Speaking in tongues
Speaking in tongues
For a few months, every couple of years since I was 20, I follow a predictable chain of events. I get enthusiastic, or the guilt climbs to a point where I cannot ignore it anymore, and I resolve to...
Simple treats your dogs will love
Simple treats your dogs will love
Our new but second-hand dog had no idea what these two strange humans were on about, and was completely confused about the rules in this new home of hers, writes Hilary Rowley.
Becoming a little more free
Becoming a little more free
With everything that’s been going on in the world, Plastic Free July has snuck up on me this year, writes Gina Dempster.
Celebrate Matariki with Maori-themed tour of the pre-dawn sky
Celebrate Matariki with Maori-themed tour of the pre-dawn sky
Today (Sunday) marks the end of the Puaka Matariki Festival. Celebrations have been taking place across Dunedin this week with a wonderful programme of events. Before European contact, Maori looked...
Winter wary
Winter wary
Winter can be a dangerous time for youngsters and I’m not talking Covid-19. I’m talking about home-heating, which presents all kinds of risks, writes parenting columnist Ian Munro.
What a tangled web
What a tangled web
This week the postie brought me a yellow-beige book-shaped packet. And I was excited, because surely, surely it was my long-awaited copy of The Tree and the Vine, writes Liz Breslin.
Winter a great time to chill out
Winter a great time to chill out
It’s that time of year when I want to indulge in a mix of eating half my bodyweight in comfort food every day and sleeping for at least 18 out of every 24 hours, writes life coach Jan Aitken.
Cutting corners an evocative subject
Cutting corners an evocative subject
Last week’s shortcuts story prompted a lot of feedback. Some people reminisced about their youthful shortcutting across Dunedin, while others shared new discoveries from lockdown walks.
Saturn, Jupiter putting on quite the show
Saturn, Jupiter putting on quite the show
This week, as the sun sets in the northwestern sky, Jupiter rises in the southeast. You can't miss the biggest planet in the solar system. It looks like an incredibly bright yellow-white "star".
Damned if you do
Damned if you do
Former Environment Minister, Marian Hobbs, has been ousted as chairwoman of an Otago Regional Council divided and damned over its management of water. How did it come to this? Bruce Munro investigates.
5 questions with: Grant Bayldon
5 questions with: Grant Bayldon
Grant Bayldon is national director of World Vision New Zealand.
Encountering yesterday’s peeps
Encountering yesterday’s peeps
Don’t know about you, but I’m a bit sick of old white guys at the moment (sorry Santa, but I’ll always cherish that Soda Stream), writes Lisa Scott.
Moving the freedom boundaries
Moving the freedom boundaries
Parenting columnist Ian Munro shares some thoughts on preparing children for high school.
Taking a shortcut
Taking a shortcut
Bruce Munro has compiled Dunedin’s top 10 shortcuts: a guide to the best clever, hidden, forgotten or, in some cases, barely existent paths, steps and tracks in Dunedin.
A long way from the sun
A long way from the sun
The Earth reached the high point of its orbit - our greatest distance from the sun this year - at the weekend. Astronomers call this moment aphelion, writes Ian Griffin.
Getting over it, moving on
Getting over it, moving on
Darryl Baser, a regular on the Dunedin music scene, has released his second album, appropriately titled #Secondselfie. It contains his signature combination of wit and melancholy, as well as collaborations with local artists.
5 questions with: Brian Turner
5 questions with: Brian Turner
Brian Turner, ONZM, is a poet who lives in Oturehua.
Catering for caring
Catering for caring
We can all care for the ways in which our food is produced.
Dealing with the sports-shy
Dealing with the sports-shy
Many youngsters are lapping up the return to freedom and, in particular, the return of sport. But there’ll be some who won’t seem the slightest bit interested, writes parenting columnist Ian Munro.
We need to talk about racism
We need to talk about racism
Hello, I’m a nice regular white person from a white town and I’m not a racist, but I’m getting a bit worried about all these racists on the news. What should I do? writes columnist Liz Breslin.
