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Overcoming a debilitating disease started Gisborne’s RAWSophie Steevens on an incredible dietary journey& where she FREE was able to reverse her ill-health by eating a plant-based diet. She has created her fi rst cookbook Raw + Free, due out next week, and talks to Kim Parkinson about how she tackled a serious health challenge by changing her diet....

t was Sophie Steevens’ belief that a hormone to replace the function of her she could reverse her Graves’ Disease thyroid for the rest of her life.  e other through diet that led her down a path option was to have the thyroid removed, but Iwhich involved a drastic detox and a total this had greater risks involved. commitment to eating in a new way. She refused to accept these were the only In 2014 she was living in Bali with her two options available and started to do some partner, professional surfer Ricardo Christie, research. and her two children Eli and Milo when “I was aware of the positive health eff ects she suddenly became extremely unwell of a plant-based diet and I just felt strongly and was hospitalised with typhoid fever, a there must be another way. life-threatening bacterial infection. While “I stumbled across a blog post by Rosanne in hospital a doctor noticed a lump on Calabrese who had cured herself of her throat, so tests were done and it was Graves’ disease and Hashimoto’s (another discovered she had an extremely overactive autoimmune disease) by detoxing her body thyroid. She had started to notice symptoms at a clinic in Florida founded by Dr Robert a few weeks earlier, such as a racing heart and Morse. feeling jittery. Sophie followed a similar detox programme “My heart rate was always high — it felt where she ate only raw fruit and veges for as though I’d just been on a long run, even nearly six months, while taking herbal though I was resting. And although I was formulas three times a day, a combination of eating large amounts of food, I was rapidly tinctures and capsules. losing weight,” Sophie says. “It was a little challenging in the fi rst few “I was really tired, sweating a lot and would weeks as I was adjusting to a completely new get these sudden waves of fuzziness.” way of eating, but I quickly got the hang of it She fl ew home to New Zealand and and began to feel amazing — incredibly clean saw a top encronologist in Auckland and clear. who diagnosed her with Graves’ disease, “I had read Robert Morse’s book  e Detox an autoimmune disorder that causes Miracle Sourcebook, which explained every hyperthyroidism, or overactive thyroid. With system in the body and how detoxing works, this disease, your immune system attacks the so I felt prepared. thyroid and causes it to produce more thyroid “Six weeks into it detox symptoms kicked hormone than your body needs. in as my body was busy cleaning. My glands “I later found out this was hereditary,” she swelled up, I had headaches and fl u-like says. symptoms. I went through these symptoms After a year of taking medication Sophie on and off for about a month or so but by was told the ongoing treatment would 14 weeks I was feeling better than ever. I involve taking radioactive iodine, which decided to extend the detox for another eight PLANT-BASED GOODNESS: Sophie Steevens is glowing with good health after reversing would mean she would then need to take weeks. Continued on page 2 a serious autoimmune disease by eating a plant-based diet. Picture by Lottie Hedley

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HEALTHY LIVING: Sophie’s family is thriving on a plant-based diet. From left: Eli, Ricardo Christie, Jai, Sophie and Milo. Picture by Lottie Hedley Detox got thyroid function back to normal From page 1 health and wellbeing. Sophie outlines 12 tips being based at Wainui, Gisborne, she and the parsley and toasted almond lakes. Other for a wholesome plant-based lifestyle and family travelled to Europe to see Ricardo. tasty oferings include a creamy sunlower “I saw my GP regularly for full blood tests explains how to obtain the four essential “We lew to London, Portugal and France and vegetable tart which is made with a throughout the entire process and after nutrients of common concern when where we spent two months and I wrote the buckwheat and chia pastry. six months, both my thyroid function and following a plant-based diet — protein, entire time. At “he recipes antibodies were completely normal.” calcium, iron and B12. he book also that time I’d are all really he detox had required a huge efort and contains kitchen and pantry basics so readers tested about easy to make sheer determination on her part, but she had can be fully stocked up and ready to embark 80 percent of — I created this done it. Getting those results was extremely on this new way of eating. the recipes, book for any- emotional and Sophie went on to have her It was no mean feat to write a book, and so I was really level cook. third child Jai in 2018 without sufering create and test 100 recipes, while Ricardo focusing on the “Plant-based any negative efects on her thyroid due to was on the other side of the world and she intro.” eating can pregnancy. was home with the children. Sophie would seem a little At the time she started her detox “It was one of the most challenging often send overwhelming programme, she also started a blog on experiences as a full-time mum with my Ricardo drafts but once you Instagram (@ baby on my hip, two of what she have the staple rawandfree) where “I went to the extreme to get bigger boys (my 13 had written so ingredients you she wrote about year old was home- he could ofer will easily begin the experience. he myself into remission but schooled at the time) feedback. to get a feel for popularity of her the book isn’t really about and Ricardo away he recipes it.” blog grew quickly that. It is about encouraging competing overseas open with With her long and she now has all year long, but it smoothies, blonde hair 125,000 followers. wholesome eating in general.” was also incredibly juices and and bright blue It was through her rewarding, fun and breakfast eyes, Sophie is a Instagram presence that she was approached exciting at the same time and I am so happy ideas before vision of health to do the book. with the outcome. I poured my heart and going on to and wellbeing “I went to the extreme to get myself into soul into this book and worked long hours hearty salads and an remission but the book isn’t really about on it. with a range inspiration for that. It is about encouraging wholesome “I’d have two hours when Jai was asleep of dressings those thinking eating in general. during the day and as soon as he was asleep such as aioli about making “Whether you are plant-based or not, at night I’d go back to the kitchen or type made with a healthier I wanted to share the importance of away until at least midnight — towards the base of cashew choices with incorporating more plants into your diet, end I was up into the early hours. nuts, vegan sour cream and cashew cheese what they eat. Her book Raw + Free is chock- especially lots of fruits and vegetables, as “I would come up with an idea of what I sauce, hot pots and warming mains, snacks full of plant-based recipes that not only taste well as ditching the highly-processed foods wanted to create, write it down with a list of and dips and, for the sweet tooth, raw treats delicious but are also so good for you. that I believe are contributing hugely to poor ingredients and adjust each recipe as I was such as blueberry cheesecake, fruit and nut health.” making them. Sometimes it could take ive chocolate using raw cacao powder, and gooey ■ Raw + Free comes out on September he book begins with a comprehensive attempts to get it perfect and other times it caramel brownie slice. 1. Sophie will do a signing at Paper Plus introduction explaining how a plant-based would be almost there irst try. Bali inspired some of the dishes, such as a in Gisborne on Saturday, September 5 diet has the potential to improve long-term Last year after three and a half months of roast caulilower salad with curried yoghurt, from midday. Saturday, auguSt 29, 2020 3 PROFILE Another storyteller Stan Pardoe, a prominent figure in the Turanganui- a-Kiwa community, has published a book about his life and his world. Matai O’Connor spoke with him the day after his book launch to learn more about the stories many people do not know . . .

I wrote this book because of the lady were his Nan’s story and they were ones that sitting in there,” Rongowhakaata needed to be shared. kaumatua Stan Pardoe said, pointing “Surprisingly, I never forgot and many “to his wife Molly. years later I still chuckle when I see a person Stanley Joseph Pardoe was born in who is a relation and all these lessons come Gisborne on December 13, 1940 — the irst looding back to me,” he said. child of Ereti and Eric Pardoe of Manutuke. Stan started at Te Reinga Native School in He started life in Te Reinga which is in 1945. between Gisborne and Wairoa on the inland “It was one of the few schools at that time Tiniroto Road. He was a rural person and life that had a school bus,” he said. was simple, he says. All of the children at the school were “We had a lot of freedom.” related by blood. Stan was raised by his grandmother “It was a wonderful time at Te Reinga Wairakau. — there was always something to do or “She was a great storyteller. She would tell explore.” me all the stories about my whanau.” A new chapter of his life started when he his meant that at family events Stan moved to Papatu Road in Manutuke later could often relate stories from grandparents, that year. He would spend the rest of his uncles, aunts, kaumatua and others who he childhood growing up in Manutuke. had the good fortune to have had contact He has all sorts of stories in his book about with while growing up in Manutuke. the diferent activities he and other children Molly would tell him to write down would get up to in the rural community. the stories because “you come from an One story he recounts is of his irst TAKU AO, TAKU ORA: Stan Pardoe has written an autobiography about his life and world interesting family and have a background encounter with inequality. he lives in. Picture by Liam Clayton that your mokopuna, nieces, nephews “We didn’t realise until years later that the with screw tops and used them as spittoons. Church Restoration Trust, restoring the Toko and other family relations have little or no playing ield was not even,” Stan said. “hey were always discreet when doing Toru Tapu. knowledge of”. “he district nurse visited on a regular basis this and we were never allowed to look at or “It was a 10-year journey.” Sharing these stories to future generations to check our health. After the usual check- touch these containers. hey were emptied He played a part in setting up Te Runanga was important, he said. up we were lined up and given a big spoon down the long drop toilets. o Turanganui a Kiwa (TROTAK). His father was Eric Pardoe, a Pakeha, and of cod liver oil. I don’t remember the spoon “It was a sad era — by the late 1950s they As a result of a hui taumata and many his mother Ereti Onekawa was Maori. being wiped. had all passed away,” he said. meetings, the three iwi of Turanga — “he Maori world was “Our hands and inger “Today when I see a young person wearing Rongowhakaata, Ngai Tamanuhiri and Te always part of who we nails were inspected and a a big, old overcoat I think of these kaumatua Aitanga a Mahaki — came together to form were, from the marae and “Today when I see a handkerchief was pinned and their slow decline until TB killed them.” an entity that would act and be the collective its associated activities,” young person wearing on our shirt for the day. He spent third form at Gisborne High voice of their people. Stan said. “hen the infamous kutu School then in 1956 went to Te Aute College Stan was also part of the inception of His nana Wairakau a big, old overcoat check. he nurse and a in Napier. Moana Paciic. He spent 12 years as a started taking Stan to land I think of these teacher with a pencil and “he week before I left, I had watched a ilm director of Moana Paciic, which became one block meetings and other ruler would check our hair. about escaping from Colditz prison. When of the biggest inshore ishing companies in hui. kaumatua and their “I noticed that Pakeha I turned up at Te Aute College I thought to New Zealand. As people stood to speak slow decline until TB boys’ hair was not myself ‘why have mum and dad sent me to He became heavily involved with she would explain to Stan killed them.” inspected. When I asked Colditz?’, but I quickly settled in as a fourth Rongowhakaata and the pending Treaty of their whakapapa, so he why, the response was former,” he said. Waitangi claims process. could learn. ‘that only Maori have kutu, here were two courses at the college, Stan wrote about the politics he When travelling she would point out not these children’. agriculture and professional studies. Coming encountered during the settlements and various places where his whanau lived, and “here was only one Maori boy who was from a rural farming background he chose what was needed to be done to get the Treaty tell the stories about them and the whenua. exempt, because his aunty was a school the agriculture course. of Waitangi claims processed correctly. She often said to him “none of my family teacher. He was always embarrassed when I Te Aute was an Anglican Church boarding He later became an iwi representative is interested in my whenua. I will spend reminded him of this,” Stan said. school for Maori boys. on Gisborne District Council’s Wastewater many years taking you to hui and sharing His ability to recount stories that are over “I enjoyed my time at Te Aute — it made Management Committee in 2008. my stories of our tipuna and the value of the 70 years old is somewhat of a marvel. me what I became. I made lifelong friends, Recently Stan has been involved with whenua”. In his book he names nearly everybody he even though many have passed on.” Historic Places Tairawhiti, joining groups “Months later she would ask me to repeat has interacted with throughout his life. Jumping a few decades forward, Stan going to history-rich places in the region. the whakapapa of a person we met at a hui. I One of these stories talks about the health became very busy from 1986 through to “Visiting the many places with an would concentrate and give it my best shot; issues of polio and tuberculosis (TB) in the 2018 with a lot of roles and paid positions appreciative, attentive group gave me her studied response would be ‘ka pai moko Manutuke community. within family land trust and runanga. pleasure. . . . hika you missed two generations’,” Stan “here was only one young person in “My involvement with iwi whenua included “I could always sense Wairakau on my said. Manutuke to contract polio,” he said. being Mangaotane Farm Trust trustee in shoulder, smiling and saying ‘kei te pai e hrough the repetition of hearing the A lot of older people had TB. 1990 and then becoming the chairman from moko me to korero. Ae, another storyteller’,” stories, they would be in his consciousness. “Many homes had these small little huts to 1996 to 2000, Arai Matawai management Stan said. “She would often test me by giving a separate them at night from their whanau. committee member from 1989, as well as description or name of someone, and I would “Most wore a big, warm overcoat with big the Pakarae management committee from ■ To get a copy of Stan Pardoe’s have to answer who they were and how they pockets. 1986 to 2020 and Tapere Incorporation autobiography Taku Ao, Taku Ora — My it in to whakapapa.” “Many were told by district nurses that management committee from 2000.” World, My Life contact his wife Molly He said the stories shared in the book spitting spread TB, so they carried small jars Stan was asked to join the Manutuke Pardoe on 027 365 2927. 4 THE GISBORNE HERALD GARDENING What lies beneath?

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INGREDIENTS: for 4–5 minutes, or until golden. Remove 1 tablespoon olive oil the chicken from the pan, set aside and 400g chicken thigh illets, skinned, boned keep warm. and chopped into 2cm cubes • Add the butter, leeks, garlic and thyme 2 tablespoons butter to the pan and cook over medium heat for 2 leeks, sliced about 10 minutes, or until the leeks have 2 cloves garlic, minced softened. 1 heaped teaspoon dried thyme • Add the lour and cook for 2 minutes, ¼ cup plain lour, plus extra for stirring every 30 seconds. dusting • Add the mushrooms, milk, salt and 2 cups sliced button mushrooms pepper and cook, stirring regularly, for a 1½ cups warmed milk further 3 minutes, or until the sauce has Sea salt and freshly-ground black thickened. pepper to taste • Return the chicken to the sauce and mix Olive oil spray gently to combine. Refrigerate until cooled 2 sheets laky pastry to room temperature. 1 egg, lightly beaten • Lightly spray a 20cm (8 in) pie dish with 2 teaspoons sesame seeds oil and pour in the cooled chicken mixture, or divide it among 4 individual pie tins. TO SERVE: On a loured surface, join the 2 pastry Salad leaves sheets and roll out slightly to make a bigger Relish of your choice sheet. • Place the pastry on top of the pie dish METHOD: and trim the excess around the sides of the • Preheat the oven to 180°C. Heat the oil in dish. • If you’re making individual pies cut a large nonstick frying pan over medium 2 circles to it your pie dishes out of each heat. • In batches, add the chicken and cook sheet of pastry. • Prick the pastry lid with a fork, then brush with the egg. • Sprinkle with sesame seeds and bake for 30–40 minutes, or until the pastry is golden. Serve with salad and relish.

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Justine and Chris Tyerman on the Harris saddle with the Darran Mountains behind. Justine Tyerman writes of her ‘conversion’ on the Routeburn Track . . . a few years ago.

grizzled for months about the prospect of clif s. and more challenging but by now, I had We reached the Routeburn Falls Hut tramping the Routeburn Track the hard Seeking to cheer me up, one of our team begun to bond with my pack and boots. just as the weather — true to forecast — way — lugging a hefty pack laden with said contestants in the annual Routeburn Furthermore, with every step up the narrow, suddenly turned unbelievably wild, torrential Ifood, water, clothes and a sleeping bag up Classic run the track in a matter of hours so rocky track, the landscape unfolded to reveal rain transforming the silver-grey rockface steep mountains to huts with no hot water, surely I could manage to walk it in three days. stunning views of waterfalls, lakes, rivers, towering above the hut into a 10-metre wide no showers and shared bunkrooms. Yeah, right! alpine peaks and valleys.  e one-foot-after- waterfall within minutes.  e wind gusts After all, the tramp was my idea, and it was I stuck on my bravest face and tried to the-other advice of my tramping mate was were so strong every so often, the waterfall being hijacked by a bunch of purists who were ignore the sense of foreboding as I laced proving its worth and by mid-afternoon, we was blown back uphill creating a bizarre determined to convert me to their cause. It up my boots and struggled into my pack (if were high above the valley fl oor where the spectacle. was somehow nobler to forgo comfy lodges you get those two in the wrong order, you bus had deposited us that morning . . . and I As the 48-bed hut was fully-booked, there with chefs, i ne wines, electricity, showers are in big strife already), grasped my trusty had not uttered a single grumble. was a scramble for the good bunks — ground and soft beds and pillows, not to mention tramping stick and began the i rst few steps guides and Sherpas, in favour of ‘‘roughing of our three-day, 32 kilometre trek. it’’ — waiting in line to boil your dehydrated We had studied the weather stats and dinner in a pot over a gas ring and eating prayed notoriously-wet Fiordland would (from the same pot you cook in) with 30 to bless us with three i ne days, especially while 40 other unwashed souls in wooden huts crossing the Main Divide at the 1255-metre with only pot-belly stoves for heating and Harris Saddle. miners’ headlights for lighting when the solar  e i rst few hours of the track were power goes of at 9pm. unbelievably beautiful and a good coni dence My long-cherished notion of hiking the booster for me — a gentle but steady climb track with no more of an encumbrance than in warm, dappled sunlight on a wide track a lightweight daypack — and relaxing in through a forest of palest green-leafed the evening in clean, dry clothes after a hot beech trees with the crystalline Routeburn shower, sharing a glass of Central Otago stream babbling conversationally alongside pinot noir with fascinating foreigners as us. Crossing two very swingy, swing bridges fabulous aromas emanated from the lodge added to the adventure and brought out the kitchen — looked doomed as one-by-one, ‘silly boy’ in the men . . . of course. our group was seduced by the ‘‘let’s rough-it’’ By the time we downed packs on a sunny, mantra. mossy bank by a deep turquoise pool for our What is it about Kiwis that smelly, wet, i rst high-energy snack stop two hours later, cold, uncomfortable, hungry and sleep- there were glimmerings that maybe I could deprived are superior qualities to clean, dry, do this. We had already met a variety of other warm, comfy, well-fed and rested? trampers from all corners of the globe and As we drove to the Glenorchy end of the there was an unspoken kinship among us as track, I gloomily studied the proi le on the we discovered we were heading for the same Department of Conservation (DoC) brochure hut. which looked to me like a series of vertical  e next phase was signii cantly steeper The turquoise Routeburn stream on day one of the tramp. 7 THE GISBORNE HERALD TRAVEL

Stunning Lake Harris. So proud to call this place my home

level and in close proximity to the ablution escapades as possums invading sleeping bags summit for a late lunch, the wind had died us just how tough soldiers in the Israeli army block. Being newbies, we didn’t score too well in the dead of night. completely, the sun beamed down on us really are. on the irst night, but made a note to send a As we headed to our cold, dark bunkroom from a cloudless sky and we were blessed Having consumed all our fresh food, it leet-footed, bunk-booker ahead of the main for the night, I glanced up the hill where the with a breathtaking panorama of the snow- was dehydrated fare for the next two nights party the next day. lights of the posh lodge were still twinkling capped Darran Mountains towering above which I found perfectly adequate but the After ferreting out our one set of dry and well-dressed, mainly Japanese folk were the deep, dark Hollyford Valley with the men were not so happy. However, a tot of ‘‘evening clothes’’ from the bottom of our enjoying a night cap. I felt oddly smug and shimmer of the Tasman Sea far beyond. I whisky cheered them up no end. packs and having a freshen-up with ice-cold contented rather than envious — it took me felt an overwhelming sense of pride as a Next day, the track took us through the mountain water, we set about preparing by surprise! Kiwi to call this magniicent place my home, ribbon wood ‘‘Orchard’’ and past thundering dinner. I snuggled humility to waterfalls including the Earland Falls that e hut was abuzz with rosy-cheeked into my cosy be in the cascaded from a clif face far above us to the trampers boiling billies, swapping animated featherdown presence valley loor below. yarns about the day’s tramp and using sleeping bag, of such Late afternoon, it began to rain as only ingenious means to suspend wet gear around slept soundly wondrous Fiordland knows how and trampers arriving the blazing pot belly ire. along with natural at Lake Howden Hut of the Greenstone and Being our irst night, we had fresh meat my 47 bunk- beauty . . . and Caples tracks were seriously drenched. — thinly-sliced steak with Surprise peas and mates and a secret sense Even their sleeping bags were sodden instant mashed potato accompanied by a awoke with of satisfaction which made us realise just how blessed we thimble of shiraz from a wine bladder carried the dawn deep down, were to have made it to the hut yet again in by the strongest of our men. e meal was to ind the at having before the heavens opened. absolutely delicious, all the more so for the storm had summited- Trampers caught on the Hollyford Face huge efort required to lug it uphill for ive passed but with-pack. that day had to be rescued when they hours. gale-force e long became disorientated in the thick mist and e sense of camaraderie was infectious winds were traverse along driving rain. and soon the Israeli, German, Dutch, French, forecast on the exposed On our last day, we tramped in steady Canadian, Australian, British and Kiwi (very the Harris Hollyford rain in full wet weather gear under the thick much the minority) trampers were playing Saddle. e The traverse along the Hollyford face gave us spectacular Face gave us cover of silver beech forest so we escaped cards, giving each other history, geography ranger said views of the Darran Mountains and the Hollyford Valley. spectacular saturation. We missed the allegedly fabulous and language lessons, sharing photos and no one was views views of Lake Marian from Key Summit addresses and having a jolly ine time. allowed to leave the hut until mid-morning of massive Mt Tutoko with its hanging . . . but that gave me just the excuse I was A highlight of every evening was the when the winds abated. glaciers, the highest of Fiordland’s many looking for to tramp it again, from the other address by the resident DoC ranger, the e long, steep trek to the saddle was peaks at 2723 metres. en began the steep direction. oicial purpose of which was to talk about an experience I would happily repeat. e downward trek to Lake Mackenzie Hut At track’s end, the sense of achievement hut rules, track protocols, safety and the overnight downpour left the landscape through an enchanted forest, heavy with was too much for me to contain. Fully all-important weather for the next day. But glistening and turned the Routeburn Falls iridescent green moss and trees twisted into converted to doing it the hard way, I went on once that was out of the way, it became clear into a fury of white cascading foam. As we tortured humanesque forms. bended knee and apologised contritely to the these chaps were accomplished entertainers climbed above the bushline across wetlands e sun was setting by the time we reached rest of the team for having ever entertained — the hut was their stage and we, their and tussocks dotted with delicate alpine the hut but our young Israeli friends, wussy thoughts of hot showers, feather captive but eager audience. Dressed in full lowers, skirting the blufs above ink- honouring their pledge to swim in every pillows, ine food and Sherpas. DoC regalia and looking like a caricature of a blue Lake Harris, we left the Mt Aspiring lake they came across on their many tramps scoutmaster, one fellow was a cross between National Park and crossed into the Fiordland around New Zealand, plunged into the • Make sure you check the DoC website for John Cleese and Dudley Moore and had National Park. snow-melt waters of Lake Mackenzie and availability and track conditions. us in hysterics with his anecdotes of such By the time we reached the saddle swam to a small island — no doubt to show www.doc.govt.nz/routeburntrack 8 THE GISBORNE HERALD COLUMN Putin, Navalny and homas à Becket n 20 years of writing about Russia’s was to persuade Putin to let Navalny be rather similar to that of England’s King the closest thing in 12th President Vladimir Putin — he was lown to Germany for treatment. Henry II, who ordered the assassination century England to the completely obscure before 1999 — I Niinistö is clearly a persuasive man, of that martyred cleric by accident, so to leader of the opposition. have never before had reason to mention because Putin agreed. (Did Putin know how speak, and was then covered by shame and Henry II was used to I by Gwynne him and Saint homas à Becket in the same long various poisons remain in the body? regret for his murder (or so he subsequently getting his way, and in the sentence. Finally, however, the time has Hard to say. He was only in the KGB for 16 claimed). course of one of his rants Dyer come. years.) Indeed, Putin even promised to “get It was in 1170, and homas à Becket against the cleric he was Finnish President Sauli Niinistö phoned the rat behind this”. Which sounds a bit like was being diicult. He was the head of the heard to say “Who will rid the diminutive Russian strongman at the a Cosa Nostra godfather on a bad day, but at Church in England, and he was resisting me of this meddlesome behest of German Chancellor Angela Merkel least the man wants to see justice done. the king’s attempt to make the Church priest?” Four knights at the last hursday and assured him that he was So you can see why the late homas à courts subordinate to the civil courts, which court, hearing this, decided not a suspect in the poisoning of opposition Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, sprang answered to Henry. It’s a bit of a stretch, but that the quickest way to rise leader Alexei Navalny. he goal, of course, instantly to my mind. Putin’s position is you could say that Archbishop Becket was in the king’s service was to go to Canterbury and carry out the king’s bidding, so 1452 of they went to do it. hey found homas à ACROSS 50 Sectors (anag) (7) DOWN 42 Grip firmly (5) Becket on the altar of his cathedral, in front 1 Heap (5) 54 Highest point of 2 Language (6) 43 Living forever (8) of a large congregation, and hacked him to 4 Appear unafraid despite achievement (4) 3 Inexpensive (5) 44 Subtle distinction (6) pieces with their swords. his caused a great one's feelings (4,1,4,5) 55 Astuteness (6) 5 Practical joke (4) 45 Known territory (4,6) outcry throughout a horriied Christendom, 11 Bed cover (5) 56 Fictional books (6) 6 Adore (7) 46 Female relation (4) and the knights did not get their desired 14 Single (5) 57 Of questionable value (7) 7 Panda food (6) 47 Tingles (anag) (7) promotions. Indeed, the king swore that it 15 Of marriage (11) 60 Rate per hundred (10) 8 Touch down (4) 48 Renovate (6) had all been a ghastly misunderstanding: he 16 Actor (8) 61 Citrus drink (8) 9 Bone break (8) 49 Synthetic fibre (5) was only venting, not giving actual orders. 19 Guilty party (7) 62 Duck for down (5) 10 Pacific island (6) 51 Dross (4) It was all smoothed over, as these things 20 Turmoil (5) 65 Prey (6) 11 Unruly (10) 52 View (7) usually are. he knights fell into disgrace, the 21 Thing built (9) 66 Agatha Christie sleuth 12 Empty space (4) 53 Hairpiece (6) Church’s law courts kept their independence, 24 Head off (9) (6) 13 Temper fit (7) 58 Demolish violently (4,2,4) and the king did penance: he walked barefoot 26 Elf or fairy (6) 67 Go with (9) 17 Skinflint (5) 59 Nitwit (5) 27 Twist out of shape (6) 72 Ruling over (9) 18 Cutting back on (10) 63 Achieve a goal (5,3) wearing sackcloth through the streets of 31 Person authorised to 73 Waterway (5) 22 Sea (5) 64 Cleave (5) Canterbury while 80 monks logged him act for another (5) 74 Imitative behaviour (7) 23 En masse (8) 65 Calls into question (7) (gently) with branches. 32 Underground cemetery 79 Lock in jail (8) 25 Harmful, poisonous (7) 68 Definitive model of its Could something similar have happened in (8) 80 Expert judge in matters 26 Topic (7) kind (7) Russia last week? It won’t end up with Putin 34 Whisky plant (10) of taste (11) 28 Thrifty (6) 69 Regain (6) barefoot being logged by monks, of course, 38 Disregarded (7) 81 Aromatic plants (5) 29 Thwarted (6) 70 Salt solution (6) but maybe his minions just exceeded their 39 Dog breed (6) 82 Economises (5) 30 Posture (6) 71 Unwashed (6) instructions? After all, that was Saudi Crown 40 Customer (6) 83 Divert the suspicions 33 Sun-dried brick (5) 75 Chemically unreactive (5) Prince Muhammad bin Salman’s excuse 41 Masticate (4) of (3,3,3,5) 35 Boredom sign (5) 76 Black marketeer (4) when his henchmen chopped up journalist 42 Shine wetly (7) 84 Remains (5) 36 Unit of heredity (4) 77 Intertwine wool (4) Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi embassy in 45 Obstinate (10) 37 Repeat (4) 78 Rotate (4) Istanbul two years ago, and no government 12 3 456789 10 11 12 13 has oicially questioned MbS’s word on that. he problem in Putin’s case is that this is not the irst time: becoming the leader of the opposition in Russia automatically 14 15 16 invalidates your life insurance policy. Navalny’s predecessor Boris Nemtsov was 17 18 shot dead within sight of the Kremlin ive 19 20 21 years ago, and Navalny himself is partially blind in one eye as the result of a 2018 22 23 attack. Moreover, poison is a favourite tool of 24 25 26 27 Putin’s security services. Critical journalist Anna Politkovskaya survived a poisoning 28 29 30 attempt in 2004 (she was later shot to death). Defector Alexander Litvinenko was 31 32 33 34 35 poisoned with polonium in London in 2006. 36 37 Double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter nearly died from a nerve agent in Salisbury, 38 39 40 41 England in 2018, and the Russian would-be assassins were caught on CCTV. Maybe the boss doesn’t sign of personally on each of these attacks, but it is hard to 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 believe he doesn’t know what is going on. he Russian counter-claim that all these incidents are actually “provocations” staged 54 55 56 57 by hostile Western intelligence services doesn’t hold water: Russia is just not 58 59 important enough to justify the scale of the efort that would be required. 60 61 62 So what we are left with is smaller than it sometimes seems. It’s a great state that has 63 64 fallen into the hands of crooks in suits — 65 66 67 68 no longer shiny suits; sartorial standards among the Russian criminal aristocracy have 69 70 71 risen dramatically — who occasionally rub somebody out to protect their nationwide 72 73 74 75 protection racket or just to maintain discipline within the organisation. And they 76 77 78 only kill other Russians. Move along, please. here’s nothing more 79 80 81 to see here.

■ Gwynne Dyer’s new book is ‘Growing 82 83 84 Pains: he Future of Democracy (and Work)’. Saturday, auguSt 29, 2020 9 TELEVISION on tv this weekend

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Mechanics PG KEY 0 3 (HLS) (RPL) (DLY) 16 18 Closed captions; Repeat; Highlights; Replay; Delayed; Approved for persons 16 years or over; Approved for persons 18 years or over; 30Aug20 Compiled by C Content may offend; L Language may offend; M Suitable for mature audiences; PG Parental guidance recommended for younger viewers; S Sexual content may offend; V Contains violence. 12 THE GISBORNE HERALD by submitting a photo, the entrant agrees to allow The Gisborne Herald Co Ltd permission use image now and in future for printed material online. Where possible The Herald will make co ntact irst. Submit your photos: www.gisborneherald.co.nz/photo-of-week, or e-mail: [email protected] z ▶ Fun Dancing Gisborne. Beginners class and reviews for modern, sequence and social PHOTO OF THE WEEK ballroom dancing. St Andrew’s Church Hall, Gateway to the waioeka GorGe by GRAEME HOW WHAT’S 176 Cobden St, 7.30-10pm, $5, ph 867 0074. Tuesday, September 1 ▶ Gisborne Senior Citizens: Indoor bowls. ON Come along, have a roll-up and meet others. Senior Citizens Hall, 30 Grey St, 9-11.30am, $3, ph Arnold 868 5529. in Gisborne ▶ Baby Time. Songs, stories and fun for u/2s and their carers. HB Williams Memorial To help promote events you are involved in, e-mail: Library, 34 Bright St, 10am, free. [email protected] for a listing on the Mahjong Club. Enjoy a friendly fellowship. What’s On page, or [email protected] for a listing ▶ on the Tairawhiti Gisborne events diary. Gisborne Town & Country Women’s Club, 42 Emily St, 1pm, irst three lessons free, Saturday, August 29 ph Liz 281 0187. Gisborne Conversations on belonging and ▶ he Amazing Dinosaur Discovery ▶ (& Aug 30). Over 30-lifelike dinosaurs in a inclusion. Hosted by Inclusive Aotearoa two-hour interactive session. 470 Childers Rd Collective; a conversation on the topics of (old St Mary’s Convent site), 3pm. belonging and inclusion with up to 16 people Tickets: $23-$35, $88Fam (2A & 2Ch or from a diverse cross-section of the 1A & 3Ch, ages 2-14), ph 027 733 3466, community. Venue details or to register: dinosaurdiscovery.co.nz or eventinda.co.nz See Facebook, 1-2.30pm & 6-7.30pm. or from the on-site ticket booth. ▶ Poverty Bay Blues Club. A selection of live blues music. PBC, 38 Childers Rd, doors open ▶ Gisborne Artists, Potters & Photographers Exhibition (to Nov 1). Come along and view 7pm, music 8pm, $5 door sales, R18. pictorial imagery with paintings, prints and ▶ Ulysses Motorcycle Club. For anyone who ceramics, featuring the Gisborne Camera rides/is interested in motorcycles. Bushmere Club. Tairawhiti Museum, 10 Stout St, Arms Public Bar, 673 Matawai Rd, Waerenga Mon-Sat 10am-4pm, Sun 1.30-4pm, a Hika, 7.30pm, ph Chris 027 460 2430. locals free, visitors $5, ph 867 3832. Wednesday, September 2 Sunday, August 30 ▶ Fifties Forward. Low-impact aerobics class for all itness levels. YMCA Stadium, he Amazing Dinosaur Discovery, ▶ 447 Childers Rd, 9.30am, $4, irst class free. 10am, 12.30pm & 3pm. See Aug 29. Gisborne Combined Club. For active Universal Energy Healing. Try a relaxing ▶ HB Williams Memorial Library, 34 Bright St, Lady Killers: Waru Ininity Wine Launch. ▶ retirees looking for friendship. Kahutia ▶ healing experience. Blind Foundation Rooms, 3.30pm, free. Come along for live music with he Lady Bowling Club, 165 Cobden St, 9.30am, $5 incl 39 Grey St, 10am-2.30pm, $8A, $5Ch. POSTPONED TO NOV 13: Who Loves NZ Killers band, wine tasting and canapes. morning tea. Register: Noelene ph 868 4473 ▶ Details: Ph Rose 027 777 0782. the Most? Jordan Luck Band, Smash Palace. 69 Central, upstairs, 69 Peel St, 5.30-11pm, or Dianne ph 867 4294. Lions Express Train Rides. Take the kids 48-Hour Play Festival: Participants only R18. Tickets: $50+Bfee, ph 0800 449 252 or ▶ Mainly Music. A fun music group for ▶ for a train ride around the playground. Starts: ▶ (to Sept 5). You will be assigned to teams, Eventinda.co.nz pre-schoolers. St Andrew’s Community near Gisborne Wainui Lions Junior Cycle presented with a theme, then write, direct, Centre, 176 Cobden St, 9.45am, $4/Fam. ▶ Gisborne Pottery Group: Penguin Park, Centennial Marine Dr, 11am-3pm, $2. act and produce a 10-minute play (see Sept Details: Trish ph 867 2789 or 868 5513. Sculpture Workshop (to Sept 6). Come along he Winter Vines Tour: Matawhero, 6 for show/ticket details). Evolution heatre ▶ BIZminton: Final night. Come along and and make a penquin for your mantlepiece. Bridge Estate and he Vines. Get out among ▶ Company, 75 Disraeli St, 7pm. support the teams. Gisborne Badminton Venue/other details: Seymour ph 867 3071, the vines and visit three local wineries for Mechanical Bull Riding. Come along for a Centre, 134 Roebuck Rd, 6-8.30pm. ▶ 7-9pm, $180 incl materials and iring. live music, food and wine to purchase. fun night, with a prize pool up for grabs. ▶ 3Play. Come along and enjoy the sounds. Matawhero Wines, 189 Riverpoint Rd, hursday, September 3 Endeavour Lounge, Gisborne Cosmopolitan Smash Palace Bar, 24 Banks St, 9pm, $5 door midday-4pm. Tickets from matawhero.co.nz : ▶ Bridge and Rummikub Club. Enjoy a Club, 190 Derby St, 7.30-11.30pm, $2 entry. sales, R18. $20 incl transport from Gisborne i-Site, friendly fellowship. Gisborne Town & Country Saturday, September 5 209 Grey St at 11.45am, noon & 12.15pm, Women’s Club, 42 Emily St, 9am, ph 281 0187. Sunday, September 6 Gisborne parkrun. Come along for a 5km and return to town at 4pm. A shuttle service ▶ Mahjong Club, 1pm. See Sep 1. ▶ ▶ Gas Guzzlers’ Breakfast. Check out the run or walk. Waikanae Beach playground, will operate every 45mins between venues. ▶ Gisborne Senior Citizens Concert. cars on the Quay. Behind the Courthouse on ▶ Poverty Bay Bowling Club: Have-a-go. For Come along and be entertained. Senior 280 Grey St, 7.45am for 8am start. Kid, dog Reads Quay, 8-11am. Rain, hail or sun. all ages to come along and learn how to bowl. Citizens Hall, 30 Grey St, 1.30-3.30pm, $3. & pram-friendly. See parkrun.co.nz/gisborne/ Gisborne Canoe and Tramping Club cycle, Tairawhiti Coin Club. Design your own ▶ Bowls and instruction available. Poverty Bay ▶ Build-a-Band. Let’s jam. Smash Palace Bar, ▶ Waimata Valley Rd, departs 9am, free. Bowling Club, 111 Ormond Rd, 1-4pm, free. 24 Banks St, 6-9pm, free entry, R18. personalised coin; constructed by a joiner. Riders have the option to use road/mountain BCR Joinery, 522 Gladstone Rd, 9am-midday. Details: Ph Val 867 7725, Norma 868 7477. ▶ Gisborne Caledonian Society Practice bikes on this sealed-road ride. Meet: Top of Details: [email protected] Wear casual clothes and lat-soled shoes. Night. Modern, sequence and social dancing. the hill where the track goes up to a tower/ ▶ Musica Viva: William King, baritone. St Mark’s Church Hall, 776 Childers Rd, ▶ Gisborne Farmers’ Market. Locally grown trig. Ph Geof 862 5710, [email protected] Come along for a selection of Lieder, Brahms, 7.30-9.30pm, $4. or produced; veges, fruit, cheese, bread, eggs, baking, meat, ish, lowers and seedlings. ▶ Father’s Day: Burgers and Beers. Spoil dad Ravel and lighter favourites. Accompanied on with a burger and live music; T Bone. Bridge Friday, September 4 Cnr Stout & Fitzherbert Sts, 9.30am-12.30pm. piano by Nicholas Kovacek. Tiromoana, Estate, 16 Riverpoint Rd, Matawhero, 11am- 41 Winifred St, Okitu, 2.30pm, koha entry. ▶ Gisborne Senior Citizens: Indoor bowls Details: gisbornefarmersmarket.co.nz Intro to Vermicomposting Workshop. 3pm. Bookings essential: Ph 027 620 0127 Reservations: Gill at [email protected] and Housie. Come along, have some fun and ▶ or [email protected] meet others. Senior Citizens Hall, 30 Grey St, Get a worm farm started in your own or ph 021 170 7641. Proceeds to Musica Viva Women’s Native Tree Project Working Bowls; 9-11.30am & Housie; 1-4pm, $3, backyard. Tairawhiti Environment Centre, ▶ to bring more artists to Gisborne. Bee: Waikanae Stream. Come along and help ph Arnold 868 5529. 386 Palmerston Rd, 11am-midday, $5. to maintain plants. Meet: 11am at Monday, August 31 A Balanced Reading Programme: Register: Ph 867 4708 or see Facebook. ▶ the Alfred Cox Skate Park, 204 Grey St, Badminton Centre, 134 Roebuck Rd. Reviewing the approaches. A workshop for ▶ Turanganui-a-Kiwa Walk For Life. ▶ 11am-4pm. Social Morning, 9-11.30am, $4, ph 867 2584. teachers where Sheena Cameron and Louise Come along and walk to the Courthouse Kiwi Badminton for Year 3-7 players, 4.30- Dempsey, co-authors of he Writing Book, to raise awareness of child abuse and child ▶ Father’s Day at Matawhero. Bring dad 5.30pm, $5, ph 027 350 9482. Gisborne he Oral Language Book and he Reading exploitation. Kid-friendly games, music, along for a pizza, gourmet platter or wine Badminton, 7-9pm, $10, ph 027 253 1062. Book will review the modelled, shared, guided bouncy castles and sausage sizzle. Gisborne tasting. Matawhero Wines, 189 Riverpoint Rd, Matawhero, midday-4pm. Book a table: ▶ Gisborne Contract Bridge Club. and independent approaches, and share ideas Botanical Gardens, cnr Aberdeen Rd & Supervised play for all players. 572 Gladstone to motivate and engage students. Emerald Carnarvon St, 11am-2pm. Details: Wiremu Message on Facebook or ph 867 6140. Rd, 9.15-11.30am, $4, ph Jean 867 2383. Hotel, 13 Gladstone Rd, 9am-3pm. Tickets: ph 022 109 4478, Hope ph 027 319 6559. ▶ Lions Express Train Rides, 11am-3pm. ▶ Gisborne Senior Citizens: Cards. $287.50 each, $253 NZLA member or ▶ Celebrate Organic Week at Wrights. See Aug 30. Come along, play a few hands and meet $230 three/more teachers from one school, Come along and make a day of it with three ▶ Gisborne Country Music Club. Singers others. Senior Citizens Hall, 30 Grey St, Facebook or theliteracyplace.com/workshops events: Get Dirty with Biodynamics, make and musicians welcome. Blind Foundation 1-4pm, $3, ph Arnold 868 5529. ▶ Toddler Time. Songs and stories for Biodynamic Spray 500 and apply to the Rooms, 39 Grey St, 1-4pm, $3, incl afternoon ▶ Ripiro Beach: A Memoir of Life After ages 2-5 and their caregivers. HB Williams vineyard; Taste the Vintage of a Decade, tea, ph Flo 867 7637 or [email protected] Near Death. A talk from award-winning Memorial Library, 34 Bright St, 10am, free. winemaker Lawrence Jiang presents four ▶ Irish Music Session. Enjoy Irish music and author and columnist Caroline Barron, ▶ Your Moving Baby: Week 2 of 4. wines in the winery; and Live Music/Pizza, a sing-song. he Rivers, cnr Gladstone Rd & about her powerful life story. Muirs For parents of babies; six months to one year. Big Rich plays acoustic guitar, enjoy with a Reads Quay, 4-6pm. Details: Ph 021 055 7685. Bookshop, 62 Gladstone Rd, 5.30-6.30pm. Topics: Baby’s temperament, development, gourmet pizza. Wrights Vineyard & Winery, ▶ Gisborne Pottery Group: Penguin Details: See Facebook. play and learning. Gisborne/Wairoa Plunket, 1093 Wharerata Rd. Tickets, limited spaces: Sculpture Workshop, 7-9pm. See Sept 5. ▶ Gisborne Pottery Group Workshop; Week 7 Ormond Rd, 10am-midday, free. From [email protected] or text ▶ 48-Hour Play Festival. Original 10-minute 4 of 6. Come along and explore a variety of Booking essential: Txt 027 286 5017 or 027 656 8222; Get Dirty w/Biodynamics, plays are presented on-stage before a live techniques where clay is shaped primarily by [email protected] 11am, $20, kids free; and Taste the Vintage, audience. Lawson Field heatre, 7 Fitzherbert your hands. Venue/other details: Seymour ph ▶ Anime and Manga Club. For ages 14-18; 12.30pm, $20. Book a table: Live Music/Pizza, St, 7-10pm. $10 cash-only door sales. Details: 867 3071, 7-9pm, $180 incl materials/iring. watch and discuss anime with others. 1-4pm, ph 862 8746 or 027 656 8222. evolutiontheatre.org.nz