By Aidan Ellims
You could take the Heather out of Martinborough, but no-one could ever take the Martinborough out of Heather.
She loved Martinborough and made a point of keeping up with everything that was going on in the town and its people. She also knew much of the town’s history.
She was passionate about teaching, Martinborough School, and all its children. … Continue Reading
LAST YEAR the ACC paid out over $74 million on covering the almost 74,000 kitchen related injury claims. The highest numbers and associated amounts in five years. “Pretty much anything in a kitchen can hurt or even kill you” commented chef Martin Bosley.
BRITAIN HAS become an electricity exporter, last year exporting electricity worth 3.1 billion pounds to Europe by undersea cable. The power surplus has been made available by the impressive expansion of numbers of wind and solar power stations.
“IT DOESN’T feel like I’m truly home for the holiday until I’ve taken my parent’s phone and said “here let me show you” at least twenty five times.” Seen on Twitter … Continue Reading
By Juliet Cooke
Ed and Juliet Cooke are very excited about this year’s concert series, entitled Piandemonium!
On 2 April internationally celebrated concert pianist Dr Jian Liu will give a recital of works by Debussy, Liszt and Beethoven. We are very fortunate to have Jian, who has performed at Carnegie Hall and the Lincoln Centre in New York, perform in Greytown.
Harpist Anna Christensen, originally from Masterton but recently returned to NZ after many years freelancing in the UK, will provide a snapshot of harp compositions from the 14th to the 21st centuries, on folk and concert harps, on 30 April. … Continue Reading
The Voyager space probes – Voyagers 1 and 2 – that are heading out of our galaxy and off after a 45-year mission to go where no one has gone before.
The identical little spacecraft – each equipped with a gold-plated LP featuring bird song and music to explain to alien life who we are on Earth – remain a marvel, a remnant of the ambitious United States space programme of the 1960s from an era before microprocessors. … Continue Reading
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