Life & Style

Mosgiel pensioner Jill Crichton. Photo: Gregor Richardson

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Sizing up the situation: how to downsize

Downsizing your home might seem like an obvious move once you retire or the children have left home, but it’s not always as straightforward as it seems, Kim Dungey reports.

Inclusive tikanga connects across the globe

Inclusive tikanga connects across the globe

My mum passed away three years ago so it seems appropriate to be writing this piece on my experience of kawe mate on the eve of her anniversary.

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Up the creek with a dawdle

A grassy walkway at Ross Creek Reserve. Photos: Clare Fraser

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Up the creek with a dawdle

Ross Creek is a reservoir of more than just water.

Learning from the forest’s path

Mere Tamanui and Sam Gibson talk about the roll of lowland forests in Think Like a Forest.

Learning from the forest’s path

Forests have been doing what they do forever, which makes you think.

Aurora’s unbidden beauty a reflection of life itself

Aurora’s unbidden beauty a reflection of life itself

The seasons are shifting, and with them so are the skies above Otago.

Sunken cities sound alarm

A crane hauls a statue from the sunken city of Canopus, Egypt. Photo: supplied

Sunken cities sound alarm

Tourists throng to the Greek theatre at Epidaurus, but very few venture further to the nearby shore, where, standing on a promontory on our first visit to Greece, my brother and I made out an...

Think. Shop. Store. Waste less

Love Food Hate Waste reminds us that behind every piece of produce is a story.

Fashion ethos based on experience

Otago Polytechnic master of design (fashion) graduand Yasomali Sandaruwani with her daughters...

Fashion ethos based on experience

Trying to fix a problem without finding its cause is like "changing pillows to get rid of a headache".

Adventitious buds help camellias stay in shape

Camellia 'Elizabeth de Rothschild' in flower at the Dunedin Botanic Garden. PHOTO: GREGOR RICHARDSON

Adventitious buds help camellias stay in shape

Spring has arrived and the camellias are in full bloom. Straight after they finish flowering is the best time to prune them.

Your garden

Your garden

What to do in your garden this week.

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NZ hospitals in context

Starship Children’s Hospital in Auckland includes bright colours and a glass-covered atrium to...

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NZ hospitals in context

As work on Dunedin’s new hospital is delayed amid disagreements and cost overruns, a new book looks at almost 200 years of hospital architecture in New Zealand.

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Working and rising together

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Working and rising together

Dunedin designer Katherine Inder of Katherine Anne talks to Josie Steenhart about sizing, sustainability, launching a label in the South and the power of community.

David Bowie archive to open in London

A costume owned and worn by David Bowie. Photo: Reuters

David Bowie archive to open in London

David Bowie straddled the worlds of music, fashion, drama and art, leaving behind an extensive collection of items from a five-decade career.

Toitū te whenua — series 2: History written on the land

Nicci Taylor was determined that the name should carry the location's history.

Toitū te whenua — series 2: History written on the land

In the first instalment of a new video series on Māori place names, Toitū te whenua, we visit Pūrākaunui, where mana whenua have reawakened the history that lies on the land.

Doing our utmost for the kākā

Kākā close up at Orokonui Ecosanctuary. PHOTOS: MAUREEN HOWARD

Doing our utmost for the kākā

By taking action based on a long-term plan, our gardens can be part of a welcoming urban forest mosiac for kākā to return to Dunedin, writes Maureen Howard.