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| Wine: Questions of taste |
| How subjective is wine tasting? Every time that question comes up, the first word to spring to my lips is "totally", but it's quickly followed by: "but it's also quite objective - once you know what you're looking for".Yes, I'm... |
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Published: Tue, 07 Sep 2010 05:30 a.m. |
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| Beer bread |
| A few years back I was invited to appear on a kids' TV show, which involved getting there early to get my make-up done.I'll be honest - I was more concerned about people thinking I had make-up on than anything else. But when I... |
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Published: Tue, 07 Sep 2010 05:30 a.m. |
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| Hammerheads , Okahu Bay |
| At last, a room with a view. Having put up with mutterings about not having anything to look at during a recent visit to a restaurant, I decided we should visit the seaside to see whether it would put paid to the complaints. It did.... |
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Published: Mon, 06 Sep 2010 05:30 a.m. |
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| Annabelles Restaurant , St Heliers |
| I have rather a soft spot for St Heliers, even though I hardly ever go there. It has happy echoes from my childhood when the Calder clan used to undertake the endless journey in the Vanguard from Hamilton to Auckland to visit relatives.If... |
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Published: Mon, 06 Sep 2010 05:30 a.m. |
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| Kumfs rebrands to become Ziera for more fashion appeal |
| Women's shoe retailer Kumfs is rebranding this month to engage a younger audience and increase overseas sales, its managing director says.By the end of the month all the company's New Zealand and Australian stores will have been... |
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Published: Mon, 06 Sep 2010 05:30 a.m. |
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| Beauty bars are for the bros |
| The beauty industry is a changing landscape. Or man-scape.Beauticians have waltzed unfazed through the recession, figures show, thanks to an increase of up to 5 per cent a year in the number of men using their services.TVNZ... |
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Published: Sun, 05 Sep 2010 05:30 a.m. |
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