Joe follows his hoodie
Is Fairtrade really fair?
FAIRTRADE. ORGANIC. Overworked and underpaid labourers … but cheap products for us. These complex issues are ...
Dads raising daughters
A conversation with Nigel Latta
NIGEL LATTA. Now there’s a name to remember! Think of The Politically Incorrect Parenting Show, and you’ll probably be smiling. Plus, chances are, you’ve been watching his new series, sorting facts from spin and getting to the core of major social issues.
A respected clinical psychologist, prolific author, and popular TV personality, Nigel’s a very busy boy. But he’s chatted with Grapevine before about parenting how-tos, and he happily agreed to do it again – this time on the tricky topic of Dads Raising Daughters.
We wanted his ‘take’ on a range of vexing questions. Like: What’s the difference (apart from the colour of their booties) between girls and boys? And we were surprised to learn that he doesn’t really think they’re all that different, deep down. But hang on a minute: we thought science, with its MRIs and cat scans and so on, had proved the opposite?
We had to find out more …
Issue 3 2014
FEATURED ARTICLES
TIMBERRRR!
Biking the Pureora Timber Trail
THE NORTH ISLAND'S Pureora Forest Park is a relatively unknown jewel in the crown of New Zealand’s wilderness. ...
Going Places
Chilling out in the Cinque Terre
WE WERE IN EUROPE, wanting a dose of La Dolce Vita … the good life: scrummy food, unlimited sunshine, ...
Rest of issue
Pick of the Bunch
Burning Buttocks & Doggy Delights
ONLY IN AMERICA:
Wanting to work from the comfort of his own home, a man pushed his motorcycle into his living ...
BREAD
Spinach, pumpkin, cumin & feta damper PLUS Cranberry & orange twisted loaf
FROM GLOBAL BAKER, Dean Brettschneider, comes this mouth-watering collection of more than 60 bread recipes, plus ...
Backchat
Moments like these ...
IT WAS A LAID-BACK SUNSHINY afternoon. We were seated in an outdoor café, catching up with family after a break ...
Scrubcutters
The Healthy Hug
A GOOD MATE OF MINE IS EX-SAS. He’s a big brute of a man – a master of hand-to-hand combat, skilled in survival, a ...
Home Sweet Home
How to cry
KIWIS AREN'T GIVEN MUCH TO CRYING. They used to cry on two specific occasions only: women cried when a loved one ...
The Geezer
Long live the Geezer!
I’VE DECIDED I SIMPLY wasn’t meant to live this long.
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t have a death-wish, but my ...