Spring Issue 13 OUT NOW!

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Spring Issue 13 OUT NOW!

The Spring issue of Latitude Magazine is a must have with many great stories to keep you reading over these coming months!

Featuring:

• Mark Inglis - The Chance to Dream

• Pieter Symonds - Born to Dance

• Phillipa Saxton - Something of a Nomad

• Joan Ward - Celebrating Togetherness

• Culverden Fete - Standing the Test of Time

• Akaroa Cooking School - Lashings of Indulgence

• Latest looks for new Homes

...plus many more great stories

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The Chance to Dream

On the 15 May, 2006 Mark Inglis achieved a life-long dream. He conquered Mt Everest. It was a heck of a moment, as it would be for anyone, but especially so as the first double amputee to summit the world's ultimate peak.

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Pieter Symonds - Born to Dance

It was her love of dance that took Pieter Symonds away from Christchurch; now it is dance that bought her back; albeit briefly.

BORN AND RAISED IN the Garden City, Pieter was the guest dancer in the Royal New Zealand Ballet’s recent Meridian Season of Carmen, playing the queen of seduction herself, which took audiences by storm across New Zealand.

For the 33-year-old, the role marked a return to her roots, six years after having left the Royal NZ Ballet to take up a place with the UK’s acclaimed Rambert Dance Company, based in London.

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Phillipa Saxton - Something of a Nomad

New Zealanders have one woman’s obsession with French macarons to thank for the celestial pleasure of having the delectable, mouth-watering edible delights in a vibrant range of intense flavours made right on our doorstep.

IN JUST OVER 12 MONTHS J’amie les macarons (I love macaroons) has gone from a single stall at the Christchurch Farmers Market, to a small shop on Normans Road. And as world spreads, the somewhat addictive morsels capture more hearts. Made well, nothing compares.

There’s nothing like the contents of a bookcase for an insight into the owner’s personality.

The fact that even bookcase space is at a premium in Phillipa Saxton’s Fairlie villa is revelation enough that here is someone passionate about words and ideas and a traveller with an especial fascination for the Indian sub-continent.

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Celebrating Togetherness - Joan Ward

A little bit of magic has flown around the countryside for the past forty five years, ensuring hundreds of thousands of people enjoyed themselves.

North Canterbury business, Continental Catering, has played a part in thousands of successful and memorable events and functions, in the process becoming a highly esteemed business with a reputation as industry market leaders, thanks to the commitment of the company’s Founders and Directors, Joan and David Ward.

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Culverden Fete - Standing the test of time

Fresh from the farming downturn of the 1980s, a group of North Canterbury women banded together with dreams of uplifting themselves from the doldrums, with an event to put Culverden on the map. Few could have foreseen that nineteen years on, the Culverden Fête would still be going strong, attracting thousands annually.