Tickling Taste-Buds: Gordon’s Picklery
With two decades of experience and expertise supplying gherkins and pickled onions to many of New Zealand’s largest and most recognisable food service customers, Gordon’s Pickles has now launched an impressive range of ‘ready to serve’ quality products available to you, direct from the factory door. Owner and Manager Janice Burnett knows her […]
A winters’s ale feast: Wigram Brewery Co
Flavour sings over winter at Wigram – whether it’s cooking with a stout or porter or pairing them with your favourite cheese board, the winter fare is accentuated by the stunning range of hearty beers at Wigram Brewery. With sumptuous darks and their rich, malty, earthy flavours that add such depth […]
Canine hypothyroidism? – Ourvets
Is the family pooch getting a little portly, slow and lethargic? Without the usual tail-wagging vigour? There could be an underlying cause – especially if they are not eating more than normal. Unlike hyperthyroidism in cats, an underactive thyroid or hypothyroidism in dogs can present with more vague signs and requires specific blood […]
An angel in blue: Blue Angels
You don’t usually think of angels travelling by car. But in 21st century Christchurch, one caring, helpful and friendly ‘angel’ travels in a white Honda HR-V, taking people here and there, chatting with them along the way. Renan Singh is the face of Blue Angels; a personal, safe and reliable transportation service that […]
Our extraordinary expat: Q&A with Miriama Kamo
Miriama Kamo has graced our screens with her warmth and charisma for many years. Metropol catches up with Christchurch’s extraordinary expat about a life well lived. You’re a Cantabrian girl at heart, can you tell us about your upbringing in Christchurch? I’m one of five kids, smack bang in the middle – an […]
Promoting health & wellbeing: The new Akaroa Health Centre
With a blessing on the former Akaroa Hospital site earlier this year and work already underway on the new Akaroa Health Centre, the local community is looking forward to its envisaged opening in June 2019. Gordon Boxall, Chair of the Akaroa Community Health Trust, (ACHT) says the benefits of the new health facility […]
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