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Please come and enjoy your morning and afternoon tea specials.
We have our weekday specials which are:
Just for $7 – Regular coffee with a freshly house made Scone or Muffin of your choice.
Just for $12 – Regular coffee with Eggs on Toast (poached, … View moreTo all our Neighbours and Customers
Please come and enjoy your morning and afternoon tea specials.
We have our weekday specials which are:
Just for $7 – Regular coffee with a freshly house made Scone or Muffin of your choice.
Just for $12 – Regular coffee with Eggs on Toast (poached, scrambled or fried).
All our coffee’s comes with FREE Biscotti.
We also have varieties of soup with ciabatta bread from $12 on-wards.
We have FREE WIFI for everyone.
Our café can accommodate meetings, social gatherings, family functions and events.
We do caterings indoor as well as outdoor. Please check with the Chef owner for the menu and bookings.
For further information, please be free to contact us on 09-2130553.
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Get your gumboots ready, as Auckland Council’s Ambury Farm Day is back! Experience life on the farm up close and personal at Ambury Regional Park on Sunday 20 October.
We're on the hunt for people who've passed "inheritance" on to their kids while still alive? i.e. you haven't made them wait for it to be distributed by a will. Do you fit the bill? Get in touch with susan.edmunds@stuff.co.nz
Local businesses have launched a petition calling for help as construction for Auckland's City Rail …
Here at Neighbourhood Support we know first hand that communities that stay connected and prepared fare better in emergencies than those without a plan.
For the month of October, we want to see how you tackle emergency preparedness. From getting first aid training to putting together a grab n’ … View moreHere at Neighbourhood Support we know first hand that communities that stay connected and prepared fare better in emergencies than those without a plan.
For the month of October, we want to see how you tackle emergency preparedness. From getting first aid training to putting together a grab n’ go bag with survival essentials, a little bit of planning goes a long way to make sure you can get through any situation.
This month also coincides with International Day of Disaster Reduction on October 13th and New Zealand’s national earthquake drill and tsunami hikoi, ShakeOut, on Thursday, October 17th at 1.30pm.
Let us know how you’re preparing for anything in your home, at work or in your community by tagging us in your posts + using the following hashtag so we can see what you get up to:
#NSNZprepared
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Hi all :)
Please do the cats in your hood a massive favour and have them spayed or neutered , even if they are not yours and are strays <3
There are many cat rescue charities that can help you with Trapping, desexing and releasing the strays and feral cats for free.
You can always contact me… View moreHi all :)
Please do the cats in your hood a massive favour and have them spayed or neutered , even if they are not yours and are strays <3
There are many cat rescue charities that can help you with Trapping, desexing and releasing the strays and feral cats for free.
You can always contact me regarding pregnant cats, intact cats and feral cats. I work with the Cat Coalition Community and operate around One Tree Hill, Onehunga, Penrose and Ellerslie.
Cheers Xx
Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the much older lady that she should bring her own grocery bags, because plastic bags are not good for the environment,.
The woman apologised to the young girl and explained, "We didn't have this 'green thing' back in my … View moreChecking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the much older lady that she should bring her own grocery bags, because plastic bags are not good for the environment,.
The woman apologised to the young girl and explained, "We didn't have this 'green thing' back in my earlier days."
The young clerk responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations."
The older lady said that she was right our generation didn't have the "green thing" in its day. The older lady went on to explain: Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilised and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were recycled.
But we didn't have the "green thing" back in our day. Grocery stores bagged our groceries in brown paper bags that we reused for numerous things. Most memorable besides household garbage bags was the use of brown paper bags as book covers for our school books. This was to ensure that public property (the books provided for our use by the school) was not defaced by our scribblings. Then we were able to personalise our books on the brown paper bags.
But, too bad we didn't do the "green thing" back then. We walked up stairs because we didn't have an escalator in every store and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks. But she was right. We didn't have the "green thing" in our day.
Back then we washed the baby's diapers because we didn't have the throw away kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy-gobbling machine burning up 220 volts. Wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days.
Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing. But that young lady is right; we didn't have the "green thing" back in our day.
Back then we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of the state of Montana.
In the kitchen we blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do everything for us.
When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap.
Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power.
We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity. But she's right; we didn't have the "green thing" back then.
We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blade in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull. But we didn't have the "green thing" back then.
Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their mums into a 24-hour taxi service in the family's $45,000 SUV or van, which cost what a whole house did before the "green thing."
We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn't need a computerised gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 23,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest burger joint.
But isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn't have the "green thing" back then?
Please forward this on to another selfish old person who needs a lesson in conservation from a smarty pants young person. We don't like being old in the first place, so it doesn't take much to upset us ... Especially from a smarty pants who can't make change without the cash register telling them how much.
❤️🌹 Thank you for reading my post. This needed to be heard. Let's not waste time with blame. Let's dedicate that time to making a change today, that will benefit our generations for millions more years. It's a privilege to have our precious time here on this earth. Lets do some housework and tidy up, and maintain it, It all takes one thing to start with. A choice. What will yours be? 🌹❤️
The Greens are supporting the voting age being dropped to 16. Green party co-leader James Shaw said he saw "switched on" young people demanding to be heard by politicians. They were desperately unhappy about the decisions political leaders were making about their futures.
What do you … View moreThe Greens are supporting the voting age being dropped to 16. Green party co-leader James Shaw said he saw "switched on" young people demanding to be heard by politicians. They were desperately unhappy about the decisions political leaders were making about their futures.
What do you think?
The pilot of a seaplane that crashed into Auckland harbour failed to raise the wheels and use the re…
Wardrobe Organiser 25cm x 30cm x 125cm unused $10
Cast Iron Skillets New 15, 19, 25 cm $20 for all 3
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Did you know Purewa Cemetery is the home of famous New Zealand artist Charles Goldie, former Governor-General Sir Denis Blundell, and Marianne Caughey, founder of iconic department store Smith and Caughey, among many other founding men and women of Auckland?
Come and find out about some of … View moreDid you know Purewa Cemetery is the home of famous New Zealand artist Charles Goldie, former Governor-General Sir Denis Blundell, and Marianne Caughey, founder of iconic department store Smith and Caughey, among many other founding men and women of Auckland?
Come and find out about some of these amazing early Aucklanders at Purewa during Auckland Heritage Week. We are offering FREE guided tours through the cemetery on
Sunday, 6th of October, 1-4pm
Choose from four tours led by historians:
- Business/Entrepreneurs 1.15pm
- Education/Arts 1.30pm
- Church/Medical/Military 1.45pm
- Politics/Sport 2pm
All tours leave from St John’s Lounge at Purewa Cemetery, 100 St Johns Road, Meadowbank
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