Life + Style - 17 August 2018

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Fresh face of cosmetic medicine Meet Dr Anuya at the Women’s Expo

She worked and played in the bright lights of London, New York and Gisborne, and now Dr Anuya Deshpande loves the Bay of Plenty’s growth, balanced with its relaxed beach style living.

Settled in Papamoa with her husband and three children since December 2017, Anuya is embracing the Bay of Plenty’s lifestyle.

“The kids are happily settled into school and daycare, and I’m working with some amazing people and making new friends,” she says.

With more than fifteen years’ experience as a family doctor, including more than twelve in cosmetic medicine, seven treating varicose veins and more recently two years in skin cancer medicine, Anuya brought plenty of useful skills with her to the Bay of Plenty.

Always on the hunt for better technology and treatments, she has introduced radiofrequency ablation of varicose veins to the Bay, which can mean less pain and faster recovery for her patients.

When she arrived in Gisborne in 2006 to work as a GP locum and escape the British winter, Anuya decided New Zealand’s beauty and beachside living suited her.

In 2008 her passion for art, medicine, surgery and generally helping people to look and feel their best, found an outlet when she opened Gisborne’s first cosmetic medicine clinic.

During the following 10 years she honed her skills and earned postgraduate qualifications in cosmetic medicine through the NZ College of Cosmetic Medicine. Seeing the benefits of non-surgical treatments for patients with varicose veins, Anuya then completed five years postgraduate training with the Australian College of Phlebology (study and treatment of vein disease). This makes her one of a handful of NZ-accredited varicose vein doctors covered with medical insurance to provide non-surgical treatments.

A shortage of specialist cover in Gisborne and a high demand for skin cancer screening and treatment saw her commit to yet more study; this time through the Skin Cancer College of Australasia. This included intense training

in dermoscopy – zoomed views of lesions to distinguish cancerous from non-cancerous lesions – skin cancer surgery, flaps and grafts as well as non-surgical treatments.

Ready to expand out of Gisborne after more than a decade, Anuya and her husband Martin decided to make the move to the Bay of Plenty — the only part of New Zealand with a higher rate of skin cancer than Poverty Bay. She was offered “an amazing opportunity” to work with highly respected dermatologist and skin cancer doctor Ben Tallon at the Tauranga Specialist Centre, where he is one of only a few NZ dermatopathologists who offer MOHS surgery on site.

She was able to offer all of her services at the Tauranga Specialist Centre, and work alongside supportive colleagues with similar professional values.

In addition to this she teamed up with Porcelain Skin owner Ali Sanford and offers cosmetic medical services and varicose vein assessments from the Papamoa Plaza-based beauty clinic. This has been well received by notoriously travel-shy locals. “People in Papamoa love the fact everything is on their doorstep and offering services like this locally is convenient for me and my patients,” says Anuya.

Anuya’s style is natural and under-stated, as is her approach to cosmetic medicine.

“There are several different approaches a cosmetic injector can take and from my perspective the key to a great result is having the anatomical knowledge and experience with faces to know what looks beautifully normal.

“Once a face is out of proportion because of overfilling or over-injecting Botulinum toxin incorrectly it’s hard to pull back from that”.

This month is typically busy for Anuya. As

well as celebrating her youngest two (of three) children’s second and third birthdays, attending and presenting at the annual cosmetic conference in Queenstown and flying to Auckland for veins clinics, she will also be at the Women’s Expo at the ASB Baypark Arena on August 25-26.

She will be available to talk cosmetic medicine and varicose veins with interested women of the Bay. “I thought it would be a nice way to meet people who might have questions but may be too shy or busy to come to a clinic,” says Anuya.

“It’s a great friendly venue to gather information with no obligation, and find out what we can do for you.”

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Snail mail smiles Loving the letterbox Not many people still get a kick out of snail mail – because these days it’s all bills, bank statements, and offers to buy or sell your house.

But for Greerton woman Tracie Collingwood that trip to the letterbox is an exciting and wonderful thing.

Tracie belongs to a snail mail group – which is exactly what it sounds like – a coming together of people who write to each other ‘the old-fashioned way’.

than social media. Back in the day, we used to get letters and birthday cards from our aunty or our grandma. Now, it’s just a greeting put together by Facebook’s robots that someone clicks ‘share’ on.”

Tracie sends letters of one or two pages, postcards, and even more artistic offerings.

“I make ‘pocket letters’ – four pockets you put stuff in. I mostly work nights, and am home during the day, so it’s a great creative outlet.” She clearly loves the letter writing, but is limited in her output by the postage.

“It’s three dollars for a letter to the US or UK, so the costs mount up quickly.”

For anyone interested in making their own snail mail friends, look for the Snail Mail Pen Pals Ladies Only group on Facebook.

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Photos: Nikki South

Most of Tracie’s snail mail friends are in the USA, with the others scattered across England, Australia, Malta, Italy, South Africa, and the West Indies.

“We have common interests like, for me, ‘Doctor Who’ and ‘Supernatural’.”

Writing letters to 50 people on a regular basis might seem a little daunting, but for Tracie it’s therapeutic. She works as a carer for intellectually disabled people, pulling a lot of overnight shifts, and the work takes its toll – physically and emotionally.

“It’s a great form of stress relief for my type of work – I can zone out when I write.”

Tracie tries to keep her snail mail friends separate from Facebook.

“I tell them about my day-to-day life, rather than discussing any world or current events.”

Some people she only exchanges a few letters with before the communication runs its course, others she maintains on a regular basis, and a few become close friends. “It’s the same process as making friends in real life, only on paper.”

Tracie’s group is for women only, and she believes many have joined because they want a female connection. “They’re tired of men’s...” she pauses, before saying a word we can’t print.

But you get the idea!

Interestingly, Tracie says a growing number of writers in the group she belongs to are under the age of 20. Just what is it about a snail mailed letter that’s such a wonderful thing?

“Someone has actually taken time out of their day to really connect with you on a more personal level

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Midwinter Christmas Fairlie, gateway to the Mackenzie country The plan was to go to Fairlie, South Canterbury for a midwinter Christmas.

About half of my family live in the Bay of Plenty, and most of the rest live in Canterbury. Grabaseat is a favourite phone app, and social media has become an important tool for keeping connected.

The two-island spread began on leaving college, when I headed to a two-week holiday on a childhood friend’s cousin’s sheep farm in Fairlie.

I could have gone to Sydney to visit an uncle and aunt, but on a whim headed to unknown people on an unknown farm, not knowing it would be a pivotal life-changing moment.

Two of the local Fairlie lads then came north for a visit to our Bethlehem kiwifruit orchard, eventually marrying two of my four sisters.

My Mum now has 18 grandchildren and 15 greatgrandchildren, with another two on the way.

Fairlie is a small town of around 800 people, about two and half hours from Christchurch. At one end of the township there are two petrol stations and the volunteer fire station; and at the other end is Moreh, which was built as a hospital in 1912 but now operates as a home for elderly.

Known as the gateway to the Mackenzie country, it’s 21km from Fairlie to Burkes Pass, 43km to Lake Tekapo, and 148km to Aoraki/Mt Cook.

I had last visited five years ago, again during winter,

for a family wedding. Since then, my childhood friend, who had himself moved to Fairlie, had died.

I’d been unable to attend his funeral so this was also a chance to say goodbye to him as well as spend time with family.

My sister Bev Bell and husband Murray live on Lambrook Farm, which was owned by his parents before him. They have added farm cottages and Bev is an award-winning photographer. My sister Yvonne Shaw and husband John recently relocated back from Nelson, buying two Fairlie houses and opening one as an Airbnb. She’s off to represent New Zealand in a triathlon in South Africa in September.

Unbeknown to John, the plan for a midwinter Christmas was actually a ruse for Yvonne to throw him a surprise 60th birthday. She succeeded!

Peace Avenue runs through the main Fairlie shopping area and is planted with trees commemorating the end of WWI. The town has sprung to life in the five years since I was last there.

An art gallery called 77 Art+Living with ‘Paris Fairlie London’ blazoned across its window gives an air of city vogue.

Gallery owner Bella Miller has been in New Zealand for seven years with husband and artist Charlie.

“Before that we were 20 years in Scotland, but we’re both Australian,” says Bella. “We moved to Queenstown first because we had a house there.

“But we found our dream house in Fairlie. Eight acres of land. Big studio for Charlie.”

I ask what her favourite thing is about Fairlie.

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“It’s hard to imagine living anywhere else apart from Tauranga, but then I visit Fairlie again, and find that some of my heart is there too”

“Community,” says Bella. “We’ve always wanted to be in rural New Zealand and this is proper rural New Zealand with a heart and a soul and a great community. It’s brilliant. We couldn’t have picked a better place. Nothing was here when we arrived.

“The bank had just closed. The bakery was there.

“But in a very short space of time it’s become a place where people stop for more than just a pee, some fuel and a pie.”

Famous for their venison, pork belly, and salmon and bacon pies, the Fairlie Bakehouse often has people lining up out the door waiting to buy a pie.

“It’s drawn people in,” says a local real estate agent.

“They stop for lunch, and then they browse.”

Matilda and the Metal Man, JR’s General Store, The Little Red Fox, and the opossum merino shop have flourished alongside.

“We have a huge number of buyers looking for short and long-term rentals,” says the real estate agent. “Also buying for Airbnb, investments to put Tekapo workers in, and standard buyers looking for homes to come and live here.”

The average quarter-acre three-bedroom house price is $320-330,000, and a three-bedroom house rents for $300-$350 per week.

Daniel Heslip, who has lived in Fairlie all his life, opened The Great Outdoors and More last Easter and hires out camping, fishing, bike, boating and hunting gear. The shop used to be a Westpac bank. Behind the shop he is setting up a nine-hole Mackenzie-themed mini-putt course.

Murray remembers when the Mount Dobson ski

field opened in 1979, as he was working there that day. About 40 minutes from Fairlie in the direction of Tekapo, it’s popular and family-oriented.

Also on the way to Tekapo is the Garage Gallery.

With metal sculpture and paintings from local artists, it’s a great place to stop, as is Burkes Pass.

The day after John’s party we drove through to Lake Tekapo, with some attending the service at The Church of the Good Shepherd while others waited on hot drinks.

It’s hard to imagine living anywhere else apart from Tauranga, but then I visit Fairlie again, and find that some of my heart is there too. Rosalie Liddle Crawford

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August,2015 2018 life+style The Weekend Sun 2110August, Merata Mita

Women of the Bay Merata Mita, pioneering film maker Hepi Mita was quietly working away in the national film archive in Wellington when Cliff Curtis asked him to go for a coffee.

“Cliff said he was starting a production company and wanted a documentary on my mother to be one of his first projects,” says Hepi.

Hepi’s mother Merata Mita was a pioneering Māori filmmaker and activist from Maketu who became a champion of women in indigenous film.

She worked with the BBC and National Geographic, moved to Hollywood to live for many years, and was the first Māori woman to write and direct a narrative feature ‘Mauri’ in 1988. She died in 2010.

“I thought about it,” says Hepi.

“My initial thought was if someone else was to do that and direct it, that would really annoy me, so I thought I may as well do it.”

As a film archivist at Ngā Taonga Sound and Vision, he had access to interviews and footage of his mother.

The resulting documentary ‘Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen’ explores her life, and was premiered at the NZ International Film Festival in Auckland in early August.

Hepi was the keynote speaker at the Te Ata film forum at Otamarakau in May and explained how he’d wanted to premiere the documentary near Maketu.

“I always wanted to launch it here because of the connections,” says Hepi, who spent his early years with his parents in Hollywood. “I holidayed near Maketu when I was little.”

His mother was the first Māori woman to have written and directed a feature film.

“That was thirty years ago in 1988 and she’s still the only one to have done that.

“That really stands out for a few reasons – how hard it was for a woman to do that on her own back then, especially a Māori woman, and the fact that we still haven’t reached that height again is kind of shocking.”

Merata took up film making as a tool for telling the stories of the social conditions around her. When she died, she was in the middle of looking at the issues around child abuse in our communities, and was planning to make a documentary about that.

It’s been said that she wasn’t making a point with her film making, but that the point had already been made by the social conditions she experienced around her, and she was speaking to that point.

At the forefront of Bastion Point, she made ‘Bastion Point: Day 507’, a confronting film about the eviction of Ngāti Whātua from their ancestral lands on Takaparawhau Bastion Point in January 1977.

In 1983, she filmed ‘Patu!’, the documentary about the 1981 Springbok tour protests.

“She always said if I don’t do it who is going to do it,” says Hepi. “I was very passionate about making this documentary to celebrate her, and to educate ourselves about this whole generation.”

Merata’s life traces a number of decades. Hepi’s documentary is not just about her, but reflects back to us our attitudes about women, being a mother, being a mother who has something to say, and being a mother making a difference.

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“Hepi’s documentary is not just about her, but reflects back to us our attitudes about women, being a mother, being a mother who has something to say, and being a mother making a difference”

It’s a fitting moment, for this film to be released during the 125th year since women won the right to vote in NZ. “In my mother’s case, she was a solo mum in the 70s, living in Auckland with five kids. There were land confiscations around the corner from her house at Bastion Point, and police were being sent on to the land and taking people away.”

Merata had been involved as a liaison person showing locations to overseas film crews, mostly from Germany and Japan, and getting them contacts at different marae around the country. She was also a teacher.

“She realised her responsibility was to use the tools that those people were bringing to the country for our own purposes to film what was happening here. She could see there was a problem here and felt that people needed to see what was happening.

She thought ‘I’m going to grab the camera and show people what is going on’. So, that was her path.”

Soon after Merata wrote and directed her first feature film, Hepi was born, and the family moved

to Hollywood.

“My father was also a film maker, working in Hollywood, so that’s where we grew up. My mum grew up 15 minutes down the road at Maketu, and the centre of her world was the wharenui, with very humble origins. We lived in Los Angeles, so for mum to be working in the film industry was to be expected.”

Then the family would come home to the Bay of Plenty and it was a two-lane road and four-hour drive back into the middle of nowhere. “Just farms, and a couple of maraes and whanau, and I loved it.

“But at the same time, I always wondered how did a girl from Maketu growing up in the 1940s then go on and start making films over in Hollywood?

“That was one of the things that motivated me and drove me, one of the questions I wanted to explore when making my film.”

Screenings of Hepi Mita’s film Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen will be held at Rialto on August 29 and September 4, as part of the Suffrage 125 national event programme. Rosalie Liddle Crawford

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Good for the heart and sole Inspiring women to be active

Jo Henderson and Tessa Forlong are now keen runners after joining Miranda Clark, right, in her women’s running groups.

Photos: Nikki South

Miranda Clark, former event director of the Generation Homes Women’s Triathlon, started a running group in September last year for women who wanted to learn how to run 5km. More than 100 women took up the 10-week challenge.

“I decided I wanted to keep the momentum going so I did it again in March, with 65 ladies joining, and my current group has about 30 ladies,” she says.

When the women ‘graduate’ they have the option of progressing to a casual running group held in the grounds of Bethlehem College on a Thursday night, with a second location soon to be added at Arataki Park in Mount Maunganui.

Miranda, an ACC consultant and multisport coordinator for the AIMS Games, coaches some of the groups herself, as well as employing a coach.

“Now that the running groups are becoming popular I’ve put my business hat on and bundled them up into a brand, Heart and Sole, with the tagline ‘Inspiring women to be active’.”

The Women’s Zero to 5km programme costs $50 and the Women’s 4km+ programme $25, with the next intake starting on Thursday, September 6.

“For me, it’s about affordability and access,”

says Miranda.

As well as regular running groups, Heart and Sole will offer a regular Women’s Run Series with 2.5km and 5km options.

Among Miranda’s first runners were Jo Henderson and Tessa Forlong from her social indoor netball team.

“When I started my running group in September they came along and have continued to turn up every week.

“Now we’re about to do an 11km run together.”

Jo says she had never been a runner before joining the group but was willing to give it a go. It was tough getting started. “We moaned a lot. We’d start off with 30 seconds and we’d be moaning, and now we can run 10km without stopping.”

Running in a group is a definite advantage, says Jo. “If you went out by yourself it would be quite a bit harder to motivate yourself to go.

“With a group we’re all in the same position so we yell encouragement at each other.”

Tessa joined the group after a long absence from running.

“All the ladies are different ages, sizes, and abilities so it’s a really fun group and a great way to meet your running goals. Everyone has a laugh along the way and there is no judging.

“It’s an enjoyable way to learn to run, and you forge some awesome friendships.”

To find out more about the running groups contact Miranda on 021 449 466, or email info@eventsmadeeasy.co.nz Kerry Mitchell

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Aviation passion Restoring and preserving history If Tauranga has no museum, how does one explain Classic Flyers? Tucked away in Hangar Three, a group of volunteers with a passion for aviation are tinkering with old machinery and parts. They are quietly and methodically restoring and preserving aviation history for future generations.

Garry Bentley, Classic Flyer’s retail sales manager and volunteer coordinator, introduced me to them.

“They have the satisfaction of often seeing a lot of what they work on come to life,” says Garry.

“Many of the planes we restore actually operate.

They’re able to start them up and run them.”

Classic Flyers has been operating since 2005.

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“While supported by the council and local businesses,” says Garry, “our operating income is derived from our hospitality facets such as the café and business function facilities.”

The museum has a generous support base as well, with over 2000 members. “Many of them are financial members, and then we have volunteers who give up their time to help the whole place run smoothly.

“Like many museums we operate on a mixture of community goodwill and the locals’ passion.”

That passion is evident while observing the work going into the latest restoration.

It’s a Grumman TBF Avenger Torpedo Bomber from World War II, it’s been stripped down, and its parts are lying all over the hangar.

An American torpedo bomber initially developed for the United States Navy and Marine Corps, it was eventually used in the 1960s by aviation services around the world. George Bush senior was known to have piloted one during the war. This aircraft was shipped to NZ from the US at some point, and managed to survive somehow.

“It was discovered in a farmer’s paddock in Auckland,” says Garry. “We brought it down here just under a year ago. When it came to us it looked a lot worse than it does now. There was a tree growing out of one of the wings, and the fuselage was full of concrete. We stripped it right back, chipped all the concrete out and took the tree out of the wing.”

A second restored Grumman Avenger sits outside.

“This one came to us from the Gisborne Museum, and when it arrived on the back of a truck it was a

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“Like most museums around the world, we have way more gear than we can display”

wreck. The guys restored it. They can start it up, open and close the wings, and taxi it.”

Behind us, men are working on a wing of the second Avenger. The corroded panels have been taken off, and will be either repaired or replaced with locally sourced aluminium.

Nearby are jet engines brought back from a recent trip to the South Island. Someone had the 12 engines sitting in his building in Blenheim, and they’ve ended up at Classic Flyers. A Vampire, operated by the RNZAF in the 1950s, also waits to be restored to operational status.

Hangar Three is not only an engineering workshop, it has an aviation archive library located at the back of the hangar.

“We store a lot of the stuff that gets donated to us by people who may have had it in their attic,” says Garry.

“Somebody passed away, they don’t know what to do with it, so they bring it along to us and we’ll archive it.

Sometimes items go on display in our hangars.

“Like most museums around the world, we have way more gear than we can display.”

Bruce Chapman, one of the volunteers, is applying a green primer base to part of a gun turret. Stripped right back, the turret is being reconstructed. A founding member of Classic Flyers, Bruce was a commercial pilot for Air NZ for many years, finishing up on 747s.

He brings his engineering skills to the team and recalls the first plane they restored.

“We started the aircraft restoration a few years after Classic Flyers got going. Our first major job was the P40 Kittyhawk. Our next major restoration was the

first Avenger.”

The Kittyhawk with the shark painted on its nose is on show in the first hangar, and the Avenger is the completed plane outside from Gisborne.

“We’ve probably got about 18 months’ work to get this Avenger finished. It will be a static display only because of corrosion.

“When we get finished, the engine will run and the wings, which are hydraulically controlled, will operate.

“The bomb bay doors will open. And hopefully it will have brakes on it and we’ll taxi it around.”

On the weekends, an old open top fire truck plays a key role in children’s birthday parties.

“On average we do three parties a day each weekend,” says Garry. “Specific volunteers drive the truck, and all the kids, mums, and dads can go for a ride down the taxiway and back tooting the old klaxon horn.”

Classic Flyers is a museum where you can climb inside exhibits and touch them.

“We’re always looking for new volunteers,” says Bruce. “We’ve got a ton of work to keep us going for a few years yet. We’ve got two other aircraft here, and also there’s a 1950’s Meteor Jet coming in.”

Wednesdays and Fridays the restoration work continues on. Pulling off the old and damaged, repairing or riveting on the new. It’s a museum alive with people, passion, friendship and love.

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