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Jugged hare delights

February 20, 2012June 27, 2020 Annette Taylor 3 Comments farmhouse cooking, Jugged hare, slow cooked hare, Waikato wild food, Wild hare recipe

Take a wild hare, cut it into pieces, marinate it and then cook it with red wine and nice things. But first you must catch it.

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Goodbye Leon

February 17, 2012August 14, 2018 N8N 2 Comments Leon Geddes, Leslie Buses, Spaceships

Leon Geddes enjoyed it when people asked him what he did. “I’d look them in the eye, and say I

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Pyramid plans for Horsham Downs

February 17, 2012February 27, 2012 N8N 2 Comments Daniel Adams, Horsham Downs pyramid, meditation pyramid

Horsham Downs will be famous for its 15m-high pyramid, if a dentist from Morrinsville has his way. Dr Rakesh Jogia

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Celebrations for friends of bush

February 17, 2012March 2, 2012 N8N 0 Comments friends of pukemokemoke, Kath Des Forges, Mantez Singh-Thandi, Pukemokemoke reserve

Jan Silvester reports on a special day at Pukemokemoke. It was a beautiful afternoon at the David Johnstone Pukemokemoke Bush

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Shuttlecocks fly in Horsham Downs

February 15, 2012February 19, 2012 N8N 0 Comments Horsham Downs Badminton Club

  Play until you drop – that’s badminton, and the game is on, says Horsham Downs Badminton Club treasurer Lesley

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Buses take place of garden in city centre

February 13, 2012May 7, 2014 Perry Rice 0 Comments

And why would Garden Place on a sunny winter afternoon c.1946/47 be of any interest to country folk? Well, in

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