Innholdsfortegnelse for Issue 29, 2023 i New Zealand Woman's Weekly

Who caught our eye this week Snap! In their snazzy blue blazers, William, Prince of Wales and Prince George looked like two peas in a pod as they watched an Ashes Test at Lord’s in London recently. Sports-loving William, 41, and George, nine, were spellbound as England took on Australia on the cricket pitch. At one point, the pair mirrored each other as they sipped matching beverages and when there was a break in the action, George hoovered a slice or two of pizza while his heir-to-the-throne dad enjoyed a chat with British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, 43. William – also dad to Princess Charlotte, eight, and Prince Louis, five – is often spotted cheering on his favourite teams with his eldest son. Now, it seems, the pair are about…

If there’s one personality trait that has defined Madonna in her four-decade career, it’s “perfectionist” – and friends say the Papa Don’t Preach hitmaker has pushed herself to the brink because of it. The Queen of Pop, 64, was discovered “unresponsive” at her New York apartment on June 24 and was rushed to hospital, where she was treated for a serious bacterial infection. Insiders say the mum-of-six had been working “around the clock” in preparation for her Celebration tour, which was due to kick off in Canada on July 15. “She ignored some symptoms of illness for quite a while because she thought they would go away,” a music industry insider shares. “She didn’t want to take time away from rehearsals.” Concerned friends fear the Ray of Light singer pushed…

Dhal with chutney yoghurt SERVES 4 PREP + COOK TIME 30 MINUTES (+ STANDING) 1 tablespoon peanut oil1 large onion, sliced thinly2cm piece fresh ginger, grated finely2 teaspoons brown sugar¹⁄³ cup (75g) korma curry paste1 teaspoon ground cumin1 teaspoon ground turmeric1 teaspoon sweet paprika400g can diced tomatoes 250g cherry tomatoes1 cup (250ml) coconut milk400g can brown lentils, drained, rinsed400g can chickpeas, drained, rinsed2 tablespoons fresh coriander leaves, coarsely choppedRoti, steamed basmati rice, to serve CHUTNEY YOGHURT 2⁄³ cup (190g) Greek yoghurt (see tip)1 tablespoon mango chutney 1 Heat oil in a large heavy-based pan over medium heat. Cook onion, ginger and sugar, stirring until soft. Add curry paste and spices. Cook, stirring until fragrant. 2 Add canned and cherry tomatoes, coconut milk, lentils, chickpeas and 1 cup (250ml) water to…

There is no denying indoor plants are one of the hottest things in interiors – especially during winter, when it’s more difficult to get outdoors and into nature. Plants have become an integral part of many interior schemes and can be used as oxygen-pumping décor in just about every room. But there’s more to it than simply creating a serene home. “Apart from looking beautiful and filling our homes with living things, there’s a ritual in looking after indoor plants which is very meditative and relaxing,” says indoor gardening expert Craig Miller-Randle, author of Green Thumb. The chance to reconnect with nature while also taking up a mindful practice of growing your house plants can relieve stress and boost creativity. “When you get something that is alive, and you look…

LEO Jul 24 – Aug 23 Just as you decide it’s me-time, someone wants it to be all about them. Don’t put your plans aside for anyone. Go and indulge yourself – you know it will be a long time before you get precious time for yourself again. You need the space to replenish your energies, sort out thoughts and get ready for a very busy time ahead. VIRGO Aug 24 – Sep 23 There could be some issues early on in the week and it is best to sort it out quickly. You may have to put some other things on hold while you resolve the issue. You will have to try to organise yourself. To get things done, you need a cohesive plan. Over the weekend, romance is…

Star WEEKLY The hottest celebrity scoop She’s 77 – but those 15cm high silver thigh boots are still made for walking! Country music icon Dolly Parton was on the publicity circuit recently to promote her upcoming album Rockstar, for which she teamed up with a plethora of legendary rock artists. But despite recording tracks with everyone from Sting, Sir Paul McCartney, Stevie Nicks and Debbie Harry, the beloved country singer confesses there was one rocker she couldn’t pin down. “Mick Jagger!” Dolly laments. “I wanted to sing Satisfaction with him. I kept missing him and I ran around after him like a high-school girl. In the end, I did it with Pink.” The singer says more than anyone, she wanted her husband of 59 years, Carl Dean, to give…

It’s well known that Paddy Gower isn’t afraid to tackle the big and sometimes uncomfortable issues with his special documentaries, and now he has his own show where he is joined by Karen O’Leary, who adds a lighter side. From page six, they share the details of their special bond – and a battle of egos! Elsewhere, we sit down with Nerida Cortese to talk about her wellness journey. If you are on social media, you’ll know that during Covid lockdowns she took up dancing with her sons and has attracted a huge audience – one video has been watched more than 16 million times! I can personally attest to what a great teacher she is because before my husband and I married, we did a session with her at…

Good sport It’s been eight months since the mighty Black Ferns lifted the Rugby World Cup, but a day doesn’t go by that Joanah Ngan-Woo gets asked about her hand. It was during the nail-biting last minutes of the final against England when she won the hearts of people around the country by swiping the ball away during a lineout, securing the win for New Zealand. As cheers erupted in the stadium and in front of TVs around the country, the 27-year-old policy analyst became a part of rugby history. The feat won her team the Sporting Moment of the Year at the Halberg Awards and Joanah a whole new legion of fans. “I can’t go a day without hearing it, like every single day, and I just laugh,” says…

There’s no doubt about it, New Zealand’s Kaimanawa horses have a lot to thank the Wilson sisters for. Since the three women began raising public awareness of the plight of the wild horses – which are mustered by the Department of Conservation every year to reduce their impact on the environment – hundreds of Kiwis have opened their hearts and homes to the equines. “It was amazing,” says middle sister Kelly Wilson, 33, of the almost-immediate impact of their 2015 reality-style show Keeping Up with the Kaimanawas. “No horses have been sent to slaughter since!” Graphic designer, photographer and author Kelly – who shared the limelight in the TVNZ show with sisters Vicki, 35, and Amanda, 29 – currently has seven Kaimanawas grazing on her 18-hectare property in Taupō. Despite…

It’s safe to say that when it comes to our eyes, most of us have experienced waking up to puffiness and dark circles – no matter how refreshed you feel. It’s most definitely annoying, but the good news is that whatever your under-eye concern may be, there’s likely a solution. TAKE A GENTLE APPROACH The under-eye area is incredibly delicate. In fact, it’s the thinnest skin on the body, measuring approximately 0.2mm in thickness. This makes the area more susceptible to irritation and sensitivity, as well as more prone to ageing before its time. With all of this in mind, go easy! From an ingredient perspective, this means avoiding high percentages of already-strong ingredients such as retinol and prioritising non-irritating formulations. Luckily, most eye products already take this into consideration.…

While 1970s-style hanging plant pots are fairly common, kokedama are something else entirely. Kokedama means “moss ball” in Japanese and is a floral art based on the bonsai tradition. Originally intended to display bonsai trees in an alternative way without pots, these beautiful moss-covered balls of soil introduced a new look for bonsai trees. The modern evolution of kokedama – also known as a string garden or floating plant – look amazing floating in the air, with their roots surrounded by green moss rather than pots. Kokedama have a certain grace about them and create the same sense of fascination as a bonsai tree – you just want to know how they were created. Whereas a bonsai tree requires knowledge of cutting and tying techniques to care for it properly,…

The beloved broadcaster’s reflections on life I’ve extolled the virtues of my gorgeous wife, Linda, many times in this column. Plucking her from the gutters of London’s East End, teaching her to speak proper English and encouraging her to emigrate here remains my life’s most gratifying endeavours. But she does have a mean streak! I wrote a memoir 13 years ago, The Life and Times of a Brown Paper Bag. I was gratified so many people were prepared to pay $39.95 to read it. The book’s sold out in the bookshops now, but it’s readily available secondhand on Trade Me, at book fairs or in second-hand shops. And I’d be less than honest to pretend it sells for anything like its original price. This is a touch humiliating, but Linda…

Letters to the Editor INSPIRATIONAL ICON ● Winning letter I loved the cover story on Paula Bennett (NZWW, July 3) – what a moving read. Paula is one of New Zealand’s icons and she seems to have been around forever. She just oozes intelligence, integrity and has always had grace under fire. Her back story is why she is who she is today – courageous, funny, hardworking and eternally optimistic. She is inspirational indeed! Debs Your prize This week’s winning letter writer receives a Nutra Organics prize-pack, worth $163.80! The perfect gut-boosting pack to get you glowing, the delicious Gutsy & Glorious Bundle includes Natural Gelatin, Collagen Beauty, Chicken Bone Broth Homestyle Original and Super Greens + Reds to support your wellbeing. Many readers offered their congratulations to Kiri Nathan,…

A great chat with the queen of talk back I was sad, but not surprised, to read the comments of a number of New Zealand’s top scientists who are appalled at the draft science curriculum that’s been put out for discussion. Central concepts in physics are absent. There’s no mention of mass or motion, nothing about atomic structure, the periodic table, compounds or molecular bonding. Students will learn about science through just four contexts – climate change, biodiversity, the food-energy-water nexus and infectious diseases. Critics say all of these are important, but without a solid understanding of basic science concepts and theories, there will be no possibility to understand the subjects that will be taught with any degree of sophistication. The state of the education system across the board has…

Love on the rocks! Can a couples’ trip rekindle a fizzled romance? Occasionally I want to enjoy a novel far more than I do. This is how it was with Happy Place, a story that promises a better time than it delivers. The author Emily Henry is a TikTok sensation, which propelled her books into becoming bestsellers. They are romantic comedies, featuring lots of witty banter and usually an opposites-attract plotline. This latest novel is more of a second-chance-romance, however. It takes us to coastal Maine and introduces us to three best friends from college who are now all grown up, but still trying to re-enact their youth. This is the final year they will be able to have a couples’ holiday at the cottage in Maine, because it is…

They’re both proud Generation Xers with a huge sense of social justice, who live in Wellington and have carved out careers in television. But the most common thread in Paddy Gower and Karen O’Leary’s lives has been that for many years – in their different roles as a journalist and early childhood teacher respectively – they’ve fostered an easy connection with strangers, often becoming unlikely confidants. That relatability and readily wanting to champion the underdog has always been part of their charm. “To be honest, I think gaining people’s trust is a special gift I’ve been given,” explains the host of Three’s Paddy Gower Has Issues, a weekly show that investigates social issues such as bullying, obesity and cancer. “When I was growing up, my mum was a receptionist at…

The wrap up... Thanks to her star turn as glamorous booziac Patsy Stone on Absolutely Fabulous, Dame Joanna Lumley is instantly recognisable. But don’t expect her to recognise anyone else! The actor has confessed she suffers from face blindness. “I’ve got this weird thing with faces,” says Joanna, 77. “It’s called prosopagnosia, which means I can’t tell people from faces. So, unless I know who they are, I don’t know who they are. “This is why I kiss everybody. I kiss so many strangers. They go, ‘Get off!’ and I go, ‘Do I know you? Was I married to you?’ I literally don’t know. “I’ve been at parties where I’ve said, ‘Do you want another glass of wine?’, gone off, got the glass of wine, come back and I can’t…

Sarah, Duchess of York, has been upbeat while talking about her shock breast cancer diagnosis and the treatment she’s undergone since a shadow spotted on a routine mammogram proved to be cancerous. But it’s been revealed that getting rid of the spread of cancerous cells required long and gruelling surgery, with the former royal spending eight hours on the operating table. She then spent four days being monitored in intensive care. A friend of Fergie, 63, says the duchess was devastated when she learned she couldn’t have a lumpectomy but instead needed a single mastectomy because of the spread of the cancer cells across her breast. Following that surgery, she was immediately operated on by a plastic surgeon who performed a breast reconstruction using the DIEP flap technique, which involves…

Dancer and choreographer Nerida Cortese shares her tips for living a healthy life. You’re a Dancing With the Stars icon and a dance teacher, so you are obviously very fit. How do you look after your body? I was born with one leg shorter than the other and I didn’t find out I had scoliosis [sideways curvature of the spine] until I was 17. I was dancing and in a lot of pain, and couldn’t breathe properly. I still get a lot of back pain. I do Pilates and I also do electro muscle stimulation (EMS) training, where you put on a wet vest, and they put little electrode nodes on you and every 10 seconds your muscles contract. It’s not painful and is really low-impact, but after 20 minutes,…

After founding The Kindness Collective and changing thousands of lives across Aotearoa, West Aucklander Sarah Page has received the recognition she deserves, with the charity winning the New Zealand Community of the Year Award. “I didn’t expect we would win,” Sarah humbly admits. “One of the charities we were up against is so incredible and I just expected they would win. Then halfway through the night, I thought, ‘What if it’s us?’ and started jotting notes down on my phone in case I had to give a speech. It turned out I did!” For onlookers, the accolade comes as no surprise. “The last two-and-a-half years have been insane,” tells Sarah. “We now have six regional coordinators around the country and a community hub in Auckland’s Mount Eden. We’ve also contributed…

Little ricotta cakes MAKES 6 SMALL CAKES Plain (all-purpose) flour, to dust150g unsalted butter, softened165g caster sugar½ teaspoon vanilla bean paste185g fresh ricotta, at room temperatureFinely grated zest of 1 lemon2 eggs180g self-raising flourPinch of salt125ml whole milkIcing sugar, to dust 1 Preheat oven to 180°C/160°C fan. Grease six small bundt tins or extra-large muffin cups (200ml) well with melted butter. Dust with a little plain flour, tapping out any excess. 2 In the bowl of a stand mixer with a paddle attachment, cream the butter, sugar and vanilla until very light and fluffy. Add ricotta and lemon zest, then beat for another 1-2 minutes or until well combined and light. Add eggs, one at a time, mixing well after each addition. 3 In a separate bowl, whisk together flour…

Travel Fiji If you’re seeking fun for the whole family, this palm-fringed archipelago nestled in the South Pacific should be near the top of your list. Thrill-seekers will love Nadi’s exhilarating ziplines, while the magnificent waterfalls, caves and jade tropical forests are a sight to be seen. Twenty minutes from Nadi Airport, you’ll discover Denarau Island, packed with family-friendly resorts, luxury villas, restaurants and spas. Here, in addition to a bounty of kids’ clubs, there are child-friendly activities aplenty, including the Big Bula Waterpark complete with giant water slides and obstacle courses, which provide hours of family fun. At the heart of the island is Denarau Golf & Racquet Club, which boasts an 18-hole golf course complete with bunkers in the shape of marine creatures. Kick back, relax, sip on…

Musings from our favourite Kiwi funnywoman There’s a good chance you’re reading this in a moment snatched between school holiday pick-ups and drop-offs. Or maybe you’re hiding from the kids in a room where it’s quiet, but keeping an ear out for signs of trouble? Ideally, what you’re hearing is an ebb-and-flow of chatter. Not shouting, but not total silence either. It is in the absolute lack of sound that trouble lives. It means they’ve either just done something unspeakable or are about to. These are the only times kids are silent, except when they’re glued to a screen or asleep. We do our best to keep them happily occupied – tougher during the winter breaks. Even so, at some point you know they’ll find you – likely when you’ve…

Reflections from a stand-up guy I’m about to destroy an accepted truth in the dad-child relationship. A truth I used to believe in myself. It all started on an accidental daddy-daughter day. Accidental because the idea was for the whole family to go mini golfing, but Mum and the youngest couldn’t be budged from their domestic comforts. To be fair, the youngest does have her arm in plaster thanks to a broken finger and Mum had to stay with her because of something called “the law”. So, it was me and our oldest hitting the putting greens. The fun we had was only slightly punctured by me coaching her on how to use a putter correctly. What can I say, I’m a dadsplainer. Our disrespect for any golfing etiquette meant…

I, TONYA APPLE TV Margot takes the lead role of top American figure skater Tonya Harding, whose career is compromised when she’s connected to an attack on one of her biggest rivals, Nancy Kerrigan. This biographical film chronicles Tonya’s life, including her difficult upbringing and rise in the competitive ice-skating world, and earned Margot her first Oscar nomination. THE WOLF OF WALL STREET NETFLIX Based on a true story, this dark comedy follows the rise and spectacular fall of New York City stockbroker Jordan Belfort (played by Leonardo DiCaprio) and his life of excess. He falls in love and marries Naomi, but their relationship is as chaotic as his career. THE SUICIDE SQUAD NETFLIX Based on the DC comic books of the same name, a group of supervillains, including Harley…

Silver belle She may not have a Halo atop her head, but Beyoncé was positively gleaming in Warsaw, Poland, during her Renaissance World Tour concert. The 41-year-old has recently wrapped up the European leg, and is about to blaze a trail across Canada and the US. Babs is fab! Barbra Streisand is the proud recipient of The Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Woman of Leadership Award, recognising the 81-year-old’s lifetime spent redefining Hollywood’s definition of femininity. She was the first woman to direct, produce, write and star in a major motion picture, as well as the first female composer to win an Academy Award! HELLO DOLLY! Women of all ages have been raving about Hollywood superstar Margot Robbie, most recently known as “real-life Barbie”. The 33-year-old beauty celebrates her new title…