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The Inside Word On Southland

Interviews with the Southland Sharks before the last game of the 2012 season

SouthlandNZ.com’s roving reporter caught the Sharks basketballers during practice at the Aurora College gym in Invercargill.
 

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Autumn kicks off the club rugby season in Southland

Autumn has arrived and so has the Southland club rugby season. Get along and watch a game!
 

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Okay Jamie - what do you do on the weekends?

Jamie Mackintosh, captain for the Southland Stags and Highlanders, is just a family guy at heart, but I see a certain Southern-man element coming through... 
 

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On set with Stan Walker: Day two

Kendyl Kennedy helps Stan Walker during the filming around Southland of his new music video. (Part 2 of a 2-part blog.)

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Posted in: Blog, Arts
On Set with Stan Walker: Day One

Kendyl Kennedy helps out Stan Walker on set during the filming of his new music video. (Part 1 of a 2-part blog.)
 

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Why Southland?

We landed in Auckland in July 2009, bursting with excitement at the start of our new life in NZ.  I’m sorry Aucklanders, but at that time in life, having just escaped the ‘busyness’ and traffic of the UK, we couldn’t wait to get out of Auckland.

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What makes you a Southlander?

11 January 2012 marked six years since I moved to the deep south but at what point (if ever) would I be considered a Southlander?
 

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Exploring Invercargill's parks

A friend came down to visit me here in sunny Invercargill. We decided to explore all the parks and forests in the area, that we could in a day – and it turns out Invercargill has the most amazing range. We didn’t get around them all, but it did make me think about how cool it was that there were so many.

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Posted in: Blog, Travel, Nature
A Southland new year resolution list

I’ve given up on having new year’s resolutions starting with ‘I will stop’ or ‘I will give up’, as it inevitably lasts a week or two before times get tough and I retreat to my old ways.

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On our back door step

As a student, I once lived in Christchurch, where I discovered tramping. At the time I didn’t believe that there could be a better base for tramping than there. Then I moved to Invercargill and discovered that there is limitless fun to be had in Fiordland, Southland and Stewart Island that is second to none for tramping.

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