The Red Rocks Star of Secrets takes us throughout his television life, including being deceived by Goodnight’s Kiwi and spoiling a song at Shortland Street. If he is reflecting on a murder mystery as a police officer on a track bridge or in the midst of a park-parked surprise pregnancy, Dominic Ona-Ariki is very busy…
A family of Canterbury shock the early warning after a car landed in his bed. The accident happened at the intersection of Silverstone Loop and Shillingford Blvd, in the city of Rolleston, at 3:45 am today. The family was at home sleeping when the vehicle entered the house before landing in the main room. The…
Descendants of Hugh Heber Cholmondeley in Cholmondeley Children’s Center. Photo: Children’s Center supplied / Cholmondeley The services offered by a children’s center of Canterbury that marks its centenary this weekend are more important than ever, says its general manager. Cholmondeley Children’s Center, Darel Hall, said the Governor’s Bay Center opened in 1925 as a rest…
The ups, low and silver coatings of a child’s relative. He was lying there, proper, immovable, his dark, glazed and fixed eyes on the ceiling above. My daughter looked at him, then to me. “Is that … Dad?” I sighed. “No, honey, this is not daddy.” I took the man to whom her question was…
By Amanda Gillies for the details Project 51 changed lives in Afghanistan, on behalf of the 51 victims of the attacks of the Christchurch mosque. Now a documentary follows the story. It has been six years since a lone shooter has opened fire on two mosques in Christchurs, killing 51 people, breaking the innocence of…
Sandy Brinsdon gave this brilliant shooting of Christchurch. Photo: Provided/ ThheAfterworkphotographer/ Sandy Brinsdon Astronomy and photographer fans received a rare blood moon lunar eclipse on Friday night, with many breaking the tripod and lenses to try to capture the vision. A lunar eclipse is when the sun, earth and moon are aligned so that the…
The poet Kate Camp learned to swim afternoon in life. It is now a defining component of your identity. But why don’t she write about it? I I learned to swim in a 15 -meter pool in the backyard of Mandi in Paraparaumu. This is not true. I learned to swim in a 15 -meter…
It was 1977, when the newly granted veterinarian Dougall McLachlan swayed to Waimate in his orange car Morris Marina. McLachlan, 70, who retires this month after a career of almost 48 years in the same city, remembered his first day in office, which involved the calves castrating. Tea and toast smoko was served at 10am,…
Put SO’OMālō ITENI SCHWALGER Valerie and Kevin at Womad 2025 in New Plymouth. Photo: SO’OMālō ITENI SCHWALGER In New Plymouth, Womad is well underway. The first night of the worldwide music, arts and dance festival had a surprising start – with performances by artists such as Poppa Jax, Black Comet, Nana Benz du Togo and…
Gabi lards for now, Mad Chapman next week. Despite the allegations of being full of shit books, I can’t go through a small library without taking a look inside. Two weeks ago, stretching my legs in a lasting morning sitting on my unhealthy chair, I saw two curious thorns in the small library around the…