Number 8 Network has been busy lately – a new issue of Home Range magazine will be sent out next week in all good rural letterboxes! But here are some pics that warmed our heart.  First up, a big Happy Birthday to the Mandarin Tree.  Claudia Aalderink says it’s been a glorious four years of

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SPRING HAS SPRUNG!  We have proof.  Here’s a photo of Gordonton’s Kim Gardiner with a new friend. Mother Marie says her daughter loves her lambs.     As does this mother.  Thanks for the pics Marie!     And what is this?  Could it be a Moanasaurus, a marine dinosaur that lived in the seas

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Top of the week to you, and here’s a good ‘un to start the week with – Monday morning from The Mandarin’s Tree Claudia Aalderink.  Says it all, rather gloriously.   There was some serious shenanigans going on at Prof’s @ Woodlands recently when they brought in Marie Gardiner to run a session on cupcake

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The Pick of the Crop has to be about sunshine and flowers, after all the rain and cold we’ve been having. How about this stunner of a sunset from Clandon Daffodils –     The flowers are blooming at Woodlands –     With all the cold we’ve been having the best dressed locals wear

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…in which N8N shares some highlights from around these parts.  Just look at this absolute stunner of a photo from Garden Graphix’s Anthony Skinner, taken from his studio.  We think these are mammatus clouds.  Could be.   Here’s The Mandarin’s Tree’s Claudia Aalderink out and about, on her way to or in Wellington for the long weekend.

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  There’s a new look at The Mandarin Tree, and a new exhibition about to get underway. Claudia Aalderink tells N8N’s Annette Taylor 2018 is a year full of opportunities.   Tell us about the exhibition. The first exhibition will be mine, focussing on beehive artwork and painting. It will be a Blue exhibition and

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