Summer Times asked 12 Otago people to describe the best
day of their lives. (To ensure variety, we ruled out the day
contributors met their partners, married them, or their
children were born.)
Glenys Ker has seven qualifications to her name, a successful
career in management and education, and her own business, oh,
and she just happens to be married to Otago Polytechnic chief
executive Phil Ker.
Walk into Kevin Tattersall's Signal Hill home and you are
greeted by a series of photographs covering each step of its
construction. Rebecca Fox finds out more about the passive
solar home that has changed the Tattersall family's life.
Dunedin writer Edith Leigh visits Springbank Farm, near
Palmerston, and finds a shared love of horses creates a
strong bond between mother and daughter.
With the 2012 London Olympics just around the corner, we
thought we would look back at some of our favourite Olympic
moments. Today, Otago Daily Times sports reporter
Alistair McMurran looks at curling skip Sean Becker at the
2006 Turin Winter Games.
A sea kayak is the perfect craft from which to explore our
beautiful coastline and observe our rich marine life. Dunedin
kayaker Maggie Oakley shares her favourite voyages close to
the city.
Who would buy a steep, scrub-covered, pocket
handkerchief-sized slice of rural land with no water supply?
Ian and Fliss Butcher would. Allison Rudd talks to the couple
transforming their difficult plot into an oasis.
