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KEN RING: WEATHER BY THE MOON - AUCKLAND WEATHER DIARY, JUNE 2022

June is expected to be a wetter than average month but with less cloud than normal.

The first week may be sunniest, and the second week the wettest, and the third week the cloudiest. The fourth week may be driest with highest pressure and rain returns in the last couple of days. Most weekends do not escape showers, but the least may be on the 25th/26th.

For fishers, highest tides are around 15th. The best fishing bite-times in the east are around dusk on 1st, 13th-16th and 29th-30th. Bite-chances are also good around noon of 7th9th, and 20th-22nd.

For gardeners, planting is best (waxing moon ascending) between 2nd-12th, and pruning is best 16th-27th, (waning moon descending). For preserving and longer shelf-life, pick crops or flowers around neap tides of 8th and 23rd. (KEN RING)  PN

For future weather for any date, and the 2022 NZ Weather Almanac, see www.predictweather.com.

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@ LEYS LITTLE LIBRARY

Kia ora koutou, it has been splendid to see you all again at Wriggle and Rhyme, Film Club and Book Chat over the last few weeks.

Mānawatia a Matariki - this month brings our first Matariki public holiday on Friday 24 June. Though the library will be closed for the day, it’s the perfect time to spend a cosy evening sharing kai with friends and whānau. At the library we will be celebrating Matariki the week after, on Friday 1 July. Join us in the Leys Little Library from 6pm-7pm for the return of Tales by Twilight. Come along in your pyjamas or favourite onesie for an evening of Matariki inspired stories, music, and of course bubbles, rounded off with milk and cookies. Stories start around 6.15pm.

As well as Matariki, June also brings the shortest day of the year. This is generally coupled with wetter, cooler weather. Thankfully, our cookbook section has many suggestions for warming winter meals. Chef extraordinaire, Ottolengi, continues to bless us with beautiful books of delicious recipes. The latest title to land on our shelves is 'Ottolenghi Test Kitchen: Extra Good Things'. If the earlier volume of the test kitchen series is anything to go by, then this should be a treat. I very much enjoyed a warm winter brunch of sweet potato shakshuka with sriracha butter and pickled onions from 'Ottolenghi Test Kitchen: Shelf Love' so I am looking forward to discovering more favourites in Extra Good Things. If you’re looking to add more vegan recipes to your winter repertoire, then may Leys Library recommend 'The Korean Vegan Cookbook: reflections and recipes from Omma's kitchen' a delectable debut cookbook from Joanne Lee Molinaro, the home cook and storyteller known as @thekoreanvegan on tiktok.

Another author inspired by home cooking is Edgar Castrejón, who has created and complied a scrumptious collection of 'Mexican dishes in Provecho: 100 vegan Mexican recipes' to celebrate culture and community.

For a more traditional winter cookbook we suggest leafing through the pages of ‘Soup Broth Bread’ the newest one to hit our shelves.

Hours: Monday – Friday 9am-6pm, Saturday 9am-4pm. Monday 6 June Queen’s Birthday Weekend - Public Holiday, library closed.

Friday 24 June Matariki – Public Holiday, library closed.