Yarns in Barns continues this week and into Labour Weekend !📚📚
So much more still to come in the region's Festival of Reading including Emily Writes, Nick Bollinger, Kane Brisco and much more. Sat 22nd see the much loved Yarn in the Barn in Gladstone.
Check out the Labour Weekend double header in Featherston with Jenny Pattrick, Christina Sanders and Scott Bainbridge on Sunday.
Browse the varied and interesting programme and plot your course!
Festival website is here www.yansinbarns.co.nz.... Tickets on Eventfinder or come in the Masterton or Martinborough i-SITE Visitor Centres.
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Poll: Are Kiwis allergic to “exuberance”? 🥝
In The Post’s opinion piece on the developments set to open across Aotearoa in 2026, John Coop suggests that, as a nation, we’re “allergic to exuberance.”
We want to know: Are we really allergic to showing our excitement?
Is it time to lean into a more optimistic view of the place we call home? As big projects take shape and new opportunities emerge, perhaps it’s worth asking whether a little more confidence (and enthusiasm!) could do us some good.
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40.6% Yes
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33.8% Maybe?
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25.7% No
Some Choice News!
Many New Zealand gardens aren’t seeing as many monarch butterflies fluttering around their swan plants and flower beds these days — the hungry Asian paper wasp has been taking its toll.
Thanks to people like Alan Baldick, who’s made it his mission to protect the monarch, his neighbours still get to enjoy these beautiful butterflies in their own backyards.
Thinking about planting something to invite more butterflies, bees, and birds into your garden?
Thanks for your mahi, Alan! We hope this brings a smile!
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