NORTH CANTERBURY WINE AND FOOD FESTIVAL
On Sunday the 8th of March, the coolest little wine festival in the country is back, bringing the good times to Glenmark Domain. Join in and celebrate the expressive flavours of North Canterbury, with a day of feasting, drinking, and grooving under the oaks.
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MUSIC AT THE MILL
Aspiring singers, songwriters, and music producers will take their places in the ground floor of the restored Wood’s Mill heritage building in Addington from this month as Sacha Vee’s SOLE Music Academy gets underway there.
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CREATIVITY IN THE HEART OF THE CITY
The Central Art Gallery is now three years old. A vision born of five local stakeholder families to offer exhibition and selling opportunities to contemporary New Zealand artists in central Christchurch, post-quake.
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BEAUTY IN EVERY FORM
Making up a magical woodland at the far end of The Tannery, Mrs Bottomley’s Flowers is a place of whimsy and quirk – set to reflect the very nature of its namesake: matriarch of the business Liz’s maternal grandmother, Millie Eleanor Watkins – aka Millicent Bottomley.
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TWO NEW PRECINCTS FOR THE CBD
One-third of the vacant, undeveloped private land in Christchurch’s CBD east of the Ōtākaro/Avon River is set to be transformed by the new ‘North of the Square’ development. The half-billion-dollar …
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LIVING LIFE, LIVING WELL
If ever there was a recipe to take age in one’s stride, Natalie has crafted it. In one of the newly completed lifestyle apartments at Arvida Park Lane, nestled in a canopy of protected oaks, Natalie sits in “her treehouse” with a well-loved sewing machine.
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GARDEN FOR YOUR LIFE
Ask any gardener, and they’ll tell you tending to plants is good for you. Taking time to connect with nature, relax, destress, and reflect brings untold benefits and combined with the gentle exercise and daily shot of vitamin D that gardening provides, it’s a winning formula.
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THE POWERS THAT CAN BE
Enduring powers of attorney (EPA) are excellent things! So, what exactly are they? They provide authority to someone you absolutely trust to carry out certain functions for you: to pay the monthly bills, to buy or sell property, or to make investment decisions for example.
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SKIN SOLUTIONS
If safety, experience, and fabulous looking skin is important to you, then you need to visit Dr Brigid Lee and Denise Prosser at The Skin Rejuvenation Clinic.
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THE A LIST - WINNERS
The A List quite simply is the very best of our city, decided by you - the readers. When we embarked on the initial planning for The A List, I don’t think any of the team expected the level of response we received - the volume of passionate and detailed response from Cantabrians meant, yes, there is so much to celebrate in Ōtautahi, and you jumped at the chance to include your picks for the best of the best.
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SITTING PRETTY
A premium site nestled on the cliffs above Moncks Bay in the seaside suburb of Redcliffs has been in the Cochrane family for two generations. John Cochrane’s parents built the first home on the site in the 1950s and moved there when he was four years old.
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A SUMMERTIME PICNIC
Christchurch is quite possibly the perfect picnic city. We have leafy parks and sandy beaches, places to ramble and places to loll about, warm summer days and long evenings, gently urging us to pack a hamper and go outdoors.
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THE ART OF GIFTING
Experience really does help when you are tasked to come up with the perfect gift. It’s a struggle for many – what to get for the boss, those closest to you, or even that neighbour who feeds your cat while you’re on holiday?
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HARMONY FROM THE HEART
Drawn together by a love of a capella singing in 2011, The Vocal Network is a Christchurch barbershop quartet whose sweet soulful sound is pure championship gold.
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WANAKA TAKES FLIGHT
It’s world-famous for a very good reason. Warbirds Over Wanaka International Airshow combines the very best of a country airshow with some of the best flying you’ll see in the world, the latest aviation technology and products, education and pyrotechnics along with great food and entertainment.
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NEW YEAR, NEW BABY?
In the New Year, women and couples often decide ‘this is the year for a baby – let’s make it happen’. Your first port of call is to seek information – to get an understanding of your own unique situation.
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SUMMER BLISS
The quintessential New Zealand summer holiday consists of a sweet and salty combination of the scorching sun, pounding surf, deep, refreshing river swims and long, balmy evenings spent around the campfire
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A TRUST TRANSFORMATION
It is often said that New Zealand has one of the highest rates of trusts per capita – the government estimates there are somewhere between 300,000 and 500,000 trusts operating in New Zealand.
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MOVING WITH THE TIDES OF TIME
Time flies as we all know, with Christmas very close now and yes- it only seems that last Christmas has just been, but the decorations are with us again. For us at Whittle Knight & Boatwood Ltd we are completing our 53rd year as a real estate company.
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RIDING TO WIN AT RICCARTON
Seasoned Christchurch jockey Terry Moseley clocked career win number 1000 at Riccarton Racecourse in 2017 and still loves nothing more than storming home there in first place. At 52, he’s just had his best South Island racing season ever having racked up 51 wins and a stakes tally of almost one million dollars.
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