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One year on: teaching online cooking, wine and history and our News

New Zealand School of Food & Wine

We watch captivated by the spectacle of those impressive America's Cup yachts foiling at 40 knots across the Hauraki Gulf, and at the same time, it's hard not to have a salutary reflection on the last 12 months.

Almost to the day, we were celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the New Zealand School of Food and Wine with special wine tastings, cooking classes, forage and gastronomic dinner for over 75 guests + our students. Many of our Christchurch team, including Lois, Philippe and Victoria had come up for the weekend. My mother-in-law, June Hay had also joined us from her retirement home in Christchurch. By Sunday 15 March, I was getting pretty nervous about Covid-19 and rather than have June stay in the North Island for a holiday, she returned home the next day. A few days later June's rest home went into lockdown and I counted the 14 days to see if we too had a NZSFW Covid Cluster. Fortunately not! See below some photos as we recalled the 10th Anniversary of the Christchurch Earthquakes.

Read the full story on our latest newsletter.

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4 days ago

Live Q&A: Garden maintenance with Crewcut

The Team from Neighbourly.co.nz

This Wednesday, we are having another Neighbourly Q&A session. This time with John Bracewell from Crewcut.

John Bracewell, former Black Caps coach turned Franchisee Development Manager and currently the face of Crewcut’s #Movember campaign, knows a thing or two about keeping the grass looking sharp—whether it’s on a cricket pitch or in your backyard!

As a seasoned Crewcut franchisee, John is excited to answer your lawn and gardening questions. After years of perfecting the greens on the field, he's ready to share tips on how to knock your garden out of the park. Let's just say he’s as passionate about lush lawns as he is about a good game of cricket!

John is happy to answer questions about lawn mowing, tree/hedge trimming, tidying your garden, ride on mowing, you name it! He'll be online on Wednesday, 27th of November to answer them all.

Share your question below now ⬇️

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1 hour ago

Knife Sharpening at the ALoT Repair Café, this Saturday 11-2

Amanda Chapman from Auckland Library of Tools

This Saturday at Repair & Share repair café:

Knife Sharpening!
Painting Touch-ups!
Darning!
And the usual repairs in sewing, electronics, and general repair. Not sure if it can be fixed? Give us a shot, we love a challenge!

More details:
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Brought to you by:
Repair Cafe Aotearoa NZ - www.repaircafeaotearoa.co.nz...
Auckland Council - www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz...

And our amazing volunteers!

Delicious coffee provided by Kokako Organic Coffee. www.kokako.co.nz...

See you there!

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4 days ago

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Cindy from Freemans Bay

A neighbour has to go to Greenlane hospital & she,s never used a parking metre & she wants to know how to start &what other steps she takes & can she pay with her debit card.I can’t help her as I work from home & have never had to use a parking meter so need your help PLEASE