Life + Style - 13 April 2018

13 April, 2018

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THE WEEKEND

Cookie time

Morning melodies

Food forest

Hazel Hape

Cairne of stones

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Say goodbye to varicose veins With the latest technology non-surgical treatment options

Varicose and spider veins are relatively common conditions, affecting up to 50 per cent of women and a lesser number of men.

These days, thanks to advanced technology, there is a variety of treatment options for patients to consider, and if you are concerned that you may have problematic varicose leg veins, you may want to consider a visit to the expert team at Fraser Clinic.

Varicose veins are superficial leg veins, which have become dilated and tortuous and can be associated with a variety of unpleasant symptoms such as restless legs, cramps, itchiness, heaviness, or pain.

In worse cases, left untreated, the skin can develop eczema or even ulceration.

Many people want their spider and varicose veins treated for cosmetic reasons and whilst these cosmetic treatments are offered at Fraser Clinic, they’re not covered by most insurers.

However, patients can now opt for effective non-surgical treatment that is covered and is highly effective too.

The exact cause of varicose veins is still not understood, but we do know it results from defective one-way valves within the vein itself.

Up until 18 years ago, surgical stripping of varicose veins was the main form of

treatment. Today there is Ultrasound Guided Injection and Ultrasound guided Endovenous Laser Treatment.

Fraser Clinic, set up 18 years ago by Dr Geoff Olsen, is the only dedicated clinic in the Bay of Plenty region for the nonsurgical treatment of varicose veins with Cooltouch ELT. Combined with ultrasound guided sclerotherapy, ELT has rapidly become a mainstream treatment to such an extent that Fraser Clinic is an Affiliated Provider to Southern Cross for the non-surgical treatment of varicose veins.

With modern laser treatment, a tiny fibre optic device is introduced into the vein at the level of the knee and positioned within the vein from the knee to the groin, or in some cases from the lower calf to the level of the knee.

With local anaesthetic in place, and the laser activated, the fibre is gradually withdrawn from the vein over five or six minutes, sealing it painlessly. Residual smaller varicose veins are treated with ultrasound guided injections at the same time, with the whole procedure usually taking no more than 90 minutes.

Dr Olsen says that although there is a closure rate of the treated vein of greater than 95 per cent at one year, we know that some patients can develop further varicose veins in the future, given the fact that varicose veins are, for some, a chronic condition.

“It’s reassuring to know there is now a very straight forward, effective non-surgical treatment that can manage recurrent veins, which is covered by most insurers, allowing minimal disruption to daily activities and a rapid return to work,” says Dr Olsen.

In addition to a background in general practice in Tauranga, Dr Olsen also holds a fellowship of the Australasian College of Phlebology.

Dr Geoff Olsen

Knowing you’re in trusted hands for any procedure is important and with the team at Fraser Clinic you’re in expert hands.

They’ve successfully provided safe, effective, non-surgical vein treatments for Bay of Plenty residents for the last 18 years.

For a vein consultation with Dr Olsen, phone Fraser Clinic on 07 578 9495 to make an appointment.

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Coconut Chocolate Chip Biscuits Date syrup is well known in North African and Middle Eastern countries however not so much in New Zealand. Made entirely from dates it is a natural sweetener that easily substitutes honey, golden or maple syrup in most recipes.

It has a very thick consistency, a bit like molasses. Available at Vetro date syrup has another added benefit – it’s very cheap compared to other sweeteners and syrups. With so many delicious things to do with it, it should become a staple in all pantries. Use it on your breakfast cereals, over roasted vegetables, in marinades, over ice-cream, on toast with tahini, as a baste, in your smoothies, in all your baking… just about anywhere. So, to get you started… an easy gluten-free healthy biscuit that you or the kids could make that is very yummy to boot.

Coconut Chocolate Chip Biscuits 1 cup coconut flour 1/2 cup butter or coconut oil, melted 1/4 cup date syrup 4 small eggs (or 3 large free range eggs from Vetro make a difference) 1/2 tsp vanilla extract 1/8 tsp sea salt 1/2 cup shredded, unsweetened coconut 3/4 cup dark chocolate chips (use the 42 per cent or 70 per cent Callebaut callets for impressive results or chop up a Callebaut slab for lovely rustic looking biscuits.

You could use the sugar free version too)

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In a large bowl, mix together the melted butter (or coconut oil), date syrup, eggs, vanilla extract and sea salt. Stir in the coconut flour, shredded coconut and chocolate chips. Roll into 1 inch balls and place on a greased baking sheet.

Flatten gently with a fork so they are all the same thickness and shape. o Bake for 12 minutes at 190 C Enjoy!

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Morning Melodies There’s no business like show business My phone rang. “Oh Rooosalieeee,” purred Alys Ingrid Wicksteed’s velvet voice, “you simply must hear about what we have planned - it’s going to be fabulous!”

Artistic director Alys Ingrid Wicksteed, pianist Lee Cameron, Mayor Greg Brownless and organist Alan Dadson.

She mentioned Bob Addison, the city’s Steinway grand piano, Mayor Greg Brownless and the Mighty Wurlitzer all together in one sentence, and I was caught. I make no apologies for that – I used to play music with both gentlemen and miss Greg’s piano accordion, Bob’s shows and the immense amounts of fun.

Morning Melodies, presented by Friends of Baycourt, is set to burst into our city consciousness once again at 10.30am on Tuesday, April 24, thanks to the marvellous efforts of artistic director Alys Ingrid and her willing helpers.

Part vaudeville, part classical, splendid and quirky.

Highly successful during the 1990s, Morning Melodies was held monthly, running for approximately six years at Baycourt. Local artists sang, played musical instruments, danced and recited poetry, making the programmes immensely interesting. And the piece de resistance were the Mighty Wurlitzer and the duet and solo piano performances on the Bösendorfer, which was later replaced by the $300,000 Steinway.

“It’s going to be held in the Addison Theatre,” says Alys Ingrid. “Bob would pride himself on doing performances with local Tauranga people, and he made a great thing of Morning Melodies with Leila Chester on piano, and Valda Tyrrell on the organ.

“They worked really well together.

“Leila and Valda were permanent guest artists at all the retirement villages, and played every year for Jane Barr - who was the initiator of the ‘Bride of the Year’ competition. Leila also played at many Tauranga weddings and, of course, funerals.”

I ask her what she intends wearing on the day.

Something that glitters is her reply. Alice Sea will also be performing.

Alys Ingrid invites me over for morning tea to join in the discussion with virtuoso pianist Lee Cameron and organist Alan Dadson. The question is, what fun comedy ideas can they include during the performances? Being a prankster, I offer a suggestion, resulting in gasps and chortling.

I decide any event where people are laughing is one I don’t want to miss.

So how did all of this come about?

“It started with Morning Melodies being produced for one occasion,” says Alys Ingrid.

“The theatre was full that day. Noni Roberts took the money at the door and Bob realised it was going to be such a good programme, so Baycourt took over the management.”

Alys Ingrid is hoping Leila will be able to attend.

“Leila and Valda were the ‘good sorts’, performing for many years. Valda passed away in 2016 and Leila lives at an Auckland retirement centre.

“It is nice to recognise them for giving their musical talents for the enjoyment of others.

Margaret McClymont was also a Wurlitzer performer in the days of Bob Addison, who was the compere on many occasions.”

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“Highly successful during the 1990s, Morning Melodies was held monthly, running for approximately six years at Baycourt”

Photos: Bruce Barnard

We decide to meet up for photos on the expansive Baycourt stage. I phone the Mayor.

“Please can you come along and bring your mayoral chains and gown?” I ask. He happily complies. I’m quite stunned, as the previous day he’d turned down dinner with Barack Obama.

Clearly he’s into supporting ‘local’! That, or he’s caught the same infectious musical virus that Alys Ingrid has imparted to me.

I ask Lee what he intends playing.

“A medley,” he smiles. “A Chopin waltz in C# Minor. Do you know it?” He starts to sing. I can only remember Chopin’s Nocturne in B Major.

Later I pull out the C# Minor and drift into that pleasure zone in my mind where waves of the sea merge with dancing light.

The Mayor arrives and rehearses ‘There’s no business like show business’ with Alys Ingrid, so I wander over to the Wurlitzer to talk with Alan.

“This is my first-ever outing,” says Alan. He nods towards Lee and Alys Ingrid over at the grand. “Not like these guys, who have been on the stage for the last 40 years. I’ve been playing the Wurlitzer for a couple of years. I started playing small home organs in the 80s, but never as big as this.”

Alan is a member of the Tauranga Theatre Organ Society, and says there are a handful of organists amongst the society. The Mighty Wurli Organ, as it’s affectionately dubbed, is the best-preserved in New Zealand, and is maintained by the Tauranga Theatre Organ Society under the direction of Scott Harrison in Melbourne. “Do we have a resident organist for the Wurlitzer?” I ask him.

“No,” he replies. “We’re all amateurs - members of the club. A week ago, Dale Henderson told me they’re organising a concert, and asked would I care to play the Wurlitzer.”

He plans to play ‘The Pearl Fishers Duet’.

“That’s the theme tune for the KiwiRail advert,” says Alan. “Everybody will recognise it.”

He also plans to play ‘The Second Waltz’ by Shostakovich and fun songs with the piano and a group of other performers. It’s a splendid repertoire compered by none other than Tauranga’s Mayor, Greg Brownless.

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Tango to mango Living in a food forest Photos: Nikki South

Film directors Antoinette Wilson and Jordan Osmond are living in a five-acre food forest in Katikati. They met Andrew Martin, the owner of the property, while filming their documentary Living the Change in 2017.

Antoinette Wilson and Jordan Osmond

Near the main house, Andrew has a small studio which Antoinette and Jordan live in and work from.

Andrew was overseas when I visited, and they took me on a walk through the food forest, accompanied

by Andrew’s dog.

“Five years ago this was all grazed paddocks,” says Jordan. “Andrew’s planted the whole lot and chosen natives and food perennials.”

We round a bend following the grass walkway through a mix of NZ natives and fruit trees.

There’s a cabbage tree, a fig tree, a carob, manuka, kawakawa, pittosporum and a pine nut.

Swan plants provide resting pads for monarch butterflies, and amongst the trees tuis and magpies can be heard. Brown shaver hens and Araucanas - a breed of domestic chicken from Chile - can be seen through the walnuts and feijoas.

“We made our first short film in NZ here, about Andrew and this property,” says Antoinette.

“He was working in high finance in Australia when he saw a documentary called A Crude Awakening in 2007.”

On the short film, Andrew talks about the impact the documentary had on him.

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“They were talking about depletion of oil,” says Andrew, “and that got me interested in energy.

“Permaculture kept popping up as a solution so I started researching it, and realised it was an integrated approach to how we’re living.

“At the moment, our current society has a fragmented approach. Everything is compartmentalised and separated, whereas permaculture is a holistic approach to living.

“It integrates food, environment, your lifestyle, and taking care of people, the planet and natural resources.

“That really hit home as one of the solutions for moving forward.”

He had felt himself being drawn into a materialistic world.

“It was the wanting more and more stuff,” says Andrew. “The consumerism lifestyle can be contagious. ‘The more money you have the more happy you are’ just doesn’t work.”

“He realised that resilience in the future was going to be in perennial food crops, healthy soils and more trees,” says Jordan. “He’s basically living that, so was a very interesting subject for us to film.”

A food forest is different from a vegetable garden or an orchard. In a traditional garden, rows of vegetables are planted in a plot. Fruit trees may be nearby and there may be a separate herb garden.

A food forest or forest garden turns this traditional system on its ear.

Vegetables, herbs and fruiting trees are planted similarly to how they would grow in the natural world. Usually they are designed with seven

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“It’s based around the idea that natural forests flourish well and produce ample food without any sort of human interference”

different layers, as opposed to the single layer found in the conventional garden.

The layers are the canopy consisting of fruit and nut trees. There’s the lower tree layer, which has dwarf fruit trees, the shrub layer, which has plants like blueberries and raspberries, the herbaceous layer, where perennials, herbs and leafy greens grow, the rhizonosphere where root crops grow, the soil surface for cover crops and the vertical layer which includes vines.

It’s based around the idea that natural forests flourish well and produce ample food without any sort of human interference.

As we continue strolling, Antoinette points out that the farmers around the property can’t believe how much wildlife and birdlife is present. She and Jordan had gone up into the Kaimai Range to record bird noises for their documentary but found they could hardly hear any birdlife there.

The path winds through hazelnut and avocado trees; tamarillo plants; peach, pomegranate and apple trees; blackberry and raspberry bushes; Chilean guavas, blueberries, and grape vines.

A rooster crows and near the house we come past the main garden with kale, spinach, silverbeet, beetroot, bok choy, rhubarb and zucchinis.

Antoinette reaches to pluck from the mint, sage and silverbeet growing behind a rustic fence which is draped with passionfruit and

edged with lavender. I find a tea plant, which she tells me gives green and black tea. A banana tree is close by.

She still has her dancing shoes from when she was dancing tango in Buenos Aires, way back before she met Jordan in Australia.

“I started Happen Films three years ago,” says Jordan, “filming my first documentary called A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity, in Australia.

“Antoinette was involved in that, as a subject in the film, and came on board to help write it.”

A year into making Living the

Change, they went and stayed in a friend’s shipping container in Raglan and wrote the story over two weeks.

Key topics explored in the film include energy, waste, food systems, economic issues and conscious consumption. “We didn’t really set out to make a feature-length documentary,” says Antoinette. “We actually planned to make a series of short films.

“And then we kept meeting people who had really interesting things to talk about on the bigger issues, like Andrew and his food forest.”

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April, 2018 life+style The Weekend Sun 2113August, 2015 Hazel Hape

Back to the Future Hazel Hape takes the helm I drove out to Greerton Village to check on the knitted piano. It had been hosted by the Women’s Refuge secondhand shop, which now had to close.

The piano needed a new home.

Photos: Bruce Barnard

I’d met the new interim manager of the refuge, Hazel Hape, in 2007 while developing a Bay of Plenty health project.

At various times she’s been a mentor and a go-to person for understanding the networks of health and social services. Part of the Women’s Refuge Collective since 2005, she’s also worked for the Glenn Inquiry, represented New Zealand at the UN and now stepped in to the role that Angie Warren-Clark vacated to become a Labour List MP. “I feel like I’m in the movie Back to the Future,” said Hazel, as I ripped off the knitting to peer inside the piano.

“I’ve been back at the refuge for a few months and often people ask me how I feel.

“Quite honestly, not only do I feel like I’m home but I also feel like I’ve never left.”

With Angie leaving, the opportunity to be a Kaitiaki, taking stewardship of the refuge, its services and whanau and providing leadership to the staff during their transition to a new manager was something that naturally suited Hazel.

“Angie’s departure was incredible,” Hazel reflects. Angie had left in August, taking annual

leave with the encouragement of her team.

“She was sixth on the list and we thought ‘next time’ - she’ll be ready for 2020,” says Hazel as she relates how the collective hadn’t quite futureproofed for the possibility of Angie becoming an MP. “Three weeks in we realised they were waiting for special votes and she’s next on the tarmac.

“From then, right up until they announced it on the Saturday, it was like Angie was in the koru lounge waiting for the plane. When it became obvious, the collective had an urgent meeting and I’m now interim manager.”

Angie managed the refuge for four years, utilising the $189,000 provided by government and sourcing the rest of the $300,000 it costs annually to run the 24 hour seven days a week crisis service.

“I did that too for seven years,” says Hazel.

“I don’t know if I want to go back there door knocking, carrying out funding and fundraising applications, talking to anybody and everybody to raise funds.

“I love supporting staff and I’ve become very passionate about workforce development.

“The more you invest in the workforce, nurture and support them, it follows that our whanau get better support and services.

“I don’t particularly like having to go out and beg, borrow, steal and hustle because we’re working at the frontline of violence against women and children from a community approach and quite frankly I just

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“I love serving people on purpose. I feel like that’s what I was born to do”

think it is criminal that we get funded peanuts to help save lives.”

The service hadn’t had a funding increase since 2008.

Reflecting on life coming full circle, she confides she had wanted to be a lawyer.

“I feel like we’ve all got a purpose. I’ve grown up around family and community, where I saw my parents and grandparents demonstrating stewardship and taking care of people, providing a safe place for children and young people and families to stay.

“I love serving people on purpose. “‘I’ve waited 30 or 40 years to tell somebody my Coming back on board as interim manager “I feel like that’s what I was born to do.” story. I don’t want to withdraw’. means having to make tough decisions, like In 2012 she went to the Glenn Inquiry, “I was the only original team member who closing the second-hand shop. Although no staying for nearly two years. stayed. All the doctors and the fat cats with longer viable, Hazel thinks they could open again “I was quite starry eyed when I started. When their big PHDs and all of their reputations in a smaller space. it blew up people asked me why I stayed.” they all left.

“Guess what happened to me yesterday?

A woman then came forward with a claim she “More than 600 people got the opportunity to “I won two tickets to the NZ orchestra had been sexually assaulted by Sir Owen Glenn, share their story. For most of them, that’s all they symphony through the Breeze. the initiator of the inquiry into family violence.

“I’ve always wanted to go to the orchestra but “Everyone started jumping ship. My role was a wanted. They’d lived in silence their whole life.”

And the inquiry became a vehicle of voice.” never had the chance. I don’t publicly tell people, conduit and liaison between the Glenn Inquiry After leaving the Glenn Inquiry, she but I do like classical music. My family will be and all the whanau, survivors, victims, and worked at the national office for Women’s like ‘oh man, what is that you’re listening to?’” those affected.

Refuge in Wellington.

I find the piano only has a pedal loose and “Some 300 people had signed up by then and In 2015 she Guided started lecturing on the bi-cultural otherwise it’s got aRestore lot of years ahead of it. we were eight months into it.

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Fifty-two Davids The Great War through geneology It all started last September, when Tauranga resident Kym Johnson received a message via the ancestry website from Erin Foster-O’Riordan of Canada.

“Hi, my name is Erin Foster,” it read. “I’m working on a blog that profiles several of my ancestors who took part in World War One, and one of these ancestors is David Gill.

“You posted a photo of Mr Gill, his wife Gertrude and their son David to your tree on ancestry.com which, with your permission, I would like to use as part of my post about Mr Gill. Thank you for your time. Erin.”

Erin had been tracing 52 soldiers who had gone to war. David Gill and Erin are both descendants of John Gill and Elizabeth Munns. John and Elizabeth were Erin’s fifth great grandparents, and they were David’s great-grandparents, making David her second cousin four times removed.

David also happens to be Kym’s greatgrandfather. “I think that makes us fifth cousins?” wrote Erin in a further email the following day.

Erin’s blog, www.fiftytwodavids.com, grew out of her interest in the Great War. She completed a thesis on Great War literature and was particularly moved by Timothy Findley’s ‘The Wars’ - a novel that focusses on the individual toll the war took.

Findley, though his characters, states that this is not a war of David versus Goliath, but rather that “all you get in this war is one little David against another”.

Erin writes that the impact of the Great War on the western world is so profound that it’s settled like layers of volcanic ash on millions of family trees.

She dedicated her ‘52 Davids’ to the families and memories of the 52 soldiers her blog profiles.

Following Findley’s sentiment, Erin has identified 52 ancestors, or husbands of ancestors, whose lives were touched by the war. These are citizen soldiers – dentists, blacksmiths, general labourers, farmers –people from every walk of life.

Meanwhile, in New Zealand, Kym had been puzzling over an old family photo of two soldiers, taken somewhere in France during World War One. One was believed to be her greatgrandfather David Gill, and the other, one of his brothers, who Erin has also profiled.

But Kym and her family had never been able to determine who was actually in the photo. She sent the photo to her newly-discovered fifth cousin and geneology enthusiast Erin.

Amazingly, Erin was able to identify that the man on the left of the photo is most likely to be David, because of the lanyard he is wearing in the photograph which relates to his designation and ranking at the time.

“Erin was able to identify him based on the uniforms and on what he did in his wartime role,” says Kym. “The brothers were in the Royal Field Artillery. My great grandfather was a blacksmith with the rank ‘driver’ – a specialist in horses who would drive and care for the animals pulling heavy equipment to the regiment’s appointed locations.”

Kym Erin

For some of the soldiers, Erin had a lot of information, and for others, very little. In some cases, she has been able to contact distant relatives, like Kym, to learn more.

Each week, from November 11, 2017 through to November 11, 2018, she will publish a profile on one of these men, marking the centenary of the last 52 Rosalie Liddle Crawford weeks of the war.

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A cairn of stones Omokoroa honours ANZAC soldiers From the age of nine, my sisters and I would explore the headland at Omokoroa.

Our small bach was nearby, and after a day on the water, we’d go blackberry or raspberry-hunting up through the trees and bush area. It was mostly overgrown, and we spent hours rambling through there, often walking back along the beach at low tide.

Later, owner Gerald Crapp gifted the approximately two hectares to the nation as a reserve.

Most of it is flat and on top of steep cliffs. The northern end was the site of the Wai-Huri Pa, an important archaeological site.

Recently, I learned how in days gone by in Scotland or Ireland when soldiers went off to battle, they’d each place a stone, forming a cairn in their village or on a hill overlooking their village. When they returned from battle, each one removed a stone. Any stones left in the cairn signified those who had lost their lives.

In 2015, the Omokoroa community commemorated 100 years since the start of World War I. The community held a ‘Poppies on the Point’ dawn ceremony, with the Omokoroa Pahoia Sea Scouts providing Milo and Anzac biscuits to everyone assembled.

Heather Reynolds, who along with Alison Badger and Liz Farrell organised the peninsula’s 2015 ANZAC Day commemoration, remembers it as a thoughtful, contemplative time. Later in the morning, another commemoration was held at the Omokoroa Point School with a wreath-laying at the flagpole, followed by a sausage sizzle and cup of coffee. It was a great family occasion with numbers in the hundreds.

“Someone asked ‘why don’t we have some rocks?’” says Heather.

A temporary cairn was built in the now-named Gerald Crapp Reserve, and provided a muchappreciated focal point. Hundreds of people attended the 2016 and 2017 ANZAC commemorations.

Overlooking the reserve, a stump of a southern mahogany has been carved into a likeness of Rev Joseph Tice Gellibrant, the original European settler who, along with Arthur Crapp, planted many of the native and exotic trees from 1870-1900.

“We had rocks there for two years as a temporary cairn,” says Heather. “But people wanted something more permanent.”

“Mark Henderson from Casmark was working here and we asked him if he was interested in a community project. He was. The Pirirakau hapu design and poppy were carved by Paul Gautron.

“The soldier on the front of the cairn was carved in Corten steel by Steve Roach of Letter Rip.” A small group gathered at the reserve in early November 2017 for a brief ceremony as the first turf was turned to mark the beginning of the construction of the memorial cairn.

The official unveiling of the memorial cairn was held in December.

“This year we don’t have to shift rocks,” says Heather. “We have a permanent cairn. It’s been a fantastic community initiative.

“It’s not just for ANZAC Day; people take their wedding photos there. And those coming past can sit there and have a quiet picnic if they like. It’s a place Rosalie Liddle Crawford for any occasion.”

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