garden hose.

Sorry but slugs need to be taken off by hand. Yuck! As radish is a ‘trap crop’ it is probably wise to use a row cover or shade cloth to isolate them.

BEAN AND POTATO

They are a devoted couple and enjoy sharing the same bed – potatoes snuggle underground while the accommodating bean reaches for the sun and gives potato personal space. The rather plain looking potato is attracted to the bean’s flourishing sweet pods and flowers and there is a mutual dependence on the protection from invaders each affords the other.

Time and place: potatoes needs good drainage so light, sandy soil is perfect.

Dig trenches and plant pieces of good ‘growing’ type potatoes with ‘eyes’ – sadly not the variety you buy from the grocery store. Keep increasing the soil level around the potato as its leaves grow upward. Plant potatoes three to four weeks before the last winter frost in your area, soil must not be too wet.

Plant beans immediately after last frost on either side of the potato mounds 10cm apart.

Desires: keep building up the soil around the potato mounds to keep out the light for the three to four months growing time needed before you can harvest them. A good mulch like straw will add to thier comfort and ensures rotund offspring.

The offensive odours of onion and fennel are a huge turn off for the bean so keep them well apart. Beans are the lowest maintenance veggie in your patch and all they ask for is a little compost halfway through the growing season. A light dusting of its seeds with a bacterial inoculant before planting is worth the

effort. Support runner beans and pole types with stakes or a trellis.

BEETROOT AND MINT

Beetroot’s taproot digs deep. It is a solid stablemate and accepting of mint’s wild and rampant ways. Mint’s strong perfume does wonders by discouraging an array of pests including beetles and mice.

Beneficial predatory wasps also enjoy the alluring scent of mint and leave its partner well alone. A match made in heaven!

Time and place: in a well-prepared bed with lots of compost, plant beet randomly one to four weeks before the last frost, at a depth at 2.5cm deep and 10cm apart. You only need one crazy mint plant to service all its fellow residents! Plant from seedlings in early spring. If you want more than one plant space them 45-60cm apart.

Desires: the partners both enjoy shade and loads of water – especially beetroot at the early stages of growth so water frequently. Beetroot doesn’t seem to flourish when beans are nearby so keep a good distance between them. If left unchecked mint will run riot and can take over your entire patch! Planting in a pot will help to keep mint in check.

SPINACH AND PEPPER

In this partnership opposites attract. Spinach shades the pepper’s delicate fruits from the hot sun while pepper’s leaves return the favour by leaning over spinach and offering moisture and dappled shade. Spinach gets off to an early start and patiently waits for its mate pepper to arrive in their bed and cosy up. It is a giving relationship as spinach also puts up with the odious smell of sulphur that pepper enjoys at its feet.

Time and place: spinach is a great veggie to start off your season as the seeds can

TOMATO AND BASIL

Tomato is extremely sensitive and high maintenance so adores basil that is a fierce sentry and wards off all sorts of diseases, worms and fruit flies that attack tomatoes. This interdependence results in juicy tomatoes all season long. They share many mutual traits, one of which is to be planted at the same time. They are a snazzy couple and basil often makes tomato blush when boasting about being so useful in the kitchen.

Time and place: start these mates off together late spring. Plant tomato seedlings, with lots of compost, in a very sunny place 90cm apart horizontally.

Tomato roots grow from the nodes of the main root stem that ensures stability. Do stake leaves as they can run wild. Basil is best planted from seedlings at the ends of your rows of tomatoes.

Desires: this couple needs lots of sunshine and lots of water but be careful to water your tomatoes at ground level and not from above. Water causes spots on their delicate leaves. Don’t forget to give tomatoes loads of compost. Control your tomato plants by staking them or surrounding your plants with an enclosure. When night falls and basil goes to sleep, invaders gear up for an assault on tomatoes. In this situation extra forces are needed to attract parasitic wasps that destroy unwelcome attackers by planting plant flowers that grow in ‘clusters’ like dill and clover. They act as protective ‘umbrellas’.

Once you ‘get down and dirty’ in your own veggie garden you will be rewarded in so many ways – you get gentle exercise, eat healthily and feel a sense of pride and pleasure, but most of all it soothes your soul.

Happy gardening from all of us at Verve!

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Indoor Plants As a landscape designer my ultimate goal is to bring people closer to nature. The reality of seasons means that nature isn’t always accessible, so as we shift into winter it’s time to bring the great outdoors in.

NASA have named it one of the 12 most useful plants for the job, earmarked to join the astronauts on the space station.

When I moved house recently it wasn’t until the indoor plants arrived that our 1890‘s cottage really felt like home. Plants make a space feel lived in and loved, and are just as important inside as they are out. Here’s three that I wouldn’t be without.

PHALAENOPSIS

EPIPREMNUM AUREUM, GOLDEN POTHOS

If you’ve had a hard time keeping house plants alive, this vine will prove very hard to kill. The bright, cascading foliage grows in any spot you choose, regardless of light level. And unlike most plants you can’t over water it. It also acts as a living air purifier –

Growing tip: Keep wet to maximise growth.

Under the right conditions these beautiful orchids have been reported to flower continuously for over ten years, although that plant was said to have received better care than the grandkids! They’ll often last for several months in the hands of the most novice gardener, so when compared to the cost of fresh cut flowers this is a much more affordable, and equally beautiful, option for brightening your home.

Growing tip: Find a bright spot without direct sunlight and water it once a week with two ice-cubes left to melt.

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CHAMAEDORA MICROSPADEX

Go bold and large with this hardy bamboo palm. The strong vertical trunks of this graceful plant are perfect for filling awkward spaces in your home, and provide maximum impact with minimum use of floor space. I have a three metre tall pair of these in my living room and they’re quite at home in an old copper wash tub around 50cm wide.

Growing tip: Water regularly but allow the surface to dry completely before the next watering. Low to medium light.

Words: Liam Greenway from The Outsiders 021 355 069 lbgreenway@gmail.com theoutsiders.co.nz

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Houseboats Could Be Answer to Auckland’s Future

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A dozen or so residents on Waiheke Island are fighting for their rights, and essentially for their lives. They live on the water. Their homes shift ever so slightly with the tides. They are houseboaters. Up until recently they were content in their lives, but Auckland’s new Unitary Plan has changed that. They will soon become a non-complying activity.

The seven houseboats at Rangihoua Creek on Waiheke elevate sustainable living to another level. With solar panels providing electricity, and small food gardens both on the bank and on board, it is a wonder that Auckland Council is not trying to use them as a model of sustainability for land based houses in the greater region.

Mark Parisian has been living in the Rangihoua Creek, tucked away in the mangroves near the dirt track since 1987. His residence Gypsy Rose is a five-by-15-square-metre houseboat (not including deck space), buoyed up by a raft of barrels. He has four 80-watt solar panels that power his lights, kitchen appliances, computer and television.

A wood-burning stove keeps the place warm during the winter months and a white roof reflects summer sunlight back into space instead of allowing it to hit a dark surface where it would turn into heat. Water is collected from rain into three large tanks that run through a fourfilter system. He even has a composting waste system using worms and coffee grinds to convert organic waste into compost for the garden.

Inside, Gypsy Rose is surprisingly spacious, especially compared to this writer’s 50-square-metre city apartment.

There is a kitchen, living room, bedroom, bathroom, office nook and a guest room.

You can stand tall with plenty of room to spare. It is more house than boat.

Mark, originally from California, is a mime and clown by trade, having studied mime in Santa Barbara, and Paris, France. In 1980 he untied his 23-foot teak sailboat,

pushed off from the wharf and spent three years sailing to New Zealand, performing in cities and villages along the way.

His houseboat faces west to catch radiant sunsets. In the morning, he can slip into his kayak at high tide and glide out to sea through the mangroves. Other days, he paddles further up the estuary with a good book.

When asked if he misses living on solid ground, Mark argues that the community amongst his houseboat neighbours is more than he would ever experience in a suburban neighbourhood, and he wouldn’t trade it for the world, “My neighbours are my family. We are interested in each other and we help each other. If someone’s mooring line breaks, we are all out here helping fix it.”

While the lifestyle may not be for everyone – self-sufficiency is constant work – people like Mark have a lot to teach us city folk, who are doing more damage to our surrounding environment with our high number of vehicles, household garbage and over-consumption than this permaculture based houseboat community could ever do.

Clockwise from top: Gypsy Rose is hidden amongst the mangroves in Rangihoua Creek; the spacious interior provides room for entertaining and a cozy place to watch sunsets; tidy jars of lentils, seeds and grains double as part of the decor.

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Erin and the Elephant Words and photos: Inger-Lisa Hurst

“People seem to think that transporting an elephant is like transporting your cat or dog, you just put them in a crate and off they go, but it’s very complicated,” says elephant trainer and ‘specialist’ Erin Ivory.

For over ten years Erin has been training elephants in her native United States, using a method called Positive Reinforcement Training. She came to New Zealand four months ago, specifically to assist Franklin Zoo with moving their elephant, Mila to the United States.

Franklin Zoo has been closed to the public since the tragic death of Dr. Helen Schofield on April 25th, 2012 and since this time Franklin staff have had the mammoth task of finding new homes for each animal.

39-year-old Mila is one of the last residents at the zoo, with plans in place to move her to the United States where she will spend the rest of her retirement in the company of other African elephants.

Fundamentally social animals, it has been over 30 years since Mila has been part of a herd, having been captive since she was nine months old and her family in Africa were killed for their ivory. Since then she has spent time in zoos in London and Honolulu, before spending 30 years in the circus. She finally arrived at Franklin Zoo three years ago, where it became Dr. Schofield’s mission to teach Mila to become an independent, freethinking elephant before she could be socialised with other elephants.

While the move will mean that Dr. Schofield’s dream for Mila can finally come to fruition, it is no walk in the park to get to the four ton elephant over 13,000 kilometres across the globe.

With numerous financial, permitting and insurance hurdles to overcome, Erin has been working hard to teach Mila a myriad of behaviours so that her health can be tested in accordance with United States permit requirements.

Positive Reinforcement Training is completely absent of punishment, aversives and even the word ‘no’. Instead good behaviour is reinforced with food, toys the unusual ‘tongue rub’ — ever popular with elephants. Undesired behaviour is given what is called a ‘Least Reinforcement Scenario’ (LRS), which is a three second pause, before moving on with the training session.

“The theory behind the LRS is that ‘no’ is never associated with reinforcement,” says Erin. “If you say no and the animal stops what it is doing and it does not get reinforced for stopping. What is great about the LRS is if the animal remains calm you can reinforce them, thus teaching that failure is a part of learning and as long as they keep a good attitude they can still earn reinforcement.” This

creates an environment where learning is fun, avoiding frustration, which in wild animals can quickly turn into aggression.

“Elephant aggression in Positive Reinforcement Training is very rare. In this style of training you are not trying to dominate the animal, you are not trying to control them, you are asking for behaviours, which means they are more interested in the training sessions.”

Focussed on elephant management worldwide, Erin has the aim of teaching, training and helping elephants around the world. “It’s important to me to offer this style of training to elephants because I really do think it’s great for their welfare, great for their health and it’s successful,” she says. “We’ve proven it time and time again. It works and you don’t have to use punishment or control to get the elephant to do what you want it to do.”

For more information and to support Mila’s move visit franklinzoo.co.nz

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What’s Your Horseonality?

For the last five years, Sue Spence, a Queensland based ‘horse whisperer,’ has been working with her horses Sunny, Mindy, Yogi and Larry to help people realise the “power of their body language and how much self-respect that conveys.”

Sue describes herself as a mixture of Yogi and Mindy. “I think that’s why I can relate to so many other personality types!” she says.

Horses Helping Humans is a registered charity, where Sue and her horses help atrisk teenagers develop their self-esteem or to learn how their behaviour might be harming others. The charity is supported by the same work Sue does with business groups where she says, “bullying is rife.”

Unintentionally, Sunny, Mindy, Yogi and Larry are four horses whose personalities spread perfectly across the four human temperaments, which were adapted from ancient Greco-Roman medicine and are used by academics across the globe in what is called Personality Profiling.

Sunny is a choleric. That is, he is ambitious, dominant and has plenty of energy. Mindy, a melancholic, is warm, considerate, cautious and sensitive while Yogi, a sanguine, is social, impulsive, boisterous and charismatic. Finally Larry is phlegmatic. He is amicable, a mediator, he doesn’t like confrontation and if he is pushed he will become defensive.

“It’s not rocket science, it’s awareness,” says Sue. “When we experience stress we have conditioned responses. An extrovert could evacuate a building with their voice, while an introvert might get bullied or feel like what they say is not heard by others.”

Sue uses her knowledge of natural horsemanship to help a wide spectrum of

Horses Helping Humans is a registered charity, where Sue and her horses help at-risk teenagers develop their self-esteem or to learn how their behaviour might be harming others. people from different walks of life, but what she teaches is the same across the board.

She starts her sessions by describing the different personalities and asking her students to identify which personality type they think they are. She then groups the dominant Sunny personalities to work with amicable Larry, sensitive Mindy’s work with Sunny, boisterous Yogi’s work with Yogi (“so they can get an idea of how frustrating they can be!”) and sometimes-lazy-Larry’s work with Mindy.

By grouping people in this way they can clearly see their personality reflected in the horse’s response. “People walk away conscious of their personality and how it affects those with a different personality type,” says Sue. “Extroverts

learn to breathe out before they speak, lower their voice and to become more respectful, while introverts learn to open their chest and to communicate with more confidence and effectiveness.”

Over the last five years, Sue and her horses have been changing the lives of families, groups and individuals across Australia, with her work also being increasingly recognised and respected by psychology academics, youth work associations and large corporate groups.

“There should be no fear and intimation in communication,” she says. “There should only be trust and respect.”

For more information visit horseshelpinghumansaustralia.com.

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CARING FOR YOUR PET WHEN YOU CAN’T

LIFE IS SHORT – SMILE WHILE YOU STILL HAVE TEETH

Do you feel guilty about leaving your dog home alone, while you work long hours at the office? Are you a first-time dog owner, concerned about leaving your dog alone for the very first time? Does your cat prefer to stay at home instead of going to a boarding facility when you travel? Or do you need someone reliable to take your pet to a vet/groomer/boarding facility on your behalf? Walkabout Pet Services is your solution.

Coping with rotten egg aroma breathed, or worse licked, onto my face during a routine clinical exam has never been my strong point. Becoming a vet, and being a dentist’s daughter I had hoped I’d inherited the gene to overcome the gag reflex associated with severe halitosis, but sadly not. After a couple of decades as a vet and dealing with the poor oral health of animals on a regular basis I now understand just how vital dentistry and keeping your teeth clean is for a healthy, happy life.

Julie owned her own dog walking and pet care service in rural New York State and hiked with her packs at huge reservations in all sorts of weather conditions. Auckland is very tame compared to her experiences with coyotes and blizzards. She is a certified ‘pets as therapy’ volunteer for Outreach Therapy Pets and through this charity has worked with at risk children in reading programmes and is currently visiting residents at a dementia ward with Chase her chocolate Labrador. She has been involved with rescuing feral and unwanted cats/kittens in New Zealand, Australia and the United States and is a strong supporter of the SPCA and Paw Justice animal charities. Julie has travelled internationally with her animals and additionally understands the various protocols when transporting your pets to and from New Zealand.

Her total commitment towards her own animals spills over to yours when they are in her care. She also holds a current PetCare first aid qualification and always has a well-stocked pet first aid kit in the Walkabout van in case of emergencies.

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Fainting as a an assistant whilst removing a full set of human teeth definitely has something to do with my aversion to bad breath. As a vet I wondered, if humans can’t keep their own mouths healthy, then what hope do we have for our furry friends?

Over the years I have identified common obstacles barring the way to decent pet oral health.

Owners don’t think animals feel tooth pain. They have the same neurological system as us so why wouldn’t they? Cavities, abscesses, broken teeth and gum disease hurt like hell, they’re often just better at hiding pain.

Dietary options for pets are getting more and more confusing.

Many are not designed to help clean teeth and some of our pets are more at risk than others. Cats respond especially well to diets that help clean teeth, while the shape of different dog breed’s mouths can make it more difficult for teeth to be kept clean. Over-bites and under-bites mean no natural wolf-like scissor mastication when eating. It also seems the chewing chip has been removed from many breeds who bury their dental treats rather than bite on them.

Teeth brushing is difficult — for cats and dogs alike. However, 90% of owners can clean their dog’s teeth by following a program which relies on a focussed positive experience. This quickly becomes a routine, relaxed, ritual rather than a chore for both pet and owner.

There’s fear of the anaesthesia and the bill which follows. Routine dental work for pets does require a general anaesthetic so will indeed cost more than a quick trip to your dentist. We assess, monitor and treat every individual with careful consideration. In the long run a scale and polish, with a preventative care follow up will cost a whole lot less than removing teeth in your aging or sick pet and entail a whole lot less risk.

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COUNTRY LIFE: NOT FOR EVERYONE! A common dream of the urban dweller is rural relocation. Wouldn’t our dogs love running around grassy paddocks and traversing bush clad hills? Recently we treated a dog named Chief from the Waikato, living just such an idyllic lifestyle.

His experience was less than romantic!

He and his owner set out for a day of pig hunting and enjoying the great outdoors.

Chief is a talented finder, and before long he picked up a scent and located an angry boar. The wily pig had dealt with a few dogs in his time, didn’t give up easily and Chief came off worst.

Initially the damage seemed superficial, with a couple of wounds in Chief’s groin, but it became obvious that he couldn’t pass urine. With a strong suspicion of serious injuries, arrangements were made to transfer Chief to Auckland.

At the Animal Emergency Centre the duty veterinarian spent considerable time exploring and cleaning Chief’s wounds and placing a catheter allowing him to urinate. Chief’s penis was completely severed, and would require amputation.

Continued supportive care, pain relief in particular, was vitally important.

Fortunately Chief’s owner was prepared to engage the services of the Veterinary Specialist Group surgeons, and after a technically difficult procedure, I’m pleased to report that Chief was able to pee again!

He doesn’t quite have his old style and other dogs might mistake him for a girl now, but other than damage to his pride Chief has made an excellent recovery.

As I write this my pampered city pooches are snuggled up with me on the couch.

The big one thinks the little one takes up too much space. The little one thinks there’s space for both a dog and a laptop on my knee. These city slickers wouldn’t know country life if it jumped up and gored them!

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“He doesn’t quite have his old style and other dogs might mistake him for a girl now, but other than damage to his pride Chief has made an excellent recovery.”

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MATTERS OF INTEREST: JOINT SOLUTIONS

BETTER HOUSING FOR AUCKLANDERS Auckland’s housing challenges will only be solved by collaboration – local government, central government, developers, land owners and housing agencies working together.

Many young New Zealanders dream of owning their own home. Unfortunately here in Auckland that dream is becoming harder to achieve.

Demand for homes continues to increase, along with the cost.

We also need to ensure there are enough houses, in the right places, for the additional million people who will want to live here in the coming years.

The Auckland Housing Accord I announced with the Prime Minister last month is a step towards this.

First and foremost, Aucklanders must remain central to key decisions about the future shape of our city, which is why the Housing Accord is subject to agreement by the council’s Auckland Plan Committee this month and must be consistent with the Unitary Plan.

We have just wrapped up ten weeks of public engagement on the draft Unitary Plan, during which time thousands of Aucklanders gave us feedback on the draft proposals.

Now we will carefully consider that feedback and look at what needs to be amended in the draft plan which we hope to notify for formal consultation later this year.

From the start of our discussions with the government, I have been clear that the Housing Accord honours the integrity of this engagement process.

The accord proposes a streamlined consenting process for new housing developments, both on greenfield (new land marked for urban development) and brownfield sites (existing urban land).

This new process will be subject to the rules of the notified Unitary Plan (the version which will reflect the feedback just gathered). So any delay to the notification of the Unitary Plan will see a delay to the accord going into effect.

This accord won’t solve all of Auckland’s housing challenges, but it will ensure more pace around home building, greater access to land supply both within and outside Auckland’s existing urban limits and more options for affordable homes.

It also means there will be clear requirements for affordable housing – where we agree to streamline approval of new housing developments, we expect developers to provide decent options for affordable housing and first time buyers.

The Government has been working closely with Mayor Len Brown to address these issues.

Together, we recently announced the Auckland Housing Accord to address urgent housing supply problems while the Unitary Plan is ratified by the Council.

The Housing Accord will see 39,000 new houses consented over three years, benefiting Aucklanders who want to rent or buy more affordable houses.

Consenting timeframes will be streamlined to deliver this aspirational target – in some cases being cut from three years to six months.

The Accord gives us space to address long-term issues while ensuring the Unitary Plan process is not rushed, particularly while the independent panel receives submissions and holds hearings.

While we acknowledge the need to grow up, as well as out, high-rise developments won’t be included in the Accord. Any new buildings over six stories will still need to be considered under existing rules.

The pressures here in Auckland have been experienced by other international cities, including Vancouver and major cities in Australia. We can certainly learn from their experiences on the best way to ease housing pressures here.

The Government also wants to grow the social housing sector.

We think housing trusts can stretch taxpayer money further, and provide a better service for tenants. $16.4 million of grants will help six community housing providers around the country complete social housing developments, including here in Auckland. We are also trialling a Warrant of Fitness scheme for state houses – to ensure they are warm, clean and safe homes.

Some of Auckland’s greatest mistakes have been knee-jerk reactions and we cannot afford to repeat our past mistakes.

Groups right across the community – from residents’ associations, special interest groups to economists – are showing support for the measures we have announced.

That is why I have worked hard to ensure this accord operates within the framework of Aucklanders’ shared long-term vision for our city and why the process must continue to let directly affected people have a say.

We will continue to work closely with housing partners to improve housing for Aucklanders. If we can do this, more people will be able to get into their own home and access better quality housing – making our city more liveable.

Len Brown Mayor of Auckland

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The “accord” announced with the Auckland Council a few weeks ago allows parts of Auckland to be designated as special housing areas where previous development restrictions can be over-ridden and planning applications will be answered within three to six months. Verve asked some of our local community leaders for their opinions on the housing accord and how they believe it will improve the lives of those living in Auckland.

PLENTY OF WORK TO DO ON HOUSING

UNITARY PLAN PROCESS A FARCE

No one would claim these are boom times, but this year’s Budget confirms New Zealand is on the right track.

Our growth is amongst the best in the OECD, unemployment is falling, real wages are rising, inflation is subdued, interest rates are the lowest in decades and the government’s books will return to surplus in 2014/15.

One of the risks the country faces, however, is that an over-heated Auckland housing market will force up interest rates, which in turn would likely put upward pressure on the exchange rate and strain on the economy as a whole. A sudden burst of a housing bubble, meantime, could do real damage.

We all know that house prices are going silly in Auckland — up 12 percent in the past year. That’s a real worry for the thousands of Aucklanders struggling to progress up the housing ladder.

The government’s housing response is founded on the comprehensive report produced last year by the Productivity Commission.

We are particularly focussed on increasing the supply of land, but the government also has work underway on infrastructure costs, the costs of building materials and we are making changes to get compliance costs down. We are investing heavily in skills in this budget to improve the productivity of the residential construction sector.

We shouldn’t forget, also, that interest rates play a huge role in housing affordability. I am very proud of the government’s exemplary record on interest rates; they’re the lowest since before I was born.

Some people refuse to accept the link between rigid land supply policies and high house prices. Look at the evidence. We have seen the availability of sections in Auckland plummet over the past ten years, and the price of a section has increased over the last five years from $100,000 to $325,000. We are currently building only 4,000 homes per year in Auckland when we need 13,000 per year to keep up with population growth.

The government’s decision to allow for fast-tracking of significant residential developments in the likes of the south, north and west of the Auckland region is welcome news.

Having the capacity to build an additional 39,000 houses around Auckland in the next three years will take the pressure off considerably. However, at the writing of this, the Mayor is still keen to rush his highly contentious unitary plan through for notification before the local body elections in October.

We have seen packed community meetings around the region.

People are genuinely upset about high-rises being proposed in their neighbourhoods and all the extra infill housing.

I’ve always argued that greater residential intensification is inevitable but let’s stage it and let’s do it more strategically – enable it in areas where infrastructure, facilities, and neighbourhoods can sustain it.

Instead, the Mayor has proposed that the majority of urban Auckland be up-zoned all at once. A lot of focus has been on the high-rises but what also worries some of us is that about 70 per cent of the Orakei ward is up for ‘mixed housing’ — which is all about making more infill easier… and worse.

Initially planning staff told those of us living in the expansive suburban ‘mixed housing’ zone that new townhouses would be two storeys or eight metres high. However it was later revealed that the height limit was indeed three storeys or ten metres high, small scale apartment complexes were a real possibility, and neighbours will have no say.

This will mean that the likes of my little 1929 character bungalow in Ellerslie could be easily demolished with a nonnotified resource consent, then potentially replaced with a ten metre high apartment complex as a non-notified restricted discretionary activity, with council’s planning staff deciding all of it without any say from the neighbours or the public.

The government’s budget initiatives on housing and the Housing Accord with the Auckland Council provide a circuitbreaker to get some pace and momentum into addressing housing supply with the creation of special housing areas.

Within these areas, qualifying developments can be approved by a streamlined process.

The prospect of three storeys across about 70 per cent of the eastern suburbs will see an even greater loss of character and even more pressure on our neighbourhoods suffering already from inadequate transport and underground infrastructure, not to mention oversubscribed schools and pressured public open spaces.

In Auckland we have an ambitious agreement that sets out a plan to consent 39,000 homes over a three year period.

This draft unitary plan process has so far been a farce. Given all the genuine community concern, work on the unitary plan should now be slowed right down with any major decisions to be made by the second term council after the local body elections, not before. That would at least help restore some public confidence.

In combination, these initiatives will take some heat out of the Auckland housing market and will give some hope to families looking for a home.

Paul Goldsmith MP National List MP based in Epsom www.paulgoldsmith.co.nz, 524 4930

For more news and views please visit www.cameronbrewer.co.nz Cameron Brewer Councillor for Orakei

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MATTERS OF INTEREST CONTINUED:

WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO SUSTAINABILITY AND WHY DOES ALL THE GROWTH HAVE TO BE IN AUCKLAND? I suppose I’ve been around long enough to take a rather cynical view of things like Housing Accords.

Previous governments back in the twentieth century when faced with major housing shortages, just got on and built them. The current housing crisis seems to have become a political blame game with the government keen to embarrass the mayor while off-loading its responsibilities into the laps of Auckland ratepayers.

Politicians nowadays have ‘accords’ about houses – they don’t actually build them. Financing and building houses is now up to the private sector and charitable organisations.

Clearly we do have a housing affordability problem in Auckland.

Housing prices are at the high end of the international scale.

Recent auctions have seen astonishing prices being paid – and many young people not prepared to live out on the fringes just cannot afford good housing in the city.

Obviously there are a number of influences pushing up house prices. These include on the supply side: the high cost of New Zealand building materials (due to monopolistic practices); council regulatory costs and the high cost of sections. On the demand side: immigration into Auckland; the impact of offshore buyers; a lingering lack of enthusiasm for the sharemarket and complete lack of confidence in the finance sector by local investors. Finally, relatively low interest rates.

And as we are talking about ‘affordability’, the relative decline in average salaries and wages in New Zealand, compared to Australia over the past 30 years.

However, despite all this the government and the Auckland Council are focussing solely on land supply. While the Unitary Plan is being sold as being about a ‘compact city’ — that’s really a myth. 30 - 40 per cent of future growth is targeted for outside the present Metropolitan Urban Limits (MUL). The MUL will be replaced by a ‘Rural-Urban Boundary’ and pushed out by some 20,000 hectares, plus development is to encouraged around coastal settlements. This, to enable the building of 160,000 new dwellings in the rural greenbelt over the next 30 years. While this will mean a major lateral expansion of Auckland it’s still not enough for the government. The Housing Accord is very much about fast-tracking subdivision of productive rural land.

If the Housing Accord is not actually about building houses the Unitary Plan is not really about a compact city. It will mean a more sprawling city, a more intensified city (there is a difference) – with infill housing sprouting up all through our garden suburbs. And of course as many people fear, a more high-rise focussed city. Auckland will be growing every which way – which may make housing more affordable – but Auckland’s quality of life less desirable.

So what ever happened to sustainability and why does all the growth have to be in Auckland?

Mike Lee Councillor for Waitemata and Gulf

PARKING

IN AUCKLAND’S INNER-CITY Parking is the number one issue around Auckland’s Inner-City suburbs.

Every morning thousands of people from across the region, park on the surroundings streets of Parnell, Newmarket, Grafton, Eden Terrace and Ponsonby to make the most of free parking on their commute into the inner-city. To put the issue into perspective the surrounding streets of Freeman’s Bay have more free carparks than Aotea Centres’ Civic Carpark, that’s a lot of free carparking.

The Waitemata Local Board has been working closely with Auckland Transport to look at carpark occupancy rates throughout our business and residential areas. These results showed that during working hours the occupancy rates in some areas were between 90 to 100% and commuters are parking all day. The recent study undertaken in Parnell showed that some of the cars on residential streets were registered to inner-city apartments.

There are perverse consequences of unmonitored or unrestricted parking around the inner-city, having a direct negative effect on retailers, residents and adding to the costs of Auckland’s congestion.

The issue is about prioritisation. In mainstream retail areas there should be easy access to carparking that encourages high turnover and availability. While on residential streets all day commuters should be encouraged to jump onto reliable public transport to free-up these streets for residents and visitors. A permitted resident-only parking trial is currently being trialed in St. Mary’s Bay that could be introduced to other parts of the inner-city. Feedback from residents involved in the trial has been overwhelmingly positive.

As your elected representative on the Eden Terrace Business Association Board, recently named UPTOWN, I am pleased to announce that a new parking scheme is being introduced in this area, which will balance out the needs of retailers and residents. The process showed that a one size fits all approach doesn’t work, however the tools are available should residents, businesses, Auckland Transport and your elected representatives be prepared to work together to find a win-win solution.

If you have any parking concerns please email me at rob@robthomas.co.nz.

Rob Thomas Waitemata Local Board Member Let’s Talk 021 704423 www.robthomas.co.nz

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PR with a Conscience PR people, or ‘spin doctors’ aren’t always synonymous with ‘doing good’ but Passion PR is a public relations and marketing agency that aims to work with clients who are making a positive difference in the world.

Passion PR’s Director Leanne Frisbie started the agency over four years ago because she wanted to use her skills in marketing, communications and journalism to help make the world a better place, by helping to raise the profile of those who are doing just that.

“There are some fantastic brands and organisations out there doing great work that aim to help people, communities and the planet in some way,” Leanne says. “At Passion PR we love to get the word out about what these organisations are doing, and to inspire others to make a change for the better when they hear about the great initiatives that are going on,” she says.

The agency now employs a team of eight consultants and offers a range of services including media relations and social media strategies, event management, advertising and direct marketing campaigns.

Earlier this year, the Passion PR team moved into the six green star-rated Geyser Building in Parnell as part of the agency’s ‘walk the talk’ philosophy. “We do try to live our values as a business, which means practicing environmental sustainability in the workplace and giving back where we can,” Leanne says. “A key point of point of difference at Passion PR is the passion and dedication we bring to our work,” she says. “We specialise in getting our clients talked about in the media, and unlike big PR agencies our rates are affordable, without our clients having to compromise on quality.”

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WEATHERING THE FINANCIAL ELEMENTS THIS WINTER Words: Sorted’s David Kneebone

As the temperature starts to dip and you pack away the sunscreen and bring out your gloves, the chill in the air is a reminder that winter is fast approaching. The change in mercury level can also affect your financial plan, but with a bit of foresight you don’t have to go into hibernation to make it through winter without blowing your budget.

Just as the government will announce its budget this month, the onset of a new season presents a good time to take a look at your own money plan and make sure that you’re staying on track financially, as we’re nearly half way through the year.

The most obvious change to your expenses over winter is rising power bills. When the nights get darker and colder, it’s only natural to turn the heating up to keep your home comfortably warm. Yet depending on your heating system, increasing the heat can mean you get quite a shock when your monthly bill arrives.

So before the temperatures start to drop too much, it’s a good idea to ensure you’re getting the best deal from your power and gas companies. Electricity and gas are significant costs for most households and shopping around for the best supplier to meet your needs makes good sense. The Electricity Authority’s whatsmynumber.org.nz website will help you work out if you could save money with another provider.

While you’re checking your costs, it’s also worth contacting your broadband and phone providers to make sure you’re getting the best deal there too. Don’t be afraid to negotiate a better deal.

Often we pay the monthly charge without a second thought, missing out on easy savings.

Another website that’s worth having a look at is the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority’s site at energywise.govt.nz. There you can find tips to get the most out of the energy you use every day, whether it’s your appliances, light bulbs or fuel consumption.

Looking after your family’s health throughout the winter months can also help you stay in control of your finances. Although it can be difficult to avoid getting sick, factoring in doctor visits, prescriptions and over-the-counter medicines into your financial plan coming into winter will ensure you’re prepared.

The onset of chilly temperatures doesn’t mean your financial plans have to fall by the wayside. It takes just a little bit of time and effort to ensure you’re getting the biggest bang for your buck. If you do, the only thing you need to worry about is remembering your umbrella this winter.

DAVID KNEEBONE Sorted is New Zealand’s free independent online money guide. It offers free booklets, material for seminars that you can run for your own organisation, and calculators to help you make financial decisions at sorted.org.nz.

WHERE HAVE ALL THE RENTERS GONE? Lots of properties to rent, but some are taking weeks and some even months to let! Rents have to be reduced or advertised with no letting fee. This has been a slow renting month.

We have shown prospective renters through listings, though the urgency to rent a property has gone.

It seems almost as if when residential sales boom letting becomes slow. That’s the way it goes! So hang in there landlords – make sure your property is looking its best. In a soft market like this – it is so important to also make sure that the rent is competitive.

Now the rain has come the gutters are overflowing and should either be cleaned or repaired. This is an important job – as water can get into interior walls and cause all sorts of damage. We are also organsing chimneys to be swept – another winter must, so even if we are not busy with rentals, maintenance is ongoing.

I have just ordered and stacked wood for my open fire. I love my fireplace and don’t mind the cold weather. The leaves are falling and winter is on its way – so make sure your property is ready for chilly, wet weather.

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