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Transform Your Kiwi Backyard with Stunning Astroturf in NZ

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What is Astroturf in NZ?

Astroturf is a synthetic grass product designed to mimic the look and feel of natural grass. Made from high-quality polyethylene fibers, astroturf offers a number of advantages over traditional lawns, including:

Low Maintenance: Unlike natural grass, astroturf requires minimal mowing, watering, and fertilising. This frees up your valuable time and resources, allowing you to enjoy your lawn rather than maintaining it.

Year-Round Green: Astroturf stays green and lush all year round, regardless of the season or weather conditions. Say goodbye to patchy, brown lawns during dry spells or frosty mornings.

Durable and Long-Lasting: Modern astroturf is incredibly durable and can withstand heavy traffic, making it ideal for families with pets or children. You can expect your astroturf lawn to last for many years to come.

Safe for Children and Pets: Lifestyle Lawns' astroturf products are free from harmful chemicals and toxins, making them safe for children and pets to play on.

Environmentally Friendly: Astroturf eliminates the need for harsh pesticides and fertilisers, reducing your environmental impact. Additionally, it can help conserve water, a valuable resource in New Zealand.

Astroturf vs Artificial Grass vs Fake Grass in NZ

The terms "astroturf,""artificial grass," and "fake grass" are all used interchangeably in New Zealand to refer to synthetic lawn products. Lifestyle Lawns offers a wide variety of astroturf options to suit your specific needs and budget. Our friendly and knowledgeable team can help you choose the perfect type of astroturf for your lawn.

Benefits of Installing Astroturf in NZ with Lifestyle Lawns

When you choose Lifestyle Lawns for your astroturf installation in NZ, you can be confident that you are getting the best possible product and service. Here are just a few of the benefits of choosing Lifestyle Lawns:

High-Quality Astroturf Products: We use only the highest quality astroturf products from reputable suppliers. Our astroturf is designed to look and feel like real grass, while offering all the benefits of artificial turf.

Expert Installation: Our experienced and qualified installers will ensure that your astroturf lawn is installed correctly and looks amazing.

Competitive Prices: We offer competitive prices on all of our astroturf products and installation services.

Outstanding Customer Service: Our team is dedicated to providing you with exceptional customer service from start to finish.

The Perfect Solution for Kiwi Backyards

Astroturf is a perfect solution for a variety of Kiwi backyards, including:

Family Homes: With astroturf, you can create a safe and enjoyable space for your children and pets to play.

Rental Properties: Astroturf is a low-maintenance option that can help to keep your rental property looking its best.

Commercial Properties: Astroturf can create a welcoming and attractive entranceway for your business.

Lifestyle Lawns: Your One-Stop Shop for Astroturf in NZ

If you are considering installing astroturf in NZ, contact Lifestyle Lawns today. We offer a free consultation to discuss your needs and answer any questions you may have. We are confident that we can help you create the perfect outdoor space for your home or business.

Here are some additional benefits of choosing Lifestyle Lawns for your astroturf installation:

Wide Variety of Products: We offer a wide variety of astroturf products to suit all budgets and needs.

Customisable Solutions: We can create a custom astroturf solution to fit your specific space.

Finance Options: We offer a variety of finance options to make astroturf installation affordable.

Don't wait any longer to transform your backyard with beautiful and low-maintenance astroturf in NZ. Contact Lifestyle Lawns today for a free consultation!

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Now stop feeling guilty for having fungus in your body, especially your feet. The bad smell and itching is due to the super capacity that fungi have created over time and this is not your fault!

 The drugs you’ve taken so far, as well as the antibiotics, have created stronger mutant fungi. This has led to antifungal resistance, which makes it almost impossible to get rid of the fungus, especially with low immunity from frequent use of antibiotics.

So I would say that if you are struggling with skin and nail problems: ringworm, itching, bad smell and excessive feet; including fungal

infections try Kerassentials, as it has a satisfaction guarantee of up to 60 days, long enough to already feel the difference of action on your skin and nails.

This product can also be used preventively as part of your skin or nail care. You can also use the oil for the health and nutrition of your nails, even if you do not have fungi or infections, leaving your skin more beautiful and healthy, with strong and nourished nails.

✅ What are Kerassentials? Kerassentials Review Kerassentials is a revolutionary, easy-to-use serum that can improve the health of your skin, hair and nails naturally. The formula contains the essential vitamins and other nutrients that protect the body against fungal infections. Recent studies have revealed that one in ten people have foot fungus. Foot fungus is characterized by symptoms such as itching, irritation, scaly skin, brittle nails, and more. Kerassentials is a uniquely formulated supplement that can help prevent any type of fungal infection. While many medications promise to help you with this, most are a game for profit, so pay attention until the end of the video.

✅Kerassentials Ingredients: Dr. Kimberly Langdon, creator of Kerassentials, claims that the powerful blend works by targeting the root cause of various fungal infections. The doctor-formulated blend contains antioxidant, antibacterial, and anti-inflammatory ingredients that are carefully tested for quality and purity. The solution is perfect for people struggling with nail and hair problems caused by fungal infections.

It is 100% natutal composed of vegetable ingredients, no stimulant, approved by the FDA, natural formula with lemon grass; aloe; fatty acid, vitamin E; essential oils with expressive anti fungal action.

I know you’re excited to finally get rid of these annoying fungi, so I can tell you start to notice improvements right away. Because your toenails will look more alive. The itch will be relieved.

The ingredient tea tree oil in Kerassentials has been used in the skincare industry for decades now. This essential oil fights infections and bacteria on your skin. A 2013 scientific study on this natural component revealed its strong anti-fungal properties. The oil efficiently eliminated the fungus named Trichophyton rubrum, which causes nail fungus and even athlete's foot. A scientific study on lavender oil went on to show how this ingredient has the capacity to treat poor nail health efficiently. The natural component effectively fights against Candida albicans, which is a fungus often attacking your nails. The ingredient also has anti-inflammatory properties to reduce any swelling or redness around your nails. Furthermore, this essential oil's effect is long-lasting, preventing the yeast from returning and causing nail fungus again.

✅ Is Kerassentials guaranteed? Make sure you get your results or your money back! Don't buy from fake websites so you don't get something fake and also get real results. There is confidence that Kerassentials will help you that it has a 60 day guarantee, which is a fair and ideal time to test, quite a few days even, I found this trial period surprising, I only decided to talk about this product because you will get your results or your money back.

And in the first few weeks you should notice new healthy pink nails growing to replace the damaged areas. But I can say that the biggest change will be in your confidence, seeing yourself finally win this thing that has haunted you for so long and you can finally take off your shoes without embarrassment.

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maybe i’ll visit my dead this weekend by rachel lockwood (she/her)

Maybe I’ll visit my dead this weekend

Other families lay on the grass and tell stories of their buried. 

Mine are industrious. Fake flowers mixed with 

fresh roses and glow-in-the-dark ornaments. 

Scrubbing at the dust and the bark. 

We want everything clean and perfect.

We want everything worthy.

We want everything high-heat, high-noon, golden-brown,

perfect view of the rugby fields. 

We say, Nanny would have loved that.

I go up by myself weeping and come down the hill in bare feet.

Two hills in the whole town and they’ve both got cemeteries on them,

my family love the labour of it. 

You have to mean it.

You have to get the bus home from the bottom of the island and then drive,

and then scour,

and then you get to say your piece,

recite your grades,

feel bad about it all-

but you can’t cry until you get back in the car. 

I'm a Hawkes Bay gal living and studying in Te Whanganui a Tara. I have been published in Starling, Salient, NZ Poetry Shelf, Milly Magazine, and Stasis.

My pronouns are she/her, and you can find me on instagram @rachelmaylocky

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General Notes About My Cushion-

I have put together these general notes about my cushion from the list that my tutors put together about some general notes that found from listening to my peers’ projects.

-       The way I am just having my cushion sitting on top of the grass means that there is not damage occurring to the tree, earth or environment itself. However, I would like to research ways of being able to have my cushion on the grass without causing pressure marks or killing the grass under the cushion.

-       The complexity of my cushion comes from the meaning and how all the materials and design components are all linked making the cushion deep and rich in meaning. However even though the cushion is complex the materials I am using slot together and easily are screwed together to make sure that the constructional side of the cushion is simple.  

-       I am creating cushion however within the guidelines of complex meaning that I am creating the cushion around. At the time when the tunnels were created it was not a comfortable time for people living in NZ. The tunnels themselves acted as a cushion to make the people of Auckland cbd feel more comfortable and as though they had a security blanket. However, there was no certainty that everyone was going to be able to use the tunnels for safety and as a security blanket. Therefore, I am not making my cushion comfortable as I want to give the user an experience of the tunnels and the feeling Aucklanders felt at the time. The fake grass that I am using will act as a security blanket of comfort for the user but like the tunnels there is no guarantee that the user will feel 100% comfort.

-       The cushion I am creating is for anyone in the public who would like to experience a feeling like the tunnels and become more enriched of their knowledge of what the tunnels were all about.

-       I am using the arch way of the tree to enrich the experience as though the person is sitting in the tunnel. The arch of the tree is acting as the roof of the tunnel however I am not physically touching the tree and causing damage to the natural environment of Albert park.

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Haere mai, statistical computing folks.

Later this year, Auckland is hosting the Asian regional meeting of the International Association for Statistical Computing.  For the benefit of conference-goers, here’s a brief introduction to the locale. 

Nomenclature:

The Owen G. Glenn Building (OGGB, or building 260, in university abbreviations) is named after Owen G. Glenn. He’s a New Zealand businessman and philanthropist. 

Auckland is named after George Eden.  The subantarctic Auckland Islands were not named after George but after his father William Eden.

New Zealand is named after the Dutch province of Zeeland; the lack of resemblance is quite striking.

Formally,(Actually It’s more complicated) the country is Aotearoa New Zealand, with Māori and English names of equal status. The city has a Māori name, Tāmaki Makaurau, but its primary name is the English one.

The Māori language (te reo Māori) is fairly easy to pronounce roughly right. The consonants are the same as in Western European languages (or pinyin), except that ‘wh’ is pronounced /f/. The vowels are pure, as in Spanish or German or Italian. The bars above vowels mean they are about twice as long. There isn’t strong stress on any syllable.

People over 30 who grew up in a place with a Māori name may well use an older, anglicised pronounciation for it, but there’s been a trend away from that. In particular, weather forecasts and airport announcements will typically use something relatively close to the Māori pronounciation.

Mountains

Auckland is full of little pointy hills that look like baby volcanoes. They are baby volcanoes. One of them, Maungawhau/Mt Eden is data(volcano) in R. Every few thousand years, a new one pops up at some unpredictable location in the Auckland area, erupts briefly, and then stops. There’s only a few of these volcano fields around the world — another is the (extinct) Boring Volcano Field in Portland, Oregon. The Auckland one is still active and so is less boring.

The most recent and largest volcano, Rangitoto, is just outside the Waitemata Harbour. There are ferry rides a few times a day, and it’s a nice walk to the top. Parts of Rangitoto are still bare rock, parts are pohutukawa forest, and there’s some areas on the south side that have developed proper soil and a variety of plants.

Auckland Domain, just across the motorway from the conference, is the crater of the closest volcano; Mt Eden is a short bus ride away.

Peoples

New Zealand was the last worthwhile land mass to be settled — about 800 years ago, by Polynesians in big ocean-going canoes. You occasionally see people raising alt-theories of earlier settlement by, eg, Celts, but there’s scientific consensus and fairly wide social endorsement for the view that these people are probably racist whackjobs.

The British arrived in increasing numbers in the early nineteenth century, with the usual consequences — though the Treaty of Waitangi was somewhat more successful than most attempts to negotiate with the British. Recently, the NZ government has settled treaty claims with many iwi (tribes, clans).

At the start of the twentieth century, about one in four residents of New Zealand was an immigrant. The proportion decreased to a minimum of about one in six in the 1940s and has been slowly increasing again. What’s different this time is where the immigrants are from: many are from the Pacific Islands and from Asia.  Auckland, in particular, has about 40%  immigrant proportion,  similar to New York and London. The increase in diversity has gone reasonably well by international standards, but there are certainly some people who aren’t happy with things being different from fifty years ago.  

Plants

The trees with dense, gray-green leaves are pohutukawa. Some of them might be flowering by the time of the conference.  Stylised versions of the red spiky puffs of flowers are starting to displace winter-based symbols for Christmas in Auckland. You’ll probably hear people worrying about myrtle rust, a South American fungus that has recently arrived; no-one knows how much damage it will do.

Many of the conifers you see are native: rīmu, tōtara, kauri, kahikatea (native plants are typically known by their Māori names). The things like enormous fake Christmas trees are Araucarias; not native but regional — A. heterophylla, ‘Norfolk Pine’ from Norfolk Island and A. columnaris, ‘Cook Pine’, from New Caledonia.  There are also two conifers from the Monterey area of California: “radiata” (Pinus radiata) and “macrocarpa” (Cupressus macrocarpa). They grow much more vigorously here.

The Dr Seuss trees looking like bunches of grass on top of tall trunks are Cabbage Trees (Cordyline australis). The name comes from the edibility of the new stem and the roots, rather than their appearance.

Tree ferns are native; the Waitakere hills to the west of Auckland are packed full of them. They’re culturally important: the major women’s professional sports teams are named after them, and the unfolding fern frond (the ‘koru’) is a widely-used symbol of growth.

Kauri are massively huge living-fossil conifers that used to be common in Auckland and points north. Sadly, a lot of the nearby ones were turned into houses, and they grow slowly. Some of the ones on the west side of Northland (day-trip distance) are almost as big as redwoods (Sequoiadendron).

New Zealand Flax is known and loved and/or hated by gardeners around the warm temperate world. It was a traditional fibre source, and the nectar was used as a sweetener.  It’s not related to the `true’ flax of the northern hemisphere; it’s a lily.

Birds

New Zealand is famous for its weird native birds. The ones you see around you in Auckland mostly aren’t them.  You can easily see a lot of stupidly-introduced English birds: sparrow, starling, pigeon, blackbird, thrush, chaffinch, goldfinch. The cute urban parrots are Australian, as are the magpies and the tiny green silvereyes. The leggy blue and black pūkeko are ‘courtesy natives’ — they arrived before Europeans but after Māori — but they are the same species as the ones all over Europe and Asia. The large black gulls actually are a native species, but the differences would only matter to another gull.

You might, in the parks near the University, see the kererū, the big native pigeon. It’s about twice the size of the feral pigeons, and colored purple, green, and white.  There’s a few fantails (pīwakawaka) around, which are very cute.

There’s one common, distinctive, native bird. If you walk past a tree that sounds as if it’s full of old 28k dial-up modems, you have met the tūī. They’re about the size of a blackbird, with a puff of white feathers at the throat, and they’re boisterous, musical, and give the impression of being slightly drunk.

If you want to see more native birds, the day trip to Tiritiri Maitangi Island is highly recommended. You still won’t see kiwi (they are brown, shy, and nocturnal, so are essentially unobservable) but you will likely see saddlebacks and kākāriki and black robins and hihi and bellbirds and kēreru and maybe kōkako and takahē.

Death Rays from Space (update) 

Auckland has a relatively mild climate, since it’s surrounded by water, but we’re the same distance from the equator as Las Vegas or the Greek islands.  There’s also less continental dust in the atmosphere here than a lot of places. It is surprisingly easy to get badly sunburned. 

Foods

The best-value inexpensive food in central Auckland is in Asian restaurants, and particularly in Asian food courts. Non-foodcourt examples especially worth mentioning are Selera (Malaysian, in Newmarket) and Chom Na (Thai, downtown). Another inexpensive option is fish and chips, which is as good here as anywhere in the world: it’s worth paying extra for snapper if it’s fresh. A lot of pubs also have reasonable food.

The best Indian food is in Sandringham, about 6km south, but there are some good places at the top of the hill, along K Rd (Satya, in particular)

Mexican food is not recommended: it tends to be either bad or expensive. Pizza mostly isn’t great (with a few exceptions). Otherwise, any restaurant that can survive in Auckland is unlikely to be terrible.

At the higher priced end of the market, there are a number of good restaurants on Fort St. Ima does family-style Israeli food very well. Indochine Kitchen is Vietnamese, a bit noisy but good flavours.  Beirut is posh Lebanese. Cassia is modern Indian food and was the Restaurant of the Year last year. There are lots of well-regarded places in Ponsonby that I don’t know much about.  

At the top: for high-end French-style food, The Grove is really excellent; I’ve heard good things about The French Café, but have never been there; Grand Harbour does Hong Kong-style seafood and is by acclaim the best Chinese restaurant in the country, but I’m not really qualified to judge whether it’s worth it. The revolving restaurant on the SkyTower is expensive because it revolves; unlike some revolving restaurants it does actually have good food.

Finally, Giapo, on Fort St, does absolutely over-the-top decorated locavore gelato. You have never seen anything like it.

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EyeContact (NZ)

A clever extension of the recent The True Artist Helps the World by Asking for Trust show at Te Tuhi, this exhibition brings in two other Mokopōpaki art entities to make clearer aspects of that initial PᾹNiA! presentation. Many details of the work shown at Pakuranga are mirrored, but here too, the products of the three contributors are very cohesively interwoven, the different producers at times riffing off each other’s images and methods. The results are visually more elegant and more thematically complex than before.

The show’s title, The Dutch Embassy, beside alluding to PᾹNiA!’s Pakuranga Customs House / Attitude Arrival Lounge included earlier at Te Tuhi—and a smaller more portable version (Customs Authority & Passport Control, Central City Office) here—specifically references a famous Rem Koolhaas building in Berlin—the Dutch Embassy. The sibling couple Yllwbro use a found cube-shaped bar fridge as a model, sticking sheets of scaled elevation diagrams onto its sides with tape, and also cardboard terraces and protruding box forms that match Koolhaas’s sculptural design.

Yllwbro also exhibit a Ministry of Traction screenprint/relief sculpture as a ‘working drawing’, and PᾹNiA!, a cardboard model of the building on wheels (Honorary Consulate (Mobile Cardboard Detachment)). There is also a tabloid-format newspaper with a conversation between Yolo and Blu of Yllwbro about another Koolhaas project, the China Central Television building (Universal Modernisation Patent, Skyscraper Loop; also affectionately called ‘Bent Skyscraper’ or ‘Big Pants’) in Beijing, and the comparatively dull and unimaginative Auckland architectural environs.

Another Yllwbro work has two silkscreened images on an old section of pup tent. One shows the parliament beehive building and other the Māori ‘Tent Embassy’ set up after the 1975 Māori Land March led by Whina Cooper ended in Wellington, and which existed for ten weeks until Prime Minister Muldoon forcibly closed it down.

In PᾹNiA!’s You’ll Never Be a Kiwi, lined-up differently coloured sauce holders become symbols for cultural diversity and a reaction against the assumption in its advertising jingles that consuming (red packaged) Watties Tomato Sauce is a sure sign of ‘Kiwiness’.

In her Polder & Boulder, we also see a set of clever Duchampian puns on the use of the shower in the gallery space—where the tray on the floor is covered with fake grass and the sides reference the dikes in the Netherlands��Polder the word for the enclosed, sealed off, dry land, and Boulder for bolder.

Mashed Potato Cream Cheese Moon obviously inks to PᾹNiA!’s Te Tuhi moon film. Here though, the flat circular potato bread positioned on a Kleinian Blue field references an old Scottish nursery-rhyme where the bread becomes a membranous drum that is repeatedly hit by the adjacent ladle. The ladle and drum originally were seen merrily as male and female genitals: the crust a vagina, and ladle, erect penis and scrotum.

A.A.M. Bos, like PᾹNiA!, draws heavily on his Dutch heritage, and sometimes on his fourteen months as a young Dutch soldier serving in Lebanon as part of the U.N. peacekeeping force. The line up (on a shelf) of plastic oranges mounted on toy tanks—with flowers in their gun barrels—references aspirations for a better world, and PᾹNiA!’s Plastic Orange Band at Te Tuhi.

In two other works, Bos’s Dutch references become more historic and less contemporary. His duraprint, The Drapers’ Guild Sets Up Shop in Dusky Sound, uses a famous painting by Rembrandt of Amsterdam merchants taking a coffee break during a negotiating meeting. Strangely this is set in a wild landscape backdrop with a cascading torrent painted by William Hodges during Cook’s second voyage. Three mugs on the table repeat a detail from Rembrandt’s scene, as if recently purchased from a museum shop.

Another suite of seven photographs blends Dutch with Aotearoa images. Portraits of tūī are described as Dutch ambassadors within the Netherlands confederation of provinces, each emissary being an individual named after the state it represents. Suspended beneath each portrait is a unique bag of spice, alluding to the entrepreneurial reach of the Dutch East Indies Company with its vast range of cultivated products shipped from S.E. Asia and Africa, and its formation of the world’s very first stock exchange.

This is a nice looking show where you can delve into the copious explanations and footnotes in the Mokopōpaki catalogue if you wish, or just enjoy the sensuality (especially the colour) and imagination-prodding free associations for themselves. You don’t have to get caught up in the wordiness of this gallery’s PR—informatively interesting as it may be. These objects often have a poppy exuberance and humour that is pure pleasure anyway.

John Hurrell, Ambassadorial Preoccupations (Auckland: EyeContact, 21 June, 2019)

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Hobbiton!! Sadly the weather was still bad today (tho for the rest of the trip we were blessed with super duper good weather for flying cruising ballooning whatever!!), so we had to visit hobbiton in a drizzle. The commentary and guide was exceptional from the story of how peter jackson scouted the farm as the landscape came similarly to how tolkien had described hobbiton. The original set for lotr was temporary, and was actually removed after filming. But the movies got big and when the hobbit prequel was annouced, this time they made it permanent! Sadly tho only external scenes were filmed here as they are all just hollow holes inside!! Everything external is real tho from the trees to the flowers etc...there is only one fake tree and thats the one described to be on top of biblo baggins house. A lot of maintenance work required as you can see the grasses in the hobbit area are green while those far away are not (nz just came out of summer.) https://www.instagram.com/p/BwJpy_tBL-XKMNV2u5EZSd3AcBcr_Y0wl_5_3g0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=yaajwlkmwg71

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Transforming Your Christchurch Yard with Lifestyle Lawns’ Fake Grass: A Pet-Friendly Choice

In today’s fast-paced world, maintaining a lush green lawn can be a daunting task. The demands of a busy lifestyle often leave us with little time and energy to devote to lawn care. That’s where artificial grass comes to the rescue. If you’re in New Zealand and searching for top-quality artificial lawn solutions, look no further than Lifestyle Lawns. We are your trusted residential artificial turf supplier, specialising in providing the best astroturf NZ has to offer.

Why Choose Artificial Grass?

As the leading supplier of fake grass in NZ, Lifestyle Lawns understands the growing need for low-maintenance, evergreen lawns that can withstand the unpredictable New Zealand weather. Here are some compelling reasons to opt for artificial grass:

Low Maintenance: Artificial grass requires minimal maintenance. Say goodbye to mowing, weeding, and fertilizing. With Lifestyle Lawns’ products, you can enjoy a beautiful, green lawn year-round without the hassle.

Durability: Our artificial grass is designed to withstand New Zealand’s harsh climate conditions. It won’t fade, flatten, or develop bald spots, ensuring your lawn looks immaculate day in and day out.

Eco-Friendly: Lifestyle Lawns takes pride in offering eco-friendly artificial grass options. With minimal water usage and no need for harmful pesticides or fertilizers, you’ll be contributing to a greener planet.

Allergy-Free: Unlike natural grass, artificial turf doesn’t release pollen, making it an excellent choice for allergy sufferers.

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Quality Assurance: Lifestyle Lawns sources only the highest quality artificial grass products. Our grass is UV stabilised and rigorously tested to ensure it can withstand New Zealand’s harsh climate.

Professional Installation: We not only supply top-notch artificial grass but also provide expert installation services. Our experienced technicians will ensure your artificial lawn is installed to perfection.

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Pet-Friendly Spaces: Our pet-friendly artificial grass is designed to withstand the rigors of active pets. It’s easy to clean and eliminates the problem of muddy paws in your home.

Balconies and Rooftops: Create a green oasis in the heart of the city with our artificial grass. It’s a great way to make the most of your outdoor space in urban settings.

Play Areas: Transform your children’s play area into a safe and comfortable space. Our artificial grass provides a soft landing for active play and is easy to clean.

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Make the switch to low-maintenance, evergreen bliss by choosing Lifestyle Lawns for your artificial grass needs. Say goodbye to the never-ending cycle of lawn maintenance and hello to a lush, green lawn year-round. Contact us today to explore our wide range of artificial grass options and transform your outdoor space into a haven of beauty and relaxation.

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Chapter 4

What was once seen as a bit of a challenge, an opportunity to show that there may be a different way of thinking or doing had recently been getting me down. I spoke to mum about it and her response was perfect, “most stuff is pointless really”

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lib7w9AdDMY

9 months ago I left my bicycle in Da Nang, central Vietnam. That was me leaving my normal. I was stagnant, progressing through places but not really progressing personally.

Stepping out into the unknown was a really amazing step. Me, Jethro and Felipe rode our shitbox motorbikes costing a maximum of $200 across the country together. Each one a Chinese fake, bald tyres, oil leaks, broken lights, broken fuel gauges, dodgy speedos. They were constantly falling over, breaking down, making strange noises, running out of petrol. Locals gesturing they were going to explode any minute, laughing at us as they pulled out of the service station on their real Honda Waves. Well these shitboxes carried us all the way through that amazing country. Through the scorching heat, the torrential rain, over mountains, along bone shaking roads and survived an actual fucking tornado. Every second was priceless.

And upon arriving in Hanoi I quickly stumbled across a group of crazy awesome likeminded people and rented a big mad house together. A family of travellers. We hosted other travellers, ran a free community English class from the living room and taught English in kindergartens for a bit of money. Together we enjoyed everything that wonderful city has to offer.

With the cost of living so cheap and the wage for teaching English so good, we had time to do or not do. Anything, everything and nothing was possible. Sampling tasty food, playing music, painting, busking, yoga, going to festivals, trips to the islands, finding skyscrapers to climb, joining a football team, taking photos, going to circus, we did it all and more. But the centre of our world which we always enjoyed returning home to was our roof terrace. THE ROOF. Coming in from those manic streets you were instantly transported to a tranquil ish bubble surrounded by air cleaning plants and the smell of drying clothes and marijuana. The walls, tables, doors, and hanging clothes were all covered in our art and any space in between was filled with Jerome’s chilled music. Freedom. The little cherry on top of it all was Hien, our incredible Vietnamese housemate full of traditional culture and fire. At first it was a struggle to cope with our western ways but soon she blossomed into this inquisitive lover of life, opening a business teaching Vietnamese to expats, telling her parents she didn’t want to get married, yet, and trying simple things we take for granted like drawing or watching and dancing to live music for the first time. She lived in the room beneath, always keeping us in check. Check Check!

Around Christmas time everybody had made plans for something else, it’s not something to do forever, that Hanoi life, the city as I said is manic. And polluted. I was seeing family in Australia, Stef was hitching and busking back to Italy, Askar was going to Thailand to carry on his amazing journey of travelling without money. Vika and Yura back to Russia to make music, Xsenia and Pavel would carry on busking and travelling around Asia. Nick to Ukraine to meet a girl he’d met in Hanoi, Daniel to Perth to see family, leaving just Jerome and Hien in the house. But before leaving we all spent Christmas Day in Hiens home town, met her family and enjoyed a big dinner together. It was a perfect way to finish.

On the plane to Australia I cried knowing that I would see my family for the first time in 3 years, but also because I was leaving my newly found family and Masha, the woman I’d fallen in love with behind.

My mum and dad, are older, greyer but still the same people at heart, it was surreal to see them after so long. A few weeks spent relaxing, eating and just hanging out with the folks like normal. I’m very lucky. I’m also so thankful that they are happy knowing I’m happy, I couldn’t ask for anything more. It wasn’t so sad leaving them again, just sad to leave those avocado, poached egg, smoked salmon on toast breakies in the cafe.

I hitched from Sydney to Melbourne and back again and then up to Newcastle for a tree planting job. All the time planning on returning to Vietnam and Masha. I asked Daniel to come and help with the job seeing how he was in Oz, he needed money and it would be nice for him to learn how to plant. Just like that, we were planting 15,000+ native grasses by hand, the perfect job for one of the most inspiring families I’ve ever met. I’d been introduced to Paul, Tanya and sons over a year earlier when with Russ. We stayed at their house a couple of nights but never had the chance to fully get to know each other. Paul is working in construction, but has always challenged himself with amazing/insane adventures, living on the edge, sometimes even falling over the edge, but it doesn’t matter, he smashes through everything with his can do attitude and refusal to fail. After his wife died of cancer, he rode his bike to the very northerly point of Australia and kayaked, fucking kayaked to Papa New Guinea. Aaaaaand raised a shit ton of money for charity in the process. Wow, and then there is Tanya. Like us she is definitely a traveller at heart, hitching Europe and Turkey in the, I think 80’s, maybe 90’s. She’s not old old! One of the most open minded easy to talk to people in the world, she fuelled a love for horses by working in stables in different countries. After realising professional riding wasn’t for her and just going with the flow she now sculpts for a living and has life size bronze works on display across Australia. Being creative and doing what she is passionate about! If these guys aren’t an example of following what you love and achieving everything you put your mind to, I don’t know what is.

I’d booked my flight back to Hanoi from New Zealand, because first I wanted to hitch on a boat and do a bit of cycling in real nature before returning to Masha and Hanoi. And I guess this is where that feeling of pointlessness has come from. I couldn’t find a boat and things haven’t worked out with Masha. I’m not really used to things going against me, I’m used to things being hard, I can deal with that, but all of a sudden my dream of sustainable travel seemed up in a big fossil fuel guzzling cloud of aeroplane smoke as I bailed and flew to NZ. The fact the relationship ended multiplied this feeling ten fold, I felt lost. Instead of doing what I’d done previously, enjoying the journey for what it was, riding the waves, embracing the challenge, learning from the mistakes, going with the flow, smiling at the punctures or the breakdowns, or the bad weather, shitty road, lack of food. I got down.

I was riding but not riding, my head was stuck up in that cloud. But New Zealand is so bllllllloody beautiful that it’s actually difficult not to live in the moment when your surrounded by so much breathtaking scenery. And then I met cyclists Ryan and Dee, an awesome friendly couple from England, with the positive vibe returning I’m starting to find apples everywhere, and people are giving away the best tastiest pinkest peaches you can imagine. I stayed a few nights with a girl who loved to bake. Scones, banana bread, apple + blackberry pie, a loaf of bread and then leaving and discovering a home made quiche she’d woken up early to bake and put with my lunch. Last night I stayed with a family of 6, the dad Chris had cycled from the top of the north island to the bottom of the South Island. 3000km along rough trails in 22 days. Their 3 teenage daughters outwitting me in every conversation and then waking up this morning to watch their 11 year old average sized son devour 8 weetabix, his response, “I do a lot”. Needless to say, I feel good, I feel high on life. I already thought I should write a post whilst I was riding into town this morning. And then waiting for me was a message from a profile I’d made on a boating website months ago, I have just received an email asking if I want to crew a marine biology sailing yacht to Fiji and back.

I’m not saying that being positive or living in the moment had anything to do with the boat, it didn’t. The thing on the boat may never even materialise. I’m just saying that everything is always alright in the end, so no point getting down and worrying about it. You are doing what feels right, that’s all that matters.

So yes most stuff is pointless, my pointless thing is to challenge misconceptions and push boundaries, what’s yours?

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The cushion ‘Comfort for discomfort’ is a representation of an archeological dig I have taken to give myself and others a more conceptual interpretation and experience of the 1941 air raid tunnels located under Albert Park. The pathway beside my site runs through an archway created by tree branches which crosses across the path over to my site. This immediately made me think of the tunnels. When sitting on the cushion the archway acts as the roof of the tunnel interpretation I created. The ‘cushion’ I have created highlights the idea around defense, as the word defense played a large role in how Aucklanders in 1941 felt. When the air-raid tunnels were built, it was not a comfortable time for people living in NZ as “From early in 1940, New Zealanders began to live in fear of attack or invasion, first by the Germans and later by the Japanese. (The second world war at home: Feeling threatened. New Zealand History. N.N, N.D)” We use cushions to defend ourselves from something hard & uncomfortable. The air raid tunnels were utilized as an act of defense for Aucklanders from the potential bombing, therefore this makes me question whether we can call the air-raid tunnels a cushion themselves. I have not created a softly fabricated cushion because I want to emphasize the idea that that the word cushion does not always link back to something soft and comfortable, and like the air raid tunnels quite often a cushion is a way of defense. Through the construction of the ‘cushion’, I have used certain materials and design aspects to give the user the most realistic experience of the tunnels. Aucklanders used something hard, not destructible, and not soft to cushion and make themselves feel safe and protected therefore the air raid shelters acted as a security blanket. Due to my cushion being hard furnishings I have layered a piece of fake grass over the top of the surface created by plastic cores. This creates defense & a security blanket for the user from the hard furnishings underneath and gives a sense of comfort. This concept also shows that the cores which demonstrate the tunnels are under the ground due to the fake grass laying on top of them. To create structural support throughout the ‘cushion’ I have positioned 9 pieces of 20mm dowl painted to demonstrate the 9 openings to the underground tunnels. The cores and doweling are painted in a stone and led color to demonstrate the stone and led used in the shelters. The 3 structural pieces of plywood are stained in a rusty dark wood color that was used inside and is shaped in a shallow semi-circle that when sitting in the cushion rise around the user. I have created a rise in the side edges of the cushion to not only give the user the sense that they are in the tunnel but to also create a sense that the user has defense and is protected as they are slightly enclosed in the cushion. Through this design concept, I am emphasizing the idea that a cushion does not have to be something soft, and it can be something that defends and protects you from your surroundings or something hard.

Reference-

N.N, N.D, The second world war at home: Feeling threatened. New Zealand History.  https://nzhistory.govt.nz/war/second-world-war-at-home/challenges

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