Library News

This is possibly the very best time of year in the library.  You may wonder why – it is because the new financial year has begun and I get the book budget.  As you know from previous missives I am always enthusiastic about buying new books for the library.  In fact over the last year I bought over 150 books in response to customer requests as well as quite a few DVDs. … Continue Reading

Letters

POETRY 
As a long time, happy Martinborough resident I look forward to the Star each month to keep me up with the goings on in our small community.  We live in a multicultural and diverse village and I like to think that this is reflected in the content of the paper.  Therefore I was appalled to see what amounts to hate speech being passed off as a poem in the June edition. … Continue Reading

Did you know

TEN THOUSAND New Zealand grandparents are bring up seventeen thousand of their grandchildren whose parents are unable to due to their P addiction.

EVERY YEAR in New Zealand five million worn tyres are discarded. 5% are re-cycled but most simply end up in land fills. In Europe 95% of worn tyres are re-cycled, in Japan and America 80% are re-cycled.
‘THE PRESIDENT IS seventy, he wants a golf score of sixty and his country in the fifties’ Seth Myers
TWENTY NINE PERCENT of Americans believe that UFOs and aliens exist but proof of their existence is kept secret by the US Government. … Continue Reading

Cooking corner

Leek, potato & smoked fish soup

Ingredients
1 tbsp 
vegetable oil
1/2 medium  
leek, chopped
2 cloves 
garlic, crushed
500 g 
potato, peeled and diced
1 litre 
water
2 tsp 
vegetable stock powder
175 ml 
 evaporated milk
90 g 
smoked fish, flaked
1/4 cup parsley, chopped … Continue Reading