Life + Style 15 September 2017

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THE WEEKEND

Mills Reef Bespoke launch

Mid-century millennial

Peter Kageyama

Papamoa Cruisers

Pauline Cowens

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Renovate the kitchen Redesigning what you’ve already got You can get the kitchen of your dreams without the hassle and fuss of a complete replacement.

If your kitchen is functional, why re-design it and go through the stress of weeks of work to completely overhaul it?

Instead, give it a makeover!

The team at kitchenmakeover.co.nz in Tauranga can take your old kitchen and make it look like new again with simple techniques that take the hassle out of kitchen renovations.

Barry and Rosalie Pearce recently had their 90s-style kitchen made over to bring it into the 21st century and make it a key piece of their home.

“In our particular case it was a renovation,” says Barry.

“It was the cabinetry, all of the drawers and doors were taken away and sprayed.

“That was an easy process; they were practically unmarked and the colour had just gone out of fashion.”

Barry says the team at kitchenmakeover.co.nz were great to deal with – professional, knowledgeable and helpful.

“They sent a colour consultant around who was very helpful and she gave us some good insight. The team that came over here and did the work were a bunch of characters – they were a good team and they were very professional,” says Barry.

“It all fit in quite well, with no dramas.”

Photos: Nikki South

The team at kitchenmakeover.co.nz has more than 20 years’ experience in kitchen restorations and can help transform your existing kitchen into a kitchen dream.

With extensive knowledge in current kitchen style and fashion, the team at kitchenmakeover. co.nz can update your drab kitchen quickly and economically.

And the makeover has made a difference to the feel of their home, says Barry.

“We’re enjoying our new kitchen – it’s still a kitchen but it’s nice and it’s made a big change.

The kitchen in our case is quite a big kitchen, but the makeover has made it look even bigger – it’s lightened it up and opened it up appearance-wise.

“The cabinetry that the guys took away, I’m really impressed with the finish – it’s like a motorcar finish to touch.

“It’s a really nice job, that’s one of the highlights of the job,” says Barry.

“It was the quality of the finish that they managed to get on those doors and cupboards.”

The team at kitchenmakeover.co.nz can rejuvenate your kitchen using two-pot lacquer in any colour that you’re after – they can even match a specific colour for your kitchen if needed. The Pearces also updated to a stainless-steel Nebraska 800-10 sink and Varsi brushed nickel handles from the Heritage Hardware collection.

Complementing the satin-finish Resene Triple White Pointer on the cabinets, the Pearces chose a Pacific Quartz bench in Pebble Sand.

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kitchenmakeover.co.nz offers several benchtop options ranging from laminate to granite to quartz, and they project manage the entire makeover - including coordinating trades - at no additional cost. kitchenmakeover.co.nz went above and beyond, says Barry, and he’s happy with the quality of the finished work.

“They’ve done a good job. All of the doors and cupboards had a Rimu trim around the edges, but they’ve managed to sand those out and spray over them so they no longer exist.

The workmanship on those cupboards and doors is quite remarkable really.”

So if you’re thinking you have to replace your kitchen, why not get in touch with the team at kitchenmakeover.co.nz and talk to them about improving the kitchen you already have.

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Mills Reef launches a new range of wines – with a twist!

I had been looking forward to our lunch date with Dan Shea from Mills Reef for a while, having heard a lot of talk about the new ‘Bespoke’ range of wines. I am pleased to say, it was totally worth the wait!

As always, perfect location, perfect food, perfect wine!

The new range of Mills Reef wines is positioned between the iconic ‘Elspeth’ and ever popular ‘Reserve’ ranges. The ‘Bespoke’ range was inspired by a desire to offer exciting quality wine experiences that venture from the norm.

Being abstract and tailor-made, Mills Reef General Manager Nick Aleksich says “it was befitting to bestow this special range of wines with the name ‘Bespoke’”.

Of the winemaking, Mills Reef chief winemaker Tim Preston says “there are no firm rules and the inspiration for each wine can have entirely different foundations, but all will offer something different and exciting”.

It was a privilege to try two wines from the inaugural annual release of Bespoke.

The first being 2016 Bespoke Chardonnay, which follows a nostalgic bent harking back to old-school styles of yester-year where voluptuousness, generosity and richness are hallmarks. This wine is a breath of fresh air, one of the best chardonnays I have had in a very long time, and it definitely has become a firm favourite! It went particularly well with my very tasty

pork belly. Sumptuous and intense, yet beautifully balanced, with just the right amount of delicious toasty oak. The white stone fruit flavours and creamy butterscotch notes shine through.

In order to taste all of the deliciousness in this wine, serve between 8-10 degrees.

The second wine is 2015 Bespoke Cabernets, an unconventional yet exciting premium blend of 63 per cent cabernet sauvignon and 37 per cent cabernet franc, fusing their respective strengths of structure and aromatics, creating a perfect symbiotic relationship. The grapes were handpicked at ideal physiological ripeness and balance in April 2015 at 22.0° Brix. The fruit was destemmed, retaining whole berries which were cold-soaked for four days then inoculated with selected yeast. The wine was aged for 13 months in quality 68 per cent French and 32 per cent American oak (of which 39 per cent was new wood) with one gentle aerated racking.

The final wine came together in July 2016.

If you are looking for the ideal accompaniment to serve with your favourite red meat dish at your next dinner party, then look no further than this wine!

The cabernet sauvignon and cabernet franc from the Gimblett Gravels winegrowing district come seamlessly together in this delicious fusion, bursting with blackcurrant and boysenberry fruits wrapped in a delightfully fresh violet perfume, complemented with subtle cedary oak and a lingering spicy liquorice finish.

The wines were launched in August and are available from selected fine wine stores Claire Rogers and restaurants.

Tim Preston - Chief Winemaker and Paul Dawick - Winemaker

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Mid-century millennial The 50 year-old digital nomad Forty sneaks up on you ever so quietly, and wafts a gentle breeze across your back as it flutters past.

Orana Wildlife Park, Christchurch.

Fifty races up to you a few minutes later, and smacks you in the face like a Kenworth truck.

For Tauranga’s Karolyn Timarkos, it turned her procrastination into nocrastination. She wrote a ‘50 for 50’ list, and is taking the millennials on at the game of digital nomadism.

Digital nomads travel the world to exotic locations, blog about it from their laptops, and mostly earn their living through affiliate click marketing.

The Weekend Sun has run several stories about two of Mount Maunganui’s most successful young travel bloggers, Nate Buchan (@World Nate) and Hannah Martin (@Intrepid Introvert). Karolyn wrote those stories, and took inspiration from them.

“Nate and Hannah made me aware of a new way of living; a new way of travelling. Hundreds of thousands of millennials are doing it around the world, and I thought, why can’t an ‘older’ person?”

She’s doing it now, having flown to the USA midAugust for five months, but she is different to the typical digital nomad.

“I’m ‘old’. I value ‘stuff ’ – I didn’t minimalise my life before I left New Zealand so all my belongings fit in a backpack. I wasn’t motivated to escape from a job I hated and a life I hated, and I maintain a permanent home here in Tauranga.”

Nor does she earn a living from travel blogging.

“Nate and Hannah have over 330,000 followers between them on Instagram and Facebook. I have 113 followers. You can’t monetise that.”

After 20 years in hospitality, Karolyn ‘fell into’ a career as a technical writer. “More and more of

those contracts were moving to online work, so the transition to digital nomadism wasn’t a high-risk plunge for me, more a slight side-step.”

A recent quick trip to Queensland served two purposes. She ticked off some items on her list.

“I’d been intending to go to the Abbey Medieval Festival in Brisbane, and revisit Minjerribah (North Stradbroke Island) for 26 years. I also reconnected with several friends, and did quite a bit of travelling to achieve that.”

Still having to work 40 hours a week, the short trip made her realise she couldn’t move as much as she’d planned.

“I’d intended to work a week, move on, work a week, move on. But I realised – while that’s fine for travel bloggers, who get to do fun stuff during the week and write about it, it’s a little different when you have to spend the week tech writing. Plus, living in New Zealand, you forget how big the rest of the world is and how much time you can lose in travel.”

She’s now planning to base herself a few weeks at a time “wherever I can get a house-sit”, work four 10-hour days, and “do stuff ” on the other three days.

When not being paid to write, she still writes.

“I’m hoping through my blog to inspire other ‘oldies’ to hit the road. I think so many of us travelled when we were young, then got tied up with life – whether that was work, kids, or both – and then settled into a kind of complacency.

“We started travelling vicariously through Michael Palin, Simon Reeve, and David Attenborough documentaries, instead of doing it ourselves.”

Unlike many ‘bucket lists’, Karolyn’s ‘50 for 50’ list doesn’t include items such as ‘jump out of a plane’, ‘hang-glide over the Grand Canyon’, or ‘ride the Diamondback roller coaster on Kings Island’.

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“I’m not an adrenaline junkie. My list is more about ‘nocrastination’ – doing things I’ve been meaning to do for years.”

“I’m not an adrenaline junkie. My list is more about ‘nocrastination’ – doing things I’ve been meaning to do for years. The Medieval Festival, I’d wanted to go for a ride in a TD Haulage truck since I was 12, so that was the first item I ticked off, and visiting Orana Park in Christchurch, where I was beyond delighted to hand-feed four lemurs.”

Not everything is far afield either.

“I was born in Tauranga, and I’ve lived here for a total of 37 years. I’ve never been to Tuhua. I’ve never been to Matakana Island township.” Those items she’ll be ticking off this coming summer.

Serendipity is playing a part in progressing some of those list items towards fruition.

One of the items is to see The Jerry Cans play a gig in their home town of Iqaluit, on Baffin Island in Frobisher Bay, 200 miles below the Arctic Circle in far northern Canada. “It’s about $3000 for an airfare from Montreal, and I didn’t want to get there, and

Minjerribah (North Stradbroke Island).

find they didn’t have any gigs scheduled.”

They played in Adelaide when she was over there in March for WOMADelaide (also on her list). “Being relatively unknown in this part of the world, they were playing in a small pub instead of a large stadium. I spoke to Andrew [Morrison, singer], and he said, ‘Hell, if you come to Iqaluit from New Zealand, we’ll play a gig just for you’. Cool.”

Three of the items on the list were to see gigs by Nahko Bear, Hope J Medford, and Dustin Thomas.

“Turns out, all three are playing the Darkening of the Sun festival in Missouri - with a total solar eclipse.

Ultra-cool!”

You can follow Karolyn’s travels at www.facebook.com/dontwait2live, on Instagram @dontwait2live, or on her blog www.dontwait2live.com – where she also writes travel tips and guides on technical writing as a career.

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Abbey Medieval Festival in Brisbane.

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Peter Kageyama Emotional city-building It matters that people fall in love with their city, says community development consultant Peter Kageyama.

“City centres are the psychic centres of places,” he says. “Downtown is everybody’s neighbourhood, so when downtown feels lively and vibrant the rest of the community feels lively and vibrant.”

Internationally renowned for his work, Peter recently spent a few days with friends in Tauranga.

He visited in 2013 and again in 2016, running ‘Love your City’ revitalisation workshops.

Following his 2013 visit, unusual activities popped up around the city centre, including yarn-bombed trees and seats, a chalk board in Masonic Park for people to complete ‘I like it when…’ and monthly ‘Stranded Sundays’.

Painted pianos also appeared around the city.

Photos: Bruce Barnard.

At his 2016 Tauranga workshop Peter proposed the concept of creating ‘love notes to the city’ –making nice things happen like festivals and pop up-art.

He suggested the best ideas could be temporary artfocussed and collaborative events involving children, because children bring families.

Lillybeth Melmoth’s ‘Colouring Book City’ ticked most of those boxes.

Encouraging people to make their city more vibrant and interesting was also at the heart of his message to about 200 New Zealand event professionals at the Taranaki ‘Eventing the Future’ conference this month.

“They are looking at the role that events play in community,” says Peter.

A year gone by

It’s been a year since he was last here in Tauranga.

“Devonport Rd is looking livelier. And Mount Mainstreet - it’s amazing! Very lively even in the offseason. By the time I come back again we’ll see some new buildings, new architecture, and I think that will bring a lot of new vitality to the city centre as well.

“The city centre has the business and arts community and government headquartered there.

You have to pay attention to the true heart of the city centre.” Peter has written two books – ‘For the Love of Cities’, and ‘Love Where You Live’. Since his last visit he’s been running workshops around the US and Canada. He also got engaged and started ruminating on his next book.

“I’m starting to put some ideas together on paper.

“I think it’s going to deal with this idea of emotional city building.

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“If you want to make a better city, start with your neighbourhood.

Find a friend, go make that little park next to your house better, more interesting and loveable.”

or technically savvy we are; it’s our ability to relate to other people, have some empathy and sociability.

“Sometimes we get lucky and create those emotional spaces in a city as an afterthought. I’d like to bring that thinking to the forefront so that people are consciously thinking ‘what do I want people to feel when they come into this place; when they come into this downtown?

“When you’re thinking about that you build towards that, making it functional and safe but also making people feel happy and comfortable here, engaging with each other.

“Places are the people you meet. You go to a city and find people that you resonate with and you think it is the greatest place in the world. But cities are not necessarily built with the idea of people connecting with each other.”

The small things

Peter admits his views of cities are all universally positive because he tends to meet people who are positive about the cities they live in.

“Most believe making the place better is city council’s job, or someone else’s job. So they sit back and wait for someone to make the place better for them. That can be disappointing because from the top down, government change can be

incrementally slow. There’s reasons why but they don’t understand all that.

“If you want to make a better city, start with your neighbourhood.

“Find a friend, go make that little park next to your house better, more interesting and loveable.

“Small things matter. Oftentimes it’s the small things that touch us, that make it personal, that make it kind of special – the handwritten note that goes with the gift. The fact that we took a moment, we made something small, we made this emotional connection – that matters.

“Cities get obsessed with the big thing, and the financial value. But oftentimes it’s the small things that resonate the most with us as people.

“Often people see those as a sort of after-thought.

We touch on the recent yarnbombing of the Hairy Maclary statues on The Strand that author Lynley Dodd objected to.

“I understand that Lynley Dodd feels very protective of her characters.

“They’re like her children. But in this case I think that maybe she was a little bit wrong-headed. And I mean that with all due respect. Because the park is not just art, it’s an expression of something. Good public art wants to be interacted with. When it touches people in a way that they are actually

moved to do something like yarnbombing – that means something.

“People don’t yarn-bomb something they don’t care about. So the fact that those folks yarn-bombed the Hairy Maclary statues means they cared about them. That is the best kind of civic love there is.”

Rosalie Liddle Crawford

Peter Kageyama.

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Papamoa Cruisers Scooters, cycles and new friends Iain Bibby has a long rope as part of his bicycle kit.

Photos: Tracy Hardy

room at Papamoa McDonalds for other cyclists and mobility scooter users.

“The most I’ve had out on the trailer is three “If anyone breaks down I can tow them,” he says. mobility scooters and five bikes,” says Iain Bibby.

He is meaning the possibility of any ‘Papamoa “We’re getting to the stage now where it would be Cruiser’ mobility scooter breaking down on one of good to have somebody else with a trailer.” their jaunts. Iain loads mobility scooters onto his trailer Papamoa Link, a Facebook group, has been and takes the owners off to locations around Tauranga a significant linking place for people finding where they can go on a ‘cruise’ together. They’ve gone connections and forming groups such as a young from Bell Rd towards Paengaroa, and over to the Daisy dads at home group, social dog group, young mums, Hardwick Walk. He cycles along with them. surfcasting, a weekly running group and craft and Alf Owen, age 92, is a keen member of the group. help groups.

“Ian’s full of mischief,” says Alf. “We’ve been out to For those with reduced mobility, being able to Palm Springs, and over to Golden Sands. Over the connect and find others reduces isolation and fosters tsunami bridge, and then come back to Santa Cruz.” new friendships and opportunities.

Iain Bibby used to work as a special needs teacher Iain and Ian’s groups have combined under the at Goldfield’s School in Paeroa and at a special needs Facebook name ‘Papamoa Cruisers’. school in Kea St, Rotorua.

“It’s better if we work together,’ says Ian Birse.

“Before I retired I worked for Lifestyle Choices,” “Yes, and coordinate things,” says Iain Bibby. says Iain. “I got people out and about and got a real Rosalie Liddle Crawford buzz out of it.”

The idea of combining forces with Ian Birse happened across Facebook, when Ian Birse saw a message that Iain Bibby posted. Ian Birse has had his scooter since April.

“I can’t drive,” says Ian. “And I can’t walk a great distance. I said to my daughter it would be really good if we could get some people together for a coffee and a chat. So she set up our Facebook group and then we saw the post by Iain Bibby in Papamoa Link.”

Iain and Ian contacted each other, compared notes, discussed what they could do and where they could go and organised a ‘meet and greet’ in a meeting

Iain Bibby and Ian Birse

Iain Bibby and Alf Owen

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Family gardening Celebrating 50 years It’s more than just a garden centre, and it’s been more than just a garden centre for 50 years.

Décor Gardenworld in Bethlehem is celebrating ‘the big 5-0’ and to say thank you, they’ll be passing on the presents to you.

The family-owned business began in 1967, and Décor’s Ginny Clark says they’ve got plenty planned to celebrate their 50th birthday.

“As well as holding a bunch of in-store specials, we’re giving away a multitude of prizes over a period of time, with our major prize being a five-day trip for two to tropical Fiji.

“We also have a lovely designer Morris and James pot to give away, a water feature, a stylish outdoor rug, $250 packs of perennial plants, a mini glasshouse, fruit tree packs, assorted gift lines and all sorts of other fabulous prizes to give away. Anybody that spends $50 goes in the draw to win these prizes,” says Ginny.

Décor Gardenworld has been on the same patch of land and family-owned and operated since 1967, and Ginny says they couldn’t have done it without their customers.

“We wouldn’t be here without our customers. We have a very loyal following of people who have lived in Tauranga for a long time, but there are also those newer to the area that might not know where we are and how big we are.

“The Decor team really are wonderful and we are a great team – nobody knows everything but between us all we have a ton of experience when it comes to plant and product knowledge, and advice.”

The store may look small from the road, but park your car and wander inside and you’ll find two acres of gardening heaven, an oasis of plants and trees, seeds, giftware and home décor and everything in between.

“We try to make it easy for people to shop – we have different sections for easy-care plants, climbing plants, subtropical plants, palms and more.

“We also have screening and ‘nosy neighbour’ plants and lots of wonderful edibles – all the fruit trees; citrus, apples, pears, plums in particular, strawberries, blueberries, figs and more, as well as all your lovely vegetable plants and herbs for the garden,” says Ginny.

“We also do a full range of plant health products and fertilisers, and we belong to what is called the GIN group, which stands for Garden Independent Network, which is a group of independently-owned garden centres from throughout the country.”

“With that comes products specific to the GIN members.”

In particular the ICAN range, which includes real blood and bone fertiliser, organic vege food, and the best vege seeds from New Zealand’s top seed masters, which are fantastic for disease resistance, taste and productivity.

“ICAN products are the best on the market, and it helps take the confusion out of garden shopping.”

In addition, Décor has a wide selection of gifts, plants and exclusive new releases, meaning they have items only available to them and fellow GIN members.

Cafe Eden is in the heart of Décor where you can pop in for a barista-made coffee and a healthy lunch.

“Bring the whole family,” says Ginny. “There is something for everyone.”

The kids can play on the swings, bounce on the springfree trampoline, and say hello to Décor’s resident rainbow lorikeet Punk or Hudson the cat.

Check out their specials online at www.decorgardenworld.co.nz or visit Décor Gardenworld at 165 Moffat Rd, Bethlehem.

“Call in, you’ll be glad you did,” says Ginny.

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Pauline Cowens Wonder woman The conversation was “now you’re coming to The question for outgoing Tauranga Girls’ secondary school, this is going to be a whole new College Principal Pauline Cowens is not journey. What are you looking forward to here? How about retiring, it’s about what’s coming next. did it go at your last school? Starting here today you And why she hardly has any selfies in her phone.

Outside of college she photographs everyone, everywhere. “On the weekend my grandson had to get me a storage device because I had 7000 photos on my phone.”

Surrounding herself constantly with young, busy sporting people, when she does find herself in a photo, she wonders who the short person in the middle is.

Passionate about teaching, educational leadership and science, her stature though is huge.

So what is life like as a college principal?

“The joy of the job, and the thing I’m going to miss the most, is that every single day I come to school and other people have done things.

“I get the joy of that. And then I get the joy of fixing those who have made mistakes, because that’s the other part of the job.’”

During her teaching career she found she has moved her practice into a more relational style of teaching.

“I would prefer to have restorative conversations with students.

“For them to understand what they’ve done wrong.

You need to have the whole climate for that.”

Ahead of the school year starting, she began a practice of meeting with families of girls who would have found the education process challenging.

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have 100 per cent attendance, you have 100 per cent achievement. Because you haven’t started yet.

“So shall we see how much of that you can keep? I need to know what support you need to walk through the door every day. And you need to tell me what you need to change so the teachers will be pleased to see you.”

There’s a clear spark in her eye as she says this.

This positive and inspiring climate has nurtured some stunning achievers of which the college is rightly proud of.

World champions. Top athletes and performers.

In one corner of her office sits Peter Snell’s left shoe that he won the 1968 Rome Olympic 800m with.

He gifted it for competition with Pauline’s old school Rotorua Girls’ College and the two girls’ schools compete for the shoe each year.

There’s a fierce sporting rivalry between the two.

“The principal there said she wouldn’t retire until they won the shoe back. On the 50th anniversary of the shoe I had a cake made identical to the shoe and took that across so she could retire. Our school is so strong in athletics, they’ll never get the trophy back.”

Every mufti day Pauline dresses up. This year she was Wonder Woman.

She also captivated the school by stalking out onto stage as Cruella de Ville at one of the arts prizegiving events and told the girls how dreadful they were getting her out at night to do a speech. Another year,

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“The thing I love most in the world is interacting with and building relationships with students.

I’m a teacher, it’s what I do.”

she delivered a speech made up of 46 movie titles for the film-themed arts prizegiving.

Fun and pragmatic, she’s built resilience and a robust quality into her girls.

“When you’re planning your day, someone somewhere else is planning for you to have a different day. The girls all know that. They live by that. It’s what I say.”

Moving around her office, there’s not one thing she can’t tell a story about. A great fan of all her students, she’s bought hundreds of pieces of their artwork over the years.

Entering teaching in her early 30s, Pauline was a later starter than most, having a family first and working in IT. “I think it was the best thing, to have a break and do something else. The world is about learning. So you bring the world into the classroom.”

Teaching in Auckland and Hamilton, her main subjects were science and biology.

Waikato Diocesan was her first return to a girl’s school. Extra activities included rowing, netball and doing prep work at night with the girls.

“I had a real knowledge of every single student in the place.

“I loved that and did it for about five years.”

Then the job at Tauranga Girls’ College came up.

She stepped into the associate principal role in 1999.

“So I tell the girls I’ve been here since last century.”

“I once spoke at the Royal Society conference on animal care in learning.

“I got up and told 120 lovely bearded medical

men how there was no way on earth that I could guarantee that Year 10 boys wouldn’t cut the eyes off snails. At the end of the conference they put me on the Royal Society Board for the care of animals in research and teaching.”

She was also secretary of the New Zealand Science Teachers Association and is a founding member of Tauranga’s House of Science. She had to make the choice to come out of teaching into principalship.

“The thing I love most in the world is interacting with and building relationships with students. I’m a teacher, it’s what I do.”

Being a principal though has meant that Pauline has found she’s had a lot more influence in the direction of learning.

And a lot more power to say how things should be structured.

Her daughter’s booked her into a silversmithing course. She plans to make jewellery with double meanings.

“Like catastrophe would be a cat and a washing machine.”

She’s taking a lot of things with her into ‘retirement’. Her love of playing, punning, photographing everyone and everything.

And language.

“The climate when I first arrived was where the girls saw me as the absolute authority and there are girls who are still terrified to come and see me. But I need to leave before I mellow completely.”

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Offer valid 04/09/17 to 01/10/17 or while stocks last. +Lowest nationally advertised prices ever applies to the Swisstek range of beds only. Bed is defined as a mattress and base set. Excludes Everyday Dream prices and clearance stock. Offer cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer. *Q Card and Latitude Financial Services lending criteria, fees, terms and conditions apply. Visit bedsrus.co.nz for more information.