Life + Style 29 September 2017

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THE WEEKEND

Transformational living

Tasty Tamarillos

Sally Benning

Looking for the Regent

Kate Bruning

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Palazzo has eight branches nationwide and each showroom offers a unique experience for every customer that visits.

With more than 15 display kitchens and five fully-featured wardrobes, Palazzo Tauranga has something for every customer.

The Tauranga showroom has been designed so that each kitchen showcases a different and unique door style.

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For some, the kitchen is the highlight of a home. It’s the place where people congregate, eat, talk, bond, and grow closer. You want a kitchen that works for you and for your family.

kitchen – our rendering allows you to see exactly what the finished product will be, and changes can be made prior to ordering the kitchen from the factory.”

All Palazzo kitchens are designed using local flare and adopting the latest trends from Europe. Producing more than 3000 kitchens every day, direct out of Germany, the factory has access to the very best premium hardware seldom offered locally, at surprisingly affordable prices.

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“Our hinging system is from Hettich’s most premium range – called Sensys,” says Richard.

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“We can create the perfect kitchen design and embellish this with appliances that suit the way you use the kitchen,” says Richard.

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Transformational living Haeata - A beam of light in Gate Pa Teisha Paratene and her husband Wiremu have been running a community meal in Gate Pa for the past two years.

Photos: Tracy Hardy

They started off feeding their community outside their home in Arataki at Easter in 2015.

“It was bands, bibles and bangers,” says Wiremu.

“We had a band and barbecue set up on the footpath and wanted to get out the real meaning of Easter.” When their property was needed to make way for new roading, they moved to Gate Pa. “I saw that right outside our home was the hot spot for fights,” says Teisha.

“We contemplated whether we should move. But instead we decided to make a stand.”

The couple decided to occupy the space and use it for what they believe is God’s purpose.

“The first thing to do was to feed them,” says Teisha. “Some friends from church came around, we sat and prayed, and they wrote scripture and buried them in each corner of the property. Then all of a sudden all the kids were just flocking here. So we focused on feeding them. We did it every Saturday for a year and then it outgrew the footpath so we purchased a bigger gazebo and moved to Anzac Park about August 2016.”

Since that beginning, with volunteers, family and friends helping, they’ve run fortnightly Saturday lunches at Anzac Park, and a weekly free food table in front of their house.

Every Friday, about 20 sacks of bread are gone by lunch time, so they put out more bread, thanks to support from a local business. Plans are underway to

build a free food pantry, and kit out a caravan with professional cooking equipment already purchased.

“We’d like to find someone to sponsor the free food caravan,” says Teisha.

“We also need someone to put it together.”

She woke up one morning recently and found her legs weren’t working. Now aged 38, Teisha knows it’s a result of the damage done from methamphetamine addiction in her 20s.

Breaking free from violence and addictions has been a pathway she has walked with the steady support of Wiremu, who she married in 2011.

The couple have a three-year-old son.

Now confined to a wheelchair, Teisha has help while Wiremu is at work.

Despite being paralysed from the hips down, she continues on with a team of volunteers, giving out to the community around them.

The group have registered Haeata Trust to help those in need. Haeata means ‘a beam of light’. As well as providing food, clothing and assistance, they are looking to partner with other organisations to provide help for people overcoming issues in their lives.

Rosalie Liddle Crawford

Wiremu and Teisha Paratene

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Honey poached tamarillos with vanilla sauce and macadamia baklava Ingredients 4 firm red tamarillos 2 cups honey 3-4 cardamom pods 1 vanilla pod 300g chopped macadamia nuts 1 litre full cream milk 6 egg yolks ½ cup caster sugar ½ cup brown sugar 12-16 sheets filo pastry 200g butter, melted

Recipe: Dazz Switalla

Method Cut a cross in the top of the tamarillos then place in a small stainless steel pot with the cardamom pods, one cup of honey, the whole unsplit vanilla pod and enough water to cover.

Bring up to the boil simmer for about threefour minutes.

Take the tamarillos out and carefully plunge into cold icy water the skin should be able be removed easily, then rest the fruit.

Continue to reduce the rose-coloured syrup

after rescuing the vanilla pod from the sauce.

Make the baklava by laying sheets of buttered filo pastry on a well-greased and lined oven tray and sprinkle each layer with some brown sugar and chopped nuts then a drizzle of honey, which can be heated first to make extra runny.

Once the tray is full cover with silicone paper and another tray and bake at 170 degrees Celsius for 30 minutes. Remove from oven allow to cool completely with other tray on

top. Once the syrup has reduced pour up to half over the whole tray then allow to sink in before portioning into big triangles.

Meanwhile, add the vanilla pod, split and scraped, to a clean pot with the milk and heat gently with a little of the caster sugar.

Whisk together the egg yolks and remaining sugar then gradually add the warmed milk, which should have nearly – but not quite – boiled.

Now harden up and don’t be shy and put the whole mix straight back on the element, whisking the bottom of the pot constantly with a wide spatula so you don’t get scrambled eggs.

Stop and remove from heat stirring well as soon as you feel thickening resistance occur.

Heat the tamarillo back up in the remaining sauce and cut to display and assemble the dessert with big triangles of baklava and lots of vanilla sauce. Enjoy!

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Sally Benning At the heart of Greerton Village Sally Benning, Mainstreet Manager for Greerton Village, has had substantial experience at the heart of retail communities.

She’s been in the role at Greerton Village for two years in October 2017.

“I had been a mainstreet manager before in Te Puke so I knew what was involved and it’s work that I enjoy,” says Sally. “Prior to coming here I didn’t really know a lot about Greerton but when I saw the job advertised it appealed to me.

“Now I’ve come to love Greerton Village.”

Sally had also worked in Papamoa for a number of years in various roles, but she finds more commonalities between Greerton and Te Puke.

“I think it is a community thing, the similarities between Te Puke and Greerton. People are community-minded. Much of what we do is community events and the public and businesses who make their living here are very supportive.”

She’s worked hard to get to know and promote the retailers and businesses. The mainstreet role and events are funded by the Greerton Village retailers, including the popular yarn bombing of 60 trees in the streets lining the shops. The eight-week yarn bombing saw the heart of the village shine through with 45 Tauranga charities also supported and promoted.

Promotions included the July-August giveaway of 5000 ‘Greerton Dollars’ with 52 businesses getting behind it.

“There have been some big achievements here that are not necessarily to do with me,” says Sally.

“Prior to me, the Greerton Village Community Association lobbied very hard for a number of years

with council to bring about a new library and I came in at the tail end of it.”

“We also lobbied for the old rotunda which had to be removed to build the library. No one knew what was happening with it so I dug to find out. It was cut in half and lying in a paddock. We lobbied hard for it to be relocated into the Greerton Village School which the school are delighted about.”

Sally says the association works closely with the school as many of the public events promoting the retailers take place using the school grounds. Instead of bands on the back of a truck, the rotunda becomes the main stage and was used for the first time at the Cherry Blossom Festival in 2016.

“We’ll be using it again this year,” says Sally as she prepares for Greerton Village’s 2017 Cherry Blossom Festival at the end of September.

“People come to Greerton because of the village atmosphere,” says Sally. “It’s free and relatively easy parking with great cafes.”

November is the Vintage and Retro Faire which will also feature vintage cars, followed by a December Christmas event.

The Southern gateway to Tauranga certainly has a great community heart.

Rosalie Liddle Crawford

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Looking for the Regent Tauranga’s cinema history – a glassy blur When I was nine, we moved from a dairy farm in Aka Aka, Waiuku to a citrus fruit orchard in Bethlehem. It was 1969 and I filled up my first film on my first camera with photos of the cows we’d left behind.

Another ‘first’ memory was my mother bringing my sisters and I into Tauranga City. The big smoke.

Downtown. She parked outside the Regent Cinema and we all hopped out. In our gumboots. I vaguely remember her being rather mortified as we were meeting visitors from Waiuku.

As a teenager Friday nights consisted of walking around the shops and ending up at The Down

Under, a Spring St cafe. Located down an alleyway, I think near the Federated Farmers building, it was close to Bond and Bond on the corner, with Hannahs and Woolworths next door.

Sinel Francis pharmacy across the road. The heart of the city came alive on these Friday nights and I eventually found a holiday job working at Sticks ‘n Stones, a Devonport Rd souvenir shop.

Tauranga’s commercial core was consolidated mostly during the 1950s and 1960s with significant developments expanding the city centre and substantial commercial buildings constructed.

The multi-storey Bay Savings Bank opened in 1975 with the first escalator in the Bay of Plenty.

Opposite was the Star Hotel.

The heart of all this was, in my view, the Regent Cinema. I tried to figure out where it once stood and found myself in ‘Blur’.

I didn’t realise it was an eye care shop as it was the oddities in the window that pulled me in.

Devon Palairet, the dispensing optician, was inside perched on his knees peering at his 21st century computer screen on his early 20th century desk.

I was captivated by the many references to yesteryear and the old cinema. There are vintage cameras, an ancient phoropter, cinema seats, binoculars, and very old gold-filled, nickel and imitation shell spectacle frames encased within a box frame leaning against a wall.

A table in the middle is made from a concrete mould from an old factory, an old plate from a boiler, and an arm off a grain silo. A cabinet at the

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“We ripped everything out and left the shell behind because that was what was interesting”

back is from the old Wellington Post office.

“We could tell it was built in a different time with lots of character,” says Devon. “We ripped everything out and left the shell behind because that was what was interesting.”

One of the main talking points is the false floor at the back of the shop.

“Down a metre underneath is a layer of the concrete floor. It was something to do with the cinema and the way you walked through.”

I remember that I was originally on a hunt for the old Regent.

The Theatre Royal was the first theatre in Tauranga, built in Harington St in 1866, and showed ‘living pictures’, giving audiences a glimpse of Boer War troops, royalty and Maori gathering at Rotorua. Film became popular and a rival theatre, The Opera House, opened in Durham St. It later had a name change to ‘Civic Theatre’ and then ‘The San Francisco’.

Robert Kerridge opened The Regent in 1929.

Attendances increased every year, peaking in 1960, the year that television arrived in New Zealand.

The Theatre Royal was demolished in 1967, the San Francisco in 1971, The Regent in 1985, and Tauranga Town Hall in 1987.

The Tauranga Heritage Collection holds some of Tauranga’s movie-going history with more than 2000 glass plate advertising slides, programme sheets, music cue sheets for silent movies, and hundreds of movie posters and stills.

Devon Palairet

Photo: Tauranga City Libraries Research Collections

Devon says there’s something Michelangelic about the proportion of the space that Blur now inhabits.

“We just wanted it to have a human forever-ness about it. It was already old so it hasn’t aged.”

It all looks like it doesn’t make sense. But it does. Perfectly. We pause and talk about an old camera and the conversation draws me back to early memories. Where have the cameras come from?

“There was a box of old cameras that a friend had,” says Devon. “People come

in, see them and tell us stories about their grandparents with their cameras.

“They leave their old cameras with us because they feel like it’s a home for them.”

At the back of the shop is the consulting room and office where clients have their eyes examined by the two optometrists, Stuart Laing and Haidee Mannix. Stuart and Haidee bought the practice from Devon in 2014 and Devon stayed on.

“We all work so well together that it just kept rolling,” says Stuart.

They started their Mount Maunganui

practice at the Cruise Deck in 2015.

“Mum fossicks and drops in stuff that she feels fits with the space,” says Stuart.

“She brought in the old collection of glasses.” Near it is an old film dispensary.

I remembered back to when it was possible to buy a film on the street outside a chemist.

Put your money in and get a film out.

I close my eyes for a moment and step back into childhood.

It’s a soft and happy blur.

Rosalie Liddle Crawford

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Kate Bruning Greedy for colour There’s lots to love about Kate Bruning.

Her kitchen is pink. There are swans heads floating out of platters on the walls. She has a large farmhouse table covered in a blue and white polka dot tablecloth. But it’s her laughter while pouring a cuppa for me that makes me feel immediately at home.

Kate is famous around the globe for her crotchet art. Her online blog ‘Greedy for Colour’ is a rich tapestry of ideas, ‘how-to-make’ lists and creative rambling interwoven with interesting, comforting and sometimes random thoughts on things like the value of friendship.

She not only creates her art, but she sets out very clear step-by-step instructions with plenty of great photographs to guide any crotchet enthusiast to replicate her pieces.

Patterns, books and blogs – she’s also had her work published in magazines. She runs tutorials on topics like ‘how to crochet bicycle basket bunting’ because, of course, all bicycles must have baskets and all baskets must have bunting.

And it’s important to know how to crochet eyelashes to go on bears who read books.

Growing out of her bowls and plates are crocheted plants. “I kill indoor plants so I find this is a much better way to go for me.”

I’m enthralled by Kate’s whimsical viewpoint.

It’s easy to lose an hour ‘discovering’ her crocheted toadstools, angel wings and rabbits. She lifts each

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one lovingly out of a box and, as she sets up the scene, whether it’s a camping or beach tableau, the characters come to life, standing tall and carefree on the polka dotted table.

These treasures take you into a world of tiny crocheted canoes, surfboards, vintage caravans and even a Mr Whippy van. In the background – a crocheted cricket ball, bat and stumps.

Australian-born, Kate lives in a Whakamarama farmhouse with husband Jonno and sons Archie, 14, and Hugo, 11. Surrounded by lush paddocks, she refers to the large two-story blue barn they call home as ‘Lego house’, due to the additions made as each child arrived.

As well as family, a cat and a dog, there seem to be invisible zoetic personalities between the walls.

I get to meet Stanley the rabbit who travels in a hot air balloon. After awakening at the end of Kate’s crotchet hook, he became world famous, gracing the cover of one of her books.

Another book ‘Let’s Go Camping! Crochet Your Own Adventure’ was published by Kyle Books UK and features the crochet caravan as well as all sorts of camping elements such as the tents, ice-cream truck, and a lakeside cabin and has been translated into many languages.

“My great aunt and uncle taught me to embroider when I was eight and I have been obsessed with fabric and thread ever since”, says Kate.

“I now crochet, knit, paint, sew, print fabric, embroider, write and all sorts of other things that raises serotonin. I am also lucky enough to design projects for Simply Crochet UK.”

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“Everything I do is simple, you just need to know the steps to get there”

Another book ‘A Day at the Circus’ is a visual feast overflowing with crochet charm. You can make your own big top tent, a troupe of performing pups, a foxy ringmaster and more. Kate’s in-depth tutorials packed with instructive photographs and whimsical scenes take the reader step by step through 52 pages and nine patterns to completion.

Kate works mainly in cotton for anything structural, followed by wool and especially alpaca for anything she would wear.

This opens up an exciting exploration of the hats and scarves she has created, and she displays her first crotchet jumper, made to someone else’s pattern.

“I go through stages with colour. I make really bright scarves for myself. It depends. I went through a stage of being obsessed with these colours.”

She dives into her wardrobe and pulls out more of what appears to be living colour.

This year Kate wants to sell her art pieces.

“That’s been my plan, to do the paintings and start selling them as one-offs. I’m just slowly building it together. It requires lots of bravery. As I’m gathering my skills I gather my bravery and start thinking about where it would be good.

“It has been a year to develop my creativity. I’ve been so on the hop with doing things that I love doing, but it wasn’t really stretching me. I started to feel boxed in by it. So by picking up the painting, the pottery, it’s all refreshing me.”

“I’ve decided to halt on the books for a little while.

“This year is about pushing creative boundaries.

“Next year I’m going to get back into patternwriting again but probably releasing a lot more

online.” She has been writing a quarterly column for ‘Simply Crotchet’ which is ‘Mollie Makes’ sister magazine. She’s also provided the odd pattern for ‘Mollie Makes’ too.

Travelling has taken her to England and Australia where she has run popular workshops.

“They’re my favourite things to do. I just love them.

“And I would really love to be doing them in New Zealand and working out how to get everybody to come to me rather than me having to travel to them.

“Everything I do is simple, you just need to know the steps to get there.”

Kate’s website greedyforcolour.com links to the blog and books, and her Instagram @greedyforcolour is where photos of most of her work is uploaded.

Rosalie Liddle Crawford

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