Gardening: Chop trees before they're a problem
Until a week ago we had a 30m-plus eucalyptus behind our house. It was a gorgeous thing, obviously much older than I, and I was very emotionally attached to it.
Until a week ago we had a 30m-plus eucalyptus behind our house. It was a gorgeous thing, obviously much older than I, and I was very emotionally attached to it.
Amid-winter warm-up is a great excuse for travelling in the cooler months, and Australia's leading lady is seasoned in the art of perking up visitors' winter blues.
Intrepid My Adventure Store has an eight-day tour of Tuscany including five nights' hotel accommodation, two nights on a farm estate.
If you're serious about collecting wines of rarity and significance, then you could do worse than cast your eye over the offerings at the 22nd Hawke's Bay Winegrowers' Charity Fine Wine Auction this Queen's Birthday weekend.
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Join the conversationThe collapse of a garment factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, last month drew worldwide attention to the fashion industry's production processes.
Join the conversationTodd Forsyth must have shares in a fuel company to run this much-modified 1974 MGBGT, spotted racing at Pukekohe one recent rainy Saturday.
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