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This is better than them going out and having an affair. It’s just sex, not an affair, not an emotional involvement. It’s purely a physical act, they pay me, I do a job ...
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It’s known as the oldest profession in the world and it’s probably the only job where the tools of trade and the skills required haven’t changed in centuries. That job is selling sex. It’s a universal business and in Ashburton, as it is in every other city and town in New Zealand, hooking is alive and well. Few who ply their trade here are locals; most are out-of-towners who visit, sell their services and move on. Reporter Sue Newman spent an aŌernoon with Andie, a woman whose place of work is a bedroom in an anonymous motel.
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ndie’s a saleswoman. She’s well dressed, well groomed, has an engaging personality with a sharp wit and a quick mind. In the tough world of sales, she’s one of the best, but unlike most saleswomen, you won’t o en see Andie. She’s low profile. The goods she plies are high class and they’re expensive. Her deals are done by phone but she delivers in person. Andie sells sex. She’s disarmingly frank about what she does and why she does it. “What I do is not what I’d choose to do, but I do it for the money. I’ve got a big, expensive house with a mortgage, I’ve got three kids and I want them to have a good future. I’m doing this just for the money.” Andie came to New Zealand as an exchange student, returned home for a short period and then came back on a university scholarship. Her first choice was law, but with English as a second language she found herself struggling. Commerce was a second choice, but once commi ed, she graduated and spent several years working as an accountant. “I became a solo mum when my second child was two months old and it became very hard for me. It was a constant ba le financially. Life wasn’t easy. I had a good job but raising three children, it just wasn’t enough. I couldn’t raise my kids the way I wanted and manage my mortgage.” And she’s ambi ous for her children. One’s a medical student, the other two are at private schools. And she admits she’s ambi ous for herself. Her tastes are too rich, her ambions too high for the money she can earn wearing a dressy suit. She can make far more with her clothes off. “I kept ge ng in more debt because of the greediness of my nature. The more you have the more you want. I kept circling around my debt and becoming depressed and stressed about it. I never dreamed I’d end up doing this, sex is not what I wanted to be doing.” She had friends in the sex industry and while she could understand why they did what they did she didn’t like the way they went about it, working for a minder, selling themselves on the street. Ever the businesswoman, Andie knew there had to be a way to package what she had in a way that le her totally in control. That meant working for herself, arranging her own deals, keeping herself safe. And, most of all, that meant trading sex for cash as far away from home as possible.
Making the decision was easy, making it happen was the hard part. “No-one trains you for this, no-one tells you what to do. The first me I really didn’t know what I was doing and the client said ‘you haven’t done this before my dear have you?’ I had to say no. I didn’t even know how to put a condom on.” But that first me also taught her the value of appearing innocent. “As long as you have the look it’s okay and the more innocent you are the more they like it. If you look good and you’re entertaining you can get away with saying, ‘no I don’t do that’.” She’s 46, looks 24, and in her game that’s a godsend. How you look dictates what you can charge and what you can get away with not doing. If you want kinky, if die’s you want dirty talk, Andie’s nt. not the woman you want. Her deal is straight sex with condoms, no kissing, very li le touching. “I tell them I’m not your girlfriend, I’m not your wife so I won’t kiss you. No saliva – anywhere.” f Andie’s been hooking for three years. Next year will be her last. Her debts will be paid off and she knows that me is running out for pulling the young, 24-year-old stunt. “This job is not easy. People who know nothing about it, think it is, but it’s hard and you can have some bad moments, some nasty customers. I’m responsible for my own life and I’ve learned to be tough. I set my own rules and they have to play by my rules.” It’s all about control. Once you give that away to a client you’re pu ng yourself at risk, Andie says. “In the sex industry, guys pay you a lot of money and they demand a lot, they want value for money, but I’ve set my own rules. I’m a professional doing this for money. My rules are if you want to play rough, I’m not the right person. I’m about normal sex with a condom.” Some mes her refusal to bend her rules means a lost client. That’s fine. The nice guys, the decent guys are happy with the deal. The rest can go elsewhere. Selling sex is not about enjoying sex, in fact Andie admits she really doesn’t like sex, never did. She doesn’t date, says she doesn’t need a
full me – or even part- me – man in her life. “When you do sex for a living, a lot of your clients want to take you out or they want to look a er you. I don’t want that. When you do that, you’ve had enough.” Her clients are all ages and from all walks of life. Most are middle-aged; she can’t be bothered with young guys, they’re too rough, want too much. She doesn’t get close to her clients, she’s not about social chat and personal issues. They pay cash, they get sex – good sex – have a shower and go home. Yes, many of them are married, but she doesn’t see sex with a pros tute as infidelity. “This is be er than them going out and having an affair. It’s just sex, not an affair, not an emo onal involvement. It’s purely a physi-
Selling sex is not about enjoying sex, in fact Andie admits she really doesn’t like sex, never did.
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cal act, they pay me, I do a job. It’s a business transac on. They s ll love their wife and family and they probably treat them miles be er a er this.” That transac on starts with a phone call. An appointment is made and before the allotted me Andie showers and carefully dresses in a short transparent skirt and g-string, topped with a ght bodice and completed with stockings and high boots. That’s part of se ng the scene, crea ng the fantasy. Some mes if a client asks, she’ll dress as a schoolgirl. “I talk to him, get him so he’s relaxed and not nervous, some mes I’ll do a massage. I’m not very good at that but they seem to like it. If you look good and you look sexy it only takes a short me; 15 minutes and it’s finished. Then they have a shower and maybe a cup of coffee and go home.” Some mes she’ll see a client on the street. She never acknowledges them. When they walk out the door they’re forgo en. But she does have regulars who book in whenever she’s in town. “My clients mostly are wonderful, I’ve only had to throw one or two out.
If they won’t listen to what I won’t do, then they have to leave.” And if you’re tossed out, there’s no refund. It’s money up front. “You pay before I do anything, before the skirt comes off. It’s all about money at the end of the day.” The sex industry runs around the clock. Hours are to suit clients. On a good day Andie earns more than $1000. That’s about eight sa sfied customers. “They don’t mind paying. They hand over the money fast enough, have sex and leave. The sex industry has standard rates, but if you’re good you can ask a bit more.” Some people look down on women who sell sex. She says she doesn’t look down on anyone. People do what they do for very good reasons and unless you understand those reasons – don’t judge. Success as a hooker is everything about the look and that’s young, a rac ve and high class. She’s lucky she says – cute bum, big ts and a small body. “If they look at you and you’re fat, old and ugly, then they may as well do it at home, but a lot of these guys don’t get sex at home anymore; their wives are just as happy with a cup of tea and a biscuit.” No-one knows what she does. Family members live with her to care for her children when she’s away. They think she’s a tour guide. “Yes, I’m a tour guide; I just don’t tell them the whole story.” And she laughs at the irony of a mum hooking so she can ensure her kids have the best possible start in life, so they can become decent, respectable adults. She’s bringing them up to have strong work ethics and to understand the value of money. “I’m one of the lucky ones, I’m well educated and I have something to fall back on. I know a lot of girls in the sex industry who don’t have an educa on and they’re stuck.” Andie comes from a large family. Her siblings are well educated and hold down good jobs. Some mes she feels guilty about what she does, but she knows life is about choices. This is the choice she’s made and it’s the price she pays for wan ng the best for her children and herself. “The way I look at this, it’s a business, nothing more, nothing less. It’s not bad. Look at this in a good way, if the client goes back to work, goes back to his family happy, then it’s been a good transac on.”
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oppy Donaldson has been in love with dancing since her first ballet class at the age of three. Since then, she’s tried her hand at a number of different styles and has found her foo ng in contemporary dance. But this year, the 18-year-old is taking her love of dance to the next level when she heads to The Edge Performers School in Melbourne on January 22. The course she chose to take will see her work on every style and she said it would be a completely different experience, with Australian dancing different to New Zealand. The experience will also help to build her skills as her ul mate dream is to have a performing arts company of her own one day, something she has wanted to do since beginning to teach younger students at the Big Li le Theatre Company. “I fell in love with teaching when I was about 15 and did my first lot of choreography for the company. “Since then, I’ve watched a lot of the students grow up and it’s just really cool to be able to teach something you’ve always done. “With dance, I just love that you can never stop learning because there’s just so much more – so one day, I want to pass that on to students of my own. I
want to dance for as long as I can, but I enjoy teaching just as much,” she said. Her teaching has also helped her grow as a dancer and she said every child can dance, some just need more encouragement than others. She’s come a long way since that first ballet class at three. She picked up jazz and hip hop, as well as ballet, and spent last year at the Hagley Dance Company doing contemporary, which quickly became her favourite. She finished high school at Villa Maria College and has always done musical theatre as well. Her final s nt in Ashburton was at the Big Li le Theatre Company summer theatre school at the Ashburton Trust Event Centre and saying goodbye was nged with sadness. She performed for the final me at the venue during the showcase evening following the week-long school. “I’ve always had the same dressing room and know the place inside out so it was sad to think it was the last me, for a while anyway. The hardest thing is leaving the kids,” she said. But she was looking forward to the new adventure, which will include a bit of singing and ac ng training as well. Once finished, the journey won’t be over as she also wants to complete her degree. As for further in the future – watch this space, she said.
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7 Marilyn Cross has been visiting Ashburton Borough School every Monday for the last six years to help children with their reading including Archie Schluter, 8, and Charlotte Ramsey, 9.
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A love of the written word By Amanda Durry
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very Monday morning, Marilyn Cross can be seen entering the gates at Ashburton Borough School. She isn’t coming to work, she isn’t coming to visit, she’s there to help. That’s every Monday morning for the past six years. The Ashburton woman developed her passion for words when she was just five years old and, to this day, loves poetry and the wri en word.
And it’s contagious because every Monday morning when she visits Borough School, she’s there to help children with their reading. Whether they read to her, or she reads to them, it all helps develop their love of words, she said. She became a reading mentor at the school through St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church many years ago and is the only one s ll coming. She works with mainly seven-, eight- and nine-year-olds but came with an en rely different thought in mind – she wanted to work
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Home-schooling gives plenty of opportunity for exploring the natural world for children like (from left) Mitchell, Grace, Sam, Zac, Toby and Ruby, with mum and aunt Andrea Woolf.
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develop that par cular skill. But homeschooling was not easy, and it was hard work for parents who not only had to teach their children at home, but make the effort to get out and a end learning ac vi es outside of the home. She said the Mid Canterbury Home Educators’ Group was a strong group of home-schooling parents which had organised ac vi es at least every week. “You have to create opportuni es for your children to socialise even when you don’t feel like it. It’s like a small military exercise to get outside each day. You do have to make a really good effort to be out there for your children. She believes home-schooling will be the best op on for her children as they move through teenage years, but is not ruling out undertaking some collegebased subjects when they are seniors. Meg said she had under-achieved at school and it was not un l her university years that she performed well academically. Daughter Ruby a ended Allenton School last year and home-schooling was an op on she was now looking forward to. She plans to draw on Andrea’s vast experience in organising and planning ac vi es. She believes her daughters would benefit from avoiding the nega ve peer pressure situa ons which developed at high schools. She had met others in the Mid Canterbury home-schooling group, and was impressed by the “strong and beau ful” teenage girls who were members. Meg, a website developer, also believed by home-schooling she could offer a good start for her daughters in computer-based learning, an important skill in today’s developing job market.
ou may have heard the term, “it’s in the cloud”, referring to the vague place where electronic informa on is stored. For all intents and purposes, the ‘cloud’ is the internet. Cloud compu ng is the delivery of compu ng as a service over the internet, rather than as a hardware product. It’s popularity is increasing, as the benefits in cost and reliability become apparent to businesses and consumers. Tradi onally, a business would operate its own computer hardware and so ware at its physical loca on. This could be prone to inefficiencies in use of power and expensive in terms of maintenance and regular overhauls. Cloud compu ng provides the so ware, its applica ons and storage over the internet via web browsers to desktop computers or mobile devices from servers (computers that ‘serve’ the requests of other ‘client’ computers) from remote loca ons – named data centres which are large buildings, dedicated solely to compu ng. These data centres are massive. The US has the world’s largest – The Lakeside Technology Centre in Chicago which spans 102,193 square metres. As cloud compu ng increases, more of these data centres will be needed to provide compu ng services to clients in the globalised digital economy. The data centres are high in electricity, with much of the energy consump on used for air-condi oning to keep the stacks upon stacks of computers cool. Countries close to the Arc c Circle have advantages as do areas with plenty of renewable electricity. With this in mind, fibre-op c cables are being laid between data hungry regions such as North America and Europe, and Iceland which has cold temperatures all year round along with renewable and geo thermal power. Canada, Finland, Sweden and Switzerland are extolling their virtues in this field also. Data centres can reduce electricity usage further by opera ng with no ligh ng and by being maintained remotely at a separate loca on. These data centres will have many clients that will use and pay for only as much capacity as they need. This efficient use of compu ng power was popularised by trail-blazing American internet retailer Amazon when it stumbled across cloud compu ng in 2006. A er the dot-com bubble burst, Amazon wanted to modernise its systems, save money and become more efficient. It discovered that like most computer networks, it used only 10 per cent of its capacity at any one me. The rest of the me was spent wai ng for unexpected spikes in ac vity. The company offered this spare capacity to external customers and cloud compu ng was born. An example of how having informa on stored in the cloud can benefit the home computer user is if your laptop broke down or was lost, your informa on would also be lost if it was stored on your computer. But now with internet-based so ware, the documents are stored in the cloud like Google Docs (an internet word processor) it can be accessed from any computer device with a web browser rather than being constricted to that one broken or lost computer. This shi ing of so ware func ons from the hardware devices of computers, phones or tablets and into the cloud has the benefit of making our burgeoning mobile devices last longer because ba ery power is not being eaten up by power-hungry applica ons on the device itself – all the work is being done in the cloud.
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your home. The most common is the common house borer (Anobium punctatum), although a close rela ve, A lavomaculatum, appears to be more common in Canterbury. However, all wood-boring insects need a en on and now is the ideal me for treatment of mbers to remove infesta on. Although you may not no ce the ny beetles that may be gnawing away at your home, you will no ce the tell-tale holes that borer leave in your woodwork. Adult females lay up to 100 eggs on bare mber or in old flight holes. The eggs hatch a er four to five weeks and the larvae spend the next two to four years tunneling inside your woodwork before exi ng as adult beetles through a flight hole 1-2mm in diameter. Making this escape is their final wooddestroying act. They emerge in order to breed, will not eat any more mber and will die within three to four weeks. As New Zealand homes get older, the damage to mber accumulates and a acked mber become progressively weaker. It is not uncommon for weatherboards, floorboards, joists and other structural mbers to need replacing due to weakness caused by borer. You may also need to make repairs to ensure other untreated mbers remain dry as the holes and labyrinths created by borer
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more extensive than it seems. This is because borer tends to a ack from the inside of the boards. The only long-term solu on is to replace the affected weatherboards and treat the framing mber while the wall Ordinary Kiwi bloke Shane is open. ‘Woodsy’ Woods is handy Fumiga on with methyl bromide will around the house with a hameradicate infesta ons but is only suitable for mer. Each month we’ll check furniture or proper es that can be comin on what his latest DIY project pletely sealed. Fumiga on also does not has been. provide residual protec on so you will also have to use a surface treatment. Where fumiga on is not possible or larvae also allow water to penetrate, increasprac cal, control is by treatment of exposed ing rot. Borer like seasoned or moist untreated mbers and injec ng flight holes with residual mber and are o en found on the south side insec cide. of buildings or in floor mbers as these areas Treat any bare wood with solvent based are prone to damp. insec cidal borer fluid. Solvent-based inPre-treatment of mber with preserva ves sec cides using turpen ne or kerosene will gives complete protec on, and some wood is penetrate deep into the mber and will kill naturally resistant to a ack, such as macrolarvae as they eat the wood. The insec cide carpa. also prevents adults laying eggs on the surface. The only long-term treatment for borer is This should protect the wood for many years. a residual surface applica on of a product Solvent-based insec cides smell, so there including insec cide or preserva ve. The are now water-based op ons available. Howtreatment must last longer than the lifecycle of ever, these do not penetrate as deeply and will borer and can only be used on bare mber, so not give as good long-term control. you may need to strip the mber of any paint Inject flight holes in painted, varnished or varnish before treatment. or polished mbers with aerosol injec on Airborne treatments (such as bombs, mistfluid. The aerosol forces insec cide into the ing or fogging) will only kill the adults when labyrinth created by the borer larva, killing any they are airborne (November to March) and larva in the labyrinth or nearby. It also prevents won’t stop the larvae from ea ng away at the adult beetles laying eggs in the flight hole. inside of your mber. During each flight season set off borer If you see evidence of borer in your weathbombs in roof voids and sub-floor areas and erboards, there is a good chance the borer is go away for a nice long weekend.
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ost re red people are happy with a handkerchief-sized vege plot. Not George Ward. The 84-year-old has turned the sec on next door into a vegetable garden that produces enough food to feed several large families. It’s a labour of love and while he and wife Eileen might only eat a very small percentage of the veges they produce, the rewards come in giving what he grows away. George and Eileen moved to Ashburton from their Newlands farm 17 years ago. They built a new home and when the old wooden house next door came on the market they decided to buy that as well. They watched tenants come and tenants go before deciding the old house had passed its use-by date and should be demolished. That le George with a vacant sec on that needed to be kept dy. What be er way to do that, than by turning the lot into a vegetable garden, he decided. While George might be the ul mate gardening guru today, and while he might have grown up in a vege-growing family, he needed re rement to put years of accumulated knowledge into prac ce. “I suppose my gardening started way back with my grandfathers. They both lived with us at Chertsey and they were gardeners, par cularly grandfather Brydon, he was the real gardener.” George might have po ered by their sides when he was a youngster, but as a young adult, farm work became all consuming and when he and Eileen farmed at Newlands, he admits she became the family gardener. “When we got married, Eileen was keen to start a vege garden so we just walked out into the middle of a paddock and fenced one off.
I did a bit of the heavy work and some of the plan ng but Eileen was the one who looked a er it.” The rotary hoe was a farm gardener’s friend and it was put to good use both in the vegetable garden and when it came to planting the annual potato crop. “The garden wasn’t really big enough for spuds so I’d go out into a paddock of peas or wheat and hoe up a strip along the fence and that’s where we put the potatoes.” With the move to town and the demoli on of the villa next door, George’s gardening enthusiasm was given full rein. “We’d watched the tenants come in and they’d get all enthusias c, plant a vegetable garden and then forget about it. It was full of oxalis, masses of it and we picked up buckets and buckets of it. We must have done a pre y good job because I can’t say the last me I found any in the garden.” He thanks his mates at Rotary for kickstarting the mass potato-growing venture that has become his garden’s trademark. “Jack Ross was president and he gave us $2 each and said we had to physically turn that into $100. I was ge ng the sec on under control and decided to buy some potato seed. I told them at Rotary that was what I was doing and that they’d be buying my spuds so I could recoup the $100.” From that humble beginning, George has now gained gardening fame as a potato grower extraordinaire. More than half of his sec on is planted in several varie es of spuds, from early season Lise e through to main crop Ilam Hardy or Karaka. He sells some, gives bucketfuls away and he and Eileen can’t recall the last me they bought a potato from the shop. “People keep coming back every year and they say they like the taste of my potatoes. I
he buys is the odd kumara. And it’s not just the raw product George gives away. Eileen turns surplus vegetables into soup that finds its way into countless homes around the district to anyone in need. He’s got the pests under control, saying sheep pellets have proved a good bug deterrent and he’s also a big fan of pea straw. The one thing he struggles to get 050112-TM-045 under control, however, is the odd person who walks into the garden even had one woman this year who was going and helps themselves. He can’t understand to Auckland for Christmas and her family got why someone would do this. All they have to her to courier up 10kg for Christmas dinner do is ask, he said, and he’d happily give them because they said they couldn’t get decent veges for free. potatoes up there.” “I’d like to put up a sign – trespassers will be But it’s not just potatoes that George grows. composted.” Think of a vegetable and you’re almost certain His garden is also a great talking point with to find it in his plot. There are no secrets to the large, healthy vegetables he produces each children heading to and from school. They year, just plenty of fer liser, plenty of animal stop, talk and ask ques ons, he said, and he manure and plenty of love and me. happily gives them a handful of potatoes to When the empty sec on was turned into a take home for tea. garden he trucked in large loads of horse maThat he’s s ll gardening on such a large scale nure, scooped up from Ashburton Racecourse. at 87 is a miracle, George says. He adds good doses of compost and uses a “When we came to town I wasn’t at all well nitrogen rich fer liser. If there’s any secret to and the doctors thought I mightn’t even get good potatoes, it’s blood and bone, well dug into the new house.” into the soil, he said. But through the miracles of medicine he Everything is grown from bought seed or survived and today he’s out in the vege plot plants. He’s not a seed saver and when it most days of the week, o en for several hours. comes to potatoes, new tubers from a cer fied His love affair with growing vegetables is one grower are a must if you want a good crop, he that’s endured and is enduring, he said. said. “It’s great, it keeps me busy and it keeps me You’d be hard pushed to find a weed in healthy. I get a lot of pleasure out of this, sellGeorge’s large garden. The rows are neat and ing my spuds and giving things away.” orderly and it’s a picture of healthy perfec on, And not content with just one garden, clearly the work of a man who’s at one with George also keeps a small plot at the back the soil. door with a li le bit of everything growing in Every month of the year there’s something it – handy for wet days when you don’t want to harvest and he reckons the only vegetable to put your gumboots on, he said.
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Couch potatoes
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By Amanda Niblett
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ain is only weakness leaving the body. It worked for the US Marines, and now this mantra will help our contestants as they cross the halfway mark of the challenge, heading toward conquering longer distances. Even though only three months of the six-month challenge have been completed, it would be safe to say that none of our contestants could be labelled as couch potatoes anymore. Every contestant has been making great progress due to the training programme given to them by Rachael Rickard, and every contestant has seen improvement to their overall health and fitness, although the amount of improvement does differ. Each contestant has par cipated in group walks in the domain, organised by Rachael. The walks started off at 1km, as a bench-mark to measure progress due to how quickly a compe tor can complete this 1km in the coming months. Earlier this week, the group completed their second group walk of 7km, a distance possibly not contem-
plated before the start of the challenge. One of the contestants managed to jog the 7km distance comfortably, indica ng the drama c improvement in their fitness over the past three months. When we reveal the results at the comple on of the sixmonth challenge, you may be surprised at just how far they have come. A er the celebra ons of Christmas and New Year, you may be among the many who put on a li le extra weight, which will be slowing you down, making you feel sluggish as you head back to work, or send the children back to school. It’s me to shake off the party pounds and get energised! Some mes this is easier said than done, but it’s the ‘doing’ that will generate results. Doing doesn’t mean that you have to run a marathon straight away. Too many of us fall into the trap of thinking that we need to exercise every day, for more than an hour per day, and that it needs to be high intensity. While in theory this would generate great results, in reality it can be hard to accomplish, and when we fail, we may find ourselves falling further back in progress than before we started. If there’s one thing that can spur you into ac on,
it’s taking ac on, no ma er how small it is. Start slow. Climb the stairs at work today. Park a block further away than the shop to add 10 minutes of walking. Vacuum the whole house instead of just the living room. Once you begin moving, concentrate on increasing the distance or intensity a li le each week. A great way to inspire yourself to keep moving is to set yourself some goals. Write down how far you want to be able to walk by the end of the month and s ck the number to the fridge. Only you know what the number means. This month it might be two, then next month five, then the month a er seven. For added mo va on, find out if there is an event coming up in two or three months that you would like to par cipate in. At first it might be a 10km walk. Register for it. A er you have registered, you will be mo vated to train to avoid the embarrassment of not being able to finish it on the day. Then look toward other events, there might be a duathlon coming up a month a er that, and perhaps then a marathon, and who knows, in a year you might find yourself entering in the Coast to Coast or an ironman! That all begins today, with just a li le bit of movement.
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e are now 11 weeks into the Couch Potato to 10km challenge and despite the Christmas, New Year and holiday period, the team is doing really well! What I am seeing from this group is a commitment to keep going no ma er what … this is the challenge for anyone commi ng to exercise to make it part of your lifestyle, to face life on life’s terms and exercise anyway! Aristotle speculated that purpose can cause ac on. So, are YOU keeping up with
our Couch Potatos? Or is it me to find some purpose to cause ac on? Goal se ng is not complicated, it just takes commitment. The best results come from staying in touch with your goal. Get pen and paper and let’s start on helping YOU get S M A R T about your health and exercise goals. RACHEAL RICKARD • Be SPECIFIC – Consider what it is you Racheal will be helpwant to achieve. It may be quite general ing contestants with their fitness needs on like to be healthier or lose weight? If so, the six-month Couch that is a good star ng point, now answer Potatoes challenge these ques ons to get focused on a SPECIFIC goal: What do I want to accomplish? What are the specific reasons, purpose or benefits of accomplishing the goal? Who is involved in helping me achieve this goal? What are the requirements, constraints and barriers I need to know to achieve this goal? This will lead you to a SPECIFIC goal which is now clear in your mind. By now you may also realise you’ll need to surround yourself with support and be ready to tackle the obstacles that will come in your path. • Make the goal MEASURABLE – to ensure you progress towards your goal, now it’s me to set MEASURABLE tar*Conditions may apply. Offer expires 31st January 2012. gets to help you stay on track. A measurable goal will answer these ques ons: Includes: How much? How many? How will I know it is achieved? All fitness • The goal must be ACHIEVABLE – assessments this stresses the importance that goals and exercise are really able to be achieved by you 54 Cass Street Ashburton (these will change as you progress). For programmes. Phone 03 308 5900 example you may want to complete LOCALLY OWNED & OPERATED & SUPPORTING HEALTH AND FITNESS SINCE 1997 an ironman, but you may also think
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about winning an ironman. Ask yourself, given your me constraints, determinaon, family life, work commitments and gene cs, are you really going to be able to win an ironman? Perhaps the answer is yes, but if it is no – then don’t lose sight of comple ng the goal, just make the goal an achievable one for you given all that you have to do in your life. Then break down the components of the goal and ask the ques on: How can this goal be accomplished? What do you need to do stage by stage? • Be RELEVANT – having a goal that really ma ers to you will help you both persist when the going gets tough and problem solve when barriers present themselves. A relevant goal will answer YES to these ques ons: Does it seem worthwhile? Is this the right me? Does this match other efforts/ needs? • Set a TIMEframe – now ground your goals with a meframe, this will give you a target date for comple on and some me goals along the way. Timeframes create a sense of urgency, focus and can provide mo va on when the going gets tough. Answer these ques ons: By when? What can I do six months (half the meframe) from now? What can I do six weeks (each quarter of the meframe) from now? What can I do today? As our Couch Potatos now enter phase three, they will start to increase the distance and set a date for their 10km challenge! Thanks must also go to the families and friends of our par cipants – it’s great to hear and see so much support from home.
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Jeff Withington With the silly season behind us now I am certainly back into it. I’d like to say I stayed focused all the way through; but that would be stretching it a bit far. In the week leading up to Christmas Day I had surgery at Burwood on a trapped nerve in the elbow, and although they told me the anaesthe c stays in the body for at least 10 days it was more like 14 before I had the energy to mow lawns and walk to and from bowls. So when the 7km walk came around for us on January 6, I was in panic mode having not prepared much at all. Our lovely instructor Rachael accompanied me for the first 3.5km over 30 minutes. At that point I thought “Soon I’ll start wil ng and I’ll look towards the second 3.5km in an hour.” I did it in 30! And was absolutely stoked that I did it, and just on the hour for the whole 7km, from not very much prepara on. Last week I was reassessed by Frank at the Gym Company, and was overjoyed that the fitness level was up from the first assessment and the body fat was down, although the weight was s ll the same, that could be muscle tone. I am unsure what challenge Rachael has up her sleeve for us to complete between now and the 10km walk, but there’s no way I plan to undertake the 10km without any prepara on. I would love to tell you how Christmas lunch went but that might just encourage the diet watchers!
Wayne Rodgers Yes I am s ll keeping up with the programme. I have managed to keep to the small progressive goals I had set myself along the way. Since our last group session (start of December) I have started jogging – yes, that strange sight some of you may have seen on the streets. I don’t seem to run much faster than my walk but I am doing it and it is further than once round the rugby field. It has been more of a challenge to do exercise and not over-indulge in food over the past month. I got through a work Christmas func on, two family Christmas days and a New Year, with one week away up north on holiday. There was a few treats you have to have, like the Christ-
Cathie Withington Three months? I can’t believe that we’ve been on this journey for three months. Over the Christmas break I was in stay-at-home mode. And home I stayed, clearing out sheds and dying the yard and rearranging furniture. I’ve been fortunate to find a couple of people to walk with. Each Monday and Tuesday I walk with a different friend and their respec ve dogs. We walk in the domain and on the river track. At the end of each month we have a challenge to complete. This month it was a 7km walk. I was unfortunate enough to have a couple of injuries and so was very relieved when Rachael told me I could cycle instead – un l she told me I had to double the distance. Jeff and I completed our respec ve challenges almost exactly together. But I was pre y crippled a er cycling four mes around the perimeter of the domain. I was back on the bike a few days later though. I’ve managed to become more ac ve in small ways as well as comple ng the challenges. This week I’ve done errands on foot or on my bike, rather than taking the car. I’m ge ng fi er, though every day is s ll a challenge to be more ac ve.
mas pav and lunch when in the Tui brewery beer garden. It had to be done. Then the next morning out of bed to work it off, by running a bit further. I even found myself going for an hour-long stroll on Christmas night. Something else I no ced when I was away was how lethargic the body feels if you change a few ea ng habits and throw a few takeaways down your throat and skip a few meals. One night I had no choice and the next day when I went for a run there was just no energy in the body. I am s ll working towards the end goal and have been pleased at being able to go through my wardrobe and get rid of a lot of clothes. Surprisingly enough they are now a bit big. It is such a great feeling to finally be able to do this.
Rachel Robertson Hi there, diary me again Well first of all happy New Year. There have been some tough mes lately with all that comes with Christmas and the first days of the New Year, then I injured myself. I think I got though the holidays okay, especially when we went camping and did a lot of walking and swimming. I took my pushbike as well so I could do some riding but when tackling a bit of hill climbing, I fell off it and hurt myself. So all in all it has been a great start to the year.
15 Geoff Laird Wow, another month has gone by already! The Christmas and New Year period has been very difficult. I have managed to eat the right foods, but keeping on track with the exercise has been the biggest challenge. I am ge ng back into a rou ne now though. I was disappointed that I missed the group’s first 7km walk together in the domain as I was accidentally given a different start me, unfortunately I was an hour early! Luckily Rachael has kindly offered to take another one this week, so by the me this goes to print I will have hopefully completed this challenge. I have returned to the gym and have started to increase the weights on all the exercises that I do. I am now no cing a big difference in my overall strength and fitness, which is certainly a posi ve change.
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ÄšĹ?Ć?Ä?Ĺ˝Ç€ÄžĆŒ ƚŚĞ Ä‚ĹľÄ‚ÇŒĹ?ĹśĹ? Ć?ƉĂÄ?Äž ŽĨ DÄžĆšĹšÇ€ÄžĹśÍ˜ Ć‰ĆŒÄžĹľĹ?ÄžĆŒ Ä‚ÄšÇ€ÄžĹśĆšĆľĆŒÄž ĹŻĹ˝Ä?Ä‚Ć&#x;ŽŜ Ç ĹšÄžĆŒÄž LJŽƾ Ä?Ä‚Ĺś Ä?Äž Ć?Ç ÄžĆ‰Ćš Žč Ç‡Ĺ˝ĆľĆŒ ĨĞĞƚ Ä?LJ Ä‚ ŚŽƚ Ä‚Ĺ?ĆŒ Ä?ĂůůŽŽŜ͕ Ĺ?Ä‚Ĺ?ĹśĹ?ĹśĹ? Ç€Ĺ?ÄžÇ Ć? ŽĨ DĆš ŽŽŏ Ä‚Ä?ĆŒĹ˝Ć?Ć? ƚŚĞ ƉůĂĹ?ĹśĆ? ƚŽ ƚŚĞ WÄ‚Ä?Ĺ?ÄŽÄ? KÄ?ĞĂŜ͕ Ĺ˝ĆŒ ĨĞĞů ƚŚĞ ĆŒĆľĆ?Ĺš ŽĨ ŊĞƚ Ä?ŽĂĆ&#x;ĹśĹ? ĂŜĚ ĆŒÄ‚ĹŒĹ?ĹśĹ? ĆšĹšĆŒĹ˝ĆľĹ?Ĺš ƚŚĞ ZÄ‚ĹŹÄ‚Ĺ?Ä‚ 'Ĺ˝ĆŒĹ?Ğ͕ Ď°t ĂŜĚ ŚĞůĹ?Í˛Ä‚ÄšÇ€ÄžĹśĆšĆľĆŒÄžĆ? Ĺ?Ĺś ƚŚĞ ĹšĹ?Ĺ?Ĺš Ä?Ĺ˝ĆľĹśĆšĆŒÇ‡ ĂŜĚ Ç Ĺ˝ĆŒĹŻÄš Ä?ĹŻÄ‚Ć?Ć? Ć?ĹŹĹ?Ĺ?ĹśĹ? Ä‚Ćš DĆš ,ĆľĆŠÍ˜ tĹšĹ?ĹŻÄž Ĺ?Ĺś DĞƚŚǀĞŜ ƚĂŏĞ Ć&#x;žĞ ƚŽ ÄšĹ?Ć?Ä?Ĺ˝Ç€ÄžĆŒ ƚŚĞ DĞƚŚǀĞŜ ,ÄžĆŒĹ?ƚĂĹ?Äž ÄžĹśĆšĆŒÄžÍ›Ć? ůƉĹ?ŜĞ ĂŜĚ Ĺ?ĆŒĹ?Ä?ĆľĹŻĆšĆľĆŒÄ‚ĹŻ ĹśÄ?Ĺ˝ĆľĹśĆšÄžĆŒÍ• Ä‚ žƾůĆ&#x;ͲžĞĚĹ?Ä‚ Ĺ?ĹśĆšÄžĆŒÄ‚Ä?Ć&#x;ǀРǀĹ?Ć?Ĺ?ĆšĹ˝ĆŒ Ä‚ĆŠĆŒÄ‚Ä?Ć&#x;ŽŜ ƚŚĂƚ ƚĞůůĆ? Ć?ĆšĹ˝ĆŒĹ?ÄžĆ? ŽĨ ƚŚĞ mountains, plains and the people who live there. dŚĞ ĹśÄ?Ĺ˝ĆľĹśĆšÄžĆŒ Ä?ĆŒĹ?ĹśĹ?Ć? ƚŽ ĹŻĹ?ĨĞ ƚŚĞ ƚĂůĞĆ? ŽĨ ƚŚĞ ƚĞŜĂÄ?Ĺ?ƚLJ and ingenuity behind the development of two very Ĺ?ĹľĆ‰Ĺ˝ĆŒĆšÄ‚ĹśĆš Ĺ?ŜĚƾĆ?ĆšĆŒĹ?ÄžĆ? Ä?ÄžĹśĆšĆŒÄ‚ĹŻ ƚŽ EÄžÇ ÄžÄ‚ĹŻÄ‚ĹśÄš Ͳ Ć?ĹśĹ˝Ç sports and agriculture. DĹ?Äš Ä‚ĹśĆšÄžĆŒÄ?ĆľĆŒÇ‡ Ĺ?Ć? Ä‚Ĺś Ä‚ĹľÄ‚ÇŒĹ?ĹśĹ? Ç Ĺ?ĹŻÄšÄžĆŒĹśÄžĆ?Ć? Ć?ƉĂÄ?Ğ͕ ƾŜĹ?ƋƾĞ Ĺ?Ĺś Ć?Ä?ÄžĹśÄžĆŒÇ‡ ĂŜĚ Ĺ˝ĆľĆšÄšĹ˝Ĺ˝ĆŒ Ć‰ĆľĆŒĆ?ĆľĹ?Ćš ŽƉĆ&#x;ŽŜĆ?͘ ĹŻĆľĆ?ĆšÄžĆŒĆ? ŽĨ ĹšĹ?Ĺ?Ĺš Ä?Ĺ˝ĆľĹśĆšĆŒÇ‡ žŽƾŜƚĂĹ?Ĺś ĹŻÄ‚ĹŹÄžĆ? Ä‚ĆŒÄž brimming with brown and rainbow trout, while the Ä?ĆŒÄ‚Ĺ?ĚĞĚ ZÄ‚ĹŹÄ‚Ĺ?Ä‚ ĂŜĚ ZÄ‚ĹśĹ?Ĺ?ƚĂƚĂ ZĹ?Ç€ÄžĆŒĆ? Ä‚ĆŒÄž ƉůĞŜĆ&#x;Ĩƾů Ç Ĺ?ƚŚ Ć?ĂůžŽŜ͕ ĆšĆŒĆľÄžĹŻÇ‡ Ä‚ ÄŽĆ?ĹšÄžĆŒĹľÄ‚ĹśÍ›Ć? Ć‰Ä‚ĆŒÄ‚ÄšĹ?Ć?Ğ͘ 'Ğƚ Ĺ?ŜƚŽ Ç‡Ĺ˝ĆľĆŒ ĹŻĹ˝Ä?Ä‚ĹŻ Ć?Ć‰Ĺ˝ĆŒĆš ĂŜĚ ÄŽĆ?ĹšĹ?ĹśĹ? Ć?ĆšĹ˝ĆŒÄž ƚŽ ĞŜƋƾĹ?ĆŒÄž Ä‚Ä?Žƾƚ Ä‚ ÄŽĆ?ĹšĹ?ĹśĹ? ĹŻĹ?Ä?ĞŜĆ?Äž ĂŜĚ ƚĞĂÄ?Ĺš ƚŚĞ ĹŹĹ?ÄšĆ? ĹšĹ˝Ç ĆšĹ˝ ÄŽĆ?Ĺš ƚŚĹ?Ć? Ć?ĆľĹľĹľÄžĆŒÍ˜ dŚĞLJ Ç Ĺ?ĹŻĹŻ Ĺ˝ÄŤÄžĆŒ ĹŻĹ˝Ä?Ä‚ĹŻ ÄžÇ†Ć‰ÄžĆŒĆ&#x;Ć?Äž ŽŜ the best spots to cast your line, for your best chance Ä‚Ćš Ĺ?ĞƍŜĹ? Ä‚ ĹśĹ?Ä?Ä?ĹŻÄžÍ˜ dŚĞ ĹŻĹ˝Ç ÄžĆŒ ĨŽŽƚ ĹšĹ?ĹŻĹŻĆ? Ć‰ĆŒĹ˝Ç€Ĺ?ĚĞ
Ĺ˝Ć‰Ć‰Ĺ˝ĆŒĆšĆľĹśĹ?ƚLJ Ä¨Ĺ˝ĆŒ ŚƾŜĆ&#x;ĹśĹ? ĞdžƉĞĚĹ?Ć&#x;ŽŜĆ?Í• ĂŜĚ ƚŚĞ ÄšĹ?Ć?ĆšĆŒĹ?Ä?Ćš is well known for a variety of easily accessible family walking tracks, along side lakes, rivers and even to stunning waterfalls. &ĆŒĹ˝Ĺľ Ĺ˝ĆľĆŒ Ä¨ÄžĆŒĆ&#x;ĹŻÄž ĂŜĚ Ä?ŽƾŜĆ&#x;Ĩƾů ůĂŜĚ͕ Ä‚Ä?Ä?ŽžƉĂŜĹ?ĞĚ by people who are passionate about food, your taste buds will be tantalised when you experience Ĺ˝ĆľĆŒ ƚŽƉ Ä?ĆľĹ?Ć?Ĺ?ŜĞ ŚŽƚ Ć?ƉŽƚĆ?͘ KĆľĆŒ DĹ?Äš Ä‚ĹśĆšÄžĆŒÄ?ĆľĆŒÇ‡ food and wine trail is a showcase of our best taste ĂŜĚ ƚĂůĞŜƚ͕ ĂŜĚ Ĺ?Ć? Ä‚ ĨƾŜ ĚĂLJ Žƾƚ Ç Ĺ?ƚŚ ĹŻĹ˝Ä?Ä‚Ć&#x;ŽŜĆ? Ć?ƉĞÄ?Ĺ?Ä‚ĹŻĹ?Ć?Ĺ?ĹśĹ? Ĺ?Ĺś ĹŻĹ˝Ä?Ä‚ĹŻ Ĺ‡Ä‚Ç€Ĺ˝ĆľĆŒ ƚŽ ĂƉƉĞĂů ƚŽ ƚŚĞ ĞŜĆ&#x;ĆŒÄž family. tĹ?ƚŚ Ć?ĆľÄ?Ĺš ÄšĹ?Ç€ÄžĆŒĆ?Äž ƉŚLJĆ?Ĺ?Ä?Ä‚ĹŻÍ• Ä?ĆľĹŻĆšĆľĆŒÄ‚ĹŻ ĂŜĚ Ä‚ĆŒĆ&#x;Ć?Ć&#x;Ä? landscapes within your grasp, make the most of the Ĺ˝Ć‰Ć‰Ĺ˝ĆŒĆšĆľĹśĹ?ƚLJ ƚŽ ĆŒÄžĹŻÄ‚Ç† ĂŜĚ ĆľĹśÇ Ĺ?ŜĚ Ĺ?Ĺś Ĺ˝ĆľĆŒ ĨƾŜͲůŽǀĹ?ĹśĹ? Ć‰ĆŒĹ˝Ç€Ĺ?ĹśÄ?Ğ͕ ƚŚĂƚ Ç Ĺ?ĹŻĹŻ Ä?ĹŻĹ˝Ç Ç‡Ĺ˝Ćľ Ä‚Ç Ä‚Ç‡ Ç Ĺ?ƚŚ Ĺ?ƚ͛Ć? Ä?ÄžÄ‚ĆľĆšÇ‡Í˜ dŚĞ Ä?ÄžĆ?Ćš ƚŚĹ?ĹśĹ? Ĺ?Ć?Í• LJŽƾ Ç Ĺ?ĹŻĹŻ ĎŜĚ ƉůĞŜĆ&#x;Ĩƾů ĆŒÄžÄ?ĆŒÄžÄ‚Ć&#x;ŽŜĂů Ĺ˝Ć‰Ć‰Ĺ˝ĆŒĆšĆľĹśĹ?Ć&#x;ÄžĆ? ƚŽ ƉůĞĂĆ?Äž ƚŚĞ Ç ĹšĹ˝ĹŻÄž ĨĂžĹ?ůLJ͕ Ç Ĺ?ƚŚŽƾƚ Ä?Ĺ˝Ć?Ć&#x;ĹśĹ? ƚŚĞ ÄžÄ‚ĆŒĆšĹšÍ˜ ŚĞÄ?ĹŹ Žƾƚ Ĺ˝ĆľĆŒ ĹŻĹ?Ć?Ćš ŽĨ ͚ƚŚĹ?ĹśĹ?Ć? ƚŽ Ć?ĞĞ ĂŜĚ ĚŽ͛ Ä?ÄžĹŻĹ˝Ç Í• Ç Ĺ?ƚŚ Ä‚ Ç Ĺ?ĚĞ Ç€Ä‚ĆŒĹ?ĞƚLJ ŽĨ ĞdžÄ?Ĺ?Ć&#x;ĹśĹ? Ä‚Ä?Ć&#x;Ç€Ĺ?Ć&#x;ÄžĆ? ƚŚĂƚ Ç Ĺ˝ĹśÍ›Ćš Ä?ĹŻĹ˝Ç ĆšĹšÄž Ä?ƾĚĹ?ÄžĆšÍ˜ sĹ?Ć?Ĺ?Ćš Ç Ç Ç Í˜DĹ?Äš Ä‚ĹśĆšÄžĆŒÄ?ĆľĆŒÇ‡E ͘Ä?Žž Ä¨Ĺ˝ĆŒ Ä¨ĆľĆŒĆšĹšÄžĆŒ Ĺ?ĹśÄ¨Ĺ˝ĆŒĹľÄ‚Ć&#x;ŽŜ Ĺ˝ĆŒ Ä?Ä‚ĹŻĹŻ Ĺ?ŜƚŽ Ĺ˝ĆľĆŒ Ĺ?Ͳ^/d Ç€Ĺ?Ć?Ĺ?ĆšĹ˝ĆŒ Ä?ÄžĹśĆšĆŒÄžĆ? ĂŜĚ ƚĂůŏ ƚŽ ƚŚĞ Ä¨ĆŒĹ?ĞŜĚůLJ Ć?ƚĂč Ç ĹšĹ˝ žĂLJ ĹŠĆľĆ?Ćš Ć?ĹšÄ‚ĆŒÄž Ä‚ Ä¨ÄžÇ local top secrets to help make your experience one you will never forget.
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Encounter snow, encounter agriculture Dairying and cropping are two of Mid Canterbury’s largest industries, but do you or your children know how milk is made? Or ŚŽǁ ŐƌĂŝŶ ŝƐ ŵŝůůĞĚ ĨŽƌ ŇŽƵƌ͍ /ƚ ŽŶůLJ ƚĂŬĞƐ Ă ƋƵŝĐŬ ƚƌŝƉ ƚŽ DĞƚŚǀĞŶ ƚŽ ĮŶĚ ŽƵƚ͕ ĂŶĚ ŚĂǀĞ Ă fun day out in the process.
You can test your skills on a large combine harvester simulator or drive a big earth mover. You can see the inside of a beehive and learn ĂďŽƵƚ ƚŚĞ ŝŵƉŽƌƚĂŶĐĞ ŽĨ ďĞĞƐ ĨŽƌ ƉŽůůŝŶĂƟŶŐ ĐƌŽƉƐ Žƌ ŝĨ LJŽƵ ǁĂŶƚ Ă ƵŶŝƋƵĞ ŚĂŶĚƐͲŽŶ ĞdžƉĞƌŝĞŶĐĞ͕ ŵŝůů ƐŽŵĞ ŇŽƵƌ ĨƌŽŵ ŐƌĂŝŶ͘
Welcome to New Zealand’s only Alpine and ŐƌŝĐƵůƚƵƌĂů ŶĐŽƵŶƚĞƌ͕ Ă ƉůĂĐĞ ŽĨ ĞĚƵĐĂƟŽŶ ĂŶĚ ŝŶƐƉŝƌĂƟŽŶ ƚŽ ĚĞůŝŐŚƚ ƚŚĞ ĞŶƟƌĞ ĨĂŵŝůLJ͘
EĞǁ ĞĂůĂŶĚ ŝƐ ĨĂŵŽƵƐ ĨŽƌ ŝƚƐ ŵƵůƟƚƵĚĞ of sheep, but how much do you really know about them? Learn the meaning of “merino,” have a go at spinning wool and leave with a ŶĞǁ ĂƉƉƌĞĐŝĂƟŽŶ ĨŽƌ ƐŚĞĞƉ ƐŚĞĂƌŝŶŐ͘
The New Zealand Alpine and Agriculture Encounter at Methven’s Heritage Centre tells the stories of the mountains and plains, as well as stories of the people who have lived in the district. dŚĞ ŵƵůƟͲƉƵƌƉŽƐĞ ďƵŝůĚŝŶŐ ĨĞĂƚƵƌĞƐ Ă ĐŽůŽƵƌĨƵů͕ ŝŶƚĞƌĂĐƟǀĞ ǁĂůŬͲƚŚƌŽƵŐŚ ĞŶĐŽƵŶƚĞƌ͕ to showcase Mid Canterbury’s heritage ƚŚƌŽƵŐŚ ĨĂƌŵŝŶŐ͕ ĂŶĚ ŝƚƐ ĂĚƌĞŶĂůŝŶͲƉƵŵƉŝŶŐ ƐŶŽǁ ƐƉŽƌƚƐ ƐƉĞĐŝĂůƟĞƐ͘ The encounter takes you on a journey to experience our regions unique approach to farming and resource management, enabling the district to prosper from the land beneath ƵƐ͘ dŚĞƌĞ ĂƌĞ ŝŶƚĞƌĂĐƟǀĞ ĚŝƐƉůĂLJƐ ĂďŽƵƚ ŝƌƌŝŐĂƟŽŶ͕ ĚĂŝƌLJŝŶŐ ĂŶĚ ƐĞĞĚͲŐƌŽǁŝŶŐ ŽŶ ƚŚĞ Canterbury Plains.
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The harsh and hauntingly beautiful landscapes surrounding the lodge will take your breath away. Stroll up near-by Mt Sunday, made world-famous as the backdrop to ‘Edoras’ in the Lord of the Rings films. Then come and dine in our newly opened restaurant, experience fine dining, sumptuous desserts and a drink whilst continuing to admire the beautiful scenery that is Mt Potts. Bar service operating all day . Restaurant and bar service open year round, Wednesday – Sunday, 12noon – 9pm Driving directions - Drive past Lake Clearwater village for 10 minutes and you’ll arrive at Mt.Potts Lodge. For information and reservations please call | 03 303 9060
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tephanie Senkel finds it difficult to find German ingredients in New Zealand but s ll loves to cook food from her home country as o en as possible. She has been in New Zealand for three years now, a er following her husband who came nine months earlier. They brought their son, now 15, and their dog with them, while her two daughters stayed in Germany. Care packages from home help keep her pantry stocked with authen c German ingredients, but for recipes like her German potato fri ers/pancakes, the ingredients are easier to find. She also enjoys making them because they’re quick and easy so made them for last year’s Mul -cultural Bite, where they went down a treat so they’ll be back again this year.
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Stephanie Senkel from Germany with kartoffelpuffer – a German potato pancake/ fritter.
Tropical Crush This recipe and many others featured on this page will be just some of the recipes to tempt tastebuds at this year’s MulƟ-cultural Bite, which is being held on February 4 at Baring Square East.
Kartoffelpuffer
– German potato fritters Method • Peel and grate the potatoes and onion. • Add all ingredients together in a bowl and mix. • Heat a decent amount of oil in a frying pan (can also be cooked in a deep
Ingredients 1 kg potatoes 1 onion 3 eggs 1 tablespoon salt 50g flour Pepper to taste Chives or parsley opƟonal
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fryer) so the fri ers “swim” in it. • Place spoonfuls of the mixture into the hot pan and cook for several minutes on each side un l golden brown. • Drain on paper towels and serve hot with sugar or apple sauce, which Mrs Senkel makes herself.
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21 1 – Snow covered the ground in ski resort town, Hakuba. 2 – Stephen Camp and Kelley Young went to Japan searching or snow, and found it. 3 – Kelley Young in heavy Hakuba snow. 4 – A snow-covered Japanese road.
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Japanese snow sights By Erin Tasker
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elley Young and Stephen Camp were looking for a fun snowboarding holiday, and that’s what they got when they visited Japan last year. The Ashburton couple was living in Melbourne at the me and they loved not only the snowboarding opportuni es they found, but also taking in some of the local culture and cuisine, during their 10-day Japan trip. They packed up their snowboards and flew to Tokyo, via Cairns, and took a five-hour bus ride to Hakuba, a ski resort town in southern Japan, having decided that southern Japan was where they’d find the best late-season snow. The Hakuba Valley, in Nagano Prefecture, is a huge expanse of resorts oering a variety of terrain for skiers and it’s situated in the heart of the Japan Alps, oering incredible scenery with huge rugged peaks towering above the town below. There, they spent every day on the slopes of the nine dierent ski areas which were right on the doorstep of their hotel. It was just a short walk or shu le ride from their hotel, to some of the best snow Japan had to oer. It was perfect. “It’s what you picture a ski resort town to be,â€? Kelley said. There was no shortage of snow both in the town and on the slopes.
Late in the trip it snowed so heavily, the pair would get to the bo om of a run, and turn around to find they could no longer see their own tracks. Stephen had been snowboarding for a while, but Kelley only picked up the sport in 2010. She’d barely snowboarded more than a dozen mes before the trip to Japan but she found she wasn’t out of her depth on the slopes there, and learned a lot. The trip itself was surprisingly cheap, as was the food – despite being a resort town – once they got there, Kelley said. Western food was available, but the couple found the local eateries to be the best, including a restaurant called Sumo, owned by a sumo wrestler. “The Japanese food was perfect. I could go back there and just eat the food,â€? Kelley said. The couple also opted for a ‘western’ room at their hotel, but tradi onal Japanese opons were also available. They found the locals to be friendly and most people spoke English, although they’d made an eort to learn some Japanese before the trip. “And I couldn’t get over how clean the place was. There was no graďŹƒ , no tagging anywhere,â€? Kelley said. Snowboarding was the focus of their trip so they didn’t take the me to sightsee in Tokyo on their way through, but it was a place they’d like to go back to one day. “We’ll definitely have to go back because there’s just so much you can do,â€? Kelley said.
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Vehicles of all shapes and sizes are seen on Mid Canterbury roads. Allan McCormick’s may be seen occasionally on the open road, but on the back of a truck. Just for YOU, Jonathan Leask looks at his racing BMW.
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MW drivers have copped a bad rap. They are accused of being aggressive behind the wheel and constant speed offenders. Allan McCormick lives up to these descrip ons and would cop the same cri cisms, if not for the fact that his BMW M3 E46 is only driven on the race track, the home of speed and aggression behind the wheel and where Allan has been for a long me. “I imagined it was probably only 10 years but then I actually had a proper look back and it was in 1994 or 95, so some 16 years.” He has driven a Subaru for a number of years but decided it was me for a change, a new toy to take to the race track. “I was looking through an online catalogue of cars for sale and spo ed it. “I liked the look of it so just went for it.” The car he spo ed, the BMW M3 E46, was all the way over in Italy but it was the one he wanted. “It didn’t take long at all, only about two months from when we started looking to when it arrived from Milan.” Once it arrived, there was not much for Allan to do but take it out on the race track and see what his new beauty could do. “It basically came as a ready-made race car (built up in 2007), and the only thing I had to do with it was change the colour scheme.”
Some mes things bought online are not all they are cracked up to be, but Allan’s BMW is one he is “well and truly” happy with. “It drives like a dream on the track. I went back to driving the Subaru for a while and I realised how much easier the BMW was to drive. “It corners be er, is powerful down the straights and is much more responsive. Just a pleasure to drive.” The only hitch with the BMW was when he blew the motor in compe on at Ruapuna. But now with a new 6-cylinder engine under the hood, it is capable of doing speeds of 240km/h. “I should be able to lap Ruapuna in 1.32 minutes.” He has already had some success with the car within its first year. “My son David and I came second in the endurance series race in Invercargill un l we blew the motor at Ruapuna, but we did pick up rookie of the season.” With a new motor on board and the car raring to go, Allan has headed north to meet up with other BMW drivers. On Tuesday he had his BMW packed up on the truck ready for the trip to Auckland for the New Zealand Fes val of Motor Racing celebra ng BMW motorsport. He will be compe ng in a 40th anniversary of BMW racing at Hampton Downs, featuring 12 different classes, this weekend.
Above – Allan McCormick rounds the bend at Ruapuna BMW M3 E46.
Right – Allan is all smiles about the new high-powered engine in his BMW race car.
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