Could silence be the new small talk at the hairdressers?
The Grumpy Merino
Words — Nick Ainge Roy
In many ways, the Reeds are typical high-country farmers on a typical high-country farm. On their land, which ranges from irrigated flats and rolling hills to rugged mountain faces, they run an old-school combination of sheep and beef: hardy merinos and sturdy, black-coated Angus cattle.
Though there’s technically absolutely nothing wrong with writing ‘okay’ as ‘OK’ it’s an abbreviation that grinds many a folk’s grammatical gears – including this writer’s (though not as much as BBQ).
Baradene College of the Sacred Heart, located on Victoria Avenue in historic Remuera, has a century-old tradition of high-quality education for young women in a supportive, faith-based environment.
Hunched over his well-lit workbench dotted with fiddly-looking brushes and hand tools, horseshoe-shaped stone moulds, pastes, and a microscope, Shinichiro Tsuji could easily be mistaken for a Wētā Workshop sculptor. But Shin’s steady hands aren’t whittling intricate Middle-earth special effects; they’re making teeth instead.
