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    Your Garden

    Chrysanthemums. Photo: Getty Images

    Your Garden

     What to do in your garden this week.

    Garden full of character

    Barry and Michelle Gillan’s Alexandra garden is shaded by cherry and gleditsia trees and is home...

    Garden full of character

    A garden which is normally showcased in spring, has plenty of interest year round,  Louise Frampton finds.

    New ways with plums and cucumbers

    PHOTOS: GARETH SAMBIDGE

    New ways with plums and cucumbers

    Helen Graham serves up clever ways to use plums and cucumbers.

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    Laughing matters

    Alan Davies performs his Think Ahead show at Dunedin's Regent Theatre in August. PHOTO: TONY BRIGGS

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    Laughing matters

    Comedy need not limit itself to the funny stuff, Alan Davies tells Tom McKinlay.

    The shared world of our villages

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    The shared world of our villages

    Human connection is what underpins community and a person’s village.

    Community collaboration, creative connection

    Otago Polytechnic fashion graduates photographed at a shared studio in central Dunedin. Photo:...

    Community collaboration, creative connection

    Emerging designers and fashion creatives from across the motu will converge on Auckland this week to celebrate innovation and diversity, through a series of fashion shows and events.

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    Riding out cycle

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    Riding out cycle

    A question I’m asked frequently is "how are things in Marlborough"?

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    Corn fritters with bacon, lime cream & hot honey

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    Corn fritters with bacon, lime cream & hot honey

    This corn fritter recipe is easy to make and jazzed up with all the extras you might find at your local cafe but easily put together at home over a long weekend.

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    Oven-roasted corn with chilli lime butter

    Photo: Simon Lambert

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    Oven-roasted corn with chilli lime butter

    Sweet corn is hitting its stride right now. 

    One-pot wonders

    One-pot wonders

    Beautiful things can be made in one pot, pan or tray, United Kingdom food influencer, chef and author Poppy O’Toole says.

    When you have an itch to scratch

    A pectinate claw visible on a savanna nightjar (formerly the Indian nightjar). Photo: Tūhura...

    When you have an itch to scratch

    Some birds have no problem putting their finger on the source of an irritating problem, Marcus Richards writes.

    Cuddling up to the computer

    Alicia Vikander in the film Ex Machina.

    Cuddling up to the computer

    We are increasingly looking to digital companions to satisfy our emotional needs, James Muldoon writes in his new book Love Machines.

    Two visions of the same aurora

    Two visions of the same aurora

    Autumn has arrived in Middlemarch.

    Gypsum proves to be a remarkable preserver of Roman history

    A gypsum burial from York reveals two adults, buried with an infant lying between them. A family...

    Gypsum proves to be a remarkable preserver of Roman history

    Liquid gypsum is used today to improve the quality of clay soil, but in Roman times, it had a quite different application.

    Richly rustic

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    Richly rustic

    Helen Graham serves up veg-forward dishes to celebrate textures and contrasts.

    A pinch and a trim - growing incentives

    Mint (Mentha) is an example of a plant that responds well to trimming.

    A pinch and a trim - growing incentives

    Trimming plants while they are in cultivation can have many benefits.

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    Burn time

    TikTok will tell you that nothing beats the UV at a New Zealand beach. It’s messaging that public...

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    Burn time

    Another summer has left its legacy of sunburn as skin cancer warnings lose a battle with online influencers.

    Slow down for secondhand style

    Wastebusters mending club is a place of connection, fixing and skill sharing. From left are Zack...

    Slow down for secondhand style

    There is a pair of jeans in my wardrobe I have worn and patched and worn again more times than I can count.

    Your Garden

    Humans have been gathering blackberries (left)  for thousands of years.

    Your Garden

    What to do in your garden this week.

    Scrolling in a sewer

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    Scrolling in a sewer

    What do teenage boys see on TikTok?
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