Community Garden News  

It was great to start the month with a visit from the Martinborough Down to Earth Garden Group. Many of the visitors had not been to the garden previously, so it was good to welcome them and share our trials, tribulations and successes. The visit was made a little spectacular as we ripped up what was left of our much celebrated kumara patch during the visit… we had discovered that a despicable rat had burrowed into the patch and gnawed away at a number of our prize kumara’s !!!! Oh! The patience that is required to garden!  … Continue Reading

Alas

Alas! What various tastes in food

Divide the human brotherhood!

Birds in their little nests agree

With Chinamen, but not with me.

Colonials like their oysters hot … Continue Reading

Homecoming – A Salon Concert with an Historical Theme

This year marks a century since New Zealand-born soprano Rosina Buckman undertook an epic homecoming tour, after her farewell concert in London to an audience of 10,000 in the Royal Albert Hall. In Rosina’s entourage were cellist Adelina Leon and pianist-composer Percy Kahn. They performed more than 110 concerts to capacity audiences the length and breadth of New Zealand and Australia over a period of ten months.

100 years later, the well-known soprano Rowena Simpson joins the established Hammers & Horsehair duo, pianist Douglas Mews and cellist Robert Ibell, to present a vivid reimagining of that 1922 tour in a salon concert called “Homecoming”. … Continue Reading

Blast from the past