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In this week’s issue we say growing organic tomatoes is easier than you think. We list more crops to plant on Labour Weekend and give tips for bigger and better tulips next year. Learn the right way to harvest herbs and enlist predatory insects to eat up aphid pests.
Build a foldable climbing … View moreIn this week’s issue we say growing organic tomatoes is easier than you think. We list more crops to plant on Labour Weekend and give tips for bigger and better tulips next year. Learn the right way to harvest herbs and enlist predatory insects to eat up aphid pests.
Build a foldable climbing frame for upwardly mobile crops plus go in the draw for vouchers from Awapuni Nurseries and a vege grower’s hamper from Yates.
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Auckland bakers are being called to roll up their sleeves to help vulnerable animals.
The SPCA is appealing for keen cooks to take part in its annual Cupcake Day fundraiser on November 2.
The event has raised nearly $3.2 million over the years, helping tens of thousands of animals that come … View moreAuckland bakers are being called to roll up their sleeves to help vulnerable animals.
The SPCA is appealing for keen cooks to take part in its annual Cupcake Day fundraiser on November 2.
The event has raised nearly $3.2 million over the years, helping tens of thousands of animals that come through SPCA's doors each year in need of care, shelter and veterinary treatment.
Budding chefs are invited to whip up a batch of cupcakes before selling them at work, school and to family and friends.
Last year saw 1092 home bakers and 641 businesses get involved.
SPCA CEO Andrea Midgen said recent events had taken a big bite out of the charity but here was something tangible supporters could do to help.
Funds raised will be used to aid in rescuing, rehabilitating and re-homing animals in need around the country.
Go to www.spcacupcakeday.co.nz... to register.
Take an old children’s table and turn it into a fun and tactile sensory board.
Sensory boards can be made with all sorts of textures and themes for young children, and are great learning tools. Let your children help choose the Resene colours and help fun with contrasting colours.
Make the most… View moreTake an old children’s table and turn it into a fun and tactile sensory board.
Sensory boards can be made with all sorts of textures and themes for young children, and are great learning tools. Let your children help choose the Resene colours and help fun with contrasting colours.
Make the most of this weekend with this easy step by step project idea from Resene. Find out how to create your own
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Baycrest Village is a registered Charitable Trust with a friendly atmosphere. … View moreHi neighbours,
Baycrest Village is the most popular place to live! It's sunny, spacious, has private indoor/outdoor living, generous storage, and garages with internal access. The weekly service fees are low.
Baycrest Village is a registered Charitable Trust with a friendly atmosphere. We're a supportive community with Christian values. From all of us at the village, we'd like to wish our community a safe and happy Labour Day holiday!
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It's a magic time, sunrise, sunset. The American poet Emily Dickinson knew how to stretch language to capture that enchantment. In this very brief poem, we've tried to show how it works throughetching, type, and music. Trinity art group will meet a couple of times in 3 November 09:30 and … View moreIt's a magic time, sunrise, sunset. The American poet Emily Dickinson knew how to stretch language to capture that enchantment. In this very brief poem, we've tried to show how it works throughetching, type, and music. Trinity art group will meet a couple of times in 3 November 09:30 and look at some of the drawing and printing processes.
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A former orphaned duckling is fostering another.
The newborn bird was rescued on Christmas Eve as it defied death darting between cars on Kumeu's Main Rd.
Ten months later, Dennis the duck is paying it forward.
The magisterial mallard has taken another abandoned creature under its wing … View moreA former orphaned duckling is fostering another.
The newborn bird was rescued on Christmas Eve as it defied death darting between cars on Kumeu's Main Rd.
Ten months later, Dennis the duck is paying it forward.
The magisterial mallard has taken another abandoned creature under its wing after owner Ellie Seamons from Dairy Flat appealed for one.
A woman running an animal shelter nearby saw Seamons' post on community pages and delivered Daphne, the runt of the litter.
"Daphne was the smallest and she was the only one which needed a heat lamp," said Seamons, an early childhood teacher in Kumeu.
"If you have a smaller duckling and a lot of bigger ones, they walk all over them and beat them to the food.
"It's survival of the fittest," she said.
Seamons nursed the ailing duckling back to health with a natural powder used to treat mites and parasites.
Daphne joined Dennis' own brood of seven ducklings and thrived.
Seamons admits she earlier mistook Dennis for a male because of the duck's feisty personality.
"Dennis is quirky, bossy and bolshie. She will let you know what she wants, when she wants it, and she wants it now."
When the duck grew a second set of gender revealing feathers, Seamons realised her error.
But the name stuck.
Seamons and partner Luke Hodge found Dennis last Christmas Eve when they were driving through Kumeu bound for Helensville to drop relatives home.
Rounding a corner, they spotted a day-old duckling dodging heavy traffic.
"Luke jumped out of the truck and Dennis pretty much ran straight up to him," Seamons said.
"She (Dennis) definitely would've been a pancake within a few seconds."
With the duckling cradled in Hodge's hand, the couple scoured neighbouring paddocks and ponds in vain for the mother.
They decided to take Dennis home.
"Because it was Christmas eve, we couldn't get to a stock food place so we made her mushy peas and mashed up mixed veges to eat," she said.
Seamons and Dodge, a carpet layer, had just begun Christmas leave so they spent their three-week holiday raising Dennis at home.
"We spent every minute of the day with her," Seamons said.
"She went everywhere with us for the whole summer holidays."
They took Dennis swimming at Whitianga creeks where the couple hunted for crystals, at waterways in South Head and at the Cement Works lake in Warkworth.
Now an independent adult, Dennis swings between being a wild duck when it suits and returning home to feed whenever hunger strikes.
The duck once vanished for a week before returning home with seven new ducklings in tow.
She led her charges straight into one of Seamons' enclosures.
"A really nasty pukeko was stalking them," she said.
"Pukekos kill ducklings.
"I think Dennis knew that I'd keep her babies safe."
Pictured: Seamons' son Dayton Rata, 7, with Dennis as a duckling and today, as a fully fledged duck.
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