Timaru District is the ideal coastal location for families, foodies, art and culture buffs, lovers of the outdoors and adventure seekers. Made up of rural farmland, rugged coast and sandy beaches – and the urban areas of Timaru City, Geraldine, Pleasant Point, and Temuka.
Read MoreOn 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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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.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreMaking 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.
Read MoreOne-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 …
Read MoreIf 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.
Read MoreAsk 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.
Read MoreEnduring 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.
Read MoreIf 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.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreA 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.
Read MoreChristchurch 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.
Read MoreExperience 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?
Read MoreDrawn 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.
Read MoreIt’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.
Read MoreIn 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.
Read MoreThe 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
Read MoreIt 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.
Read MoreTime 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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