Health & Wellbeing

Health & Wellbeing

Save and keep fit: biking

Mainstream cyclists have been around for over two hundred years. They wear everyday clothing, obey the rules of the road and ride…

Sept 2023

Health & Wellbeing

Tulips for Parkinson’s Awareness

Parkinson’s Wairarapa will be at Longbush Cottage during its annual Tulip Festival over the weekend of 30th September -1st October. The Longbush…

Sept 2023

Health & Wellbeing

Tranzit puts up for ambulance station

Wellington Free Ambulance is delighted to welcome Tranzit as the latest Wairarapa business to support building a Wairarapa ambulance station. This New…

Sept 2023

Health & Wellbeing

Welly Commute stacks on the weight: Part 2

To recap: It crept up on me slowly; a kilo here, a few hundred grams there. Three years after moving to Martinborough…

Sept 2023

Health & Wellbeing

Two Views of ADHD

So, you’ve been diagnosed with ADHD. Or someone you love or work with has been diagnosed…where do you go to find out…

Sept 2023

Health & Wellbeing

Martinborough Health Centre

With all the media releases about struggling General Practices and shortage of GP’s, we are aware of how very important it is…

Jun 2023

Health & Wellbeing

Parkinson’s Awareness

When you are going through a challenging time, family members and friends may sympathise but they don’t always know what to say…

Jun 2023

Health & Wellbeing

Cooking corner – Healthy butter chicken

Here’s a great butter(less) chicken recipe for a large family, or a smaller family and you can freeze the extra for another…

Mar 2023

Health & Wellbeing

Cooking corner

New potato salad Ingredients: 750 gr new potatoes cut into cubes ½ cup mayonnaise 1 tsp Dijon style mustard 1 tsp chopped…

Feb 2023

Health & Wellbeing

Cooking corner – Christmas cookies

140g icing sugar, sieved 1 tsp vanilla extract 1 egg yolk 250g butter, cut into small cubes 375g plain flour, sieved To decorate 200g icing sugar, sieved edible food colouring, optional edible gold…

Dec 2022

Health & Wellbeing

Parkinson’s Family Support

Parkinson’s is a degenerative disease with no cure at present although research is moving is leaps and bounds. There are approximately 112…

Nov 2022

Health & Wellbeing

Cooking Corner

Asparagus & lemon spaghetti with peas Ingredients Method Boil the spaghetti for 12 mins until al dente, adding the asparagus for the…

Nov 2022

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