Saturday Morning with Jack Tame

As the capital of the world’s largest democracy, Delhi embodies the essence of modern India – a vivid paradox of old and new, rich and poor, foreign and familiar. It’s been fourteen years since my last visit and the economic transformation is ever-present. High rises, swanky malls and residential colonies housing the booming middle-class are mushrooming everywhere. As my engaging Wendy Wu Tours guide Girish remarked, as we were whi...

This time of the year a wonderful Pohutukawa “shrub” is flowering its little heads off: Metrosideros carminia known as the crimson rata; a Native in the North Island all the way down to Taranaki and Hawkes Bay. It comes as a shrub when you get them from cuttings, but they’ll move up like tree climbers when they emerge from seeds. Pollinators love them – and so do I.

Favourite food of tui and bellbirds, as well as silvereyes an...

Often people experience sneezing and congestion and are unclear of the difference between a cold and hay fever - very common in spring. 

What is the difference? 

• This time of the year can be confusing especially with a late carry over of winter illnesses.
• Basically, hay fever is an allergic reaction to pollen, dust or pets.
• The common cold is an infection caused by a virus most often: rhinovirus.
• Hay-fever comes on s...

Nvidia becomes the first company to hit $5 trillion in value

Since the launch of ChatGPT in 2022, Nvidia's shares have climbed 12x. Just three months ago it was the first company to hit $4 trillion. It's 8.3% of the S&P500 so those who hold low-cost index funds in their retirement accounts will feel the effect of every Nvidia market move - both good and bad. 

Five trillion is just a staggering number. You would need to ta...

Down Cemetery Road - (Apple TV+) Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson star in this British series about a woman who hires an investigator after an explosion and a girl goes missing on the same night in a quiet suburban neighbourhood.  

IT: Welcome to Derry - (Neon) This new horror series follows events in the 1960s in the time leading up to the events of the first film in Stephen King’s “It” series. 

Educators - (TVNZ+) The retu...

You’ll know quiz queen Anne Hegerty best for her on stage persona – the Governess. 

She dominates tv screens every night on The Chase – with one of the best win rates of any chaser. 

And now, Anne will be on our screens in a brand new kiwi version of the tv phenomenon – The Chase New Zealand. 

She joins Jack Tame to share her secrets to trivia-based success.

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Tradies’ Blueberry & Lemon Loaf Cake 

This loaf has such a delicate, buttery crumb and it’s absolutely gorgeous. 

Ingredients:

Makes one loaf 

• 190g sugar 
• 2 tbsps lemon zest 
• 150g butter, softened
• 3 medium eggs
• 90g flour + extra for dusting blueberries
• ½ tsp baking powder
• 110g ground almonds
• ¼ cup lemon juice
• 150g fresh blueberries
• ½ cup icing sugar
• Few drops of lemon juice and water 

Me...

Pike River - (in cinemas) Two ordinary women who together stand up and take on the government, justice system and a company that will stop at nothing to protect itself, after the 2010 Pike River Mine explosion takes the lives of 29 men underground. 

A House of Dynamite - (Netflix) Radars at Fort Greely, Alaska detect a nuclear missile. The president and his entourage must use the limited time they have to try to shoot down the...

It was such a rookie mistake.  

I was tramping in the Kahurangi, last summer. The Douglas Range, 1000m above sea level. And after we’d pitched a tent, as the sun got heavy and the surrounding hills cast their shadows long and deep, I realised I’d screwed up, big time.  

Zzzzzz. Zzzzzz. Zzzzzz.  

What made the error so much worse was that it wasn’t a bit of absent-minded forgetfulness. I’d carefully considered my opti...

The Widow by John Grisham 

The new incredible legal thriller and first ever who-dunnit from John Grisham. She needs a lawyer. He needs a payday. Simon Latch is a small-town lawyer struggling with debt, gambling issues and an impending divorce. 

Last One Out by Jane Harper 

He had been here, that was clear from the marks in the dust. And he had been alone. In a dying town, Ro Crowley waits for her son on the evening o...

When it comes to grand gestures, painting your entire city in the one colour is quite something. So much for painting the town red. How about pink? Jaipur beckons as one of India’s most enchanting destinations, where the Old City is harmoniously bathed in the same pink hue. The elegant capital of Rajasthan was painted in pink stucco in 1876 to welcome Albert Edward, the Prince of Wales, who was the son of Queen Victoria and later b...

Building on Jack’s love of birds and bird-feeding in his garden – new research shows that listening to birdsong may actually benefit your mental health and improve sadness and depression. 

Researchers took people with and without depression and then made them feel sad in the laboratory by playing movie clips. Sidenote – I read another study where they made people feel sad by playing a piece of Russian classical music slowed do...

When I arrived in New Zealand as an immigrant (in 1978), the Asian Paperwasp arrived here too. I remember I was impressed by the New Zealand obsessions to keep these invaders out of the kiwi ecosystems.

A few years later I started working for the Ministry of Agriculture and the Asian (or Chinese) Paperwasp was still being pursued; unfortunately without success. We tried to create some pro-active techniques to stop unwanted critters...

Immigrant's Vineyard Sparkling Méthode Traditionnelle NV, Central Otago 

RRP from $38.00

Roland and Lucienne moved to New Zealand from the Netherlands 1986, ultimately settling in Central Otago’s Alexandra area. 

Some years later Lucy studied viticulture in Hawke's Bay and after working in hospitality and retail for many years took the leap of faith and passion and acquired our vineyard. Their first vintage was in 2015 la...