Money pressure's putting the squeeze on planting initiatives
With poor farm-gate returns, ‘non-essential’ restoration work is being put on the back burner.
Catchment restoration work on Waikato farms has halved over the past two years, despite farmers being ‘willing’ to fence off land and waterways.
Suellen’s sweet Christmas tradition
The festive season is always a great excuse to indulge your sweet tooth, and this time of year poses the perfect opportunity to bring a real showstopper to the Christmas table.
For Suellen’s family, that showstopper is Croquembouche, an impressive tower of cream puffs bound together with spun sugar that is popular at weddings in France and Italy.
What began as a birthday treat at a local French café has become a cherished Christmas tradition for Suellen and her 17-year-old twin granddaughters, Ellie and Sadie. Every year, the trio gather in Suellen’s apartment at William Sanders Village to cook this festive dessert - a holiday highlight they all treasure.
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Poll: Would you rather: Christmas in summer forever or winter forever?
Just a bit of a fun poll to get you thinking.
If you had to live out your Christmas days, would you prefer it was a summer Christmas or a winter Christmas?
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61.7% Summer
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36.5% Winter
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1.7% Other - I'll share below
Poll: Have you ever had copper/building materials stolen?
Julie Guest woke at midnight to the sound of copper being stripped off her church - and startled the perpetrator.
The exhausted vicar was sleeping on-site at St John’s Church, Te Awamutu, amid a string of thefts in her patch, “trying to be the policeman as well as the priest”.
Have you ever had copper/building materials stolen? Tell us about it in the comments (adding NFP if you don't want your words used in print).
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0% Yes
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0% No
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