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New year, new office, new garden!
I hope you had a lovely break – and your 2014 got off to a great start. Personally, I’m feeling really good about this year – in fact, I reckon it’s going to be a ...
The habits of happy people
I was chatting to my cousin the other day – he lives in Canada, so we were using a phone app called Voxer (which is a cool new way to communicate, but that’s another story) ...
Send in your beer ideas and win
Ah, beer. It is, as Homer Simpson once wisely put it, the cause of, and solution to, most of life’s problems – and right now it’s solving one of my most pressing problems: the blasted ...
They’re boring, but by crikey they’re bright…
I don’t know how it goes with you, but in our house there are two very different attitudes to money.
The LED revolution has started
One of the advantages of working in publishing is that when your magazine has a really great story, you get to read it before everyone else – which is why I dashed down to the ...
Strawberries in winter
One swallow does not a summer make, they say, and one strawberry doesn’t equal global warming – though I did scratch my head when the plants at the front of my house produced fruit on ...
The truth about lightproof milk bottles
Home-delivered milk seemed so sensible, didn’t it? I never understood why that system stopped.
“Anyone for a dried banana? Honestly, they’re delicious.”
Come snack o’clock in the office, I always like to offer my workmates some of what I’m eating.
What are your best tips for saving water?
We had a lively debate in the office a few weeks back about whether Kiwis really care about saving water.
Conservation cat-astrophe? Gareth Morgan stirs up the pot
Gareth Morgan sure knows how to stir up controversy, huh? His campaign to control cats in New Zealand has really touched a nerve.