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Ex libris

Book end: Latest reads to inform and inspire

12 Good selection

Our pick of smart eco stuff to buy, try and know about

20 Wander-full wilderness

Letter from the Interior: A Marlborough Sounds track offers the place to walk off your worries, as tramping novice discovers one long weekend

22 Age against the machine

Trend Tracker: Love it or loathe it, our lives are becoming increasingly digital-dependent. considers some of the everyday implications

Features

27 Gather, prepare, celebrate

Handmade: Take the humblest materials – cotton gingham, wooden pegs, retro woollen blankets or paper from old books – to create original decorations for your home this Christmas

34 How do you celebrate the season?

Simple Living: German-born Stephanie Kercher reveals how she incorporates two countries' Christmas traditions for a meaningful celebration unique to her family

40 25 easy solutions for ugly lounges

Simple Living: Does your lounge need a re-jig before you have friends or family over for your next do?

47 Raw milk

The Big Issue: Pasteurisation helps destroy undesirable and disease-causing organisms. But at what cost to milk's nutritional value?

58 Seeds of hope

Good People:  travels to east Sri Lanka to discover how communities are recovering from war and natural disaster

58 The lowdown on: chickens

Special Report: Eco expert reveals what you need to know before you hit the shops

58 The story of a sofa

Eco Style: When someone hangs around for a long time and gets so familiar that we no longer notice them, we say they've become part of the furniture. So what do you say about your rumpty old sofa?

63 Beginner's guide to croquet

Eco Style: The most dastardly aspects of the game may have been outlawed in 1920, but croquet remains as genteel, fierce of flirtatious as you want

66 Putting the spotlight on: local wine

Special Report: New Zealand's wine industry is celebrated for its innovation – as well as its winemakers who are as passionate about winemaking as they are about maintaining the wellbeing of the land

70 An unexpected treasure

Life Stories: A Christmas quilt from an older sister comes to mean far more than anyone could have imagined

Your Good Life

80 Follow the spice trail

Simply Good Food: Seasonal giving is easy with this scrumptious selection of edible goodies

94 Crafted celebrations

Handmade: Get creative with these simple yet beautiful projects to make

96 Your edible garden

Handmade: A continuous supply from the veggie patch is the goal of every food gardener

103 How to have the best holiday with your kids

Garden: You don't want to end up needing a holiday to recover from your summer break

107 Like a hole in the head

Health & Beauty: Throbbing in the forehead, pain in and around the eyes, tension like a band squeezing your brain, nausea or sensitivity to sounds or bright lights ... we all experience a form of headache from time to time

111 The ties that bind

Health & Beauty: Family has the ability to bring out the best and the worst in us

112 A good thought

Wellness: 

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    Whether you have a little or a lot, the important thing is just to start eating more raw food, says new Good blogger Christine Smith. She'll be introducing you to the benefits of eating raw, plus easy ways to incorporate more raw foods into your diet – and no, she won't be telling you to throw out everything in the pantry.

  • Why is raw food good for you?
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    Whether you have a little or a lot, the important thing is just to start eating more raw food, says new Good blogger Christine Smith. She'll be introducing you to the benefits of eating raw, plus easy ways to incorporate more raw foods into your diet – and no, she won't be telling you to throw out everything in the pantry.

  • Going more raw
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    Whether you have a little or a lot, the important thing is just to start eating more raw food, says new Good blogger Christine Smith. She'll be introducing you to the benefits of eating raw, plus easy ways to incorporate more raw foods into your diet – and no, she won't be telling you to throw out everything in the pantry.

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  • The art of mindfulness

    Learn how to ‘turn up for life as it happens’ – and enjoy the health benefits

  • Going on an information diet
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    The internet is a glorious, seemingly never-ending buffet of interestingness. But as with a smorgasbord, the trick is in finding the delicious and the different, and resisting filling your plate with deep-fried fillers

  • Gold, frankincense … and biscuits

    'Tis the season for sumptuous home baking – perfect for gifts, visitors or late-night indulgences alike

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