Teddy Tahu Rhodes – Bass Baritone Martinborough Music Festival Friday 23 – 25 September Martinborough Town Hall This year’s Festival will feature another classical singer as part of the programme of concerts – NZ Bass Baritone, Teddy Tahu Rhodes. (The previous singer to feature was soprano, Jenny Wollerman in 2019). …
After watching the news on Ukraine and seeing the soldiers desperately trying to protect their homeland, Willow Kershaw wanted to do something to help. The idea of a lunchtime BBQ with a sausage sizzle and selling baking on the last day of school was put into action. Willow approached Mr …
The Waiohine River Plan is a document that should draw the attention of anyone that has even a slight interest in local government wherever their location. Recently adopted by Greater Wellington Regional Council on 7 April, this plan has its roots back in the late 1990s when investigations on the …
Cape Palliser Road winds its way along one of the wildest stretches of coast in the world. A dramatic rise in severe weather conditions in recent years have also increased the number of road closures at the Cape, cutting off residents and creating expensive damage. It’s an ideal environment for …
Dark chocolate makes your gut happy according to a new study published by the Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry. Participants in a clinical trial who were randomly assigned to eat very dark chocolate containing 85% cocoa had positive changes in mood and higher levels of blauia – a type of gut bacteria known to be present in greater volumes in healthy people
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star,
How I wonder what you are,
Up above the World so high,
Like a Diamond in the sky
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
How I wonder what you are … Continue Reading
Its that time of the year again when the daylight hours start to shorten, the weather a little cooler and the colours a little more dynamic. This season this is happening against a backdrop of NZ and Martinbotough opening up to international visitors and the dropping off of some of the public health rules and orders.
One of the big problems we experienced during the pandemic was getting labour for the many hospo jobs that our members had. … Continue Reading
The Karapoti Rata is estimated as being 1000 to 1500 years old, was discovered in 2008, and is hidden deep in the Akatarawa Forest.
5 trampers from Greytown joined up with 6 from Eastbourne, led by Peter who had located the tree, and had devised routes to it, partly along existing tracks, logging routes, and stream beds, with new sections of route as necessary. Our route took us up a steep slope and through dense bush. There were many tracks, some quite indistinct, but Peter knew every turning. … Continue Reading
With Rozanna Muriwai, as the new president of the Martinborough Bowling Club, the Club is humming. “When we returned from Bahrain 2 years ago, we wandered down to the Bowling Green to check it out. Both my husband and I love bowling, says Rozanna. We joined. The social side of …
The South Wairarapa Okinawan Goju Ryu karate club is continuing to grow in both numbers and achievements, and it was great to see two Martinborough locals recently achieve their Shodan (blackbelts) in September this year. Mother and daughter, Clare and Bonnie Miller, travelled to Dunedin with Senpai Anna Borjesson and …
It’s not often that two members of the same family compete for the winning place in the Womens’ Silver Golf Championships. But that is just what took place at the Martinborough Golf Club Sunday 7th November. Debbie Donaldson and Anna Posseniskie, the daughters of Viv and Martin Napier, went head …
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