Northwood, Christchurch

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Have a browse...

Check out what your neighbours are selling (or giving away!) here.

1602 days ago

Have you signed up to get free gardening advice?

Mei Leng Wong Reporter from NZ Gardener & Get Growing

In this week’s issue we go undercover with tips and tools for glasshouses. It’s time to make your bird-friendly garden count, prune fruit trees, watch out for frosty weather, move seedlings under cover and pick celery before disease strikes.
Plus make your own hanging chandelier planter and … View more
In this week’s issue we go undercover with tips and tools for glasshouses. It’s time to make your bird-friendly garden count, prune fruit trees, watch out for frosty weather, move seedlings under cover and pick celery before disease strikes.
Plus make your own hanging chandelier planter and follow Jane Packer’s advice to decorate your kitchen and dining spaces with flowers. Be in to win Jane Packer Flowers and the NZ House & Garden July issue.

Delivered every Friday to your email inbox, Get Growing digital magazine offers seasonal gardening advice from the NZ Gardener magazine's team of experts. Each week we answer all your burning questions on raising fruit and veges and tell you the top tasks to do in your backyard this weekend. Subscribe here:

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1602 days ago

Our recent kitchen electrical install

John McDonald Electrical ltd

Here is the finished product from a kitchen recently installed. The owners chose three pendant lights to go over their breakfast bar for an additional feature to this functional space.

Thanks to Kitchen Concepts for their great teamwork in completing this job.

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1603 days ago

The scenery is always beautiful...

Silverstream Subdivision

But this autumnal day was just stunning.

#silverstreamsubdivision #silverstreamwestkaiapoi #itsallhere

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1609 days ago

New light show for Christchurch

Anna Williams Reporter from The Press

Christchurch will still be lit up this year despite one of the city's most popular festivals being postponed.
Christchurch Is Lit will run from July 1 to 29 from 6pm to 11pm each day and feature more than 20 light creations throughout the city.

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1606 days ago

Foraging on Banks Peninsula

Anna Williams Reporter from The Press

If Peter Langlands needed to, he could eat for free. On an average day, he'd find 50 to 75 edible greens along the foreshore.
Do you forage for food? If so, where are the best spots to forage in Canterbury?

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1604 days ago

Essential oil package

Paul from Northwood

Great starter Kit at a very reasonable price with quality Therapeutic Oils.
You receive 17 Essential oils, 10 of which are in a display stand with culinary uses, 20 diffusers reeds, 2, 5 ml Perfume roller bottles, everything to get you on your journey. Make Perfumes, Fragrances, your own … View more
Great starter Kit at a very reasonable price with quality Therapeutic Oils.
You receive 17 Essential oils, 10 of which are in a display stand with culinary uses, 20 diffusers reeds, 2, 5 ml Perfume roller bottles, everything to get you on your journey. Make Perfumes, Fragrances, your own reed diffusers, Cleaning products, Pest control, the list is endless. Free delivery

Price: $79.95

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1604 days ago

Penguin sculptures arrive in Christchurch for new art trail

Anna Williams Reporter from The Press

A waddle of penguins has flown into Christchurch to be decorated by school children and artists and installed on city streets.
The sculptures will be displayed for about 10 weeks across Christchurch before being auctioned off to raise money for Cholmondeley Children's Centre.

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1604 days ago

#AotearoaOfKindness: Mobilising the kindness DNA

Sarah Macdonald from Volunteering New Zealand

Volunteering New Zealand is mobilising the kindness DNA with our new #AotearoaOfKindness campaign for National Volunteer Week!

We're calling on people to share their stories of acts of kindness. We're calling on people to thank those who have shown acts of kindness that contribute to an … View more
Volunteering New Zealand is mobilising the kindness DNA with our new #AotearoaOfKindness campaign for National Volunteer Week!

We're calling on people to share their stories of acts of kindness. We're calling on people to thank those who have shown acts of kindness that contribute to an Aotearoa of Kindness.

Call to action – keep shaping the world we want to live in:

• Look for where kindness, mahi aroha, work for love, has impacted your life.
• Show your thanks to those people giving kindness and mahi aroha through #AotearoaOfKindness.
• Connect or reconnect with a community or a cause that’s important to you through volunteeringnz.org.nz/finding-volunteer-roles.

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1606 days ago

Einstein and how he discovered relativity

Don from Parklands - Marshlands

He was on his second cup of coffee and bemusing the energy he experienced, he astutely wrote on his chalkboard ENERGY = milk + coffee + coffee
or as it came to be known energy = mc squared.

1605 days ago

Poll: How do you fold your towels?

Jo Haywood Reporter from Homed

Hey neighbours, is there a right way to fold towels? It seems it's a topic lots of people have strong opinions about.

The most popular options are the quick-and-easy triple fold, or folding the outer edges towards the centre before folding in thirds, to create a plusher, more spa-like look. … View more
Hey neighbours, is there a right way to fold towels? It seems it's a topic lots of people have strong opinions about.

The most popular options are the quick-and-easy triple fold, or folding the outer edges towards the centre before folding in thirds, to create a plusher, more spa-like look. But what do you do? And who knew folding towels could be so controversial?

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How do you fold your towels?
  • 34.4% Basic - Fold in half three times
    34.4% Complete
  • 39.9% Plush - Fold towards the centre, then in thirds
    39.9% Complete
  • 16.4% Rolled - No folds allowed
    16.4% Complete
  • 9.4% None of the above
    9.4% Complete
1515 votes
1605 days ago

Silverstream Retail Village

Silverstream Subdivision

The Retail Village that really looks after you - Defined as the home of excellence in health and wellbeing, we have everything here you need to keep your body and mind in shape!

Check it out for yourself!

#silverstreamsubdivision #silverstreamwestkaiapoi #itsallhere

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1605 days ago

It's National Volunteer Week!

Sarah Macdonald from Volunteering New Zealand

National Volunteer Week honours the collective energies and mana of volunteers in Aotearoa. They grow our people, open minds, open hearts and create joy.

National Volunteer Week 2020 runs from June 21-27. This year’s theme is ‘Te Hua o te Mahi Tahi I The benefit of working together’. 

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National Volunteer Week honours the collective energies and mana of volunteers in Aotearoa. They grow our people, open minds, open hearts and create joy.

National Volunteer Week 2020 runs from June 21-27. This year’s theme is ‘Te Hua o te Mahi Tahi I The benefit of working together’. 

Join us this National Volunteer Week to celebrate how our communities are stronger when working together.

#NVW2020 #mahitahi #teamwork #tautoko #support #volunteers #thankyou #AotearoaOfKindness

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1605 days ago

Single bed and base

Diana from Kaiapoi

Selling a single bed . Comes with mattress and base . Excellent condition.

1606 days ago

Nutrimetics Sale - up to 70% off

Jordana Cook from Jordy's Nutrimetics Page

Offers available until Wednesday, message my to order or shop direct from my website: www.nutrimetics.co.nz...

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1606 days ago

Free Towel NEW

Julia from Bishopdale

I have a new towel to give away. Note to be careful when washing it as I do not know if the colour will run. Private message me :)

Free

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