After a decade of working abroad, designer Karishma Krishna will make her debut at this year’s MTN Durban Fashion Week.
Krishna, 33, of Verulam, who returned to her home town this year, will show her latest range, An Enlightened State of Zen, at fashion week.
“My colours are bold and fused with pastel shades, and my inspiration [...]
Keeping with the traditions of her Greek heritage, Lagoudis brings out the whole family to enjoy the food and to help stuff her guests full of it.
Reminiscent of scenes from My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Lagoudis’ cooking lessons are more a party than a class.
Lagoudis has been giving cooking lessons out of her home in [...]
The companys 10-seater Chieftain Piper plane hit the tarmac at 8.40am after a 29-minute flight.
It has been three years since a commercial service has run between Invercargill and Dunedin.
Flights between the cities stopped when Origin Pacific withdrew its service in 2005, before the company folded.
Mainland Air plans to run a return service three days a [...]
I havejust spent five weeks working and experiencing life in China, with fellow dairy farmer Peter Ferguson. While it was good to return on Easter Monday to good, green Southland grass, there was a lot about China and the Chinese that impressed us.
Our first stop was on the outskirts of Tianjin, Chinas fourth largest city [...]
In a study of 15 teenage girls, the investigated looked at the feasibility of using GPS-enabled cell phones to track adolescents whereabouts when they were away from home or school.
The researchers found that the girls were happy to take the phones with them wherever they went, and that the GPS accurately plotted their travels over [...]
Astonishingly beautiful and extremely varied, the seven islands and various uninhabited islets of the Aeolian archipelago were designated a Unesco World Heritage Site in 2000. Their volcanic origins left a dramatic legacy of black-sand beaches, smouldering craters and splintered, rocky coastlines. Island-hoppers can discover their individual charms: from the spartan conical Alicudi, where donkeys are [...]
Moral: there are many things you can learn from a book, but not how to bake a cake or cook a meal.
You need to know the basics. Boil, bake, fry, roast. There are words that say one thing but mean another %26ndash; drizzle, blitz, curdle, whip, whisk, blanch, fold, bind …
There are essential tools %26ndash; [...]
As people across the globe switch off for Earth Hour at 8pm on March 29, some will turn the occasion into an atmospheric dinner date. At their organic farm and B%26amp;B at the Oaks, near Camden, Margarita and Shaun Carrick will hold a three-course candlelit dinner to celebrate the event.
Its just so lovely to eat [...]
Prices are per person for a week in June, unless otherwise stated. The Asian-style spaInstead of:Chiva Som, Thailand - %26pound;2,535Try: Choupana Hills, Madeira - %26pound;885 Spa aficionados insist Asian spas are the best in the world, and that a 10-hour flight and a large wedge of cash are a small price to pay for such [...]
So a frind of mine, who fluked a couple of days at the Hotel Splendido, a really rather sumptuous affair in Portofino on the Italian Riviera, was convinced that herein lay the secret of holidaying for free. His theory was simple: pay for a single blow-out holiday in a selection of Europe’s top hotels, then [...]
