Issue 8 - Coromind

Do & Be Your Best: Success Moments

August 18, 2023 No Comments

Celebrating success can be a challenge, especially when there’s still a lot to do, or when things overall just don’t seem like they’re going your way. But celebrating even small successes is important; it will make a difference to how you feel, and quite possibly how others around you feel.

So, how do you celebrate success? With a coffee, an award, a BBQ? All good ideas, and here’s another technique that can have a longer lasting effect.

Reviving Your Garden after a Rainy Season – Chops Gardening Tips

August 18, 2023 No Comments

In the Coromandel, we hit that milestone back in May! Our poor gardens have taken a real beating from this never-ending rainy season. But fear not, we’re in this together, and we can bring our gardens back to life! It’s time to roll up our sleeves, put on those gardening gloves, and adapt our green-thumbed tactics to deal with all this water. Here are some essential steps to rejuvenate your garden and ensure its vitality for the seasons to come.

University Dropout

August 18, 2023 No Comments

I dropped out of university after six weeks and I don’t regret it. That choice I made caused me to lose my scholarship and my first-year fees free status.

During my last two years of school, nothing filled me with more dread than what I was going to do after I finished. For as long as I can remember,

Another Boring Collection of Words

August 18, 2023 No Comments

If you’ve managed to make it to this paragraph, we should move on with my non-scientific observations about the world and its current state of sheer monotony. The instant access to information has turned us into constant stimulus-seeking creatures.

Our Beaches in the Wake of Gabrielle

August 18, 2023 No Comments

There was a wonderful event at the start of June on Wharekaho Beach. The community turned out in good numbers to help replant the dune after the devastation caused by cyclone Gabrielle. Happy, cheerful people, not complaining about the damage, or the fact that we may lose some of the plants we were planting to the next storm, just good people keen to join together to do their bit to help protect our beach.