Summer Times

Annie Close has wanted her own church since she was a teenager and now she has one. Staff writer Allison Rudd spoke to her about her acquisition and the huge restoration job she and her husband Greg are undertaking.

With knitting, crocheting and other wool crafts regaining popularity, Otago Daily Times reporter Sarah Marquet talks to a Central Otago family running an artisan wool business - Touch Yarns.

Like many collectors, Norm McRobbie has a hard time finding space to keep everything.

Rebecca Farrell The Packing Shed Gallery and Cafe and The Courthouse Cafe Alexandra.

They do it for love, not money, and readers of the Otago Daily Times sports pages over the past few decades should be thankful for that. They are the long-serving ''stringers'', or contributing writers. In the final of three profiles, sports editor Hayden Meikle talks to football guru Rab Smith.

Whether you're on foot this summer or on two wheels, Queenstown and its surrounds provide tracks for all fitness levels. Otago Daily Times reporter Olivia Caldwell, in Queenstown, has supplied an A-Z guide on the area's biggest, best and hidden tracks to try out this summer.

Alongside the hustle and bustle of State Highway 1, a South Otago couple has carved out their own slice of rural heaven - in the former Milburn Presbyterian Church near Milton. Otago Daily Times reporter Helena de Reus takes a look inside the private home.

Otago Daily Times technology editor Dene Mackenzie has sourced a product that could be your saviour if travelling unknown roads on your summer holiday.

Darren Watson Portside Restaurant and Bar Oamaru Harbour.

A true southern man, Pete Moffat does not just drink Speight's, he compiles a history of the Dunedin brewery by collecting anything and everything associated with it.