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Just your cuppa tea
Some people would go a great distance for a fine cuppa. But from one end of the country to another? That's exactly what the Twinings Great Earl Grey Taste-Off roadshow will do to determine NZ's fave cuppa Earl Grey...
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What lies beneath
Perhaps best described as a cross between Juno, Napoleon Dynamite and The Inbetweeners, Submarine is both murky and inspired, which helps kept my eyes and ears tuned to the story as it unfolded...
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The first of the Summer Wine
As the festive season approaches it becomes important to find light fresh wines to accompany that first bowl of strawberries, the barbequed prawns or the ever present tropical fruit salad. We recently applied ourselves to this task...
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Wild woman
Sasha Grayson thinks you're distinctively feminine with a crisp, fresh and fruity flavour. Well, perhaps not YOU, exactly, but your taste in wine. And that's what she's created - especially for the NZ woman to drink...
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Style My Pretties
Kiwi band Fly My Pretties are known for the music but perhaps now for their stage costumes as well, with a colab with fashion labels Cybèle and MisteR designing outfits for their current Oct/Nov 2011 tour...
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The what and why of Dr Who
Today was a good day. A very good day indeed. Especially if you were two ardent fans of the franchise that is Dr Who. We got to meet two actors...
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Shopping Wellington
A recent trip to Wellington had me visiting favourite haunts and celebrating the latest spring fashion, including Ruby, Pearl, Andrea Moore, Ricochet, Taylor, Minnie Cooper, Workshop and Helen Cherry, as well as Cuba Street's second-hand stores...
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Justin Time
In Time, starring Justin Timberlake, is a sci-fi with societal commentary that is fortuitously timed to coincide with the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ movement where protestors are chanting that they are the 99%...
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Handy Crafty
Ooohhhh… a lot of new craft books to look at. I have four new craft books to make you drool – in a handy crafty way of course - from crochet to knitting to home sewing. Madeleine crocheted the teacosy pictured left...
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Small but perfectly formed
Books don’t have to be big to be powerful. We have a handful (literally) of tiny books – to make you laugh, sigh, be informed and generally make your world a little brighter – one small book at a time…
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Divine Design
For those of you who have read my reviews before you will know I have a real fascination with pink. Especially bright pink – in fact, the brighter the better. Recently I have been toying with painting my lounge fuchsia...
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Underwater world
We headed along in the school holidays to Kelly Tarlton’s latest attraction, the Seahorse Kingdom - their first new permanent exhibit in five years, featuring seahorses and the world’s only Spiny Sea Dragons on public display...
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