Tamahere, Hamilton

838 days ago

Support our Yuri Bear Project

Hilda Ross Retirement Village

Knitting needles are clicking across our villages and the wider community for the Yuri Bear project🐻❤️.

We’re aiming to knit 20,000 teddy bears for children displaced as a result of turmoil in their country.

We’ve been overwhelmed by the response so far, but 20,000 bears is no … View more
Knitting needles are clicking across our villages and the wider community for the Yuri Bear project🐻❤️.

We’re aiming to knit 20,000 teddy bears for children displaced as a result of turmoil in their country.

We’ve been overwhelmed by the response so far, but 20,000 bears is no small ask!

If you can knit, know someone who can or would like to find out how you can help, please click on the link below.

838 days ago

Did you start gardening in school?

Mei Leng Wong Reporter from NZ Gardener & Get Growing

Dear neighbours,

How many of you remember gardening in school? Hopefully, more students and teachers will be inspired by the great work being done at this amazing school.

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839 days ago

Museum of Me

Dee from Cambridge

The first 'Museum of Me' session with Elizabeth from Cambridge Museum and Historical Society was held last Saturday at Cambridge Library. If you have a child aged between 5 and 11 who is interested, a second session will be held this coming Saturday at 10am. More information available … View moreThe first 'Museum of Me' session with Elizabeth from Cambridge Museum and Historical Society was held last Saturday at Cambridge Library. If you have a child aged between 5 and 11 who is interested, a second session will be held this coming Saturday at 10am. More information available here: bit.ly...

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839 days ago

How a healthy gut can reduce the severity of Covid and the flu

Naturally Healthy

A study of Croatian children attending daycare saw half of them given probiotics and the other half a placebo - after three months those taking probiotics had a lower risk of respiratory tract infections and experienced less time unwell when infected.

Swedish researchers also conducted a study … View more
A study of Croatian children attending daycare saw half of them given probiotics and the other half a placebo - after three months those taking probiotics had a lower risk of respiratory tract infections and experienced less time unwell when infected.

Swedish researchers also conducted a study on 272 adults and found that the group using probiotics experienced the milder cold and flu symptoms and less time infected with a virus.

It also found cases of the cold and flu among participants those who had taken probiotics averaged 6.2 days compared to the 8.2 days those taking a placebo experienced.

As consultant gastroenterologist and UNSW Professor of Medicine Emad El-Omar explains, the gut microbiome's primary role is to educate our immune system about our environment.

The lion's share of our immune system - around two-thirds of all immune cells – is concentrated in digestive system which is why UNSW’s Microbiome Research Centre is exploring how the gut microbiome’s make-up affects immune responses and changes with various disease progression.

Source: Dispensaries and NSW Health

picture - Supercharged Food

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840 days ago

Do you have a great asparagus recipe?

Mei Leng Wong Reporter from NZ Gardener & Get Growing

Dear neighbours,

Every month, NZ Gardener runs a series of tested reader recipes using a seasonal crop. We are now on the hunt for asparagus recipes, so send your best ones to mailbox@nzgardener.co.nz before August 21, 2022.

Every published recipe wins a copy of our special edition Vegetable … View more
Dear neighbours,

Every month, NZ Gardener runs a series of tested reader recipes using a seasonal crop. We are now on the hunt for asparagus recipes, so send your best ones to mailbox@nzgardener.co.nz before August 21, 2022.

Every published recipe wins a copy of our special edition Vegetable Growing Made Easy.

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841 days ago

Subscribe to Stuff's First Time Buyer's Club

Stuff

Making it onto the first rung of the property ladder can be an incredibly rewarding journey – and Stuff is here to help you through.

Stuff Homed has launched the First Time Buyers’ Club, an email series to help you navigate the equal-parts exciting and terrifying process of buying your first… View more
Making it onto the first rung of the property ladder can be an incredibly rewarding journey – and Stuff is here to help you through.

Stuff Homed has launched the First Time Buyers’ Club, an email series to help you navigate the equal-parts exciting and terrifying process of buying your first ever home. When you join our six-week LearnStuff course, you’ll get an email every week giving you all the basics on what you need to know, who you need on your side, and what you need to do at each stage of the journey.

We can’t make the houses any cheaper, but we can guide you through the process, share some tips from the experts, and help you avoid some of the trips and traps.

Sign up (it's free) and get started on your house-buying journey.
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841 days ago

The Broons Annual 2016 (80 years)

Cordwainer from Melville

The Broons Annual 2016 (celebrating 80 years)

2015. DC Thomson, Card covers, excellent condition.

Comic strip of Scotland’s happy family.

Price: $8

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842 days ago

The Handmaid's Tale (book)

Cordwainer from Melville

The Handmaid's Tale (book)
Margaret Atwood

2017 edition. 324 pages, excellent condition.

The bestselling dystopian classic that became a cultural phenomenon and inspired an award-winning TV series

The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function: to breed. If she deviates, she… View more
The Handmaid's Tale (book)
Margaret Atwood

2017 edition. 324 pages, excellent condition.

The bestselling dystopian classic that became a cultural phenomenon and inspired an award-winning TV series

The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function: to breed. If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire - neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs.

Price: $8

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842 days ago

American Aircraft of World War II (book)

Cordwainer from Melville

American Aircraft of World War II (book)

David Mondey. Hardcover, 256 pages, colour illustrated. 2000 reprint

Excellent condition.

This colourful and compact volume provides a useful guide to some 120 aircraft that served with the US Air Force from 1939-45. Both combat and non-combat … View more
American Aircraft of World War II (book)

David Mondey. Hardcover, 256 pages, colour illustrated. 2000 reprint

Excellent condition.

This colourful and compact volume provides a useful guide to some 120 aircraft that served with the US Air Force from 1939-45. Both combat and non-combat aircraft are covered by text detailing each type's origins, history and variants, followed by a full technical specification.

Additionally, each type is illustrated in colour and with a three-view diagram, the more important types also receiving large-scale colour treatment.

Price: $12

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843 days ago

Aged terracotta pot

The Team from Resene ColorShop Cambridge

It’s easy to age a brand new terracotta pot using Karen Walker Chalk Colour and Vintage Wax from Resene.
Find out how to create your own.

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844 days ago

The local elections are coming up!

Orange Guy from Electoral Commission

The countdown is on! Make sure you’re enrolled and your details are up to date by 12 August to make voting in the local elections easy.

Visit vote.nz or call 0800 36 76 56 to find out more.
Find out more

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845 days ago

Canna plants

Colleen from Tamahere

Free Canna Lily plants, red leaves with apricot/orange flower.
Tamahere area.
Text or phone 021 102 4735

Free

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854 days ago

HCC Land Grab

Arthur from Melville

Am I the only one bothered by Hamilton City Council’s land grab? Yes emotive talk but that’s the way I feel about the Significant Natural Area (SNA) designation that has been placed over part of our property. If you have trees and a gully aspect it’s likely you’ve copped it too.

Check … View more
Am I the only one bothered by Hamilton City Council’s land grab? Yes emotive talk but that’s the way I feel about the Significant Natural Area (SNA) designation that has been placed over part of our property. If you have trees and a gully aspect it’s likely you’ve copped it too.

Check out the SNA provisions of Council’s District Plan Change #9.

The Council proposes that I can no longer manage my trees as I see fit despite having done so for close to 30 years. My trees, I sourced them, I planted them, and my time in caring for them since. Now the council has wrapped them in red tape and I can’t do anything, or practically so, without first having a resource consent from Hamilton City Council.

A stated purpose of the District Plan’s SNA provisions:

“The Act identifies the protection of areas of significant indigenous vegetation and significant habitats of indigenous fauna as a matter of national importance. This chapter of the District Plan identifies areas of significant indigenous vegetation, biodiversity and habitats of indigenous fauna which qualify as Significant Natural Areas – these areas can be held in public and private ownership or ownership may be split.”

Which is all very well but over the 2 to 3 decades of living in Hamilton all I’ve seen is enhancement of gully vegetation, so why do we do we now need red tape to achieve what’s been happening anyway?

Another statement in the “Purpose” rubs salt into the wound.

“The costs of protecting areas and habitats are local and often specific to an individual, yet the benefits may be local, regional and national.”

So all this cost of getting consultants to survey for bat habitat and prepare resource consent applications and planting plans and management plans should be borne by the community as a whole. But no, the boffins involved side step the reality of the cost imposed by this red tape.

Like many things that are young, little plants are easy to adore and give you a warm sense of having done well by the environment. But they grow up shutting out the sun and block roof gutters with leaf litter. You now need an expensive planning consent before solving such problems.

It’s all just more cost and bureaucracy to contend with.

845 days ago

Bake new friends

The Team from Red Cross Shop Hamilton East

Bake a bargain and get 25% of all cook books,casserole dishes

and platters

This week only,so don’t miss out !

😄

Red Cross Shop Hamilton East

846 days ago

Come and take a look!

Wintec

Wintec Open Day welcomes people from around the rohe and beyond to our City and Rotokauri campuses.

This whānau-friendly event is the perfect opportunity to explore our courses, meet our tutors, tour our campuses, discover our student support services, visit our on-site accommodation, and even… View more
Wintec Open Day welcomes people from around the rohe and beyond to our City and Rotokauri campuses.

This whānau-friendly event is the perfect opportunity to explore our courses, meet our tutors, tour our campuses, discover our student support services, visit our on-site accommodation, and even enrol on the day!

There will be free kai, games, prizes, and interactive activities across both campuses.
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