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Welcome to 2015 – International Year of Light. So, what does this year hold? That is up to you! Dr Mary Grogan’s article (March 15th) shares tips and wisdom on motivation, habits and purpose – good encouragement to think about what you’d like to see when you look back on 2015, and maybe jot down some goals in your Kiwi Diary.

And what does 2015 hold for the world? Well, while a world without differences would be extremely boring, as I heard a wise woman once say, a bit more ‘we’ and little less ‘us vs them’ would go a long way...

When you look below the shifting surface of society, behind the ‘progress’ and technological change, our basic wants and needs haven’t changed much: to connect, to share great experiences, and to sense fulfillment. But without reminders, life can easily begin to feel overly complicated. We need reminders of the things we have learned as a society, to avoid repeating the same mistakes; reminders that when we care for others it comes back around and we feel more cared for. And, reminders that the best times are found in the simple

things – time with friends and family, getting outside, being creative, and sharing!

Our brains are wired to be inspired – and when we’re inspired, good things happen. So, KD15 is designed to inspire and hopefully ignite good action, for example rocking out Emily Lucas’ beet chips (November 22nd) or Relish’s Quince Tart! (November 5th).

In your hands you hold the collective creativity of 80 incredible contributors, woven into a package of goodness not to be found anywhere else.

The benefits of their creativity goes both ways, as captured in the quote on June 5th – which also happens to be the day New Zealand celebrates World Arbor Day. So, on June 5th go out and plant a tree – who knows what it will inspire you to do as studies have found that green spaces increase our creativity!

My heartfelt thanks to Lou Horner and Anna Fawdray once again for their luminous design skills, to my wonderful and supportive friends and family, and to Ian – my inspiration.

Arohanui, shine on!

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Contents Recipes Raw Vegan Raspberry Pie, Jazial Crosby January 1 Easy Olive Oil Quiche Crust w/ Asparagus & Coconut filling January 18 Apricot Shortcake, Wildhealth Food January 30 Bircher Breakfast & Raspberry avocado cream, Anna Wilde February 13 Blueberry Lemonade, Melissa Wastney February 20 Zucchini & zucchini blossom Feta Fritters, Nicole Galloway February 22 All Purpose Cleaner & Cleaning Cloths, Melissa Wastney March 27 Spiced Squid Salad, James, Bluebridge March 29 Korean Spicy Dipping Sauce, Relishes Cafe April 3 April 4 Aussie Bronwyn’s Gluten-free Focaccia, Jared Gulian Coconut & Bee Pollen Macaroons, Silverfern Honey April 12 Homemade Cloud Marshmallows, Unna Burch April 19 Carrot Dip, Wendy Hillyer, Plentifull Deli May 3 Little Honey & Almond Cupcakes, The Beekeeper.co May 31 V.’s Impromptu Gluten-Free Plum Cake June 7 Rewena Bread June 12 Bone Broth, Nicola Cranfield & Commonsense Organics July 5 Best Ever Breakfast Bread, Wildhealth Food 12 July Slow Braised Lamb Shanks with Levin Celeriac Mash & Lentil Gravy, Shaun Clouston – Logan Brown August 30 The Most Decadent Chocolate Mousse Cake on the Raw Planet, Jules Barber September 20 Homemade Glass Cleaner, Melissa Wastney October 23 Quince Tart, Relishes Cafe November 5 Onion Jam, Relishes Cafe November 14 Lemon Tofu Custard with Minted Berries November 15 Spiced Beetroot Chips with Pear Guacamole, Emily Lucas November 22 Whole Roast Trumpeter w/ Caper & Lime Butter Sauce, Fleur’s Place December 6 Sujon’s Chocolate Lovers’ Boysenberry Brownie December 31

Poetry We Lost Our Dogs on Chunik Bair, Greg Wilson The end of the road, Annabel Wilson Rural NZ, Laura Williamson Where the Big Rivers Go, David Eggleton Winebar Waiata, David Eggleton Winter, Amy Austin Desolate Star, Robin Hyde On Beauty, David Eggleton Home, I.K. Paterson-Harkness On the Tiles, View Street, Annabel Wilson Prose Our Rivers, Dr Mike Joy Motivation: The Importance of Values, Dr Mary Grogan 80/20 Food for Health, Background to the 80/20 Alkaline/Acid Food Chart, Dhyana Tribe Time To Get Up, I.K. Paterson-Harkness Taking the Time to Digest, Maria Montgomerey Why So Beautiful? Grant B. Lyon What We Get Out of Bed For, Steve Logan Antarctica: Not for Sale? Hanne Nielson In Defence of the Sacred Cow! Su Hoskin Body & Breath: Meditation, Dr Siobhan Lynch The Thyroid, Sally Flewelling The Infinite Game, Dr Niki Harre Four Stories from my Life, Sir Paul Callaghan

January 23 March 20 March 21 June 28 July 22 August 13 August 23 September 4 November 13 December 6 March 8 March 15 March 29 May 10 May 24 August 2 August 30 September 6 September 27 November 9 November 29 December 20 December 31

CONNEXIONS oil on canvas 75cmx95cm

Kathy Ready

Contributors

Recipes Anna Fawdray Anna Wilde Emily Lucas Fleur Sullivan Jules Barber Dr Lee Nelson, Split Apple Retreat Melissa Wastney Nicola Cranfield Nicola Galloway Tasha Wadeson, Relishes Cafe Wendy Hillyer, Plentifull Deli Roger Wilde Shaun Clouston Unna Burch Dr Virginia Toy Photography Aaron Davy Amanda Rogers Andrew Swan Christian Hogue

Dominika Zielinska Erica Leather Grant B. Lyon Gina Rembe Hanne Nielson Jan Bryme Joe Harrison Jordan Schilling Kelly Todd Laura Forest Lu Davidson Nina Kennett Rachel Nankivell Ruth Pearce Art Alice Berry Anna Fawdray Anoushka Szybowski Brian Looker Candice Ciesla Carla Braun-Elwert

Chloe Sawyer Claire Davies Claudia Slaney Lou Horner Ema Frost Erika Husselmann Hayley Carleton Ian Hamlin Jonathan Crayford Ilya Volykhine Lauren Stewart Leanne Addison Michelle Firment Reid Raymond Jennings Rebecca Smallbridge Ruth Seatter Sarah Aslin Sharon Parker Zoe Leeb du Toit Poetry Annabel Wilson

Amy Austin Greg Wilson David Eggleton I. K. Paterson-Harkness Laura Williamson Dr Renee Liang Prose Dhyana Tribe Grant B. Lyon Hanne Nielson Dr Mary Grogan Marcia Montgomery Dr Mike Joy Dr Niki Harre Sir Paul Callaghan Dr Renee Liang Sally Flewelling Dr Siobhan Lynch Steve Logan Su Hoskin Sustainable Coastlines

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Raw Vegan

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This is a quick to make and visually gorgeous raw vegan raspberry pie. The berries bring a brilliant pinky hue to the dessert and add a tang. This is only made from fruit and nuts. That’s it! My Before he got Type 2 diabetes,my grandfather developed Type 2 diabetes in grandfather and I had a running thing recent years after his affection for pudding about puddings: that they make caught up with him. In early 2014, I have a everything better. high chance of developing Type 2 diabetes For as long as I can remember, whenever he and I before I'm 40. Hence, there is no sugar, spoke we would discuss the healing qualities of a cholesterol or anything bad for you in this good dessert. I would visit at Christmas as a little dessert. It is food to be enjoyed fearlessly. girl and if I hurt my leg falling off the trampoline he’d shake his head sorrowfully, saying, “You Recipe: know what you need? More puddings.”

When I was seven and upset after watching something scary on television, he suggested I remedy the situation by eating pudding.

Indeed, having something sweet after dinner made me feel much better. He was right!

Sometimes we would correspond by writing letters and he signed off with something along the lines of, “Love always. Puddings forever!”

My grandfather was a child in England during World War II when food was rationed and sugar was expensive. Pudding (such a British word!) truly was something ceremonious then. It wasn’t served often, only on special occasions. It would have been lovingly and laboriously homemade, by hand. He passed on to me some of that sense of ceremony around sweet foods, which was a lot of fun when I was little.

Pudding can be soothing because of the act of seeking out something sweet that is not part of a normal daily diet, making time to sit down and savour it. I think the sentiment behind the saying my grandfather and I shared, that puddings solve problems, wasn’t about the actual dessert but more about the act of treating yourself.

Base

1 and a half cups of ground almonds 1 cup Medjool/fresh dates 2 tablespoons almond butter

Filling

3 ripe bananas 2 cups of frozen raspberries 2 tablespoons coconut oil Blend the base ingredients together in a food processor then smush the mixture into the bottom of a pie dish, pressing together until it is firm and even. I used a deep 9 inch tin. Blend the filling ingredients together then pour into your pie dish over the delicious almondy base.

Freeze for a minimum of 1 and a half hours then slice, and enjoy!

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1 Thursday Rapere

2 Friday Ramere

HEMA

HEMA

There is a timeless saying, that peace comes from within. It is the same with beauty. Both of these qualities emanate from Margaret Hema, and effuse the way she hand-blends her facial oils, gives facial treatments, and the way you will feel afterwards.

Margaret’s philosophy is to treat the skin like a beautiful fabric. With over 25 years of experience, and a range of eight beauty products that she has perfected over the years, Margaret Hema is a true New Zealand icon. Try one of her facials today.

New Year’s Holiday New Year’s Day The Doughbin bakery opens in Wanaka, 1982. The Doughbin is a source of divine baked goodness (not to mention essential survival supplies) at all hours for many a snowboarder/skier/ itinerant traveller.

The Golden Bay Bag Ladies launch the Plastic Bag-Free Campaign, welcoming drivers into Takaka with free cloth bags, 2005. This begins a year of incentives and activities to re-educate shoppers to say no to plastic, use eco alterantives, or simply re-use what they have. New Zealand’s first community to do so.

First Floor 49 Courtenay Place Wellington +64 4 3854905

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january

3 Saturday Rahoroi

Sir Edmund Hillary reaches the South Pole, 1958.

4 Sunday Ratapu

His Majesty’s Theatre is demolished, 1988.

Lamb Above Lake Wanaka

Jordan Schilling

january 5 Monday Rahina

Jack Lovelock, a famous Kiwi runner and Rhodes Scholar, is born on the West Coast, 1910.

6 Tuesday Ratu

Godfrey Bowen sets a sheep shearing record in 1953 of 456 sheep in 9 hours.

James Speight founding father of Dunedin’s historic brewery, is born in 1834.

7 Wednesday Raapa

Playwright Robert Lord dies, leaving his Dunedin Titan Street house in a trust to be used by writers in years to come.

8 Thursday Rapere

Kelly Evernden wins his fourth national tennis title.

9 Friday Ramere

KatherineMansfielddies,oneofourmost celebrated writers, 1923.

Chloe Sawyer

10 Saturday Rahoroi

11 Sunday Ratapu

Anjaneyasana

Low Lunge A standing, hip opening posture.

Benefits: stretches the hip flexors and quadriceps.

The All Whites qualify for the World Cup, 1982.

Sir Edmund Hillary passes away aged 88, 2008. In 1953 Sir Ed and Tenzin Norgay became the first climbers to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

Laura Forest

january 12 Monday Rahina

13 Tuesday Ratu

14 Wednesday Raapa

Anahatasana

Melting Heart This is a classic yoga posture that opens up and stretches the chest area and upper back, and stimulates the heart muscle. A great one for enhancing the functioning of the heart muscle!

Queen Elizabeth II opens a special session of Parliament, 1954.

Heart surgery pioneer Sir Brian BarrattBoyes is born, Wellington, 1924.

Dame Kiri Te Kanawa sings in front of 140,000 people at Auckland’s Domain – her first performance in five years, 1990.

15 Thursday Rapere

16 Friday Ramere

Big moon, little stars You bring the beach with you, glittergritty hair, sandfly bites – Haast souvenirs. From the edge of my unmade bed we watch the Supermoon rise; squint into angel light. See the white lozenge thicken beyond the pines. I lick salt off your shoulder. You inspect the splinter in my finger. This Perigree moon tugs at the tides, stirs the storm surge of your reply: I need a needle and a lighter to get that out. In the back of my top left drawer, there are both: under the hankies folded for funerals, weddings, sad movies and flus, beside a little box of tiny stars. We don’t speak. You perform delicate surgery. This splinter has gone deep. I want to hang upside down off your eyelashes; laugh at the mirror ball moon. Squadrons of moths crash into the glass. Wingdust gathers, scattered ashes on the sill. Moths navigate via celestial sources. They’re aiming for the moon but they’ll never make it.

US Vice-President Spiro-Agnew begins a controversial visit to New Zealand, 1970.

The New Zealand Women’s Auxiliary Airforce is officially formed, 1941.

Annabel Wilson

january

17 Saturday Rahoroi

Walter Nash becomes leader of the opposition Labour Party after the death of Peter Fraser, 1951.

18 Sunday Ratapu

Montego Bay by 18 year old singer Jon Stevens hits #1 on the charts, 1980.

18 Sunday Ratapu

Easy Olive Oil Quiche Crust I have made this quiche crust in several variations for about 10 years now. It is quick and easy to make with no rolling or resting of the dough, simply mix, press and cook. It is also very flexible with the dry ingredients as long as the same quantity is used. The quiche you see pictured here I made gluten-free with buckwheat flour, brown rice flour, ground almonds and ground quinoa. It is delightfully light and holds its shape well due to the blind baking. The addition of the vinegar helps to soften the flours.

Ingredients 1 cup flour (GF: use 1/2 cup buckwheat flour + 1/2 cup brown rice flour) 1/2 cup ground nuts (or extra 'quick-cook' rolled oats) 1/2 cup 'quick-cook' rolled oats (GF: use 1/2 cup ground quinoa) 1/2 tsp sea salt 1 tsp fresh thyme leaves 1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil 1 tsp apple cider vinegar approx. 1/2 cup cold water

Directions

Prep Time: 10 minutes Cook Time: 30 minutes Serves 4–6 Recipe from Feeding Little Tummies Recipe & text copyright Nicola Galloway Homegrown Kitchen

1. Lightly grease a 25cm quiche dish or pie tin with olive oil. Preheat the oven 180C. 2. Combine dry ingredients in a bowl. Make a well and add the oil then quickly rub with your fingers to make a breadcrumb like texture. Add the vinegar and 1/2 cup water and use a large spoon or spatula to briefly mix together until a ball forms. Add a little extra cold water if the dough is dry. Knead briefly to combine. Tip the dough directly into the greased dish/tin and quickly press with your fingers to evenly cover the base. Cover the crust with a sheet of baking paper and fill with ceramic pie weights or dried beans and 'blind bake' for 20 minutes. Remove the weights and cook for a further 10 minutes until the crust is lightly golden. Cool a little on a cake rack while preparing the filling.

Asparagus & Coconut Milk Quiche Filling This is a quiche filling I have been making recently with asparagus in season. I have also been playing with using coconut milk in place of milk/ cream for my dairy sensitive son. It is surprisingly good making the custard light and flavorsome.

I prefer to use Trade Aid coconut milk as it doesn't separate.

Ingredients 4 free-range eggs 1/2 cup Trade Aid coconut milk 1/4 tsp sea salt cracked pepper 1 bunch asparagus, stalks trimmed and halved 100g goat feta, crumbled (optional, omit if making completely dairy-free)

Directions 1. Pour the custard into the quiche/pie crust. Arrange the asparagus evenly in the custard and top with crumbled feta. Bake for 25-30 minutes until the custard is just set. Serve hot or cold ~ perfect for taking to a potluck or picnic at the beach/river/park... *I make quinoa flour by blitzing whole quinoa in our coffee grinder. We use a paint brush (bought specifically for the task) to clean out the grinder after use for grinding coffee, nuts, seeds, quinoa etc.

www.homegrown-kitchen.co.nz/2013/12/11/easy-olive-oil-crust/

january 19 Monday Rahina

The Strongman mine explodes, 1967.

20 Tuesday Ratu

New Zealand establishes a physical presence on Antarctica at Scott Base, 1957.

21 Wednesday Raapa

Smash Palace premieres, 1982.

22 Thursday Rapere

Jockey Linda Jones wins the Wellington Derby, becoming the first woman in Australasia to ride a derby winner, 1978.

23 Friday Ramere

A magnitude 8.2 earthquake – the most powerful ever recorded in New Zealand – rocked the southern part of the North Island, 1855. It began shortly after 9pm, the main shock lasting at least 50 seconds.

We lost Our Dogs on Chunik Bair The cloud came down on Turkey Ridge Thick dark with rain, I could not see my way And I cocked my ears to listen For the dogs, who'd 'gone away'!

In the damp hushed fog bound silence On a hill called Chunik Bair I heard first the brave young voices Though no-one else was there Graveless voices calling For the land o'er which I trod Dreams of love and sustenance On a hill called Chunik Bair I lost my dogs on Turkey Ridge While mustering for sheep Yet I heard the clinking rattle Of dogs lost on other hills as steep My Granddad tells of his uncle's mate Who lost his dogs on Chunik Bair And the letter... we regret Your son's no longer here His name is now behind the glass Up at the local hall And we who now live in his place Number less than those who lost their dogs On the hill called Chunik Bair I walk a hill of pasture green The dream of my granddad's uncle's mate Listening for my dogs His came home too late Quietly, O so quietly I whistle, to call my dogs back home Lest I lose the sound of whispers From those voices without graves Live well my son, the hope for which We lost our dogs on Chunik Bair.

Greg Wilson

january

24 Saturday Rahoroi

Dick Taylor wins athletics gold at the Commonwealth Games, 1974. Go Dick!

25 Sunday Ratapu

The Dominion Monarch berthed at Pipitea Wharf, returning home the men of the 28th Maori Battalion led

by Lt. Col. James Henare, 1946.

Heather Jock Hut, Glenorchy

Jordan Schilling

january 26 Monday Rahina

27 Tuesday Ratu

28 Wednesday Raapa

Monday

Lauren Stewart

Toa Fraser's Debut Feature Film No. 2 wins the World Cinema Audience Award – Dramatic, at the Sundance Film Festival, 2006.

Peter Snell’s world mile record, 1962.

How Bizarre by OMC reaches #1 in the NZ Top 40 charts, and later becomes an international smashhit, 1996.

Kiwi blacksmith Sergeant Hardham becomes the only New Zealander to be awarded the Victoria Cross during the Boer War, 1901.

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e Apricot Shortcak

–10 Serves 8

300g dried apricots 3 cups water 50g coconut sugar (or fine raw sugar) 2 tablespoons honey 115g butter, softened 1 egg 145g gluten-free flour (see page 129) 1 teaspoon baking powder 1/4 teaspoon sea salt Simmer apricots in water until they are soft and the water has almost evaporated. Remove from heat.

When cool blend in a food processor to a smooth puree.

Preheat oven to 170°C. Grease a 25 cm springform cake tin or flan dish.

Place butter, sugar and honey into a cake mixer or food processor. Blend until smooth and fluffy. Add egg and beat in. Sift dry ingredients. Pulse gently or fold into butter mixture with a large spoon.

Dollop 2/3 of mixture into the baking pan. Use wet hands and press mixture into the base and slightly up the sides. It doesn’t need to be smooth, just roughly the same thickness across the base.

Spread the apricot mixture on top. Then drop teaspoonfuls of remaining mix across the top of the apricot spread and, using wet hands, spread them out slightly. There will be gaps in the topping – that’s OK! Bake for about 25 minutes or until the topping is turning golden brown. Serve warm or cold with George Wilder (a burglar famous for leaving apology and thank you notes for his victims) escapes jail again, 1963.

yoghurt, cream or cashew cream.

Anna Simsic wins an Olympic gold in swimming, 1990.

www.wildhealthfood.com

january

31 Saturday Rahoroi

Jordan Gordon Coates (Prime Minister of New Zealand 1925–28) is born, 1878.

1 Sunday Ratapu

At the end of a New Zealand vs.

Australia one-dayer, Aussie Captain Greg Chappell orders his bro Trev to bowl underarm to Brian McKechnie, preventing NZ’s chance at the six runs required to tie the game, 1981.

Ardha Dhanurasana

Half Bow Half bow energizes and strengthens the entire body, and especially builds core body strength. Stimulates the kidneys, adrenals and reproductive system.

Chrysanthemum, Auckland

Laura Forest | lauraforest.com

FEBRUARY 2 Monday Rahina

A.R.D. Fairburn, born 1904. Poet, wit and controversialist. Described by Douglas Robb as having the role of ‘cheese-starter’ for ‘maturing literary and artistic thought in NZ’.

3 Tuesday Ratu

Hawkes Bay earthquake, measuring 7.9 strikes, 1931.

4 Wednesday Raapa

Richard Hadlee takes his 400th test wicket, 1990.

5 Thursday Rapere

6 Friday Ramere

Waitangi Day The Treaty of Waitangi is signed by about 40 Chiefs at Waitangi, 1840.

Over 500 chiefs give their agreement on one of the nine surviving copies of the Treaty.

Black Friday – The Government closes 432 Post Offices throughout the country, 1988.

“The foyer is like a riot!” Goodbye Pork Pie is released in New Zealand cinemas and is an immediate success, 1981. After 10 weeks onscreen, the film reaches $1 million in box office takings. Showing on nationwide TV a few years later, 50 percent of the population over 5 years watch – 1.5 million people.

Dominika Zielinska | domizphotography@gmail.com

FEBRUARY

7 Saturday Rahoroi

Thornie, former All Black Grahame Thorne, shocks the nation by sporting a perm on television, 1983.

8 Sunday Ratapu

Princess Diana reaches an out-of-court settlement with Kiwi Bruce Taylor over a series of illicit photographs, 1995.

Tiriti O Waitangi Maori Version

Ko Wikitoria, te Kuini o Ingarani, i tana mahara atawai ki nga Rangatira me nga Hapu o Nu Tirani i tana hiahia hoki kia tohungia ki a ratou o ratou rangatiratanga, me to ratou wenua, a kia mau tonu hoki te Rongo ki a ratou me te Atanoho hoki kua wakaaro ia he mea tika kia tukua mai tetahi Rangatira hei kai wakarite ki nga Tangata maori o Nu Tirani - kia wakaaetia e nga Rangatira maori te Kawanatanga o te Kuini ki nga wahikatoa o te Wenua nei me nga Motu - na te mea hoki he tokomaha ke nga tangata o tona Iwi Kua noho ki tenei wenua, a e haere mai nei. Na ko te Kuini e hiahia ana kia wakaritea te Kawanatanga kia kaua ai nga kino e puta mai ki te tangata Maori ki te Pakeha e noho ture kore ana.

Na, kua pai te Kuini ki a tukua a hau a Wiremu Hopihona he Kapitana i te Roiara Nawi hei Kawana mo nga wahi katoa o Nu Tirani e tukua aianei amua ki te Kuini e mea atu ana ia ki nga Rangatira o te wakaminenga o nga hapu o Nu Tirani me era Rangatira atu enei ture ka korerotia nei.

Ko te Tuatahi Ko nga Rangatira o te Wakaminenga me nga Rangatira katoa hoki ki hai i uru ki taua wakaminenga ka tuku rawa atu ki te Kuini o Ingarani ake tonu atu – te Kawanatanga katoa o o ratou wenua.

Ko te Tuarua Ko te Kuini o Ingarani ka wakarite ka wakaae ki nga Rangatira ki nga hapu - ki nga tangata katoa o Nu Tirani te tino rangatiratanga o o ratou wenua o ratou kainga me o ratou taonga katoa. Otiia ko nga Rangatira o te Wakaminenga me nga Rangatira katoa atu ka tuku ki te Kuini te hokonga o era wahi wenua e pai ai te tangata nona te Wenua - ki te ritenga o te utu e wakaritea ai e ratou ko te kai hoko e meatia nei e te Kuini hei kai hoko mona.

Ko te Tuatoru Hei wakaritenga mai hoki tenei mo te wakaaetanga ki te Kawanatanga o te Kuini - Ka tiakina e te Kuini o Ingarani nga tangata maori katoa o Nu Tirani ka tukua ki a ratou nga tikanga katoa rite tahi ki ana mea ki nga tangata o Ingarani.

(Signed) W. Hobson, Consul & Lieutenant Governor Na ko matou ko nga Rangatira o te Wakaminenga o nga hapu o Nu Tirani ka huihui nei ki Waitangi ko matou hoki ko nga Rangatira o Nu Tirani ka kite nei i te ritenga o enei kupu, ka tangohia ka wakaaetia katoatia e matou, koia ka tohungia ai o matou ingoa o matou tohu. Ka meatia tenei ki Waitangi i te ono o nga ra o Pepueri i te tau kotahi mano, e waru rau e wa te kau o to tatou Ariki.

Ko nga Rangatira o te wakaminenga

english translation of the Maori Treaty,

by Professor Sir Hugh Kawharu.

Victoria, the Queen of England, in her concern to protect the chiefs and subtribes of New Zealand and in her desire to preserve their chieftainship and their lands to them and to maintain peace and good order considers it just to appoint an administrator one who will negotiate with the people of New Zealand to the end that their chiefs will agree to the Queen’s Government being established over all parts of this land and (adjoining) islands and also because there are many of her subjects already living on this land and others yet to come.

So the Queen desires to establish a government so that no evil will come to Maori and European living in a state of lawlessness.

So the Queen has appointed me, William Hobson a captain in the Royal Navy to be Governor for all parts of New Zealand (both those) shortly to be received by

the Queen and (those) to be received hereafter and presents to the chiefs of the Confederation chiefs of the subtribes of New Zealand and other chiefs these laws set out here.

The First The Chiefs of the Confederation and all the chiefs who have not joined that Confederation give absolutely to the Queen of England for ever the complete government over their land.

The Second The Queen of England agrees to protect the Chiefs, the subtribes and all the people of New Zealand in the unqualified exercise of their chieftainship over their lands, villages and all their treasures. But on the other hand the Chiefs of the Confederation and all the Chiefs will sell land to the Queen at a price agreed to by the person owning it and by the person buying it (the latter being) appointed by the Queen as her purchase agent.

The Third For this agreed arrangement therefore concerning the Government of the Queen, the Queen of England will protect all the ordinary people of New Zealand and will give them the same rights and duties of citizenship as the people of England.

(Signed) William Hobson Consul Lieutenant-Governor So we, the Chiefs of the Confederation and the subtribes of New Zealand meeting here at Waitangi having seen the shape of these words which we accept and agree to record our names and marks thus.

Was done at Waitangi on the sixth of February in the year of our Lord 1840.

The Chiefs of the Confederation

Treaty of Waitangi English Version

Sir Turi Carroll – Ngati Kahungunu leader We gladly offer today… to renew the spirit of that compact and, above all, to reaffirm our loyalty to the Crown. I am voicing the wishes and sentiments of your Maori people in urging that it should ever be remembered that the Treaty has always been the basis of the relationship between Maori and Pakeha.

Though there have been some who, on the basis of legal forms and niceties, have seen fit to pronounce against the full validity of the Treaty of Waitangi, let me say, with deep respect, that legal nicety is but a small thing compared with the fervent trust that your Maori people have always placed in the Treaty as a protection of our rights and a recognition of our place as equal citizens of this New Zealand. ~ Northern Advocate, 7 February 1963.

Her Majesty Victoria Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland regarding with Her Royal Favour the Native Chiefs and Tribes of New Zealand and anxious to protect their just Rights and Property and to secure to them the enjoyment of Peace and Good Order has deemed it necessary in consequence of the great number of Her Majesty’s Subjects who have already settled in New Zealand and the rapid extension of Emigration both from Europe and Australia which is still in progress to constitute and appoint a functionary properly authorised to treat with the Aborigines of New Zealand for the recognition of Her Majesty’s Sovereign authority over the whole or any part of those islands – Her Majesty therefore being desirous to establish a settled form of Civil Government with a view to avert the evil consequences which must result from the absence of the necessary Laws and Institutions alike to the native population and to Her subjects has been graciously pleased to empower and to authorise me William Hobson a Captain in Her Majesty’s Royal Navy Consul and Lieutenant Governor of such parts of New Zealand as may be or hereafter shall be ceded to Her Majesty to invite the confederated and independent Chiefs of New Zealand to concur in the following Articles and Conditions.

Article the first The Chiefs of the Confederation of the United Tribes of New Zealand and the separate and independent Chiefs who have not become members of the Confederation cede to Her Majesty the Queen of England absolutely and without reservation all the rights and powers of Sovereignty which the said Confederation or Individual Chiefs respectively exercise or possess, or may be supposed to exercise or to possess over their respective Territories as the sole Sovereigns thereof.

Article the second Her Majesty the Queen of England confirms and guarantees to the Chiefs and Tribes of New Zealand and to the respective families and individuals thereof the full exclusive and undisturbed possession of their Lands and Estates Forests Fisheries and other properties which they may collectively or individually possess so long as it is their wish and desire to retain the same in their possession; but the Chiefs of the United Tribes and the individual Chiefs yield to Her Majesty the exclusive right of Pre-emption over such lands as the proprietors thereof may be disposed to alienate at such prices as may be agreed upon between the respective Proprietors and persons appointed by Her Majesty to treat with them in that behalf.

Article the third In consideration thereof Her Majesty the Queen of England extends to the Natives of New Zealand Her royal protection and imparts to them all the Rights and Privileges of British Subjects.

(Signed) W. Hobson Lieutenant Governor Now therefore We the Chiefs of the Confederation of the United Tribes of New Zealand being assembled in Congress at Victoria in Waitangi and We the Separate and Independent Chiefs of New Zealand claiming authority over the Tribes and Territories which are specified after our respective names, having been made fully to understand the Provisions of the foregoing Treaty, accept and enter into the same in the full spirit and meaning thereof in witness of which we have attached our signatures or marks at the places and the dates respectively specified.

Done at Waitangi this Sixth day of February in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty.

The Chiefs of the Confederation

FEBRUARY 9 Monday Rahina

The Waterfront Dispute, 1951. Tens of thousands of New Zealand workers take part in “The 151 Days”, the largest and most significant industrial struggle ever in New Zealand. Working conditions were so appalling that one third of all waterfront workers were receiving ACC at any one time.

10 Tuesday Ratu

A thirty year tradition of free school milk ends, 1967.

11 Wednesday Raapa

Dame Catherine Tizard is named the first woman Governor-General, 1990.

Bircher Style 12 Thursday Rapere

13 Friday Ramere

Breakfast INGREDIENTS: 1/2 cup buckwheat groats 1 cup dried coconut flakes 1/2 cup roughly chopped hazelnuts 1/2 cup roughly chopped cashew nuts 1/2 cup sunflower seeds 1/2 cup pumpkin seeds 1/3 cup dried goji berries 1/3 cup sultanas 1 teaspoon cinnamon

This is a gluten-free muesli, and just like Bircher muesli it is soaked overnight, to improve flavour and digestibility. Makes 10-12 servings.

FOR SERVING:

1 grated apple or other chopped fresh fruit Lemon juice Greek yoghurt (optional) Bee pollen (optional)

METHOD:

Mix all ingredients together and store in a large jar or airtight container. At night place 1/3–1/2 cup of mixture in a bowl and cover with water.

In the morning mix in one grated apple (or other chopped fruit), a squeeze of lemon juice and top with yoghurt or:

Raspberry Avocado Cream

Forty years after first being suggested, passenger trains finally start travelling between Auckland and Wellington on the Main Trunk Line, 1909.

World premier of Maori Boy Genius premiers in the Berlinale, 2012.

All Black Murray Mexted, one of history’s great No 8s, weds Lorraine Downes, the 1st New Zealander to win Miss Universe, 1986.

1 ripe banana, peeled and chopped 1 small avocado, stone removed and peeled 1 cup frozen raspberries 1 T honey 1 cup water 1/8 tsp (small pinch) sea salt

www.wildhealthfood.com

FEBRUARY

14 Saturday Rahoroi

15 Sunday Ratapu

Ollie’s Cottage

Raymond Jennings >

The 22,000 tonne Russian cruise ship The Mikhail Lermontov sinks in the Marlborough Sounds, 1986.

Goodshirt releases, Fiji Baby, 2004.

FEBRUARY 16 Monday Rahina

17 Tuesday Ratu

18 Wednesday Raapa

World premier of Maori Boy Genius premiers in the Berlinale, 2012.

All Black Murray Mexted, one of history’s great No 8s, weds Lorraine Downes, the 1st New Zealander to win Miss Universe, 1986.

At 15 Meda MacKenzie becomes New Zealand’s first woman to complete a double crossing of The Cook Strait, 1978.

Walter Bolton is the last person to be hanged in New Zealand, 1957.

20 Friday Ramere

Blueberry lemonade

This is another great recipe to remember when you’ve got an excess of lemons and/or berries.

You could probably substitute any kind of berry.

Melissa Wastney

19 Thursday Rapere

6–7 lemons (about 1 cup of juice) 100 grams sugar 1 cup blueberries, frozen or fresh Squeeze the lemons into a medium-sized saucepan (don’t worry about straining the juice at this point.)

Tip the sugar and blueberries into a food processor, add one spoonful of the lemon juice, and whizz till blended.

Transfer the sugar mixture into the saucepan and cook everything on a low heat for 10 minutes or so, until you have a syrup and the sugar is completely dissolved.

Strain the mixture through a sieve into a large jug. You might need to use a spoon to extract all the syrup from the berry/lemon remnants. Pour the strained syrup into jars or bottles (my mixture made 1 and a half maple syrup bottles full.) Dilute in a jug with water or soda water, mint leaves and ice. (Is also good as a homemade mixer for vodka.) Cheers!

NZ Documentary This Way of Life wins a Jury Prize at the Berlinale, 2010.

Maui gas field at Urunui in Taranaki discovered by Tasman McKee OBE of Lime and Marble Port Mapua in partnership with French exploration company, Aquitaine, 1970.

Yvette Williams sets world long jump record, 1954. ‘ …and there shall be no more sea’, opening lines at the first presbyterian service in Aotearoa by Reverend McFarlane to 150 passengers fresh (or not so) from Scotland, 1840.

FEBRUARY

21 Saturday Rahoroi

The Auckland power crisis, 1998. Check out peakoil.com and livinglightcandles.co.nz.

22 Sunday Ratapu

The Wellington Cable Car arrives, installed by the Kelburn and Karori Tramway Company aiming to increase prospective property buyers viewing the area, 1902.

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Prep Time: 15 minutes Cook Time: 15 minutes Author: Nicola Galloway Homegrown-kitchen.co.nz

INGREDIENTS

2 medium-sized zucchini, roughly 3 cups grated 3–4 zucchini blossoms, thinly sliced 2 tablespoons chopped mint 2 free-range eggs, lightly beaten sea salt and freshly cracked pepper 150g feta, crumbled Handful of grated Parmesan cheese Finely grated zest of 1 lemon 1/3–1/2 cup flour [GF: use brown rice flour or GF flour mix] 1 teaspoon baking powder ghee or olive oil for frying

DIRECTIONS 1. Strain the grated zucchini in a sieve, squeezing out as much liquid as possible. I like to sprinkle over a generous pinch of salt at this stage and leave to drain while I prepare the rest of the ingredients then squeeze again to remove excess liquid, so fritters are not soggy.

2. Combine the remaining ingredients in a bowl, stirring to combine, then fold through the strained zucchini. The mixture should be thick enough to hold its shape when dropped in the pan. Add extra flour if needed to thicken the mixture, adding 1 tablespoon at a time until the correct consistency is achieved.

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3. Heat a heavy-based frying-pan over a moderate heat.

When hot, add a little ghee or oil, swirling it around the pan until the base is evenly coated. Drop spoonfuls of batter into the pan. Cook until bubbles appear on the surface and the edges start to brown, then flip over and cook for a further 2–3 minutes until golden brown. Remove to a plate and cover with foil to keep warm. Repeat with the remaining mixture, adding extra oil to the pan between batches if needed. Serve with Zesty Yoghurt Sauce.

Zesty Yoghurt Sauce: Mix 1 cup plain unsweetened yogurt with 1 teaspoon mustard, 1 teaspoon lemon zest and 1 clove chopped garlic.

Add salt and pepper to taste. www.homegrown-kitchen.co.nz

FEBRUARY 23 Monday Rahina

Fiordland National Park lands are permanently reserved in 1904 for a national park, 48 years before the National Parks Act of 1952. nationalparks.org.nz

24 Tuesday Ratu

The Kaimai Tunnel Collapse, 1970.

25 Wednesday Raapa

The Heater by Kiwi icons The Muttonbirds debuts at #1 in the charts, 1994.

26 Thursday Rapere

27 Friday Ramere

Fancy Man Tui

The Parnell fumes emergency, 1973.

Watersiders unload Spanish–labelled drums from a Cypriot freighter. Left in an empty lot overnight, residents awake with stinging eyes, sore throats, headaches and vomiting (sounds like a hangover). 643 people are treated for exposure. The chemical turns out to be agricultural. Go organic bro!

Grubby Huia

Alice Berry

The Lyttelton road tunnel opens, New Zealand’s longest road tunnel at the time, 1964.

march 28 Saturday Rahoroi

1 Sunday Ratapu

Laura Williamson It is a physical impossibility To buy a cup of coffee Between Tarras and Waimate On a Sunday night.

On the other hand There is plenty to be said For the noticeable absence Of any traffic lights.

The voluntary Military Corps, which started in the pioneer era when settlers still feared attacks by Maori, is replaced by compulsory military service, based on the Swiss Militia, 1910.

With WWI stimulating aeronautics, New Zealand recognises peacetime aviation possibilities and its inherent dangers. Act to Control Civil Aviation, 1919 becomes law.

The aero club movement and air mindedness commence, from the 1920’s onwards.

Jan Bryme

march 2 Monday Rahina

Arthur Allan Thomas is convicted for the murders of Jeanette and Harvey Crewe, 1971. This is one of New Zealand’s most famous and controversial murder inquiries. After a life sentence and two retrials, the second one finds him not guilty and he receives $1 million compensation.

3 Tuesday Ratu

Hongi Hika, Nga Puhi leader, trader and military campaigner dies from a bullet wound at Whangaroa, 1828.

A Good Keen Man is published by Barry Crump, 1960.

4 Wednesday Raapa

Sheep rustler James MacKenzie is captured with 1,000 sheep crossing from South Canterbury to Lake Tekapo, 1855. According to legend, his dog recognising him in court helps convict him for 5 years. He escapes 10 May, is recaptured, and escapes again for 2 days. The next year new evidence that the sheep were given to him after the theft sets him free. He is never seen again, but has become a folk hero. The Mackenzie Country is named after him.

5 Thursday Rapere

6 Friday Ramere

Wanaka

Joe Harrison

Outbreak of the Girl's War at Kororareka, 1830.

The inaugural peformance of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, 1947.

march 7 Saturday Rahoroi

The first ascent of Mount Taranaki by a woman, Maria Atkinson, 1855.

8 Sunday Ratapu

Cyclone Bola strikes the top half of the North Island, 1988. Winds reach 130 kph.

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march

Our Rivers Dr Mike Joy

Glenorchy

Ruth Heath

The fact that healthy clean freshwater is very important to New Zealanders was confirmed by the latest survey of perceptions to the environment. Freshwater came out as the number one environmental issue and the majority of respondents considered freshwaters were being impacted. National water quality monitoring data confirm these fears of impacts and the declining state of water. But the strongest indicator of the poor state of rivers and lakes is the 74% of native freshwater fish species now listed as threatened.

These fish are the freshwater ‘miners canaries’ and this statistic reveals New Zealand is among the worst in the world and this figure has gone up from around 30% threatened in the 1990s.

International perceptions of New Zealand’s environmental performance have also been taking a beating lately with global comparisons not looking good. While the Yale University environmental performance indicator ranked New Zealand the 14th best in the world, it omits our three worst impacts – biodiversity loss, water quality and non CO2 greenhouse gas emissions.

When two of these biodiversity loss and water quality were included in a study from the University of Adelaide, New Zealand ranked about 120th of 180 countries. It could have been worse because like the Yale study it did not include non CO2 emissions which are high and mostly come from agriculture.

At home New Zealanders are repeatedly told that they must accept the many evident environmental impacts resulting from intensive agriculture because it is the “backbone of the economy”.

Implicit in this message is that it’s the economy or the environment.

But, it is simply not true that environmental impacts are inevitable, in fact it’s the opposite – the most economically viable farms have smallest impacts and in reality the economy is dependent on a health environment not vice versa. Furthermore, recent studies have shown that productivity from agriculture, especially dairy is decreasing because the use of imported feed and fertiliser is outstripping growth in production, suggesting the environment limits to production have been reached.

The biggest impact on waters from intensive agriculture is nutrients escaping from farms. Obviously this is not economically or environmentally viable. Especially as the nutrients that are leaking from the farms and damaging waterways are not replaceable. The nitrogen fertiliser is synthetic, produced using fossil gas rather than fixed from the atmosphere by plants as it has been for millennia. Around one third of the nitrogen comes from the Taranaki gas fields but most is from the Middle East and phosphate is mined from fossil rock and comes mainly from Morocco.

To be environmentally sustainable is simple, nutrients must be cycled back into growing food and not allowed to leak out and destroy lakes, rivers and contaminate groundwater and drinking water. If nutrients are kept on farms there is no requirement to bring them in from half way around the world. This is known as

‘closing the nutrient loop’ it is how we must proceed and is happening in dairy production in other parts of the world.

These impacts we now see in waterways from intensive farming reflect decades of unregulated intensification. This lack of regulation has incentivised poor practice. When there is no cost on pollution then there is no economic gain from limiting it. This lack of reward for limiting pollution has driven increasing dependency on inputs sourced off-farm, and largely offshore. Looking back, what happened was totally predictable; in a market environment with no cost on externalities the most polluting industry naturally becomes dominant.

While New Zealand leads the world in milk production, not much of it is indigenous production. To achieve this amazing level of output we also have the world’s highest per-capita consumption of nitrogen and phosphorous, and we import more palm kernel than any other country.

These three big inputs behind our impressive milk production; synthetic nitrogen, fossil phosphate and palm kernel highlight just how unsustainable the industry has become. What this means is we are neither, ingenious nor efficient, rather we are simply world leading purchasers of non-renewable inputs in order to be world leading producers of low value milk powder.

There are many downsides to this because most of the external costs are borne by all New Zealanders not by the dairy industry.

There is no doubt that the dairy industry is a large contributor to GDP, but if all the costs were included intensive dairy production would be shown to be economically marginal at best.

Intensive dairy farming is far from the only impact on New Zealand’s freshwaters but it is clearly now the major issue, consequently the demand from central government for agriculture to double its revenue in the near future is bad news for the environment.

New Zealand’s geographic isolation makes it crucial that we are perceived overseas as unique, sustainable and clean not just for all primary producers but the tourism industry also. Unfortunately though, just one sector dairy has almost singlehandedly jeopardised overseas perceptions of New Zealand both environmentally and in the food safety arena.

The problem for all other primary producers and the tourism industry is that they are tarred with the same brush so we must do everything possible to get dairy sustainable and clean starting now. Instead of the weakening environmental protection with legislative changes revealed in the latest National Policy on Freshwater we should be strengthening environmental protection so we can live up to our clean green claims. Having a pristine conservation estate is not enough we must halt the decline in lowland areas as well, this is where we will be judged.

The Charles Fleming Lecturer for 2014 was Dr Mike Joy of Massey University, Palmerston North.

Dr Joy was awarded the Charles Fleming Award for Environmental Achievement in 2013.

march 9 Monday Rahina

Opononi George (“Opo”) the friendly dolphin dies, 1956. She settled in Hokianga Harbour after she was rescued from a stranding on the beach there. She loved being stroked and entertaining crowds.

10 Tuesday Ratu

The New Zealand Cross Award starts, 1869.

11 Wednesday Raapa

Hone Heke cuts down the flagstaff and begins a Maori uprising against British in NZ, 1845.

12 Thursday Rapere

13 Friday Ramere

Invers

Erica Leather

Abel Tasman is the first European to anchor in New Zealand, 1642.

New Zealand’s first test cricket win, 1956.

march 14 Saturday Rahoroi

Rabbits are declared a serious pest in Southland, 1869, only 20 years after their release. Stoats, cats, ferrets and weasels were introduced in the 1880s to control rabbits, not only failing at this but also devastating indigenous bird populations.

Split Enz song, I Got You hits #1, 1980.

15 Sunday Ratapu

Darcy Clay, celebrated for the raw, guttural sound of his songs Jesus I Was Evil and Joeline, kills himself the night before he was to perform at an anti-youth-suicide gig, 1998.

Motivation: the importance of values How do I get and stay motivated to pursue what’s important to me?

After 10 years working day in and day out with people on changing their behaviours in all sorts of areas (increasing exercise, reducing drinking, reducing eating, changing relationship patterns, changing how to express emotions, changing perspectives on many aspects on life) there are a few things I’ve learned.

My aim in this short piece is to outline how to get motivated, stay motivated and work towards what is most important over the long term, through valuesbased action.

As someone in my late 30’s I was schooled in the importance of goal setting as a teenager. At some point I learnt to set SMART goals (specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and time limited,) and nailing down a general wish (e.g. to get fit) to a specific action (go to the gym 3 times a week after work on Mon, Wed and Thurs) is something I have worked with many clients on. I have no doubt (and research affirms) that choosing specific hard goals results in a higher level of performance than just telling yourself to do your best. You also need to be committed to the goal, have the ability to do it and the willingness to spend effort to get there.

But in recent years I have added another dimension to goal setting in line with the research evidence, which has made it all the more rich.

The key to any change in behaviour is answering the question, “why?” As Victor Frankl, the concentration camp survivor and author of “Mans’ search for meaning” said “he who has a why to live for, can bear almost any how”.

Motivation comes from the question why. If

we know why we are doing something, we can frequently summon the strength to go through all sorts of difficulty. One way of answering the “why” question is figuring out what we are really about; what do we want to stand for in our lives. A sense of purpose gives people meaning and is central to well-being. After all, getting a job and rising through the ranks to become top of the corporate world with a salary to match is maybe likely to excite some people, but many of us are searching for something a little deeper. Often it’s something we love to do, or something we can contribute to the world, where we feel we can make a difference. For example, using our values like creativity, or authenticity, or compassion or resourcefulness in our work can imbue it with meaning and bring a new sense of purpose.

Society’s focus Most of us have been schooled in the rational world, the scientific method, and have a parent voice in our heads, sometimes called the “shoulds”. If you are faced with a hard choice, like following what you’re good at versus what you think will get you a job, many people would argue that you should go where the money is, and keep the other as a hobby.

I would say hard choices are opportunities for us to discover who we truly are, and truly want to be.

I have seen too many people suffer from all sorts of symptoms (depressive and anxiety disorders, pain, fatigue, addictions, you name it) largely/partly through ignoring the inner voice whispering “this doesn’t feel right.”

Of course choosing values informed actions does not mean that the course we have chosen will be painless. From my own and my clients experience, to live this way requires courage. But it means we will

be following our own script through life instead of one written by others or becoming drifters where the world and fate determine our choices.

What is values guided action?

In an ideal world we’d be using both values and goals as motivators; values for the big picture and goals to narrow down specific targets to reach. For example, let’s say if you have a value of creativity (to be creative or innovative) you can then look at how your short term, medium term and long term goals support that value. You can then break down your short term goal into 3 actions you can take this week.

I find that values provide people with hope because in any moment, you can turn toward your values and start behaving in alignment with them.

“How does this fit with my values?” is the question that you ask yourself at specific “choice points” throughout your day, when you are asked to take action at work, home or in other activities.

From a values perspective, motivation involves making room for discomfort. It’s about being willing to feel uncomfortable, because the larger purpose is worth it. For example, if you are living a creativity value, my guess is that at some point you’ll have to share your work, which risks rejection and vulnerability. Yet the price of not sharing your work means the world is the poorer for not having had the opportunity to see/hear/experience it.

The final word comes from Russ Harris, a leader in the field of values based behaviour and mindfulness.

He says to change behaviour “you need some inspiration and you need some motivation; your values will give you both.” www.changeit.co.nz

Dr Mary Grogan

march 16 Monday Rahina

17 Tuesday Ratu

18 Wednesday Raapa

Dr Mary Grogan On Habits: When anyone wants to change any type of behaviour, a good question to ask is why they want to change it. What benefit will the new behaviour bring? Research is clear that without a strong reason to change, new habits are much harder to form.

Y-fronts go on sale for the first time, 1940, revolutionising Kiwi men’s underwear.

Poi E by the Patea Maori Club hits #1 in the Top 40 charts, 1984.

It receives international acclaim.

Wiremu Kingi and warriors occupy Te Kohia on the western side of Peka Peka Block above Waitara and refuse to budge. British troops fire shots to try to force them off the land. The NZ Land Wars begin, 1860.

The Greek Campaign begins, 1941. 16,532 New Zealanders, amongst more than 50,000 allied troops, arrive in Greece to fight against Germany.

19 Thursday Rapere

20 Friday Ramere

The end of the road How to look at these mountains without feeling hemmed in?

Head to the West Coast.

Drive til you can see the horizon. ~ Annabel Wilson

The controversial Diary of the Kirk Years is published, 1981, written by Norman Kirk’s secretary Margaret Hayward.

Phar Lap’s last race, the Agua Caliente Handicap race in Mexico, 1932. He died three weeks later by accidental poisoning in California.

march 21 Saturday Rahoroi

22 Sunday Ratapu

This then, is the basic fact of our history - an age of silence. While the countries of Europe and Asia felt the movement of tribes and the growth of nations; while the classic civilisations were tumultuously taking their shape in the Mediterranean basin; while barbaric empires developed, with splendours of mythology and ritual, in the broad lands of South America; while the dream of spirit in nature was creating the colourful but passive culture of India: the islands of New Zealand were outside the mind of the world, intact and pure amid the flow of winds which brought only the sound and distilled moisture of the sea. ~ 'The Deepening Stream' (1940) Monte Holcroft

Tim Shadbolt becomes Mayor of Invercargill, beating 13 rivals, 1993.

Anna Paquin wins an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in The Piano, 1994.

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Anoushka Szybowski

march 23 Monday Rahina

Dr Mary Grogan On Habits: Because habits are done on automatic pilot and are not conscious acts, they are hard to change. If you can remind yourself of this fact, it may help to explain previous unsuccessful attempts at habit change and help you be more compassionate towards yourself.

It is tempting with behaviour change to follow the lead of reality television programmes and try to give ourselves total makeovers. This approach will almost guarantee failure. Research is clear that new habits typically work by changing one small thing at a time, seeing what happens and then modifying things as you figure out what works for you.

Frank Sargeson’s birthday, 1903. A qualified solicitor with no intention of practising law, he is one of the true founders of New Zealand literature.

24 Tuesday Ratu

Sir Paul Callaghan passes away aged 64, 2012.

New Zealander of the Year 2011. Physicist, artist, and passionate advocate of cultivating creativity and entrepreneurialism, he was one of New Zealand's best thinkers, scientists and communicators.

Radio Hauraki is awarded a broadcast licence, after three years of ‘pirate’ broadcasts from a yacht in international waters. Laws protecting the Broadcasting Corporation’s airwaves monopoly had prevented competition for decades.

25 Wednesday Raapa

John A. Lee, a radical left-wing member of the Labour party, is expelled for his damning article, Psycho-pathology in Politics, an attack on PM Michael Savage’s ability, 1940.

Despite expulsion, that night he and 40 conference delegates form the Democratic Labour Party.

27 Friday Ramere

Homemade all-purpose cleaner This seems too good to be true, but it really does work well. Use it to clean kitchen surfaces.

Put the following ingredients into a clean and dry 500ml spray bottle: 1 tsp dishwashing liquid, 1 tablespoon white vinegar, 4-5 drops of tea tree oil.

You can also add another type of essential oil, such as lavender, if you like, but tea tree has antiseptic properties. Then, simply top up the bottle with water and gently shake to combine.

Homemade cleaning cloths For a quick but very utilitarian craft project, try knitting or crocheting your own cleaning cloths using cotton yarn. They are easy to throw in the washing machine, last for ages, and together with some nice soap or homemade cleaning products, make a good housewarming present. If you use natural string, you can knit or crochet pot scrubbers.

Parliamentary broadcasts begin, 1936.

The Wellington Trades Hall Bombing, 1984.

www.melissawastney.com

26 Thursday Rapere

march 28 Saturday Rahoroi

A group of people who love the outdoors gather in Wellington to form the Native Bird Protection Society, 1923. Now known as the Royal Forest and Bird ProtectionSociety.forestandbird.org.nz

29 Sunday Ratapu

Vrksasana

J-force occupies Japan, 1946.

Tree Tree Pose req uires a sense of rootedness centering down and through your core. Excellen balancing postu t re using mind power.

piEd d sAL Our menus have you covered for breakfast, lunch and dinner. So just drive aboard, take a seat and treat your taste buds from our made-to-order menu while taking in the spectacular views.

Can’t wait until your next trip? Then here’s a taster from James, one of our very talented on-board chefs… Enjoy!

Ingredients:

Method:

4 squid tubes

Cut open the squid tubes, clean and slice on a diagonal angle and then do the opposite diagonal.

Coat in egg white.

3 egg whites Olive oil for frying Seasoning: 2 pinches of salt, pepper, paprika, cayenne, garlic flakes and a cup of cornflour.

Combine all dry ingredients in a bowl and mix well.

Dip egg washed squid into a bowl of seasoning and shallow fry in a pan until golden brown.

Serve with aioli and tomato relish on top of a salad.

Garnish with herbs.

Get a real taste of New Zealand.

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MARCH

80/20 Food for Health Background to the 80/20 Alkaline/Acid Food Chart Dhyana Tribe – Naturopath Eat 80% alkaline-forming foods and drinks with 20% acid-forming foods and drinks for good health.

80% ALKALINE-FORMING vegetables both raw and cooked and all alkaline-forming foods – listed below.

20% ACID-FORMING protein of choice: • Omnivores – meats, fish, seafood, poultry, eggs, dairy foods.

• Vegetarians – dairy foods, eggs and Vegan acid-forming primary proteins.

• Vegans – acid-forming primary protein foods are grains, beans, legumes, chickpeas, nuts and seeds.

All food plans, whether omnivorous, vegetarian or vegan can: Eat 80% from these alkaline-forming foods: all vegetables including lettuce, leafy greens, green herbs, broccoli, cauliflower, kale, cabbage, asparagus, pumpkin, silverbeet, chard, leeks, root veggies of garlic, onions, carrots, beetroot, parsnip, sweet potato. Eat as many raw veggies as possible for fresh enzymes, active phytonutrients, fibre and bio-available minerals.

Other alkaline foods are: • raw or soft cooked egg yolks, goats milk and whey, fresh young coconut meat and fresh coconut water • wheat and barley grass juice/powder, bamboo shoots, seaweeds, agar, arrowroot flour • olive oil, ripe olives, lemon juice, apple cider vinegar, almonds, chestnuts, sesame seeds, gomasio, tahini • organic non-gmo tofu, natto, tempeh, miso, tamari, umeboshi plum • salt himalayan rock or sea salt unrefined, yeast flakes, well-sprouted grains, essene bread, quinoa, millet, amaranth • dates, figs, apples, pears, kiwifruit – all fruits are alkaline except plums, prunes, blueberries, cranberries which are slightly acid-forming.

Read more about the pH of foods in my 80/20 Food Theory Chart. Lemons are an alkalising food for most people. Lemons taste acidic in the mouth, yet after digestion they leave alkaline minerals in the body.

PROTEIN We do need some acid-forming foods daily and it depends on our digestive capacity as to how much we can tolerate. The human body is made of protein and it is important to get enough each day, but not too much, as this will acidify the body. Not too much, not too little, just right for your age and body type – see Metabolic Body Type article on our website.

For omnivores Cooked meats are acid-forming and when eaten to excess, cause crippling arthritis, rheumatism and gout. In the stone-age, the bears who guarded the cave entrance, ate from the same cooked meat as the cave-men, and also had crippling arthritis.

A better balance of meats would be the 80/20 where a bulk of 80% alkalising plant foods such as vegetables, are eaten to buffer the acidity of the meat which can be eaten to 20% – approximately – of the meal as seen on the plate; that’s if you can digest the meat properly. In some cases less meat should be eaten, and lemon juice added to meats to assist digestion. *80/20 rule* definitely applies to meat-eaters who need to be aware that alkalising foods will be very important for them as the acidity from cooked meat digestion needs to be neutralised with lots of raw vegetables to provide alkalinity, fibre and living enzymes.

80/20 ratios are for temperate climates such as in New Zealand. For people living in very cold climates for months at a time, they will need to eat many more acid-forming proteins as these are the warming foods.

Vegans do not need to be so strict on the 80/20 rule, if they consume a lot of vegetables. If Vegans eat mostly from the list of alkaline foods they will need to ensure they get at least 20% acid-forming elements from their primary proteins of nuts, seeds, chickpeas, lentils, legumes, beans and whole grains.

Protein for Vegans is obtained from the primary proteins found in plant foods of nuts, seeds, beans, legumes, lentils, chickpeas, whole grains and vegetables. Eating whole grains and beans together as a meal give a better amount of amino acids for protein and adding some seeds and nuts boosts protein even more. Raw greens have small amounts of protein and when we look at herbivores such as cattle, we see how they build strong bones from grass and green herbs.

Vegetarians who eat eggs can take care when cooking them to only harden the whites and keep the yolk soft for a more pH-neutral food. Hard-cooked egg yolks are acid-forming so it is best to buy organic free range eggs and eat the yolks raw or just soft poached in water.

Dairy foods – while they do contain alkalising calcium, the acid-forming phosphorus makes cows milk slightly to moderately acid-forming, depending on how you can digest it. Raw milk on the other hand is neutral pH and gives many more valuable minerals, vitamins, fatty acids and L-Lysine.

New Zealand has the 5+ a day campaign aimed at boosting the number of fruits and veggies that are consumed daily. Vegetables and fruits are a major source of alkalising minerals, but go easy on the fruit, as too much fructose or fruit sugar can stress the insulin mechanism and add to the diabetes risk.

Better to eat lots of raw vegetables which are mostly low on the glycemic index!

Veganism is a good food plan to use for alkalising after eating too much meat. We recommend a Vegan 100% alkaline meal when you need an alkaline boost – raw vegetables to 50% + 30 % baked root vegetables, 5% good oils in the 5% green herb pesto and 10% alkaline vegan protein from tempeh drizzled with tahini sesame seed butter, tamari soya sauce and lemon juice.

www.betterbalance.co.nz

MARCH 30 Monday Rahina

april 31 Tuesday Ratu

1 Wednesday Raapa

Richard Pearse flies his homeconstructed aircraft 150 yards, possibly the world’s first flight, 1903.

The last of the Auckland Harbour bridge tolls, 1984.

Fred Ladd flies under the Auckland Harbour bridge, 1967. He is the first and only pilot to achieve the stunt.

Today is the Bats Theatre’s birthday!

If you're in Wellington, go and see a play, dahling.

2 Thursday Rapere

3 Friday Ramere

Korean spicy dipping sauce

100gm cup soy sauce 80gm white wine vinegar 8gm sesame oil 1/3 Tbsp chili pepper flakes 1 spring onion thinly sliced 10gm finely chopped garlic Mix all ingredients together

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The first kohanga reo (language nest) opens in Wainuiomata, 1982. By 1999, 700 are in operation.

Dumont D’Urville visits New Zealand for the first time when the Coquile anchors in the Bay of Islands, 1824.

APRIL 4 Saturday Rahoroi

5 Sunday Ratapu

Aussie Bronwyn’s Gluten-free Focaccia From ‘Moon Over Martinborough’ jaredgulian.com This beautifully soft focaccia is heaven when served with a fine extra virgin olive oil.

Dry ingredients

Preparation

3 cups rice flour •• In a large mixing bowl, sift the dry ingredients together.

1 cup tapioca flour 1 tablespoon guar gum •• Stir the wet ingredients into the dry mixture to form a sticky, battery dough. Place in a 2 tablespoons sugar warm spot to rise until nearly doubled in 1 ½ teaspoons salt volume, 1 hour or so.

2 teaspoons gluten-free bread-making yeast •• Beat dough down and let it rise again.

Wet ingredients Meanwhile, heat the oven to 250˚C. 3 eggs (2 will do if you’re short of eggs) •• Spread the dough onto a suitable flat baking 1/3 cup extra virgin olive oil tray approximately 22x35cm 1 teaspoon white vinegar •• Arrange the olives, salt, slices of tomato, 450 ml tepid water seeds, herbs, or whatever you like on the Topping surface and bake in the middle of the oven Selection of: for 10-15 minutes. olives, rock salt •• You can use a bread maker for the mixing tomato, seeds, dried herbs and rising stages if you prefer.

Dame Silvia Rose Cartwright PCNZM, DBE is sworn in as Governor-General, 2001.

Thus the five most powerful political and administrative positions in the country are occupied by women at this time.

New Zealand is recognised as a separate Olympic Nation, 1919, enabling the first New Zealand Olympic team to compete in the Antwerp Olympics, 1920.

Fall Kathy Ready

april 6 Monday Rahina

7 Tuesday Ratu

Daylight Savings ends The supersonic British Airways Concorde makes it’s first flight to NZ, 1986. It travels at Mach 2, or 2,172kph, (Mach 1 is the speed of sound).

The first episode of Fair Go goes to air, 1977.

8 Wednesday Raapa

The world premier of Sam Pilsbury’s feature, The Scarecrow, screens in Auckland. This is adapted from the novel of the same name by Hawera’s Ronald Hugh Morrieson, 1982.

9 Thursday Rapere

The first recorded sighting of Halley’s comet, over Gore, 1910. Named after Edmund Halley who first saw the comet in 1682 and predicted its 76-yearly returns.

10 Friday Ramere

The Wahine strikes Barrett’s Reef on entering Wellington Harbour in one of New Zealand’s worst storms, and sinks, 1968. Of the 734 passengers, 51 die.

Student loan debt in NZ reaches $10 billion, 2008. (In 1989, the average university fee was $129).

White-faced Heron Alice Berry

APRIL 11 Saturday Rahoroi

12 Sunday Ratapu

Bee Pollen contains 185 known nutritional ingredients Protein: more than beef on a gram for gram basis.

22 amino acids & higher amounts of the eight essential ones than most high protein foods.

27 mineral salts, the entire range of vitamins, hormones, carbohydrates & fats.

More than 5,000 enzymes & co-enzymes, necessary for digestionn & healing.

The Taranaki Highwayman carries out his first hold up, 1892.

A 13,000 vote majority in favour of prohibition surprises the nation, before votes from overseas soldiers tipped the balance back to continuance, 1919.

A. H. Reed, co-founder of Reed Publishers, completes his walk from Cape Reinga to North Cape 1961.

This walk is the subject of his subsequent best-seller. He walks for 112 days, and visits 211 schools.

INGREDIENTS 3/4 cup ground almonds 1 3/4 cup desicated coconut 1/4 cup honey 1/4 cup coconut oil, gently melted

2 tsp vanilla paste Zest of 3 oranges Pinch of salt 3 tbsp Silver Fern Honey Bee Pollen

METHOD 1. In a food processor combine all the ingredients except pollen until well mixed. The mixture should be slightly sticky.

2. Add the Bee Pollen and pulse a few times to incorporate into the mixture.

3. Using a rounded tablespoon, gently press the macaroon mixture into the spoon, then using a teaspoon gently push the mixture out. Place on a parchment lined baking sheet and repeat with the rest of the mixture.

4. Either dehydrate or chill before eating.

NOTE FOR DEHYDRATING: place in your dehydrator at 60째C until they are slightly dry on the outside, soft and chewy on the inside. Times will vary depending on the dehydrator and size of macaroons. Allow the macaroons to sit before transferring. They are delicate while still warm but very sturdy once cooled.

FOR CHILLING: place the macaroons in the fridge until chilled and firm.

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CHOCOLATE VARIATION: add 1/4 cup cocoa powder to ingredients and remove the orange zest.

april 13 Monday Rahina

14 Tuesday Ratu

Hine Ema Frost

New Zealand’s Colin Bosher sets a world record by shearing 565 sheep in one working day, 1964.

George Grey is born, 1812. A very influential figure, Greymouth and Greytown are named after him.

15 Wednesday Raapa

The government announces the country’s conversion from the old imperial system to the metric system is to commence, 1970.

16 Thursday Rapere

The first four Maori MPs enter Parliament, 1868.

17 Friday Ramere

North Island schools reopen after a 6 month closure because of an outbreak of poliomyelitis (polio), 1948.

APRIL 18 Saturday Rahoroi

19 Sunday Ratapu

Good Friday New Zealand’s first newspaper, the NZ Gazette and the Britannia Spectator, are produced at Petone on the banks of the Hutt River, 1840.

The first kauri tree is brought down

by Pakeha axe in New Zealand by Frenchman Marion du Fresne, 1772.

Things will never be the same Brian Looker

Once upon a time Brian Looker

may

HOMEMADE

CLOUD MARSHMALLOW Unna Burch | theforestcantina@gmail.com I’ve been making homemade marshmallow for almost 4 years now, and the recipe that i love is from Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s ‘River Cottage’. I like his use of beetroot to colour the mallow. I go one step further and use Fair Trade organic unrefined sugar. Sugar is one of the most sprayed crops so Organic is best for you!

You can cut your marshmallow however you like, custom make it for s’mores, make it thick or thin, flavour it with things like rose water or liquors, roll in toasted coconut...OR cut with a cloud shape cookie cutter! I bought mine on Etsy from Printmeneer, I actually have two exact clouds, one large cutter, one small! (etsy.com/ nz/shop/Printmeneer) - he was a pleasure to deal with.

Prep time: 30mins + a couple of hours to set | Servings: Approx 60 marshmallows

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INGREDIENTS

Equipment

Icing sugar, 1 tablespoon Cornflour, 1 tablespoon 1/4 beetroot chopped Oil for oiling tin and the knife, I used rice bran spray Gelatin powder, 25g (DON’T use gelatin sheets, it doesn’t work! I’ve tried, they are not strong enough, save them for a silky panna cotta! Powdered is much cheaper too) 2 Free-range egg whites Unrefined organic, fair trade sugar, 500g

The two things that you will need that not every kitchen may have is a stand mixer and a candy thermometer. Although I didn’t have a candy thermometer OR stand mixer when I first made this (they just make the process so much easier and faster) I googled how to test for hard ball using a cold plate a water and i used a hand mixer. So it can be done with a little more basic equipment. You will also need digital scales.

METHOD 1. Bring a jug of water to the boil, then measure out 125ml water and poor over beetroot. Let it steep for a few minutes, then remove and discard. Pour it into the second small bowl and sprinkle the gelatin on top. Stir until the gelatin has all dissolved.

2. Put the granulated sugar into the medium saucepan and add 250ml water. Turn the hob on low and stir with a wooden spoon until the sugar has completely dissolved and you can’t see any grains left if you carefully tilt the pan. Rinse the sugar thermometer under the hot tap for a few seconds so it doesn’t get too much of a shock, then stand it in the pan. Raise the heat so the syrup comes to the boil.

3. The sugar needs to boil fiercely until it gets to 122C – the hardball stage. Watch the thermometer carefully, especially in the later stages of the sugar boiling. As the sugar gets to 122 C, immediately turn off the hob. Using oven gloves or a thick cloth to protect your fingers, take out the sugar thermometer and put it in the jug of water to cool down.

4. Meanwhile, switch on the mixer and whisk the egg whites until they’re completely stiff.

5. Pour the dissolved gelatin into the pan of syrup, stirring all the time with a wooden spoon. The syrup will bubble up a little, although not dangerously so.

Stir until the mixture is well blended.

6. Switch the food mixer on low so that the egg whites carry on whisking. Very carefully pour the syrup on to the beating egg whites in a steady, gentle trickle - avoid pouring it onto the beaters or it will splash. You’ll see the mixture turn creamy. After you’ve poured all the syrup, continue beating until the mixture turns really thick and bulky but is still pourable. On my mixer, it takes 10 minutes on the high setting. If you lift up the beaters, a ribbon of marshmallow should remain on the surface for a few seconds before sinking back down into the mix.

7. While the mixture is thickening: Sift the icing sugar and cornflour together into a small bowl. Rub a baking tray or tin (which tin you use depends on what shape and how thick you want your final product to be) lightly with a few drops of oil or spray and shake a little of the icing sugar mix around the tin to coat the base and sides. Bang excess out into the sink. I used two trays. I’ve made thick squares

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before, but if making shapes, the mixture can’t be any higher than the height of the cutter, otherwise it will be difficult to cut.

8. Pour the marshmallow into the prepared tin and smooth out with a palate knife or spatula. Leave it to set in a cool place (not the fridge) – for 1-2hrs.

9. Dust the chopping board with the rest of the cornflour and icing sugar mixture. Coat a butter knife in a little oil. Carefully ease the marshmallow out of the tin on to the board, helping it out where necessary with the butter knife. Make sure the surfaces of the marshmallow are entirely dusted with the icing sugar mixture - sift over extra icing sugar and cornflour, if necessary. Cut the marshmallow into squares, oiling and dusting the knife as it needs it (probably between every cut).

OR cut using a cloud shape cutter. Which is actually a lot more fiddly than I thought it would be. Make sure that the cutter is dusted really well, and cut as carefully as you can. Dust edges of the cut marshmallow liberally with the icing sugar/ cornflour mix to stop it sticking to the others.

april 20 Monday Rahina

At 4:20pm in High Street’s amphitheatre in Christchurch, a TXT initiated gathering assembles to protest the cruel punishment in Bali of Australian Schapelle Corby facing life imprisonment, 2005.

21 Tuesday Ratu

22 Wednesday Raapa

Easter Monday The first Golden Shears Championships is held, 1961.

“Ratapu arvo, have a raro.”

23 Thursday Rapere

Blair Peach, a teacher of disadvantaged children, dies in a London protest, 1979. With partner Celia Stubbs he co-founded the Antinazi league and was protesting the new National Front headquarters.

24 Friday Ramere

Auckland becomes a city, 1871.

Because I Can Sarah Aslin

APRIL 25 Saturday Rahoroi

26 Sunday Ratapu

ANZAC Day

Elephant Grief Claire Davies

The alliance between the Ratana Church and the Labour Party was cemented at an historic meeting between Tahupotiki Wiremu Ratana and Prime Minister Michael Joseph Savage, 1936.

New Zealand troops land on the Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey in 1915, now known as ANZAC cove.

The Royal Albert Hall in Auckland opens, 1908. New Zealand’s first permanent ‘picture house’.

Gannets, Muriwai Laura Forest | lauraforest.com

april 27 Monday Rahina

28 Tuesday Ratu

29 Wednesday Raapa

Red Erika Husselmann

A company set up in Australia, Sanitarium, comes to New Zealand shops on this day, 1898. Pretty soon, Kiwi kids are weet-bix kids!

The viewing platform in Cave Creek collapses killing 13 polytech students and a DoC manager, 1995.

The ANZUS Treaty comes into force, seeking to guarantee security of the Pacific, 1952.

may 30 Thursday Rapere

1 Friday Ramere

Five Poems about Auckland

by Renee Liang

I a grey clingfilm swathes the Sky Tower. apartments lean in to cradle daffodils small yellow eyes sleeping. a giant D frames the sky.

II rain like sudden laughter splashes chalk against bus stops umbrellas walk upside-down.

III stiletto-clattered sidewalks breathe cappuccino fumes strum the beating heart of a man feeding pigeons in the square.

IV rub sushi licked salt into kimchi kebabs smoked with fish and chip pie and bubble milk tea. serve with pizza with everything on top.

Regular Trans-Tasman flights begin with the Aotearoa flying across in nine hours, 1940.

Richard Seddon becomes Prime Minister, 1893.

V they say it’s the sun, the blue sky the lick of pohutakawa flaming up the beach.

I say it’s drinking too much of the limpid green harbour, sweet abalone soup.

may 2 Saturday Rahoroi

3 Sunday Ratapu

The first New Zealand Top 40 chart is published listing the 40 biggest selling singles and albums for the week, 1975.

The electric tram takes its last trip from Thorndon to Newtown Park Zoo in Wellington, 1962.

A European plough powered by six bullocks is used in NZ for the first time, 1820.

The Plentifull Deli, 21 Major Wellington

ibanks Street,

Ingredients 1 tsp cumin seeds, lightly toasted and slightly crushed 1 tsp coriander seeds, lightly toasted and slightly crushed Olive oil 1 T honey 500g carrots, peeled and thickly sliced 3 cloves garlic, roughly chopped Juice of ½ lemon 1 T tahini Salt & pepper Method Boil the carrots with a little salt until tender. Drain and place in a bowl with the honey, seeds, garlic and enough olive oil to coat. Toss together and spread onto a roasting tray. Roast at 200°C for about ten minutes, until the honey starts to caramelise.

Cool the carrots slightly then tip into a food processor with the tahini, lemon juice, salt & pepper and a splash of olive oil. Blend until it comes together nicely, it will remain a little lumpy. Check for seasoning, you can add more olive oil or tahini if you like it smoother.

P L E N T I F U L L

may 4 Monday Rahina

Four Auckland powerboaters set a record for circumnagivating New Zealand, 1995. The 2,222 nautical miles take 4 days, 16 hours, 49 minutes, sore ass!

5 Tuesday Ratu

Riverdog wins Best New Zealand Film at the Reel Earth Film Festival, 2011.

Once Were Warriors world premiere in Auckland, 1994.

6 Wednesday Raapa

The honour of Knighthood and Damehood is replaced with the New Zealand Order of Merit, 1996.

7 Thursday Rapere

8 Friday Ramere

Christchurch lawyer Henry Sewell becomes New Zealand’s first Prime Minister, 1856.

Reflection I, 2013 Anoushka Szybowski

‘Yellow Peril’ racist hysteria peaks, 1881. A meeting organised by Christians in Dunedin fuelled by fear and ignorance demands an end to Chinese immigration. The Chinese immigrants working in the mines are known for their peacefulness, hard work and frugality.

Jean Batten departs London in a Gypsy Moth on her second solo flight attempt to Australia. She lands in Darwin in 14 days, 22½ hours, shattering fellow aviator Amy Johnson’s record by over four days.

Overnight she is a world celebrity, 1934.

may 9 Saturday Rahoroi

VE Day celebrations, 1945, marking Victory in Europe Day, following Germany’s unconditional surrender.

Seven years of war and rationing, and over a million parcels sent to troops, is marked by the party to end all parties. Kiwis celebrate VE day one day late, so celebrations are on the same day as Britain.

10 Sunday Ratapu

The first shipment of New Zealand gold from Dunedin for London, 1945.

It makes up approximately 60% of Kiwi exports for the rest of the decade.

Time to get up “It’s time to get up Jo,” the voice said beside her head.

Jo’s eyes opened, her heart racing.

“It’s time to get up,” it repeated.

Oh crap, the alarm! Jo reached over, feeling its sides for a switch.

Her mother had bought it for her yesterday as an early birthday present, told her it would “revolutionise” her pre-9AMs. She gave up and rolled over.

“Jo, you must get up.”

“I don’t need to.” Apparently these things were intelligent, like the new microwaves that stopped when the food was perfectly cooked.

“Don’t lie to me.” The voice was soothing, female.

“Oh god, seriously?” Jo mumbled, wrapping her pillow around her head.

“WAKE UP!” It shouted.

“Stop it!” Jo’s head ached. What was it, 3am when she got home last night? “I’m not working today, okay? Just let me sleep.”

“You set me to high priority.”

“What?” Jo reached out again, fumbling for the switch that wasn’t there. “I didn’t know that.”

“You must get up Jo.”

Jo seized the clock. She tapped the screen. “What command turns you off?”

“When you get up I stop.”

“This is stupid!” Grumbling, Jo staggered to the kitchen, placed the clock on the bench, then collapsed back into bed.

There was a clatter.

A moment later something bumped against her door.

“GET UP! GET UP! GET UP!” Jo leaped from bed, hands over her ears. The clock had turned a vivid red. It rolled towards her on nonperceivable wheels.

Jo screamed. Grabbing the nearest solid thing, a steel-capped Doc Martin boot, she struck the clock, cracking it straight down the middle. Colour seeped out and the screen went blank.

Breathing rapidly, Jo dropped the boot.

Just as she finally lay back down she heard a fizzing. From the broken clock came a line of smoke, immediately followed by flames.

“It’s time to get up,” it said.

By I. K. Paterson-Harkness

may 11 Monday Rahina

Charles Upham receives the Victoria Cross from King George, 1945. His skill, daring, and ability to out-think the enemy during the war were legendary.

He is the only combat soldier to win both the Victoria Cross and Bar.

12 Tuesday Ratu

The Waihi gold miners’ strike begins, 1912 – NZ’s most violent industrial dispute. The strike culminates in the death of Frederick George Evans in a fight between strikers and blackleg miners’ union ‘the arbitrationists’.

The strike lasts 6 months.

13 Wednesday Raapa

Frances Hodgkins, one of our country’s most celebrated artists, dies aged 78, 1947.

14 Thursday Rapere

15 Friday Ramere

Baxter Aaron Davy

The Plunket Society is formed at a meeting at the Dunedin Town Hall, 1907.

The Government announces an end to Rimu logging by 2002 on the West Coast by Government-owned Timberlands, 2001. Government gives $120 million assistance package to fund alternative industries and assist with the transition. The local council declares it will fund new roads through National Parks and native forest, with environmental opposition.

may 16 Saturday Rahoroi

Fintan Patrick Walsh dies, 1963. A controversial and ruthless founding member of the NZ Communist party (although he later became strongly anti-communist) and Seamen’s Union president for 36 years.

17 Sunday Ratapu

Fifteen new skyhawk jet fighterbombers arrive in Auckland, 1970, despite huge public protest. 38 years on, America looks at buying back the ‘airforce’s white elephant’.

Orapiu and Ponui Zoe Leeb du Toit

may 18 Monday Rahina

19 Tuesday Ratu

Chatham Island Black Robin Alice Berry

Three New Zealand nurses are detained in Auckland before they are released just in time to board their ship, the Awatea, and make their way to the Spanish Civil War, 1937.

The attempted hijacking of an Air New Zealand Boeing 747 at Nadi airport, Fiji, is thwarted when a member of the cabin crew hits the hijacker over the head with a whisky bottle, 1987.

20 Wednesday Raapa

Captain Cook releases New Zealand’s first sheep in Queen Charlotte Sound, 1773. The ewe and ram only survive a few weeks, but their forebears are the backbone of one NZ’s main export earners.

21 Thursday Rapere

Lieutenant-Governor William Hobson proclaims sovereignty over all of New Zealand: over the North Island on the basis of cession by the Treaty of Waitangi and the southern islands by right of discovery, 1840.

22 Friday Ramere

The Chatham Islands receive television broadcasts for the first time, 1991.

may 23 Saturday Rahoroi

24 Sunday Ratapu

Te Arikinui Dame Te Ata-i-rangi-kaahu is crowned first Maori Queen on the death of her father, King Koroki, 1966.

Today in 2002 the bi-annual Environment Programme (UNEP).

GEO-3 report estimates a quarter of the world's mammal species and 12% of birds (including 15% of NZ species) face extinction by 2032.

Team New Zealand arrive home with the world’s oldest sporting trophy, the America’s Cup, 1995.

Hives, Auckland Laura Forest | lauraforest.com

may

Taking the Time…

To savour your meal for better digestion.

by Marcia Montgomery, Naturopath and Medical Herbalist, based in Nelson, NZ Experience the bliss of eating as if this were your first taste…

The art of savouring a meal is not common practice these days with our busy lives and its many demands. Sitting down to enjoy a relaxed meal after lovingly preparing it for an hour in the kitchen has been replaced by convenience with fast-food outlets or pre-cooked/packaged meals. Food has been relegated to an instant fix or gap filler gap when we’re hungry, rather than the focus of our attention. It might take 10 minutes for most people to finish a meal, for others only 5 minutes. This is often accompanied by other activities such as watching TV or reading, working at our desk. How much of our attention is actually on what we’re eating? Do we even notice how the food tastes or how our body feels from eating it?

The remarkable fact is that our body responds to the way we eat either detrimentally or beneficially affecting digestion and absorption of nutrients and detoxification of wastes.

The effects of eating too fast without chewing well and being in a hurry or anxious state can result in abdominal bloating or cramping, flatulence and irregular bowel movements such as constipation or diarrhoea.

In fact our digestive system requires 70% of our energy to do its job properly. The body has to be in a resting, calm state to direct this energy to the digestive system for the duration of our meal and also for some time after for optimal digestion.

Once we begin to slow down enough to really experience our food, this allows our senses of taste, smell, texture and sight to develop. The body’s physiological response will be to increase stomach acid and digestive enzymes. The mouth will water as we take in the smells of food cooking and look at the beautiful colours of the ingredients together. The peristaltic movement of food along the digestive tract will be stimulated in preparation for receiving food. We all know the feeling of our stomach rumbling letting us know when we’re hungry.

Then when you’re ready to sit down to eat your beautiful meal that has been lovingly created, take a few deep breaths first to let go of the busyness of cooking and running around. This gives the body a chance to let go of tension and come into a relaxed state ready for eating. Breathe in the fresh aromas of the meal, taking time to appreciate this creation and really take in the sights on your plate.

When you take that first mouthful, allow yourself the pleasure of savouring the taste for as long as possible whilst chewing well before swallowing. Notice the feeling in your body while eating. Are you still feeling relaxed and at ease or has tension returned?

By keeping our attention on our meal rather than getting distracted by something happening elsewhere (even in our minds) we’re supporting the digestive processes happening in our body. I recommend taking at least 20 minutes to complete your meal. This might mean chewing each mouthful for longer and putting the fork down between mouthfuls.

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Don’t underestimate the value of chewing well as our starches require salivary amylase to break-down the starch or carbohydrate content of our food even before entering the stomach and small intestines.

When these food molecules have been sufficiently broken down into small enough pieces it makes the job much easier for the rest of the pancreatic enzymes preventing symptoms of bloating or cramping further on down the digestive tract.

Sufferers of IBS or Irritable Bowel Syndrome can reduce their symptoms by 20% just by chewing their food properly.

The other beneficial effects of giving this time to our digestion is that we reduce the development of food intolerances and sensitivities. The immune system is heavily incorporated into the digestive tract surveying all that comes in and can be activated in the wrong way targeting food molecules that have slipped through into the wrong places. This leads to damage and inflammation within the digestive tract causing further disruption to digestion and other systemic conditions. Stress is one of the triggers of inflammation in the body so if we can keep our stress levels low especially while eating, we can avoid activating this damaging cycle.

Bringing the focus of enjoyment back to our mealtimes can open the discovery of our senses again through beautiful and nutritious food. I invite you to explore this gastronomic journey with delight and curiosity.

Take the time to savour and enjoy!

For more articles and information

by Marcia Montgomery please visit www.marciamontgomery.co.nz

Laura Forest

Summer/Autumn Laura Forest

may 25 Monday Rahina

Kapiti Island becomes a reserve under the Animal Protections Act, 1900. The preservation of Kapiti wildlife prompts establishment of the Native Bird Protection Society in 1923 (now Forest and Bird).

26 Tuesday Ratu

The Automobile Association is formed in Auckland by seven car enthusiasts to protect and encourage the interest of car owners, 1902.

27 Wednesday Raapa

The first commercial top–dressing flight takes place over Banks Peninsula, 1949. The top-dresser is invented by Richard Pearse; NZ is still a leader in agricultural aviation.

29 Friday Ramere

Hermitage, 2013 Ilya Volykhine

28 Thursday Rapere

Tensing and Hillary reach the 8,850m summit of Mount Everest at 11:30am, 1953. Hillary was knighted on his return to New Zealand.

Marsden Point oil refinery opens, 1964. It remains the country’s only oil refinery, producing most of NZ’s fuel mainly from processing imported crude oil.

may 30 Saturday Rahoroi

31 Sunday Ratapu

Name Your Natives!

Candice Ciesla | www.candiceciesla.cc

Sir Paul Callaghan wins New Zealander of the Year Award, 2012.

New Zealand’s first automatic exchange using dial telephones opens in Masterton, 1919.

may

LITTLE HONEY & ALMOND CUPCAKES www.thebeekeeper.co

INGREDIENTS 200g plain flour 120g ground almonds 1/2 tsp baking powder 1/2 tsp baking soda 1/2 tsp salt 150g brown sugar 150g butter, melted 1 cup Backyard Blend honey 2 large eggs 1 tsp vanilla extract 2/3 cup milk

TO TOP WITH 250g cream cheese 1/4 cup Backyard Blend Honey 1/2 tsp vanilla paste Violas

METHOD 1. Preheat the oven to 180C. Line 16 muffin tins.

2. In electric mixter, combine the flour, ground almonds, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and brown sugar.

3. Melt the butter and honey on low.

4. Add the butter and honey mix to the dry ingredients along with the eggs, vanilla extract and milk. Mix to combine.

Do not over-mix.

5. Spoon the batter into prepared muffin tins.

6. Bake for approximately 15 minutes or until cupcake springs back when touched.

7. Once fully cooled, ice with honey cream cheese icing.

8. Decorate the cupcakes with violas.

june 1 Monday Rahina

2 Tuesday Ratu

3 Wednesday Raapa

Walter, 2014 Hayley Carleton

Queen’s Birthday

New Zealand’s first official television transmission, 1960.

Bruce McLaren is killed whilst testing a race car, 1970. In 1958 he won a scholarship for racing to Europe. At 22 he won the US Grand Prix, the youngest driver to win a Formula One Grand Prix. The team he forms goes on to win five consecutive Can-Am series.

Colin ‘Pinetree’ Meads’ is born, 1936.

4 Thursday Rapere

5 Friday Ramere World Environment Day – one of the principal vehicles through which the United Nations stimulates worldwide awareness of the environment and enhances political attention and action.

See events at: www.unep.org/wed

DH Lawrence: “I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade.

It’s amazing how it cheers one up to

Eve van Grafthorst and family arrive in New Zealand, 1987. Eve contracted AIDS from blood transfusions in Australia as a prematurely-born baby.

Her family lived in Gosford, Australia, but ill–treatment from scared locals drove them out. She died on 20 November 1993 aged 11. A specially bred pink rose was named Angel Eve in her memory.

shred oranges and Annually since 1977, NZ has celebrated Arbor Day on World Environment Day, June 5.

Rock’n’roll band Hello Sailor make their debut at the Timberlands Hotel in Tokoroa, 1975.

scrub the floor”

JUNE 6 Saturday Rahoroi

Otago student James Allen Thomson is named as a Rhodes Scholar, New Zealand’s first, 1904.

7 Sunday Ratapu

Derek Quigley, at the Young Nationals Conference, speaks against the ‘Think Big’ programme, 1982. Muldoon announced Think Big in 1979, aiming to develop heavy industry. It carries the industrial era’s unsustainable style which wreaked eco-havoc, but also produced a legendary new skate park named Skatopia.

may

V’s impromptu

gluten-free Plum cake

INGREDIENTS 1 x packet Purebread’s gluten free baking mix orange juice zest of one orange 1/2 tspn cinammon 3/4 cup brown sugar half a can (2oo ml) coconut milk 2 tspn baking powder a binder: 2 eggs or 2-3 Tbsp ground flaxseed 1 cup water 1/3 cup coconut or rice bran oil 6 fresh plums, halved optional: several tspn’s dried coconut

METHOD 1. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees C 2. Mix all ingredients together 3. Arrange the plum halves ontop of the cake 3. Bake for around 45 minutes until golden brown 4. Remove from the oven, allow to sit for 10 minutes, then slice and serve with fresh yoghurt!

purebread.co.nz

june 9 Tuesday Ratu

10 Wednesday Raapa

Deinacrida Elegans Carla Braun-Elwert

8 Monday Rahina

Naomi James arrives in England after sailing solo around the world (48,784km in 272 days). At 28, she is the first woman to complete the journey.

A group of Southland farmers shock the nation when they kill 1,500 sheep in downtown Invercargill to protest bad freezing-works management and delays, rendering animals worthless.

Animal rights groups and the public are outraged at the scene of terrified animals. Try lentils.

4,300km square Aoraki-Mackenzie Dark-Sky Reserve is officially approved by a global astronomical body, 2012. It is the first “gold-rated” dark-sky reserve, meaning the darkness of its night skies is almost totally free from light pollution, a privilege in a world where half of the world’s population cannot see stars because of night light pollution.

Mount Tarawera erupts, 1886. The largest loss of life in a New Zealand volcanic eruption, it destroys the Pink and White Terraces, one of the World’s Natural Wonders. Ten days earlier, tourists in the area had seen a large war canoe paddled by warriors.

Local Maori said this signalled ensuing disaster.

11 Thursday Rapere

12 Friday Ramere

Rewena Bread Rēwena parāoa is a traditional Māori sourdough potato bread.

Step 1: 2 cups flour 1 tsp sugar 1 potato 1 cup water Peel and cut potato into small pieces. Place in a pot with 1 cup water. Put the lid on and simmer to mashing consistency. Mash, cool and when luke warm add the sugar and flour. Mix to a firm texture. Cover and place in a warm place for 24-48 hours to ferment.

The mixture should smell yeasty and sweet.

Step 2: After 24-48 hours, set aside 1 Tbsn of the dough and put into a large Agee jar. Cover and keep in warm place. Feed one day with 1/2 cup of warm potato water and the next day with 1 tspn sugar. This is your ‘bug’ which is the base for making future loaves of rewena.

Skip this step if you only want to make one loaf.

Famous internationally for her detective fiction novels, Ngaio Marsh is made Dame, 1966.

Star Crossed Lovers sung by Craig Scott hits number one in New Zealand and stays there for four weeks, 1970. That’s the 70’s for you.

Step 3: 5 cups flour 1 tsp salt 1 tsp baking soda Mix all ingredients, pour in the rewena and mix.

Add more water if necessary. Knead for 10 minutes.

Place in a greased dish and set in a warm place to rise.

Place in a cold oven and bake at 150-180C for 1 hour.

This allows the bread to rise a bit more as the oven temperature rises.

JUNE 13 Saturday Rahoroi

14 Sunday Ratapu

“

Living in the Antipodes is learning to live standing on your head.

”

- Gregory O’Brien Christian Hogue

The US Marines land in Oriental Bay, Wellington, 1942. President Roosevelt agreed to send troops to NZ if Kiwi troops were left overseas in Greece and the Middle East. Approximately 2,000 New Zealand women become American War brides.

Muldoon calls a snap election, 1984, a gamble which he lost.

Twisted Branch, Hot Water, Wood-iii Ruth Heath

june 15 Monday Rahina

Chinese gooseberries, orginally yangtao from China, are renamed kiwifruit, 1959. They were renamed to improve marketability in USA, as ‘chinese gooseberry’ would be unpopular in Cold War America.

16 Tuesday Ratu

17 Wednesday Raapa

Winston Reid scores a 93rd minute goal against Slovakia, securing a 1-1 draw and New Zealand’s first Football World Cup point in 25 years, 2010.

Home, Land and Sea, Trinity Roots second album is released, 2004.

Self-funded and recorded at Dr Lee Prebble’s recording studio The Surgery in Wellington.

Coronation St screens for the first time in New Zealand, 1964, the most addictive TV substance before Outrageous fortune.

The Murchison Earthquake, 1929. Its severity breaks the country’s two seismographs in Wellington and Christchurch!

19 Friday Ramere

Brutally Beautiful Michelle Firment Reid

18 Thursday Rapere

Minnie Dean goes on trial for the murder of two children who were in her care, 1895. She is the only woman to be hung in New Zealand.

Kiwi golfer Michael Campbell “tames the Tiger” and wins the US Open, 2005.

june 20 Saturday Rahoroi

World Refugee Day The All Blacks win the first Rugby World Cup, beating France 29–9, 1987.

21 Sunday Ratapu

The Beatles arrive in New Zealand, a coup for the promoter who had booked them before they hit the big time, and Beatlemania was in full swing, 1964.

The Oyster Catcher Ilya Volykhine

june 22 Monday Rahina

Pauline Parker, 16, and Juliet Hulme, 15, murder Pauline’s mother, 1954.

This taudry tale will become the subject of Peter Jackson’s awardwinning film, Heavenly Creatures.

23 Tuesday Ratu

The Flintstones screens for the first time in New Zealand, 1962. It is the first adult-cartoon satirising the pressures of modern life.

24 Wednesday Raapa

The first issue of the New Zealand Truth is published, 1905, and is responsible for uncovering many dishonest politicians and businesses.

25 Thursday Rapere

Chloe Sawyer

One of New Zealand’s most outstanding soldiers, General Sir Bernard Cyril Freyburg, dies, 1963.

Victorious in almost every swimming title for which he was eligible, this trained dentist went to war in 1914.

His first DSM was for swimming ashore to divert Turkish attention from the main landing at Gallipoli.

26 Friday Ramere

Protesters rally outside Parliament against the National Party’s controversial Mixed Ownership Model Bill, which would remove most NZ power companies from the constraints of the State Owned Enterprises Act, allowing the Government to sell up to 49% of them on the sharemarket, 2012.

The infamous ‘Black Budget’ is delivered to the nation, 1958.

JUNE 27 Saturday Rahoroi

Mark Williams goes to number one with Yesterday Was Just the Beginning of My Life, 1975.

28 Sunday Ratapu

Norman Kirk’s government takes a stand against French nuclear testing at Mururoa Atoll, 1973, sending HMNZS Otago to the test site. This fuels international scrutiny of the testing and the French to abandon it, going underground a year after. Ka pai.

Rangitaiki, and Waihou, Mohaka, Ngaruroro — Pacific-wards; Waikato, Whanganui, Rangitikei, Manawatu, Whangaehu, Mokau — all into the Tasman.

The Clutha, Taieri, the Clarence, Waitaki, Waiau, Waimakariri of Te Wai Pounamu — the Pacific; and Wairau goes Cook Strait.

Savage waters fallen from hems of snow, tea-coloured, frothy, or flowing clear.

Slower swans might crane their necks towards a floating hide, a sheep carcase be submerged amongst beetles and flies, then a dolphin on the breaking wave, a big finned surf runner’s glide towards laughing gulls airborne, quivery as a tree in a gale.

Raked by rain and open mouthed: bubbles, rising to curtain in grey the water serpent, the elusive mako, the smoke of wind and spume — mists that uncurl their wairua.

A school of yellow-eyed mullet caught by wind-shear currents plunges under fishing smacks: trawler dynamoes wear schools down further through sonics. Raptures deep and high run from ice-bridge brows of those silent mountains, their stone goblets whose waterfalls flow pure to dream of that blue motion of the sea that makes boulders knock, shingle click, and tumbles glass the frosted amber of kauri.

David Eggleton

Joe Harrison

Where the Big Rivers Go

may

june 29 Monday Rahina

july 30 Tuesday Ratu

Green MP Nandor Tanczos last day in the Beehive, 2008.

James Keir Baxter is born, 1926.

He is one of New Zealand’s most gifted poets. His first book of Poetry, ‘Beyond the Palisades’ was published when he was eighteen.

The first issue of The Listener is published, 1939. Free to all 380,000 radio licence holders, it was originally designed to publicise radio programmes, and soon expanded.

1 Wednesday Raapa

The Frankton Sawmill and Factory begins cutting wood for railway homes for railway staff, 1923. It produced 1591 houses, in American West-Coast bungalow style. Some still remain in Wellington, Taihape, Taumaranui, Huntly and Te Kuiti.

2 Thursday Rapere

3 Friday Ramere

Fire

Rachel Nankivell

The Government announces it will not allow the release of the Rabbit Calici Virus Disease (RCD), 1997.

Some South Island farmers release it anyway and by 1999 indiscriminate use has rendered it ineffective due to immunity, and the rabbit population springs back.

Chris Lewis plays John McEnroe in the Wimbledon singles final, 1983.

july 4 Saturday Rahoroi

5 Sunday Ratapu

Up or down

Leanne Addison

Karl Sim goes on trial for artwork forgery, having fooled art buyers for more than twenty years, 1986. Part of his sentence is 200 hours community work, spent splendidly decorating public toilets.

Max Telford completes a return crossing of 190km Death Valley, 1976, breaking the long-standing record.

One of his supporters fries an egg on the road in seconds.

BONE BROTH A well-made broth is as much a medicine as a wonderful flavour booster.

It adds nutrient density and increases the digestibility of the meal.

Folklore wisely has chicken broth as a famous remedy for the ‘flu and modern research confirms that broth helps prevent and ease illness.

Recipe and image courtesy of Nicola Cranfield, brooklynkitchen.co.nz

Broth is also packed with easily assimilated minerals – in particular calcium, phosphorous and magnesium. Broth is also rich in gelatine which nourishes all the collagen-containing body parts such as joints, tendons, ligaments, skin, mucus membranes and bone – natures answer to Botox in a tasty soup bowl!

Ingredients • • • • • • • • • • •

1 kg beef bones, cut into 5cm pieces 2 carrots, cut in several pieces 1 medium onions, quartered (skin on if organic) 3 stalks celery, broken in several pieces (or celeriac if unavailable) 1 leek, cleaned and cut into chunks 1 sprig thyme 2 fresh bay leaves 1 Tbsp granulated kelp 2 garlic cloves (unpeeled if organic) 6–8 peppercorns (leave out if cooking for baby or an invalid) 3 Tbsp apple cider vinegar or lemon juice

Method

Notes:

1. Place all ingredients in a slow-cooker or large saucepan, and cover with cold water by 5cm.

2. Bring the stock to a simmer, skimming as necessary.

3. When the stock is simmering (do not allow it to boil, this will make it cloudy), partially cover and maintain at a slow simmer for five hours, or up to 72 hours if using a slow-cooker.

4. Monitor, if the water level gets too low, add boiling water to the pot.

5. Strain the vegetables and the bones and set the stock, uncovered in the refrigerator until the fat has risen to the top and solidified. This layer of fat acts as a seal so you can crack it open when you need to use the stock.

• Ideally all bones are sourced from organically raised animals. Everything that the animal ate, how it lived, and where it lived ,factor into the health benefits and flavour of your broth. If possible select a variety of bones as they contribute different properties to the broth. Organic bones are available frozen from Commonsense Organics.

• It’s a good idea to cut the bones into small pieces as this reduces cooking time and allows more bone marrow to be released into the broth.

• Cook long and slow. A low rolling simmer is ideal. The addition of the acid aids the release of minerals from the bones. Chicken bones can cook for 6-48 hours, while beef bones can cook for 12-72 hours.

• Skim off the scum that rises to the surface, this is produced by impurities. If organic ingredients are used minimal scum will be produced.

Nicola runs regular workshops on food and nutrition at Commonsense Organics.

Checkout our Facebook page for details of upcoming events.

www.commonsenseorganics.co.nz

Ski Touring Reclaim the mountains

Photography: Joe Harrison

Opposite and this page: Angelus Hut, Nelson Lakes

Joe Harrison

Franz Josef

Joe Harrison

Tasman Glacier

Joe Harrison

july 6 Monday Rahina

7 Tuesday Ratu

Horizons Regional council approves Fonterra’s resource consent application to discharge 8500m2 of effluent a day into the Manawatu river from its Longburn dairy factory for the next 15 years, 2006. It is appealed.

Thingee is born, 1987, commencing a ten-year career on children’s television.

Perfect Blend

Erika Husselmann

The NZ Labour Party forms in Wellington, 1916.

8 Wednesday Raapa

Homosexual Law Reform Bill approved by Parliament, 1986. In 1994 The Human Rights Act outlawed discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation.

9 Thursday Rapere

Dog, the star of Footrot Flats, writes a letter to the All Blacks, withdrawing as their mascot, 1985. His letter says, ‘I just wouldn’t feel right sittin’ there while we played rugby with the people who have killed more than 300 men, women and children in the last 6 months just because they are not white.’ Right on Dog.

10 Friday Ramere

New Zealand changes to decimal currency. Pounds, shillings and pence become things of the past, 1967.

july 11 Saturday Rahoroi

12 Sunday Ratapu

The Mazengarb Report; “Riverside Drive”, Graeme Tetly’s play about this controversial episode of NZ history, premieres in Wanaka, 2011.

Charles Frederick Goldie dies, 1947. He is one of New Zealand’s best known and controversial painters. At 19 he left for Paris, training for five years.

He was awarded an OBE in 1935.

A government-backed inquiry into the morals of Hutt Valley teenagers produces a report which warns of ‘comics, Hollywood, pulp romance and crime literature’ and recommends against access to contraceptives, 1954.

None of the committee (middle class professionals over 45) have ever worked with ‘problem’ adolescents.

Best Ever Breakfast Bread wildhealth.co.nz Anna tasted this nourishing and substantial breakfast loaf while at a family holiday at our favourite local retreat at Wangapeka. This loaf is gluten dairy and sugar free. It is gorgeous sliced, toasted and spread with tahini and slices of banana. Kath, the lovely lady who

shared her loaf with me, says two slices keep her going until lunchtime and I agree. With the high protein content from seeds, nuts and eggs, I feel satisfied for longer.

Note: This loaf is good any time of day, not just breakfast!

Ingredients 1/4 cup honey (optional, without it the bread is more savoury) 3 large eggs 3 mashed ripe bananas (or 1 apple and 1 banana blended with a 1/4 cup of water instead) 1/2 tsp baking soda 1/4 tsp salt 1/2 cup any chopped dried fruit or chopped walnuts (optional) 3 cups almond flour (or to reduce costs use a combination of 1.5 cups almond flour, 3/4 cup ground sunflower seeds and 3/4 cup finely desiccated coconut).

Method Heat oven to 180 degrees˚C. Grease a loaf tin and line it with greased wax paper.

Mix together wet ingredients, and seperately mix the dry ingredients. Gently combine. Pour into the tin and bake for 3/4 to 1 hour. Test with a skewer.

Turn out onto rack and remove paper while warm.

P.S Try it with orange zest, the juice of an orange and a dash of ground cardamom for a change (omit a banana if you do this.) Enjoy!

july 13 Monday Rahina

14 Tuesday Ratu

15 Wednesday Raapa

Youre My Hot Water Bottle

Lauren Stewart

Vivian Walsh receives NZ’s first pilot’s license, 1916.

Aunt Daisy dies, 1963. Maude Basham was the country’s best loved broadcaster for over 25 years. Both National and Labour approached her to stand for Parliament, she declined both. She was awarded an MBE in 1963.

Jack Lovelock’s run at Princeton University beats the old record for the mile, held by Jules Ladoumegue, by almost two seconds. It is dubbed the ‘greatest mile of all time’ by Time Magazine, 1933.

16 Thursday Rapere

17 Friday Ramere

One clove of garlic a day

is a good preventative measure for keeping you healthy. Eat some raw parsley to clean your breath up too!

Garlic is an “alterative herb” meaning blood cleansing – it is believed that when eaten it starts toxic cleansing immediately, whereas other alterative herbs take longer to work.

Raw garlic is used by The Wanganui Fire Brigade receives the first self-propelled fire engine in Australasia, 1903.

New Zealand soldiers fire their first shots in the Vietnam War, 1965, after repeated American requests for help.

Kiwis withdraw in 1971.

some to manage high cholesterol levels.

july 18 Saturday Rahoroi

Don Clarke boots his way to New Zealand’s victory over the British Lions at Carisbrook in Dunedin 1959.

All of the All Blacks 18 points are from Don’s penalty kicks, the Lions score 17.

19 Sunday Ratapu

Muldoon makes his stage debut as the narrator in The Rocky Horror Show, 1986.

Aoraki, Mt Cook

Jordan Schilling

july 20 Monday Rahina

The Mount Eden riot breaks out, 1965.

21 Tuesday Ratu

New Zealanders listen to, and then watch, the first man walk on the moon, 1969.

22 Wednesday Raapa

The first Lotto tickets go on sale, 1987.

23 Thursday Rapere

24 Friday Ramere

Winebar Waiata Significant others cry out to the land as mother.

Some confess to a feeling for forest.

Everyone nurtures small fantasies of doing a good job.

Everyone is a troubled spirit bailing away, wanting the trappings of success.

Skipping lines of rain recede in salt, vinegar, mustard, pepper rainbows.

Sleep of kiwis brings forth Mansfields and Frames.

Pine trees grow cardboard for toothpaste tubes.

But what becomes of the Mongrel Mob? And how far can we push on before we have to push back?

And where have all the father-figures gone?

The sun, caught on barbed wire, bleeds.

David Eggleton

Yvette Williams wins gold in the long jump, 1952; the first New Zealand woman to win an Olympic gold medal.

Andrew Mehrtens kicks nine penalties for NZ against Australia (34­­-15) in Auckland, 1999; a world record for the most penalties by an individual in an international Rugby Union match.

july 25 Saturday Rahoroi

The rugby match between the All Blacks and the Springboks is cancelled when anti-apartheid protestors occupy the field, 1981.

26 Sunday Ratapu

Parliament opens in Wellington, 1865.

Revisiting Tender

Michelle Firment Reid

july 27 Monday Rahina

New Zealand’s first quintuplets are born at Auckland’s National Women’s Hospital, 1965.

28 Tuesday Ratu

The first Wellington Film Festival opens, 1972, organised by Bill Gosden. Showing nine films in seven days, it competed with Auckland’s Film Festival (each not allowing the other to show any of the same films) they now they work together, showing the same programme, a week apart.

29 Wednesday Raapa

Join Together becomes the official song for the Christchurch Commonwealth Games, 1973.

30 Thursday Rapere

31 Friday Ramere

Tongariro & Ngauruhoe

Claudia Slaney

Carless days are introduced, due to an international oil crisis, 1979.

Get on to public transport – it ain’t too bad.

John Walker wins Gold in the 1500m at the Montreal Olympics, 1976.

august 1 Saturday Rahoroi

2 Sunday Ratapu

Why So Beautiful?

The Maori Language Act comes into force, 1987, making Te Reo Maori an official language of New Zealand, legitimate for legal proceedings and establishing Te Taura Whiri i – Te Reo Maori (the Maori Language Commission).

South Africa closes its consulate in Wellington after New Zealand’s Prime Minister severs diplomatic ties in disapproval of South Africa’s racial segregation, 1984.

Grant B. Lyon

The nuclear-powered USS Texas arrives in Auckland, 1983.

The protests that greet it are, its captain says, the largest he’s seen in 19 years of sailing nuclear ships. In 1984, nuclear powered ships are banned from New Zealand waters.

Beautiful ? why so

By Grant Lyon

Why So Beautiful? The photos on these two pages look at nature and its beauty. When we take the time to watch closely, nature can teach us much about how to make our lives better and more beautiful.

How do we form our beliefs around beauty? How much are we conditioned through familiarity and popular opinion? What constitutes beauty from nature’s point of view?

Aesthetically we judge what is beautiful by various characteristics like symmetry, pattern, line, proportion and contrast. However beyond aesthetics, where living things are concerned, to achieve beauty there is a crucial symbiotic relationship with nature from the microbes within us and every living thing, that form the building blocks of good health. For humans to have symmetry, we require sufficient nutrients for sufficient growth, for example.

So, if any part of the system is depleted, with the aid of negative feedback loops and time, humans as a race will become more ugly in so many ways.

If we don’t replenish the nutrients in our soils, our food can no longer fully provide for our complete

development – this is already happening in New Zealand, as our dairy, meat, vegetables, are being produced from soils with ever-decreasing nutrients.

Health is a beautiful thing. Yet decay can have its beauty too. Understanding nature and working with it, can counter this present “devolution” of human beauty. It’s easy.

If given the opportunity, the right conditions, time and with the aid of positive feedback loops, beauty, like life, is unstoppable.

You could say that beauty is integral for sustainable life, if nature so permits it.

If more of our farmers employed methods grounded in the awareness that sustainability and profitability go hand in hand, our environment would stand a better chance. A pristine environment ‘out there’ also supports a pristine internal environment in each of us. Isn’t this true beauty? Also it will help to lower the countries health bill, significantly, over time.

Like the Maori proverb, “Toitu te marae o Tane, Toitu te marae o Tangaroa, Toitu te Iwi” While the forests have a future, we have a future.

august 3 Monday Rahina

The Sky Tower opens in Auckland, 1997. It is the highest structure in the Southern Hemisphere and twelfthtallest in the world at the time.

4 Tuesday Ratu

A banner is hung from the historic pine on Auckland’s One Tree Hill to protest native forest logging by government logger Timberlands on the West Coast, 1998. Conservation group Native Forest Action were highlighting that the council spent much time and money protecting an 80 year old exotic tree whilst thousands of 500+ year old native rimu trees were felled each year.

5 Wednesday Raapa

Judge Silvia Cartwright releases a damning report on cervical cancer treatment at Auckland’s National Women’s Hospital, 1988.

6 Thursday Rapere

7 Friday Ramere

The NZ Geographic Board decides to drop the name Mount Egmont in favour of Mount Taranaki, 1985.

Jack Lovelock wins New Zealand’s first track and field Olympic Gold medal in the 1,500m in Berlin, 1936.

He won a scholarship to study medicine at Otago, and a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford but died at 39 falling in front of a subway train in New York. His death remains surrounded by mystery.

Comedian Billy T. James dies at 42, 1991. William Taitoko to his family, he’s one of the best known contributors to New Zealand entertainment in his lifetime and won Entertainer of the Decade in 1985.

Chloe Sawyer

august 8 Saturday Rahoroi

Dunedin suburb Abbotsford is hit by one of New Zealand’s worst urban landslides, 1979. Despite cracks in the hill and houses, the sudden slipping of 1m / minute surprised everyone. 76 homes were destroyed, leaving a 75m split in the hillside.

9 Sunday Ratapu

John Blundell, 89 of Kawakawa Bay is awarded, ‘Commended – individual’ at Auckland Regional Council’s Sustainable Environment Awards, 2007, for a lifetime of caring for the environment. We *heart* John!

Royd Kennedy becomes a national hero staying under a blazing, oil–laden tanker to comfort Shirley Young who was pinned underneath it for 75 minutes, 1990.

Wanaka

Nina Kennett

august 10 Monday Rahina

The National Film Unit turns 21 this day in 1962, yarrrdie.

11 Tuesday Ratu

The Aramoana sails for the first time, our first ‘roll-on-roll-off’ ferry, 1962.

12 Wednesday Raapa

John Walker’s world record mile, 3 minutes 49.4 seconds, 1975.

13 Thursday Rapere

14 Friday Ramere

Winter sleeping in the rain, the reassuring patter fills my dreams with mist see the morning birds shivering down their small spines in the wintry air tree skeletons rise above the flat horizon scribbling on the sky earlier each day the evening’s darkness settles Thirty newly arrived English immigrants set sail for England, bitterly disillusioned with life in New Zealand, 1947.

hiding autumn’s art ~ Amy Austin

Meals on Wheels begins from Wellington Hospital, 1951.

Former New Zealand Prime Minister David Lange dies at 63, 2005. A popular Labour leader who governed through a tumultuous split with the US, standing his ground against nuclear policy, and battled France over the Rainbow Warrior sinking.

august 15 Saturday Rahoroi

16 Sunday Ratapu

Lake Ferry Kelly Todd Kinfolk Photography kinfolkphotography.co.nz

“I’m taking this bloody car to Invercargill, boy” John in Goodbye Pork Pie New Zealand celebrates victory over Japan in WWII and the war’s end, 1945.

CORSO, the Council of Organisations for Relief Services Overseas, is formed, 1944. It is an umbrella organisation for postwar aid work.

august 17 Monday Rahina

18 Tuesday Ratu

Birds Crossing

Anoushka Szybowski

French and German settlers land at Akaroa, 1840. Jean-Francois Langlois buys Banks Peninsula from local Maori for 6,000 francs, six pairs of trousers, twelve hats, two pairs of shoes, two shirts, one overcoat, one cloak and a pistol.

The upper house of New Zealand’s parliament, the Legislative Council, votes itself out of existence, 1950.

19 Wednesday Raapa

Nicholas Willis wins bronze in the men’s 1500 metres, Olympics with a time of 3:34.16 minutes, 2008. Trivia: New Zealand has won more Olympic gold medals, per capita, than any other country.

20 Thursday Rapere

DC3 passenger aircraft, the main national domestic flight providers, are ceased, 1970.

One is now a tearoom in Mangaweka.

21 Friday Ramere

The Meteorological Service is established, with Dr Charles Knight appointed as the first Director, 1861.

august 22 Saturday Rahoroi

The Weekly News, one of NZ’s favourite magazines, ceases publication, 1971.

23 Sunday Ratapu

Poet, novelist and journalist Robin Hyde dies in London, 1939. Born Iris Wilkinson, she was one of New Zealand’s finest inter-war era writers. Best known for her novels Passport to Hell, Nor the years condemn and the autobiographical, The Godwits Fly, she considered herself primarily a poet.

Tim Amanda Rogers

The Desolate Star Robin Hyde

Little winds of dawn come gently to them, All the living stars, the other stars.

Dim rains passionate with scents bedew them, My brother stars, And I go, lonely.

Steadfast and clear their shining — Are the shadows, and the song of the wind’s pining For ever, mine only?

Ah, the winds are kind to them! They know not, They whose flowers quicken at their heart, Of the darkness where the life-fires glow not, Where, set apart,

I must follow, lost On a blue road’s descending, Which, for years that know not birth or ending, No wayfarer has crossed.

Purple-plumed, the nesting twilight covers All their golden windows. One last gleam Shows me tranquil gardens, where go lovers With eyes adream.

And I go, lonely, Remembering lovelit faces — Is the cry of the wind’s going through empty spaces, For ever, mine only?

august 24 Monday Rahina

The National Youth Choirs’ first concert, in Upper Hutt, 1979.

25 Tuesday Ratu

New Zealand’s worst tornado sweeps through Hamilton and Frankton, killing 3 people and damaging hundreds of buildings, 1948.

26 Wednesday Raapa

Burt Munro, 67, of Invercargill, sets the World Record for Flying One Mile on his Class S motorbike, a 1000cc, Munro Special Indian, reach 183.586m/ph (295.453km/h), in Bonneville, 1967. When new his 1920s Indian top speed was 55mph!

27 Thursday Rapere

Enclosure Bay

Zoe Leeb du Toit

Legendary All Black full back George Nepia dies in Ruatoria, 1986.

28 Friday Ramere

One of New Zealand’s most celebrated and gifted authors, Janet Frame, is born in Dunedin, 1924. After an incorrect diagnosis of schizophrenia she received electroconvulsive therapy, halted when she won a major literary award.

Jane Campion made Frame’s threevolume autobiography (each volume won book of the year) into an awardwinning film of the same name, An Angel at my Table.

august 29 Saturday Rahoroi

30 Sunday Ratapu

Sonntag

Lauren Stewart

Saint Paul by New Zealand pop star Shane enters the pop charts, 1968.

Ernest Rutherford is born in Nelson, 1871. Most famously, he went on to split the atom, but his other discoveries enabled such technologies as smoke-detectors and wireless telegraphy.

Beer in the veins

No one would be surprised if beer, not blood, runs through Richard Emerson’s veins.

remains unstoppable in his quest for flavours with complexity and inventiveness.

Queen of the kiwi kitchen Alison Holst is his aunt, so it’s fair to say Richard’s taste buds are naturally attuned to the finest nuances of flavour and aroma.

Richard’s return to the UK and Europe in his early 20s cemented his knowledge of beer styles. From Cologne to Düsseldorf, Copenhagen to Freising, Richard absorbed the sight and smell of every hop store, yeast room, copper kettle and brass handrail with relish. This experience is evident in his beers.

As a wee nipper Richard amazed his mother Ingrid with his sense of smell, able to sniff out his favourite garlic meatballs at a party. He was three.

Ingrid also claims he can smell an oncoming roll of squally weather barreling over the Otago Peninsula.

But it was during a pivotal year in Edinburgh with his family in 1983 that Richard’s strong sense of flavour collided with Britain’s rich beer culture, and a new world of discovery opened up to him.

Enlightened, he returned home committed to creating exceptionally-flavoured brews.

Back in Dunedin Richard borrowed some kit from Cerebos Greggs where he worked, fashioning a home brewery… resulting in a sticky mess all over his mother’s kitchen! She wasn’t too impressed.

The end result was, however, worth it, but only after he’d experimented with different yeasts and malts, creating half a dozen versions of the same beer to find the best combination. As then, he

The Emerson family is tight-knit, so there was no question for George and Ingrid Emerson when sensed the fire in Richard’s belly to develop the best beer, that they'd help him realise his dream. It took two years and twenty of Ingrid and George’s friends, family and colleagues investing in the fledgling enterprise, but in 1992 Emerson’s Brewery (The Emerson Brewing Co. Ltd) opened at 4 Grange Street in Dunedin. History in the making.

The first year was hard, and so dedicated was he that Richard went without paying himself. Other corners were cut where possible (just not with the ingredients!), to varying effect. One such decision, to go without a flue and get by with just an extractor fan, didn’t work out so well. Breweries don’t usually double as a sauna. A flue was duly installed.

Off the back of a flourishing reputation the brewery grew rapidly. Before long it moved across the road to a bigger space at number 9 Grange Street. Within two years, with more brews in the Emerson’s family, a cracking overseas export business – to Wellington Richard jokes – and big plans for the future, another move was on the cards. Richard’s drive to create an iconic kiwi craft beer brand was unstoppable.

They say hindsight is 20/20 but anyone tasting Richard’s first beer, the famed London Porter, would surely have foreseen a great craft beer future.

Emerson’s Brewery has become known for its European styles hijacked with indigenous hop character – creating something absolutely unique for beer lovers to relish.

Twenty two years on, nearly 200 national and international awards and 6.6 million litres brewed since that first sticky mess in his mum’s kitchen, and Kiwis continue to benefit from Richard’s expertise and artistry as ‘the Godfather of Craft Brewing.’ Richard doesn’t get why on earth people would call him that, but his beer sure is an offer we can’t refuse.

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! r o f d e b f o t u o t e g e w t a Wh

steve logan of logan brown restaurant tells:

While we are stoked to get the odd award like 2014 VWOAP Mindfood Best Dine Menu or Cuisine Good food Guide two Hat rating, it’s not what it’s all about for us.

Logan Brown’s number one business value is having a genuine spirit of hospitality. It is what we get out of bed for each day.

Ask any of the team what fulfills them most and they’ll answer, to know that all guests had a great night and leave happy. We say genuine because it has to come from the heart. Plastic smiles or instant stocks do not do it. Our business’s life blood is the passion of the team.

It is their passion for the products, the producers and their story, and the way we transform these ingredients into something special for our guests which completes their dining experience.

Passion overrides the part of the brain telling us that we are crazy to do all the long hard hours over the hot stove or bending over backwards for very particular guests when others are out with their friends or at home with loved ones. It’s a pleasure for our team to whip up a birthday or anniversary message on a guest’s dessert plate. Even if they don’t order one, we give them a chocolate truffle and a message. The smile on the recipients face is magic.

It can be a challenge to accommodate specific ‘pop up’ dietary requirements but gratifying when our guest is relieved to get a delicious meal without stress. This is part of our DNA, we strive to deliver the best dining experience we can rather than making forays into the new wave social dining. We aim to make our guests proud to be a Kiwi through our fine produce cooked perfectly and served with genuine kiwi hospitality.

You can even book! Book with me: steve@loganbrown.co.nz and with pleasure I will pour you a glass of Louis Roederer NV Champagne to thank you. ~ Steve Logan and team.

www.loganbrown.co.nz

Slow Braised Lamb Shanks with Levin Celeriac Mash & Lentil Gravy

Great with Emerson’s London Porter Beer

INGREDIENTS

METHOD

Garlic & Celeriac Mash 500g potato – peeled & diced 500g celeriac – peeled & diced 10g garlic cloves - peeled 120g butter cubes - diced 1/4 cup hot cream salt & fine white pepper

GARLIc & celeriac mash 1. Bring potato, celeriac, garlic& a little salt to boil.

2. Gently simmer for around 15 minutes until potatoes and celeriac are just done.

3. Strain well then return to the pot over a low heat for a few minutes to dry the potatoes & celeriac.

4. Mash the potatoes & celeriac with a masher or pass through a potato ricer. Add the butter and combine. Lastly add the hot cream and season to taste.

Lamb Shanks 4 lamb shanks 1.5 litres lamb or beef stock 1 large carrot - peeled & roughly chopped 1 onion - peeled & roughly chopped 2 celery sticks – peeled & roughly chopped I small fennel bulb – roughly chopped 400ml red wine 1 sprig fresh rosemary 2 fresh or dried bay leaves 2 ripe medium tomatoes (skinned, de-seeded & diced) salt & fresh milled black pepper Lentils 1Tbsp olive oil 30g onions (fine dice) 20g carrot (fine dice) 20g celery (fine dice) 200g green Lentils 300mlwater 1 bay leaf 1tsp fresh thyme (chopped) salt and freshly milled black pepper

lamb shanks 1. Season the lamb shanks with salt & pepper, and then seal off in a hot pan or skillet with a little olive oil. Colour evenly & place in a deep ovenproof braising dish.

2. In the same hot pan or skillet, sauté together the carrot, onion, celery & fennel bulb until lightly browned. Then add whole garlic cloves and sauté for a further 2-3 minutes. At this stage add the red wine & bring to a simmer. Then add the stock, rosemary & bay leaves.

3. Bring to a simmer and then pour over the lamb shanks. Cover & place into a oven that has been pre-heated to 165˚C. 4. Cook for two hours then remove from the oven and stir in the diced tomato. Cover and place back in the oven for a further 1½ hours. The shanks are ready when the meat is tender and nearly falling

away from the bone.

5. Once cooked leave the shanks to fully cool in the braising liquid over night.

6. Once cooled carefully remove shanks from the liquid. Strain the vegetables through a sieve & gently push the cooked veggies through the sieve into the liquid.

7. Place into a large pot and reduce liquid by half.

8. Add the lamb shanks to the liquid with the cooked lentils and gently reheat for 15-20 minutes, basting the shanks with the lentil gravy.

9. Serve the shanks on the celeriac mash and pour the lentil gravy over the shanks.

Note: Feta, orange zest, lemon zest, garlic & parsley have been combined to make a “feta gremolata” that is sprinkled over the dish. lentils 1. Brunoise vegetables and cook them slowly in oil until soft. Add thyme and cook for 2-3 minutes.

2. Add lentils, water and bay leaf, cover with a lid and cook for 20-25 minutes, stirring every 10 minutes.

The lentils should be just al dente.

3. Season the lentils with salt and pepper, then place on to a tray to cool.

Shaun Clouston, HEAD CHEF of Logan Brown

September 31 Monday Rahina

Leader of the Labour Party since 1965 and Prime Minister from late 1972, ‘Big Norm’ Kirk dies suddenly at the age of 51. He is the fifth New Zealand PM to die in office. Must be a stressful job!

1 Tuesday Ratu

This day in 1987, New Zealander Lorraine Cohen is sentenced to be hung for trafficking heroin by a Malaysian judge. After over 11 years in jail she and her son Aaron were finally pardoned and released in 1996.

2 Wednesday Raapa

Researchers at Harvard University publish research showing a link between frequent anger and agerelated deterioration in lung function.

The research suggests that negative emotions can change biological processes and disturb the immune system as well as cause chronic inflammation, 2006.

3 Thursday Rapere

4 Friday Ramere

You, scarred wahine, lift pounamu profile, wearing a cap of plumed indignation: leaf tannins of creeks rush across your tongue; smoke from burn-offs wreathes your sensual undulation, pelvic girdle of volcanoes, forest mists — your rivers that midges sing.

By katipo’s kiss, shimmering black and silver, we’re held, but in an embrace distant and hard: your whenua yearns to tides and moon’s glow.

Matrixed with ferns, your surf’s tow rips under, as Anzac horses might, on war monuments, prance.

Gales through mountain rifts moan your praises.

A magnitude 7.1 earthquake strikes about 30km west of Christchurch at 4.35am, leaving extensive damage in the city, 2010.

The NZ government declares war on Germany, 1939.

The first turn–style rotary milking machine begins operation (invented by Taranaki man Merv Hicks), 1969.

Soon after leaving Nelson the newly built brig Delaware hits bad weather and is wrecked on rocks between Graham’s Pt and Pepin Is., 1863. The area is now known as Delaware Bay.

Between deep fiords: landslips of slow footsteps.

Lakes dark eyes, you triumph in your screen test.

David Eggleton

september 5 Saturday Rahoroi

6 Sunday Ratapu

James Schubet Stirton begins playing the piano at the Theatre Royal (now the TSB Showplace) and doesn’t stop for 74 hours and 12 minutes – a record, 1910.

Te Ua Haumene has a vision of the archangel Gabriel telling him that God promises to restore the birthright of the Maori people in New Zealand, 1862. Te Ua preaches the word of God and establishes the Pai Marire religion.

New Zealand citizenship is introduced, 1948.

Antarctica: Not For Sale?

Article and photos by Hanne Nielson Antarctica is unique in that it is governed by the Antarctic Treaty System (ATS) and is not ‘owned’ by any one nation. Despite this, and the environmental protection built into the ATS, Antarctica has been ‘sold’ or commodified in many ways over the past century. Even the discovery of the white continent is steeped in commercial interests – the whalers and sealers who first ventured down into the Southern Ocean did so in search of animals to harvest.

Antarctica has also been for sale as a storied place. Ever since the first land based expeditions, explorers have had to sell themselves through lectures, slideshows and sponsorship pitches. Those expeditions depended on successfully selling stories for their very existence – they could not go ahead if deals were not made and funds were not found. Carsten Borchgrevink knew this well; his 1898 Southern Cross expedition, which was the first to winter on the Antarctic continent, was financed by publisher Sir George Newnes.

Newnes then had access to exclusive tales of exploration, intended to increase sales of his papers and magazines.

Stories of heroism and men’s feats at the frozen ends of the world have also been attached to everyday products.

During the Heroic Age of Exploration (18991920), association with Antarctica and Antarctic explorers provided exposure to brands such as Bovril, Oxo, and Fry’s Cocoa.

The adverts of the day boasted of Ernest Shackleton’s insistence that, ‘it must be Bovril’, while Oxo used photos of both Shackleton and Robert Falcon Scott to support its tagline – ‘for stamina’.

As well as testimonials from explorers, companies used Antarctic links for more symbolic ends, with a product’s presence in the cold and harsh environment of the South paying testament to its quality. Fuchs and Hillary, ‘relied on Smiths Watches’ during the Trans Antarctic Expedition of 1957, with the supporting technology valourised as if it were another team member. Such strategies are still employed today, with clothing brands, watchmakers and vehicle manufacturers all using Antarctic as a proving ground, pitting their wares against the ultimate extreme environment in order to wield the ultimate badge of durability.

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September 7 Monday Rahina

Taputeranga Reserve opens on Wellington’s south coast, 2007. It extends 2.3km out to sea and covers 3.3km of coastline over Owhiro, Island and Houghton Bays.

8 Tuesday Ratu

Broadcaster Brian Edwards brings about the end of the Post Office’s first industrial action, 1970.

9 Wednesday Raapa

Changes to the government bill about the disposal of Motonui effluent ensures that the fishing grounds of the Te Atiawa in Waitara will be safe from pollution, 1983.

10 Thursday Rapere

11 Friday Ramere

Hanne Nielson

The art exhibition Te Maori opens at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, 1984.

Charles Kingsford Smith and crew fly across the Tasman Sea in 14 & a half hours, 1928.

september 12 Saturday Rahoroi

The inaugural Bledisloe Cup match between Australia and New Zealand is played at Eden Park, Auckland, 1931.

13 Sunday Ratapu

Elizabeth McCombs becomes New Zealand’s first female MP, 1933.

Tourists may describe these once-in-a-lifetime trips as ‘priceless’, despite the high price tag.

Examining how Antarctica has been marketed, both as a tourist destination and in conjunction with a range of products and services, provides vital clues as to what kinds of expectations are fostered and how people are encouraged to imagine the place. Is it pristine or wild? Sublime or vulnerable? Advertisers draw on ideas that are already in common circulation, so adverts offer an insight into how people have thought about Antarctica at a range of points in time. Those thoughts can be, and often are, contradictory, revealing the constructed nature of any representations we try to create and the resulting paradox of any version of the place.

People, too, aspire to pit themselves against the elements and the legends of the South. In more recent times, the tourist experience of the continent is a prime example of a commercial operation that offers a particular version of the Antarctic. 40,000 tourists travel to Antarctica every year, most on board cruise ships. They come to see penguins and icebergs, to follow in the footsteps of early explorers, and to tick off the ‘seventh continent’. The images language of many tourist operator’s brochures, employ wilderness scenes devoid of people, and label their services as ‘expeditions’ rather than cruises. Such imagery suggests the destination is ‘untouched’, while the choice of product name harks back to the Heroic Era of exploration.

Advertisements continue to employ common tropes associated with Antarctica, including ideas of heroism, extremity, purity, and, more recently, melting ice and climate change. Looking forward, debates over bio-prospecting (which is currently underway) and mineral resources (which are protected under the ATS until a possible review in 2048) are sure to have their own effect on future conversations and representations. How will we think about Antarctica in 10, 50, 100 years? The clues lie in our cultural production of today.

Gaining an understanding of how Antarctica has been ‘sold’ in various ways and used to facilitate a range of commercial transactions provides an insight into the ways the continent has been imagined, conceptualised and represented. This in turn can help to create a better understanding of the ways Antarctica has been valued, in all senses of the word.

Hanne Nielsen is currently writing her PhD on Representations of Antarctica for Commercial Gain. She has visited the continent five times and is definitely ‘sold’ on the place herself, figuratively speaking.

September 14 Monday Rahina

The New Zealand Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society takes possession of a 37–acre reserve on Twilight Road, Manakau, bequethed in the will of Mr H. Alexander, and named the Ngaheretuku Reserve, 1951.

15 Tuesday Ratu

16 Wednesday Raapa

According to the NZ Student Association, student debt reaches $8 billion on this day, 2005. Oops, bad idea?

Fred Flutey and Myrtle Sangster, creators of the ultimate kiwiana ‘Paua House’ in Bluff are married on this day in Invercargill, 1928.

Police raid the Auckland Medical Aid Centre, commonly known as the Remuera abortion clinic, acting on complaints, 1974.

17 Thursday Rapere

18 Friday Ramere

Albert Town Lagoon

Ruth Heath

Hydrangea

Ruth Heath

Ettie Rout, writer, social campaigner, non-conformist (and non-corsetwearer) dies in Rarotonga, 1936. In 1915, she set up the NZ Volunteer Sisterhood to work overseas amongst the troops. Appalled by rates and effects of venereal disease, she rigorously promoted safe sex to military authorities and soldiers. All stories about her were banned from the Kiwi press. Not until many years after her death were her efforts acknowledged.

Tahupotiki Wiremu Ratana, founder and leader of the Ratana movement, dies, 1939.

september 19 Saturday Rahoroi

Kate Sheppard’s campaigning leads to legislation being passed to allow women to vote. We are the first country in the world to do so, 1893.

20 Sunday Ratapu

Sir Keith Holyoake becomes Prime Minister for the first time, 1957.

The Richest Most Decadent

Chocolate Mousse Cake on the Raw Planet.

by Jules Barber

Ingredients Base: 4 C almond flour (process the dry raw almonds in a food processor to a flour) 1 1/4 C dates (soaked to soften) 2/3 C raw cacao powder dash of salt dash of vanilla

Mousse Topping: 1 C ground cashew nuts 1 1/2 C dates (soaked)

1 large avocado chopped 1/3 C raw cacao powder 1/4 C fresh squeezed orange juice 1/2 C melted coconut oil 1 Tbs psyllium agave or honey to taste dash of salt dash of vanilla dash of cinnamon dash of cayenne or chilli

Method Base: Food process the above till it forms a doughy mass. On its own this quantity will make quite a thick base so best to split it into two batches and make a two layered cake. Press half of the mix into a springform cake tin and put in the freezer - put the other half aside.

Blend 1 C dried apricots (soak in water for a few hours to soften, then drain, saving the liquid to toss in a smoothie or another recipe) with juice of 1 big lemon and just enough water if necessary to allow for blending. You want this filling a thick jam consistency.

Apricot Filling: (if making two layers use this filling to stick them together before adding the final top mousse layer)

Take first cake base from freezer and spread apricot jam evenly on top. Use remaining base-mix to make another layer and press this gently onto the frozen base and apricot filling.

Mousse Topping: Place everything in the food processor and blend until smooth (adding coconut oil and psyllium last). You want a really rich thick mousse – if it’s too runny add more psyllium.

Spread onto cake base. Place in freezer for 1 hour for coconut oil to set. Decorate with flowers, cacao nibs, goji berries & shredded coconut. Will keep airtight in fridge for one week – guarantee it won’t last that long!

Jules Barber | lovinglivingnz@gmail.com Look out for Jules own recipe book coming out soon!

September 21 Monday Rahina

22 Tuesday Ratu

23 Wednesday Raapa

One of New Zealand's “most acclaimed literary figures” and “... literary hero for kiwi kids”, Margaret Mahy passes away in Christchurch, 2012.

Peter Snell wins gold in the 800m and Murray Halberg follows up 30 minutes later to win the 5000m, completing a remarkable track double in Rome's Olympic Stadium, 1960.

A law is passed lowering the voting age from twenty to eighteen, 1974.

Bro’Town New Zealand’s first adult animated series, screens for the first time, 2004.

Te Heuheu Tukino gifts to the people of Aotearoa the three sacred mountaintops of Tongariro, Ngaruhoe and Ruapehu allowing people access and usage, but also the responsibility to care for and protect this sacred land.

Later, this land becomes New Zealand’s first national park, 1887.

24 Thursday Rapere

25 Friday Ramere

Duet

Laura Forest

New Zealand’s first telephone exchange opens in Christchurch. It was a ‘manual’ exchange and had 27 subscribers, 1881.

The first recorded planting of grapevines in New Zealand takes place at Kerikeri in the Bay of Islands, 1819.

In defence of the Sacred Cow!

By Su Hoskin

Meet Mathilda, one of three of Surveyor Thomson Wines ‘Dung Herd’ in Central Otago...

Surveyor Thomson Wines has three cows in its ‘Dung Herd’ in Central Otago. A massive debate currently stands regarding dairy farming in New Zealand; justifiably so. Today, we are witnessing this country’s biggest industry destroy our environment.

While many of us immediately associate the humble cow with NZ's dairy industry and the state of our waterways, perhaps we need to consider that grasslands of the world co-evolved with the incorporation of bison and wilderbeast and that bovine have been enriching our lives and the environment for centuries. Like anything in nature's interconnected web, when profit and maximum production is the goal, things are thrown out of balance.

Biodynamic farming practices respect nature’s rhythms and work towards enhancing rather than degrading soils. This article elucidates the crucial and beautiful role of cows in our lives and on our land!

The cow; a symbol of fertility, has the most highly developed metabolic system of any creature on earth.

It is so thoroughly an animal of its digestive system that the entire organism is in some way involved even the horns are uniquely involved in the metabolic process.

Like our own finger and toe nails, cow horns are made from hard siliceous substances. Silica is most commonly found in the skin and hair. It is also present in the sense organs, especially the eyes.

The function of the skin is to contain the organism and form a boundary between it and the surrounding external world. In the hardened horn substance, this boundary quality is so strong that it forms a barrier that prevents interior forces and energies from escaping.

The cow retains within herself the released forces of digestion. Just as pre-digested roughage is returned to the mouth and chewed further before finally passing through into the animal's bowels, the active forces of metabolism released in gaseous form are carried via the extensive sinus system into the animal’s horn cavities. In a similar but less visible way, forces are also carried along the bloodstream towards the head. Here, both they and the gases are prevented from escaping by the shape, structure and solidity of the horns and are re-directed back into the organism where they are re-incorporated into the products of digestion. This mysterious process has a very direct influence on the quality of both the manure and the milk produced by the animal.

Differences can be clearly observed in pictures taken chromatographically.

Interestingly, the protein structure of milk from cows with horns is different and becomes more digestible - a worthy debate against dehorning cattle and use of poled breeds for dairy.

The cow reflects, in the form and substance of her horn, the living forces which are released by digestion and indeed, the whole environment from which the fodder comes and in which she lives.

On natural pasture, cattle graze in springtime when grass is lush and leaf protein is rich.

Later in the year plants grow towards their seed and fruit formation. The fodder is very different in quality as the seasons change. The cow participates in this process and responds by perceiving it in her incredible digestive process; this is then released into the cow dung. In the autumn nature ripens and is reflected in the cow’s dung. Biodynamically, manure is a very special substance which contains oxygen and nitrogen carrying forces.

Another fascinating fact is that organic cow dung is firmer and has a somewhat sweet smell, very different from that of conventional animals which have been drenched and eat artificially fertilised pasture, as is the case with most large scale dairy cows.

Interestingly in New Zealand, it is the viticultural world that is taking biodynamic farming practices into the twenty first century - perhaps reflecting a wine makers commitment to flavour and quality.

Healthy soil and balanced landscapes are central to the artistry involved in fine wine making, capturing the unique flavours, aroma’s and sense of place (terroir).

About 1% of the world’s population till the soil. A step forward is needed to create a new economic food movement, one which nurtures and cares for the planet and the farmers who directly touch the soil which sustains us. Land stewardship and animal husbandry are the relationships a grower develops through unity with the earth.

Biodynamic farming incorporates cows and other animals into the holistic management of land. In doing so, the four kingdoms of nature; mineral, plant, animal and human, are included in order to create diversity and balance to soil and plant. Nourishing and increasing soil biology, which radiates healthy nutrition to land, livestock and consumer.

This in turn, contributes to higher human values along with increased consciousness.

We are a reflection of the soil – depleted, poisoned soils are nearly always at the root of health issues, be it human, animal or nature.

The time is right, with the intelligence and skills present in today’s society, for this to happen.

With careful and ethical pasture management, an opportunity exists to create healthier soils, healthier meat and quality dairy products along with better lifestyles.

Improving soil now will reflect what happens in the next 200 years and is crucial to building the foundation for the next 500 years. If we don’t apply this knowledge, we risk contaminating or even destroying our future altogether.

The biodynamic movement and the growing number of CSA’s (Community Supported Agriculture) around the world might just be the answer.

Some fantastic documentaries relevant to this article; One Man, One Cow, One Planet, NZ Cloud South Films,

by Peter Proctor L’ Esprit du Vin – Le Reveil des terrois, by Olympe and Yvon Minvielle about bio- dynamic viticulture (French + English subtitles.

Further reading; Food full of life - Nourishing Body Soul and Spirit, by Gill Bacchus.

Farms of Tomorrow Revisited, by Steven McFadden – a thoughtful, compelling case for a new form of sustainable agriculture.

Get a group of your friends together for a potluck dinner or a tasting of food and wine which have been grown using organic and biodynamic principles to decide yourself whether what we consume affects our thinking and emotions. ~ Words and photos By Su Hoskin

September 28 Monday Rahina

Income tax begins in NZ, 1891.

29 Tuesday Ratu

The survivors of the missing yacht Rose–Noelle, are washed ashore on Great Barrier Island after nearly four months at sea, 1989.

30 Wednesday Raapa

At their annual conference in 1955, dentists call for water fluoridation in NZ to protect our toofy pegs!

october 1 Thursday Rapere

2 Friday Ramere

Dominika Zielinska

GST is introduced as consumption tax, 1986.

Dave Dobbyn’s Slice of Heaven hits No. 1 in the charts, staying there for 8 weeks, 1986.

3 Saturday Rahoroi

4 Sunday Ratapu

The keeper of the East Cape lighthouse works his last day before the lighthouse becomes automatic, 1985.

TANZA (To Assist NZ Artists), NZ’s first homegrown record company, records its premiere song, ‘Blue Smoke’, 1948.It topped the hit parades for six weeks, selling over 20,000 copies, establishing the success of Kiwi–recorded music.

Jandals become an official name, and the footwear become a symbol of kiwi beach culture, 1957.

GINGER: make a tea to relieve nausea and vomiting, great for travel sickness.

Improves circulation. For respiratory complaints, colds and flus.

The Ultimate Everything Miso Dressing Every so often, we experience something new that rockets past the upper limit of our sensation scale; something that demarcates life to before and after we experienced it. The dressing that inspired this recipe, was one such experience.

And what inspired the creation of this recipe? Miso really hit the foodie scene, in the West atleast, during the macrobiotic and vegetarian movements in the 60’s. Miso’s origins can be traced to China, It was introduced in Japan by Buddhist monks in the 7th Century. Made from fermented soy beans, miso is an amazing health elixir, full of beneficial bacteria. This any season, umami-flavoured liquid happiness will tie together any meal, whether hot (warmed and dolloped over a dragon bowl of rice, tempeh and steamed vegetables) or cold, as a salad dressing.

Ingredients

Method

2 cups of water 1/4 cup coconut oil 2 T toasted sesame oil 2 T rice vinegar or mirin 1 T honey or maple syrup 2 tsp tamari 2-3 large garlic cloves, minced 1 Tbsp tahini or peanut butter 1-2 Tbsp minced fresh ginger A glug of sweet chilli sauce

Combine all the ingredients in a small pan, except for the sesame oil and miso paste. Bring to the boil, remove from the stove, add the miso and the sesame oil and process in a blender until smooth.

1/2 cup GF flour of your choice (chickpea, rice, coconut etc) 4 T miso paste

Serving suggestion – Dragon Bowls In a bowl place cooked brown rice, steamed vegetables (cauliflower and brocolli are a great combo), cooked tempeh, then top with grated carrot, grated beetroot and some sprouts.

Now the magic happens, pour the still warm miso gravy over, and bedazzle your dinner guests! Sit back and wait for them to ask for the recipe...

october 5 Monday Rahina

A.J. Hackett leaps off the Sky Tower, breaking the world record for the highest bungee jump off a building, 1998. His fall ended just 12m above the concrete pavement before rebounding.

6 Tuesday Ratu

7 Wednesday Raapa

Sleeping Dogs, a film described as the cornerstone of the New Zealand film industry, opens, 1977.

The Endeavour’s Nicholas Young is the first person to sight NZ, earning himself a gallon of rum, 1769.

Ian Brackenbury Channell is proclaimed Wizard of New Zealand by the Prime Minister, Mike Moore, 1990.

8 Thursday Rapere

9 Friday Ramere

Ferns Ruth Heath

Graham Steinle shoots dead three policemen and seriously wounds two others on the West Coast, 1941.

The ‘six o’clock swill’ ends when Kiwis vote to extend pub closing time til 10pm, 1967.

october 10 Saturday Rahoroi

The legislation which enables the Waitangi Tribunal is enacted, 1975.

11 Sunday Ratapu

Susan Devoy wins her 4th world squash title, 1992.

Kathy Ready Hidden Talents

october 12 Monday Rahina

The Union Company glamour liner Niagara arrives in Auckland, with 100 crew and a large number of passengers stricken with virilent influenza.

13 Tuesday Ratu

Dame Whina Cooper ‘the Mother of the Nation’ leads around 5,000 marchers into Parliament grounds to present a memorial of rights from 200 Maori elders and a petition supporting the hikoi signed by 60,000 people to the Prime Minister, Bill Rowling, 1975.

14 Wednesday Raapa

Heavenly Creatures premieres, 1994.

15 Thursday Rapere

16 Friday Ramere

Three Passes Joe Harrison

North-Otago farmer Frank Bell makes the first transglobal radio transmission, calling London from his shed,1924.

The iconic Edmonds Factory is demolished, 1990.

Eleanor Catton's novel, 'The Luminaries' wins the Man Booker Prize, 2013. At 28, she is the youngest author ever to win.

Parliament is invaded by people protesting against the new Security Intelligence Service Amendment Bill, 1977.

october 17 Saturday Rahoroi

President Lyndon Johnson and his wife, Lady Bird, arrive at Ohakea airfield at the start of a whirlwind visit to NZ, 1966. He was the first United States President to visit this country. Nicknamed LBJ and unpopular for his ongoing War of Attrition on Vietnam, protestors soon start chanting, “Hey hey, LBJ, how many kids did you kill today?”

18 Sunday Ratapu

NZ’s stock exchange plummets and $10 billion is wiped off the value of the local market, 1987. Recommended reading: The Future of Money, By Bernard Laitaer.

Pushing Through Michelle Firment Reid

october 19 Monday Rahina

20 Tuesday Ratu

Joe Harrison Hone Pene Tuwhare, one of New Zealand’s most celebrated poets, is born, 1922.

He passed away on 16 January 2008.

Inaugural NZ vs. The World surf comp at Piha, 2005 – the world won… this time…

21 Wednesday Ratu

“In England they fine the poacher, whereas he ought to be banished to New Zealand. New Zealand would pay his way, and give him wages,” Mark Twain, Following the Equator, 1899.

22 Thursday Rapere

23 Friday Ramere

Homemade glass cleaner Mix 1/3 cup white vinegar with 2/3 cup water. Add a teaspoon of dishwashing liquid and combine.

Pour into a spray bottle. Best used with newspaper for shiny, lint-free windows and mirrors. www.melissawastney.com

“One always feels sorry for the Australians” Russell Coutts when asked whether he felt sorry for the Australians when their America’s Cup yacht sank.

The transport Marquette sinks in the Aegean Sea, 1915. This adds to the grief of a nation still reeling from heavy losses at Gallipoli. Among the fatalities were 32 New Zealanders, including ten nurses – making this the deadliest day in NZ’s history of military nursing.

october 24 Saturday Rahoroi

The first Bogor cartoon appears in The Listener, 1973.

25 Sunday Ratapu

After production nearly moves offshore, it is announced that the two Hobbit movies will be made in NZ, 2010.

Double Rainbow Christian Hogue

october 26 Monday Rahina

Labour Day NZ’s first marine reserve is established just outside the Hauraki Gulf, 1975.

27 Tuesday Ratu

NZ’s first commercial radio station, 1ZB, starts broadcasting from above a music shop on K Road, 1936.

28 Wednesday Raapa

Special Constables charge union protesters in Wellington, 1913.

29 Thursday Rapere

Morning Tea Tree Erika Husselmann

Keri Hulme wins the prestigious Booker Prize for her novel, The Bone People, 1985.

30 Friday Ramere

The Chateau in Tongariro National Park officially opens, 1929.

november 31 Saturday Rahoroi

1 Sunday Ratapu

You know those dark green bumpy things on the horizon? Those are the backbone of this fair country, and they're criss-crossed with gorgeous (mostly) tracks for walking, running (if you ate your weetbix), mountain biking, or petanque!

Get into them for a day and notice how darn good you feel afterwards. Oh, and you might see amazing things like this example of classic New Zealand architecture

The Health District Department declares its buildings, offices and vehicles smokefree workplaces, 1989.

Twelve members of the Democrats party stage a sit–in protest at Parliament, 1988.

Goblin's Longdrop Lu Davidson www.mataimedia.com

november 2 Monday Rahina

3 Tuesday Ratu

4 Wednesday Raapa

First Ever Daylight savings adjustments, 1927.

Phar Lap wins the Melbourne Cup, 1930.

Te Whiti is arrested, 1881.

The Green Party wins the battle to have the “Buy Kiwi Made” campaign restricted to goods manufactured and processed in New Zealand, 2006.

5 Thursday Rapere

6 Friday Ramere

Closeburn Coffee Gina Rembe

Mountaineers Peter Gagh and John Glasgow become the first men to conquer the treacherous Caroline Face of Mt. Cook, 1970.

The Centennial Exhibition opens in Wellington, 1940.

november 7 Saturday Rahoroi

8 Sunday Ratapu

Te Puea Herangi, Princess Te Puea, leading proponent of the Maori King movement, is born in Whatiwhatihoe, Waikato, in 1883.

The Ohakune carrot turns 27 today! Planted by State Highway 49 at the town entrance 1984.

New Zealander Ross Norman wins the men’s world squash title in Toulouse, France, 1986.

Big Yellow Taxi Ian Hamlin

november

A mustard Field of the Mind, by Laura Forest and Tiffany Singh.

Image composed and shot by Laura Forest | Lauraforestphotography.com

Meditations Body Daily Life & Breath: for Dr Siobhan Lynch Meditation. A word that for some that conjours images of rainbow-lycra clad legs twisted painfully under body. Yet research is published every other day now revealing meditation to be the wonder pill everyone has been waiting for! It literally rewires our brains.

(Infact, neurologically speaking, every thought is a 'wire', or synapse' neurologists have a saying, "neurons that fire together wire together" - sound familiar?) Meditation activates the parasympathetic nervous system (PNS), aka the 'rest and digest' system (as opposed to the autonomic nervous system (ANS) which is responsible for activities associated with the fight-or-flight response.) Some of meditations benefits include reducing stress and anxiety (by decreasing the stress hormone cortisol), while increasing clarity of mind, brain size, memory, ability to focus, empathy and joy – and all you have to do is sit for a while and close your eyes! Or try 'moving meditation', whether you're walking, swimming, or running; focus on the feeling in your body, allowing the mind to calm, and let the endorphins flow – enjoy x

Body / This is a great exercise for times when you feel as though you’re ‘stuck in your head’. You can do it standing, sitting, or lying down. Move your attention to your feet.

How do they feel? Maybe they are warm, cold, or maybe you don’t feel anything at all? Maybe you feel the ground underneath? Do any thoughts or feelings pop up? It’s normal for our minds to get distracted – it doesn’t mean you’re doing it wrong! There is no need to push your thoughts or feelings away. Let them be there and then, when you’re ready, choose to let go of them and bring your attention back to your feet. Do this for a minute or two.

If you like this you can extend it and mentally ‘scan’ your whole body.

Breath / This exercise can be used as a regular minimeditation or as a way to ‘step back’ from stressful situations. You can do this sitting, standing, or lying down.

As you breathe in, notice the air entering your body. You might feel some warmth, or even a slight cool breeze around your lips or nose. As you breathe out, notice how that feels. Perhaps you’re aware of your chest rising and falling. If you get distracted just let the thoughts, feelings, or sensations be there for a moment. It isn’t wrong that they’re there and you don’t need to push them away.

When you’re ready, choose to let them go and return your attention to your breath. This is the key element of mindfulness meditation and is associated with all sorts of health benefits (It’s google worthy!).You can do this for 30 seconds, 2 minutes, 10-20 minutes or longer.

www.mindful-kiwi.com

november 9 Monday Rahina

10 Tuesday Ratu

11 Wednesday Raapa

The small Otago seaside town of Aramoana is devastated by one of NZ’s worst mass killings, 1990.

Every day 50 to 100 species of plants and animals become extinct as their habitat and human influences destroy them. “Jeez Wayne” Jon Gadsby.

AJ Hackett opens the world’s first commercial bungy jumping operation at Kawarau Bridge near Queenstown, 1988.

Armistice Day. The 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month marks the moment when hostilities ceased on the Western Front in 1918, with the signing of the Armistice. In 2004 an Unknown New Zealand Warrior from WWI was laid to rest at the National War Memorial.

12 Thursday Rapere

13 Friday Ramere

Home Frazzled sun light leaning on old bricks and iron roofs.

Oamaru stone stained, and students' pump bottles and beat-up shoes.

Faded signs advertising vacancies outside stucco white motels.

Threadbare, sodden sofas On rusted fire escape rails.

Chip packets clogging drains, facades lined with vines.

Taxi's owned by ex-railway workers and bins full of empties and buses full of the retired.

Moss and slime and shadowy places and crawling yards with mint.

Teenagers in their petticoats and Robbie Burn's head covered in seagull shit.

God it's good to be home.

I.K. Paterson-Harkness The world’s biggest burger franchise, McDonalds, announces it will be coming to New Zealand, 1975.

PM David Lange makes his international debut as a racing car driver, 1987.

november 14 Saturday Rahoroi

15 Sunday Ratapu

10 medium/large onions 2–3 star anise 2 cinnamon sticks 2 cups brown sugar 50 ml malt vinegar Salt and pepper Pinch cayenne pepper Finely slice the onion and add to headed pot with oil, sauté for a few minutes then add in the rest of ingredients.

Cook until golden brown colour.

relishescafe.co.nz

A bomb goes off near the hotel where the touring NZ cricket team is staying in the Sri Lankan Capital, 1992.

The first Ellerslie Flower Show takes place, 1994.

Lemon Tofu Custard Ingredients

Method

½ cup soft tofu 2 tsp macadamia oil 2 Tbsp maple syrup 1½ cup coconut milk 3 eggs 2-3 Tbsp honey ½ tsp vanilla extract 1 tsp lemon zest ½ tsp lemon extract

Preheat the oven to 180°C and coat 4 ramekins lightly with oil.

In a blender, combine the tofu and ½ cup of coconut milk and blend until smooth.

In another bowl, whisk by hand the eggs, maple syrup and honey until foamy.

Add lemon zest, vanilla extract, macadamia oil and lemon extract and mix well. Add the tofu mixture and the remaining coconut milk and whisk by hand until well combined.

Minted Mixed Berries

Divide the custard mixture evenly into the 4 prepared ramekins.

Half fill a baking pan with warm water, then into that place the ramekins, and pan cook until the custard has set but the centres still jiggle slightly - about 45 minutes. Remove from the oven and take the ramekins from the water and allow to cool, then cover and refrigerate for at least 3 hrs.

1 cup fresh mix berries 1 Tbsp fresh lemon juice 2 tsp xylitol or maple syrup Pinch of cinnamon ½ tsp mint leaves chopped

To make the minted berries: Combine sweetener (xylitol or maple syrup), lemon juice and cinnamon in a saucepan at low heat. Stir until xylitol has dissolved. Remove from heat, combine with berries and toss gently. Add mint leaves.

Place on a serving plate with the minted berries on the side. Serves 4.

From The Split Apple Thoughtful Food Cookbook www.splitapple.com

november 16 Monday Rahina

41 people die in a fire at Ballantynes department store in Christchurch, the worst fire in NZ’s history, 1947.

17 Tuesday Ratu

The Fred Hollows Foundation is launched in NZ, 1992.

18 Wednesday Raapa

Geoffrey Orbell rediscovers the takahe, believed to be extinct for 50 years, 1949. The total adult takahe population in New Zealand in the 2004–2005 season is 259.

19 Thursday Rapere

20 Friday Ramere

Lake Wanaka Andrew Swan

God Defend New Zealand is officially granted National Anthem status, 101 years after it was first performed, 1977.

Pope John Paul II begins a three day visit to New Zealand, 1986.

november 21 Saturday Rahoroi

22 Sunday Ratapu

Beetroot ... is the wunderkind of the vegetable family.

Bright, vibrant and packed full of nutrients, beetroot cleanses the liver, nourishes the blood and is also highly fibrous. These spiced beetroot chips are a great way to introduce more beetroot in to your diet, especially those among us who are not so hot on beetroot but love to indulge in chippies. The spiced beetroot chips perfectly match the pear guacamole, which my lovely Beau concocted. He sought to bulk out the guacamole whilst spontaneously entertaining guests one evening – pure genius, I say.

The pear provides a refreshing sweetness, whilst the coconut cream gives the dish a delightful creaminess.

The first sparrows and starlings are released in New Zealand, 1867.

16th meeting of the parties to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer is held in Prague, 2004. Concerns are raised at the requests to increase use of methyl bromide, a substance more destructive to ozone than many banned chemicals, and linked to prostate cancer in farm workers. Who requested the increases? USA & NZ. What for?

Strawberry-growing. So eat organic strawberries this summer and love the ozone

Spiced Beetroot Chips with Pear Guacamole Spiced Beetroot Chips 4 medium beetroots, peeled 1 tablespoon of olive oil 1/2 tspn rock salt 1/2 tspn white pepper 1/2 tspn brown sugar 1/2 tspn Chinese five spice Preheat the oven to 160°C on fan bake. Slice the beetroot very thinly using a mandoline. Mix together the rock salt, brown sugar, white pepper and Chinese five spice. Toss the beetroot slices in olive oil and the spice mixture until they are well coated. Lay out on lined baking trays and bake until lightly crisp (20-30 minutes depending on the thickness of the beetroot slices).

Transfer to a wire rack and allow to cool and become extra crispy.

Pear Guacamole 1 large avocado or two smaller avocados The juice of a lemon ½ a pear, finely diced 1 tomato, finely diced 1 tablespoon of sweet chilli sauce 1–2 garlic cloves, crushed (depending on how garlicky you like it) 2 tablespoons of coconut cream 1/2 tspn ground pepper 1/2 tspn Himalayan rock salt Combine all of the ingredients and mix well. Serve with spiced beetroot chips, crackers, crudités, tortillas or whatever else takes your fancy.

Emily Lucas superfoodieadventure.com

november 23 Monday Rahina

24 Tuesday Ratu

25 Wednesday Raapa

Reverend Penny Jamieson is elected Bishop of Dunedin, becoming the world’s first female Anglican bishop, 1989.

By winning the world lightheavyweight championship, in 1903, Timaru boxer Bob Fitzsimmons becomes the first man ever to be world champion in three different weight divisions, thus becoming one of NZ’s first sporting heroes.

Dame Whina Cooper receives the Order of New Zealand, 1989.

Jean Wishart announces her retirement after over 30 years as editor of New Zealand Women’s Weekly, 1984.

26 Thursday Rapere

The Erebus Disaster. 257 people are killed when their plane crashes into Mt Erebus, 1979.

27 Friday Ramere

Climbers Mark Inglis and Phil Doole are rescued from Mt Cook, after sheltering in an ice cave dubbed ‘Middle Peak Hotel’ for 14 days, 1982.

Both Mark’s legs are amputated from the knee down due to frost bite. Today a successful motivational speaker, he excels in mountain climbing, cycling, climbing, skiing and winemaking.

And She Danced Rachel Nankivell

november 28 Saturday Rahoroi

Comalco aluminium smelter, Tiwai Point, Bluff, opens, 1971.

29 Sunday Ratapu

The first train journey in New Zealand takes place when the Christchurch to Ferrymead line is opened, 1863.

Piha Bach Interior Raymond Jenkins

At the OM clinic, we often get asked

WHAT IS THE THYROID?

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN IT GOES WRONG? OVeractive thyroid

- Sudden weight loss - Increased appetite - Difficulty sleeping - Increased heat sensitivity - Fine, brittle hair - Fatigue - muscle weakness

underactive thyroid

- Unexplained weight gain - Depression - FOGGY BRAIN/poor memory - Increased COLD sensitivity - Fine, brittle hair - Fatigue - muscle aches/stiffness

it’s a super gland!

CHINESE MEDICINE THOUGHTS

And looks quite a lot like a droopy bow tie

WESTERN MEDICINE BIT The thyroid forms part of the Endocrine system.

This is a network of connected glands that produce, RELEASE and manage hormones.

The brain controls the endocrine system The thyroid regulates metabolism and energy

The adrenal glands (bobble hats of the kidneys) release cortisol when we’re stressed.

Cortisol can deplete or supress the thyroid

the pancreas,thymus. parathyroid, SPLEEN & ovaries get involved too

In the same way the adrenal glands are the hormonal aspect of the kidneys,Dr Daniel Keown M.D. sees the thyroid as the hormonal aspect of the lungs. The lungs are also linked to the spleen - which in Chinese medicine - governs our overall metabolism.

The thyroid and lung develop from the same fascial plane and even end up looking similar!

Illustration by Sally Flewelling

Find out more about us at theomclinic.c om

HOW CAN CHINESE MEDICINE HELP An imbalanced THYROID? MORE RESOURCES

CHECK IN WITH YOUR GP If you’ve identified several of the symptoms listed opposite, then we recommend you check in with your GP. You’ll need to ask for a full range Thyroid panel test (it looks at your TSH, Free T4 +T3, Reserve T3, TP O +TBO antibody levels)

Check out The Kalish method: http://www.kalishresearch.c om/patients/ Read: The spark in the machine

by Dr Daniel Keown M.D. For hypothyroidism, take a look at: http://www.t hyroidhealthaffiliateprogram.c om/ fire-up-my-thyroid-program-preview

HERBAL FORMULAS WHETHER YOU CHOOSE A CHINESE OR WESTERN APPROACH, THERE ARE LOTS OF HERBAL SUPPLEMENTs, VEGETABLES (INCLUDING SEA VEGETABLES) THAT CAN REBALANCE YOUR THYROID. USE KELP SALT TO INCREASE YOUR IODINE Too,

ACUPUNCTURE

This juice helps rebalance the thyroid - whether it’s under or over active

THYROID JUICE RECIPE 1 lemon 1 cucumber 5 celery stalks 1 cup OF coconut water 5 carrots

JUICE & SERVE IMMEDIATELY

ACUPUNCTURE IS EXCELLENT FOR REDUCING THE SYMPTOMS OF HYPERTHYROIDISM. IT CAN BOOST THYROID FUNCTION WHEN USED IN COMBINATION WITH HERBAL SUPPLEMENTS & EXERCISE.

P lease note this is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.

december 30 Monday Rahina

Milburn - capital of Victoria Peck - to fill a suitcase Pissed aside - chemical which kills insects Pigs - for hanging out washing with Pump - to act as agent for prostitute Pug - large animal with a curly tail Nin tin dough - computer game Munner stroney - soup Min - male of the species Mess Kara - eye makeup McKennock - person who fixes cars

New Zealand’s first heart transplant is performed, 1987.

1 Tuesday Ratu

Mere - Mayor Leather - foam produced from soap Lift - departed Kiri Pecker - famous Australian businessman Kittle crusps - potato chips Ken’s - Cairns Jumbo - pet name for someone called Jim Jungle Bills - Christmas carol Inner me - enemy Guess - vapour Fush - marine creatures Fitter cheney - type of pasta Ever cardeau - avocado Fear hear - blonde Ear - mix of nitrogen and oxygen Ear roebucks - exercise at the gym Richard Pearse, one of the first men to achieve powered flight, is born, 1877.

2 Wednesday Raapa

Duffy cult - not easy Amejen - visualise Day old chuck - very young poultry Bug hut - popular recording Bun button - been bitten by insect Beard - a place to sleep Sucks Peck - Half a dozen beers Ear New Zulland - an extinct airline Beers - large savage animals found in U.S. forests Veerjun - mythical New Zealand maiden One Doze - well known computer program Brudge - structure spanning a stream Sex - one less than sivven Tin - one more than nine Iggs Ecktly - Precisely Earplane - large flying machine Beggage Chucken - place to leave your suitcase at the earport Sivven Sucks Sivven - large Boeing aircraft Sivven Four Sivven - larger Boeing aircraft Cuds - children Pits - domestic animals Pirate radio (Radio Hauraki) makes it on to the airways, despite battles with bureaucracy and weather, 1966.

3 Thursday Rapere

4 Friday Ramere

Ruth Seatter

Michael Joseph Savage is sworn in as New Zealand’s first Labour Prime Minister, 1935.

Sir Roger Douglas, politician and architect of New Zealand’s radical economic reforms, in born, 1937.

DECember 6 Sunday Ratapu

5 Saturday Rahoroi

On the tiles, View St You will always remember this: splinters and blisters. Night picnic on scaffolding. Ripped tights, woollen gloves. Gravel in your shoe. Hold on to everything: rimed iron piping his hip, his hand - now lie on the tiles. Like sandpaper? Yeah. Find the Pot and the Southern Cross, and there's the Savoy, Robbie Burns, the Octagon, the Crown. Lights like fluorescent anemones. Fold into the blurred edges of Thursday night when you're all the places you shouldn't be. Your room's messy but the city is pretty from up here and we could probably get all the way out to the ocean tip-toeing across rooftops with this ninja balance we've got.

- Annabel Wilson

The Green Party officially enters the New Zealand Parliament, 1999. greens.org.nz.

The Buzzy Bee is officially patented, 1978.

Newtown, Wellington, 1960 Raymond Jenkins

Fleurs Place At the Old Jetty Moeraki, Otago New Zealand T: +64 3 439 4480 E: mail@fleursplace.com W: www.fleursplace.com

Ingredients

4 small trumpeter

scaled and gutted

and fins clipped (or

a larger one for the table) 4 lemons, sliced a selection of freshly picked herbs

including bay, parsley

lemon thyme, etc olive oil salt and pepper 200g butter 2 lemons, juiced 3 Tbsn toasted almonds, slivered 4 Tbsp capers 2 Tbsn parsley, chopped Caper and lime butter sauce 200 ml white wine 75 ml cream 200 g cold butter, diced 2 Tbsn capers

serves four

Whole Roast Trumpeter with Caper & Lime Butter Sauce method

1 2

Preheat the oven to 190 째C. Slash the trumpeter on both sides towards the head to ensure it cooks evenly.

Stuff the cavity with lemon slices and the fresh herbs, drizzle with olive oil, season with salt and pepper and place on a baking tray.

3 Roast for around 15-20 minutes until just cooked and allow to rest for 5 minutes.

4 While the fish is resting, heat a stainless steel pan on a hot element. When hot, add the butter and move around the pan to melt evenly. Cook butter until it takes on a rich brown colour and a toasty nutty aroma arises.

5 Remove from heat and add the lemon juice to stop it cooking any further. Add the almonds, capers, and lastly the parsley.

6 Season with salt and pepper and pour over the fish while still bubbling.

This is delicious with any whole baked fish and is best served with a crisp garden salad and boiled new-season potatoes.

Caper and lime butter sauce In a saucepan, bring the wine and lime juice to a simmer.

2 Allow to reduce to around one-third, then add the cream.

3 Simmer gently and reduce by half.

4 Take from the heat and while whisking continuously drop in the butter. whisk until butter has melted and the sauce is glossy and smooth.

5 Stir in capers and keep warm until ready to use.

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Fleur Sullivan | www.fleursplace.com

DECember 7 Monday Rahina

The Civil Union Bill is passed in Parliament, on the same day Ahmed Zaoui is released from Mt Eden Prison, 2004.

8 Tuesday Ratu

Kiwis clear the air with a ban on smoking in all public places, including restaurants and bars, 2004. Smokers reclaim the footpath.

9 Wednesday Raapa

The first health stamps go on sale, 1929.

10 Thursday Rapere

11 Friday Ramere

Kakariki III Anoushka Szybowski

The first Golden Kiwi Lottery is drawn, 1961.

New Zealand’s first liquor license is granted to the Gourmet restaurant in Auckland, where Mr Otto Growen served champagne, 1961.

DECember 12 Saturday Rahoroi

The Australia/New Zealand Closer Economic Relations Trade agreement is signed, 1982.

13 Sunday Ratapu

The burning of the Boyd timber ship, 1809.

Yellow Shoes Erika Husselman

december 14 Monday Rahina

The Walsh Brother’s Flying School delivers Kiwi’s first official air mail, from Auckland to Dargaville, 1919.

15 Tuesday Ratu

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King is released, 2003. The final installment of Jackson’s trilogy took $1 billion at the international box office within 9 weeks. Only the second film in history to break the billion dollar barrier, after Titanic, which took 11 weeks to do so.

16 Wednesday Raapa

The Triennial Act reduces the life of NZ’s parliament from five to three years, 1879.

17 Thursday Rapere

18 Friday Ramere

Moana Hine Ema Frost

New Zealand troops begin the final withdrawal from Gallipoli, 1915.

Auckland’s first Civic Theatre opens, 1929.

DECember 19 Saturday Rahoroi

20 Sunday Ratapu

All communities create symbols to live by. These symbols teach us how to be a person at our time in history.

They comfort, inspire and unite.

Good symbols point to the possibility that we can create a better world – and motivate us to do so.

Here I offer you the symbol of the infinite game as a way of understanding the mess we are in and imagining a way out. Everyone is welcome to the infinite game.

Would you like to play?

A UFO sighting near Kaikoura makes international headlines, 1978.

Champion shearer David Fagan sets a new world record, shearing 810 lambs in a nine hour day, 1992.

If so, let’s get started....

How to Live Well Together, by dr niki harrÉ

In 1983 the philosopher, James Carse wrote that in life there are at least two kinds of games, finite games and the infinite game, described in a book of that name. I’ve used statements from his book, played with them a little, and added a few my own.

The infinite game invites others in Finite games include only select people. The purpose of the infinite game is to continue the play, the purpose of a finite game is to win. In the infinite game, everyone is a player, no one is a pawn ~ In finite games people may be pawns within the game. ~ In the infinite game, players do not claim to know, but offer others something of interest ~ In finite games winners claim knowledge, and offer this as the truth. ~ The infinite game may provide a sense of deep connection with others ~ In finite games victory may be joyful, but must be guarded.

In the infinite game any single player is not needed and cannot finish the game ~ In finite games each player must always be alert, to relax is dangerous.

The infinite game provokes others into their own creative responses ~ In finite games others are either allies or competitors. ~ The infinite game looks to the future and does not assume the past will reoccur ~ in finite players try to replicate the winning strategies of the past. ~ The infinite game reaches towards horizons that shift as the player shifts ~ Finite games are within boundaries, always of time, often of space. ~ The infinite game values openended expression ~ Finite games value expression only within the mediums and rules set by the game.

The rules of the infinite game must change over time or the game will cease ~ to change or break the rules of a finite game is a violation.

The infinite game can include finite games.

To help understand the difference between the two games, let’s imagine beach cricket as the infinite game and compare it to test cricket. In beach cricket, someone has a tennis ball and finds a piece of driftwood to serve as a bat. Teams are created from whoever is willing; no one is left out. The rules are set, but most people can’t quite remember them and make lots of mistakes. When it’s a four year old boy’s turn to hold the bat the rules are changed completely, he doesn’t actually have to hit the ball to run. Experienced players are often theatrical, exaggerating or slowing down their movements to the laughter and spontaneous applause of others.

People leave the game for a while and switch teams to keep the numbers more or less even. When a teenager misses a great catch because she was watching a surfer catch a wave no one really cares, although everyone on her team groans loudly.

In test cricket the teams are carefully selected, and it would be absurd for players to switch teams or to change the rules part way through the game. How would we know which team won? Players must focus completely on the game, all are needed. Missing a great catch is out of the question. Victory, when it comes, is euphoric for the winners and dismal for the losers. No matter how small the winning margin the difference between the two outcomes is absolute.

The post-game ritual requires the losers to concede defeat and the audience to praise the winners, usually by detailed public discussion of the brilliant plays that led to their triumph.

Test cricketers learn their sport by studying the winning strategies of the past. Like all master finite players they want to control the outcome of the game before it begins. Surprise is to be eliminated. Thus test cricket, like other finite games,

is inherently conservative. The infinite game in contrast looks to the future with curiosity. Who will be on the beach tomorrow?

Finite games aren't necessarily bad; but they are incomplete. When individuals take them too seriously, they have no room to move. They get stuck in paying off a mortgage, getting a university degree, making lots of money, working towards a promotion, ensuring their children go to the best school, and so on. When societies are obsessed with growing GDP, moving up league tables, spreading their ideology to others and other forms of winning on the international stage; their responsiveness to real problems (like climate change) is slow. It's very hard to look to the future when you are trying to win according to yesterday’s rules. Furthermore, many people are left behind, unable to find a game they can play.

A world that understood the infinite game would be open to change. Everyone would be given the opportunity to enter a worthwhile game or create a new one. We would not aim for minority groups to gain powerful positions in society, so much as for society to change in order to let all perspectives be heard. For example, who cares if girls don’t want to do maths? Maybe we could instead put the desire to do maths in its rightful place – as a specialised game that only suits a few. The tragedy of our time isn’t just all the damage we are doing to each other and our planet, it is that we aren’t even having much fun doing so. We’ve become stuck, too busy winning to listen to our hearts and each other.

But we can change. The infinite game is right there, almost within our grasp, and everyone is invited.

If you want to play the infinite game or learn more go to www.infinite-game.net

december 21 Monday Rahina

The first ball falls at the Lyttleton Timeball Tower, 1876.

22 Tuesday Ratu

Ferdinand von Hochstetter arrives in Auckland on the Austrian scientific ship Novara, 1858, initiating fully systematic studies of NZ’s geology. Over 9 months he and Julius Haast travel widely in the North, and parts of the South Island, particularly Nelson, contributing significantly to laying the foundations of today’s understanding of Aotearoa’s geology.

23 Wednesday Raapa

The Queen’s Christmas broadcast comes from Auckland, New Zealand, 1953.

24 Thursday Rapere

25 Friday Ramere

Christmas Pavlova Gina Rembe

Christmas Eve Blair & Sutcliffe make a brave stand as New Zealand cricket’s most dramatic episode unfolds in their test against South Africa, just two days after the Tangiwai Disaster, 1953.

‘Memories of the match will not be of the runs made or of wickets taken, but of the courage displayed.’

Christmas Day The New Zealand Cricket Council is formed, 1894.

27 Sunday Ratapu

26 Saturday Rahoroi

New Zealand's

Sharon Parker

Boxing Day New Zealand’s nudists begin their annual rally in Christchurch, 1994.

Tuhiata, or Tuhi, is hanged in Wellington for the murder of the artist Mary Dobie at Te Namu Bay, Opunake, 1880. Tuhi wrote to the Governor days before his execution asking that ‘my bad companions, your children, beer, rum and other spirits die with me’.

Erica Leather www.facebook.com/ericaleatherphotography

december 28 Monday Rahina

Charles Darwin leaves New Zealand after spending Christmas in the Bay of Islands, 1835.

29 Tuesday Ratu

Grey leaves New Zealand after his first term as Governor, 1853.

30 Wednesday Raapa

31  Thursday Rapere

He huinga no nga maunga puta noa i te ao We are many people from throughout the world Kotahi te iwi one people Kotahi te takahi i tenei whenua ahurei Walking together in this country

Shazza first kissed Dazza at midnight, 1985.

Four stories from my life

By Paul Callaghan I thought I might recount four stories from my life and what I have learned.

First, I need to tell you that I was born in Wanganui, and that in itself makes me a little odd. Growing up there in the 1950s, a boy's life consisted of a series of misdemeanours and petty crimes punctuated by schoolwork. How I survived childhood, I will never understand.

Back then primary school boys didn't choose their sport, but were simply allocated to rugby teams. My rugby coach once called our team together and said, pointing at me, 'This is the worst rugby player I have ever seen in my life, but because he always comes to practice, I will give him a game on Saturday ahead of those of you who don't.' That actually made me feel quite proud.

Later when I went to secondary school I discovered middle-distance running and rowing, both of which I was quite good at, and I discovered maths and physics, which I loved.

New Zealand is a rugby-mad nation and I was a failure. But that mattered not at all because I had found what I was good at and did that instead.

But at the same time I have always had great respect for those who succeed at things I can't do, including rugby. So my first lesson is this: Never worry about the things you are no good at.

Discover what you are good at and do that, and do it with commitment. But always respect those whose talents are different from your own.

The second story I want to tell you about concerns my first job as a physicist. After my graduation, I won a scholarship to Oxford University to work on a doctorate in physics.

Oxford taught me many things, but the very first thing I had to do was to go to the machine shop in the Clarendon Laboratory and learn to use a milling machine and a lathe. Physicists are expected to know how to make things and, if they can't, to respect those who can.

I worked in a beautiful field of research involving the cooling, to a few milliKelvin, of radioactive nuclei in the presence of a magnetic field. It had the grand name of 'nuclear orientation'.

Having finished my doctorate, I then had to decide what job to take on. Now this was 1974.

The last moon landing had taken place, physics was in recession and jobs were tight. I wanted to come back to New Zealand, and I was offered a job at Massey University where there were just a few staff teaching elementary physics in a chemistry department.

But a wonderful thing happened. The only way I could see to do research there was to be a physicist playing in the garden of chemistry.

By the way, we physicists are the only scientists allowed to play in anyone's garden.

So because I was playing in the chemist's garden, I decided to learn about molecules, and the best method in the world for the studying

of molecules in nuclear magnetic resonance.

My chemist friends let me use their magnetic resonance spectrometer and I decided to make some extra attachments that would allow me to measure molecular motions. Amazingly, the equipment worked really well. I could not have been more lucky. The field I had stumbled on grew in importance, carrying me along on the wave. Meantime, nuclear orientation stagnated.

By changing fields I had, in scientific terms, struck it rich.

I'm a great fan of the Chinese philosopher Lao Tze. Lao Tze says: 'When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.'

And: 'If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.'

And to summarise all of Lao Tze: 'The truth is always paradoxical.'

By going to a university with practically no physics, I had become a successful physicist.

So that's my second lesson: See the opportunities in new directions. If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

During my time as a physics researcher and university teacher I have had many graduate students. Quite early on I learned that these apprentices often wanted to do their research quite differently from my expectations. Some even said to me: 'Paul, just leave this to me.

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(continued from previous page) I know the best way to do this.' And mostly they would surprise me with their success. So I learned to learn from my own students. And as we combined our different skills our scientific work grew even more successful.

My students became my collaborators.

In 2004, a group of us, including two of my then students, Mark Hunter and Robin Dykstra, along with ex-student Craig Eccles, decided to start a company and export specialised nuclear magnetic resonance instruments to the world.

Another ex-student, Andrew Coy, who had some business flair, offered to run the company, which we then called Magritek.

I have to be the luckiest professor. I am now surrounded by brilliant young engineers and scientists who are well paid, who love their jobs, and who are building a high-value export business.

And so here is my third lesson: Never under-estimate the capacity of those younger than you to surprise you with their talent. Learn from them, and always revel in the opportunity to combine talentes to build a team.

And so I come to my final story and lesson.

Here it gets very personal. Two years ago I had surgery for colon cancer, and if I had been like most people in that situation, I should have been completely cured. But, as it turned out, I was in an unlucky minority and the cancer spread.

In February this year I discovered I had a rare form of metastatic cancer that was incurable, with a median survival measured in months.

But I am a scientist and so I know a little about statistics. When it comes to survival statistics the distribution has to be what is called 'right skewed'. That's because the lower bound is fixed at zero years while the upper bound can, in principle, extend for decades. So a few can survive several years even if the median survival is six months. Well, here I am, ten months later, and apparently hale and hearty, though I must admit I've had some pretty drastic chemotherapy and quite aggressive further surgery to keep me in that right skew of the distribution.

What I was brutally reminded of in February was that I was mortal, as we all are, for death is the one certainty we all face, and its time of coming is unknowable. The lesson for me was that I had to know how to live my life accepting death, while at the same time living optimistically.

So how do we live our life, wherever we are situated on life's survival curve? You will not be surprised when I tell you that for me, the answer lies in a paradox. That paradox is: To live each day as though it were our last and, at the same time, to live as though we will live forever.

In the first part – to live each day as though it were our last – we have the life fulfilled, with

opportunities accepted, risks encountered boldly, and not a moment wasted. In the second part – to live as though we will live forever – we have an awareness of consequence, an appreciation that what we do here and now affects others and lays the foundation for future generations.

And what is the single word that expresses the tension of this paradox? Buddhists would probably call it mindfulness. Christians would probably call it love. Although I have no religious belief, I'm happy with those words.

What really counts in life is love: to do the work that you love, to find the partner you love, to act always with love, wasting not a moment in anger or hostility. The prospect of death makes each living moment vital, each action significant, each spoken word of immense importance. In every human culture, in every language, in every religion, in every secular ideal, this mindfulness is present.

Let me give an example, in just one of its many forms, and so beautifully expressed in German.

'Der weg ist das ziel.' The journey is the destination.

We are all at a waypoint on our life's journey.

Make every step count. ~ The late Sir Paul Callaghan (1947–2012) Thank you to Sir Paul's wife, Miang, and his daughter, Catherine, for their approval to reproduce this excerpt from his book, 'Luminous Moments', published by Bridget Williams Books (BWB Press Ltd).

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