How great would it be to have a good relationship with your neighbours?
Everyone has had good neighbours, and ones they’d gladly swap.
There are the neighbours who share their abundant tomato crop, bring in abandoned wheelie bins and quickly cast a whipper snipper across an overgrown verge.
The best neighbours are there at two o’clock in the morning when the alarm in a random parked car has been blaring for the past hour. Or at four o’clock in the afternoon when hail the size of oranges has smashed all the windows in your house…
How well do you know your neighbours?
But sadly – for many of us – our neighbours are people who we say hi to a couple of times a week, have a conversation with once in a blue moon, but wouldn’t feel comfortable asking a favour of. You only need to look at the proliferation of pet minding businesses to know neighbourliness could do with a boost. And just think how much school gate congestion could be avoided if we all started carpooling to drop the kids at school?
Celebrate with your local community on Neighbour's Day this March,
Whether you’re an individual, a group, or a business, whether you live in a house, or an apartment building, a flat, or something else entirely you can host a Neighbours Day Aotearoa event and connect with your community….
check out the Neighbours day website on neighboursday.org.nz... and perhaps start a conversation on Neighbourly with close neighbors in your area about ways to better connect/share resources or improve the envinroment of your community!
Finally think about starting a Neighbourhood Support Group and meet your immediate neighbours! neighbourhood.org.nz...
Poll: If we want to reduce speeding, what do you think actually changes driver behaviour? 🛻🚨🚓
In the Post's article on speeding penalties, the question is asked whether speeding fines are truly about road safety, or are they just a way to boost revenue for the Crown?
What do you think? Should speeding motorists receive speeding fines or demerit points?
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37.2% The sting of a fine (Money talks!)
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62.8% The threat of demerit points (Nobody wants to lose their license!)
Some Choice News!
DOC is rolling out a new tool to help figure out what to tackle first when it comes to protecting our threatened species and the things putting them at risk.
Why does this matter? As Nikki Macdonald from The Post points out, we’re a country with around 4,400 threatened species. With limited time and funding, conservation has always meant making tough calls about what gets attention first.
For the first time, DOC has put real numbers around what it would take to do everything needed to properly safeguard our unique natural environment. The new BioInvest tool shows the scale of the challenge: 310,177 actions across 28,007 sites.
Now that we can see the full picture, it brings the big question into focus: how much do we, as Kiwis, truly value protecting nature — and what are we prepared to invest to make it happen?
We hope this brings a smile!
Get up to $30,000 back* with your new home
Sign up to an independent apartment or townhouse at a participating Ryman village by 31 March 2026 and receive a $30,000 credit on settlement or sign up to a serviced apartment and receive a $10,000 credit on settlement*.
Imagine a new smart TV, your next getaway or furniture for your new home. With more money staying in your pocket, it’s yours to spend!
Discover the lifestyle that awaits.
*Participating villages only, Terms and conditions apply.
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