Western News: April 14, 2022

connecting you with your neighbourhood 

1 – 3 July 

2022 

THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 2022 

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Christchurch Arena 

Hollie powers way to 

major 

BMX 

title 

REPRESENTING New 

Zealand is a milestone for 

many athletes. 

And at just 11-years-old 

BMXer Hollie Tribble has not 

only ticked that box—she even 

got to beat Australia while she 

was at it. 

The Rangi Ruru Girls’ 

School year 7 student was one 

of eight Kiwi kids chosen for 

the Mighty 11s Trans-Tasman 

test in Queensland at the 

weekend. Her girls team — 

of which she was the only 

rider from the South Island 

— were victorious over their 

Australian counterparts, 

winning the Troy Fisher Cup. 

Hollie says making the 

team for the 30-year-old 

competition run by the 

national cycling bodies of 

both countries has been her 

dream since she started riding 

as a four-year-old. She says 

wearing the New Zealand 

jersey and bringing the trophy 

home with her team was “very 

exciting”. 

“You only get one chance to 

do it, because you have to be 

11 on race day, and you get to 

travel to Australia and you get 

to travel with your team and 

make really good friendships. 

I felt very proud and that 

I needed to represent New 

Zealand well.” 

• Turn to page 8 

VICTORIOUS: Hollie Tribble was the only South Island 

rider in a team that won a prestigious Australian title. 

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Thursday, 10-11am 

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Read a short book especially 

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programme helps people who want 

to improve their English reading and 

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meet new people and gain more 

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Held on the second Thursday 

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Knit ‘n’ Yarn 

Thursday, 10.30am-1.45pm 


Go along and enjoy a chat with others 

as you knit. For anyone who loves 

to knit or wants to learn. 

English Conversation Club 

Thursday, 11am-noon 


The Conversation Club is a relaxed 

drop in group where anyone is welcome 

to go and practice conversations 

in English. This is not a class, but an 

opportunity to talk with others in 

English and meet new people. Great 

for ESOL (English for speakers of 

other languages) learners. 

Finger puppet friends, Wednesday, 10-11am, Hornby Library. Head 

down to Hornby Library to make your own finger puppet with craft 

supplies. Free, no bookings required. 

GenConnect 

Thursday, 1-1.45pm 


A session aimed at helping people 

who have questions about their iPad, 

smart phone or tablet wanting to 

know how to use online applications. 

Riccarton High School students will 

be available every Thursday during 

term time to help you with your 

technology. 

Scrabble Club 

Wednesday, 1.30-3.30pm 

Halswell Library 

Have a way with words? Go along 

when you can and join this friendly 

group. Some boards are provided, but 

feel free to take your own. 

JP Clinic 

Monday, 9.30-11am 

Hornby Library 

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signatures on documents and to 

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New course for disc golfers opened 

• By Tatiana Gibbs 

A FOURTH disc golf course 

has opened as the sport’s rising 

popularity puts pressure on 

existing courses. 

The semi-wooded 18-hole 

course at Warren Park, Hornby, 

is the latest course to open on 

city council-owned parkland. 

It is also the first course in the 

south-west of the city. 

Christchurch Disc Golf Club 

chairman Paul Deacon said 

Warren Park was the first of 

15 new fully-specced courses, 

complete with target baskets and 

concrete tee pads, that the club 

wants to install in Christchurch. 

There are an estimated 20,000 

recreational disc golfers in New 

Zealand and about 2000 in 

Christchurch – more than the 

existing free courses in Burnside, 

New Brighton, and Parklands 

can accommodate. 

The Jellie Park course, which 

first opened in 2015, has become 

so popular, hosting up to 500 

keen disc golfers on a busy weekend, 

that it has reached capacity. 

“One of the things we’re hoping 

to do is relieve pressure,” 

Deacon said. 

Hornby disc golfer Stormy 

Phillips is stoked to have a 

course now just two blocks from 

home, saving him the commute 

to Burnside each week. He has 

played the 7.5km course about 10 

times in the last month alone. 

SKILLS: Glen Bellam (left) putts at the new Warren Park 

disc golf course, while Stormy Phillips tees off. 

“I can now stop by for a 

round on my way home from 

work. 

“I’ve brought friends down 

who live nearby, and they love 

it,” he said. 

Flatmates George Foster and 

Jarrod Lobb said having a course 

close by would keep them involved 

in the sport. 

“We probably would have 

fizzled out in winter if we had to 

drive to Jellie Park all the time, 

so having one here is so much 

better,” Foster said. 

Disc golf, which follows 

broadly similar rules to traditional 

ball golf but has players 

throw a plastic disc (or frisbee) 

into a metal basket, has taken off 

in popularity worldwide. 

Unlike most sports, people 

of different standards can play 

together, which makes it popular 

with families. 

“You can get a family going 

round or even three generations 

going round together,” Deacon 

said. 

“I know a guy well in his 80s 

still playing.” 

Sports activation adviser John 

Furlong said the city council 

hoped the new Warren Park 

course would be a success not 

just for disc golfers but also the 

wider community. 

“We see disc golf as a sport for 

serious users [and] casual users 

as well.” 

Because disc golf was open to 

all ages and abilities, and had 

a low barrier to entry, the city 

council hoped it would encourage 

more locals to use their community 

parks. 

Furlong said Ascot Park, at 

QEII, would be the next cab off 

the rank for a disc golf course. 

Plans for the course have already 

been approved by the city 

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Much to 

excite and 

engage 

students 

Kia ora koutou. Talofa. Kia Orana. Malo e lelei. Bula 

Vinaka. Fakaalofa atu. Namaste. Kumusta. Haere 

mai haere mai ki Te Kura Huruhuru Ao o Horomaka. 

Warm greetings to the Hornby High School 

community. 

One of the many things our community values at 

Hornby High School is the breadth of opportunity on 

offer, the range of activities in which students can 

develop their talents, their passions. 

In a typical year those opportunities cover a wide 

range, and the amazing achievement of our rangatahi 

becomes pretty obvious when you pause and take 

a look. A term 1 stand out was the senior boys’ 

volleyball team winning the South Island competition. 

However, we have also seen junior and senior students 

engaged in debating, a record three student teams 

participating in this year’s Sheila Winn Shakespeare 

drama competition, and a record number of 

students (boys and girls) participating in rugby skills 

development sessions run for us by Hornby Rugby 

Club in preparation for the 2022 season. 

We celebrated World Poetry Day a couple of weeks 

ago, and hundreds of students wrote poems for their 

kāhui ‘poe-trees’ that were set up in each kāhui. The 

quality of the work was truly outstanding: it was 

adventurous, pithy, clever, and insightful. 

We will have two student teams participating in the 

annual EPro8 technology competition coming up, and 

let’s not forget the EVelocity Challenge (the electric 

vehicle design and build competition) in which our 

students have done so well in the past few years. 

There is some talk of something that might develop 

into a student radio station (watch this space), and 

students have been away on some exciting senior 

geography and history trips this past month. 

On top of that, our students aspire to ever improving 

academic standards, and our first scholarship winners 

in 20 years (celebrated in our last Western News 

column a month or so ago) give clarity to that growing 

aspiration. 

There’s certainly much to excite and engage students, 

all supported by our caring and giving staff. Yes, 

there’s much to celebrate at Te Huruhuru Ao o 

Horomaka Hornby High School. 

Emalea and Risha in Year 10 and 

Rinoah in Year 9, have embarked on 

a fantastic new part of their own 

learning journeys as they joined 

students from other schools in 

Ōtautahi to participate in the junior 

debating circuit. 

They have been working on 

learning debating skills and had 

their first debate last week. They 

demonstrated our CARR values 

throughout, and they were open 

to learning. They will join students 

from other city schools each week, 

travelling to St Andrews College to 

do so. 

Debating is acknowledged as a 

wonderful way to develop critical 

thinking and communication skills, 

and the personal confidence to 

stand and speak in front of others. 

These are things you learn by doing, 

as many a great lawyer, politician, or 

activist, and many a great kaumatua, 

will tell you when asked about their 

ability to speak out on issues, to 

mesmerise from the paepae. 

These skills are also essential if 

Robin Sutton 

Tumuaki 

That’s debateable! 

Emalea, Risha and Rinoah, 

interschool debaters. 

we are to develop creativity in our 

students. Standing up to speak in 

front of others is ‘risky’ for many, 

and risk taking is essential to 

creativity. This supports our journey 

towards our aspiration as ‘a centre 

of creative excellence’. 

Thanks to Mr Cairns on whose 

initiative these three students have 

had the opportunity to begin their 

own journeys, and thanks to Mrs 

Clarke – herself a champion debater 

in a former life – who stepped in to 

support the group at short notice. 

April 2022 

Commitment, 

Achievement, 

Resilience, 

Respect 

Boys’ volleyball team ride 

wave of support to win gold 

At the end of three days of competition in the 

South Island Satellite Tournament, the Hornby 

High School senior boys’ volleyball team came 

away as tournament winners with a Gold 

Medal. 

Through a number of tough games the boys 

demonstrated their CARR values exceptionally 

well. Their win comes after a season of hard 

work with coach Mr Liu, himself something of a 

former volleyball star. During the tournament 

Mr Liu had been forced to isolate, and so Mr 

Richardson stepped in to support and manage 

the team. Thank you to both of them for their 

mahi with the boys. 

Tumuaki Mr Sutton noted that it was wonderful 

to see the spirit that the boys carried with 

them, and their continued exhibition of our 

school values. “It’s great to see this resurgence 

of Hornby volleyball again,” he said. He 

commented on the wonderful community 

support that is growing behind Hornby High 

School’s volleyball programme. 

Pictured at right: The Senior Boys’ Volleyball 

team with their Gold Medals won at the South 

Island Satellite Tournament. 

Girls ‘can be proud of their efforts’ – coach 

Level 3 Geography takes an 

annual trip to Kaikoura to collect 

data for their research topic so 

on the 11th March we packed 

our gear and headed north. It is 

always based around the North 

Beach where we study beach 

profiles, sediment size, longshore 

drift and collect information on 

wind and waves. 

Contractor’s generosity helps 

complete long jump facility 

Hornby High School athletes can 

now train and jump on new long 

jump run-ups and pits, thanks to the 

good work and generous support 

of Josh Hastie and the team from 

Waitohu Limited Contracting. 

Having done four decades of good 

service, the old facilities were well 

past their “use by” date. 

Funding provided by Kiwi 

Gaming, and Mainland 

Foundation covered most 

of the project cost, but 

facing a shortfall, Josh of 

Waitohu Ltd kindly offered 

to complete the project at 

his own expense in order 

to see that our students 

were able to experience 

the best of facilities. 

Josh and Waitohu are 

Hornby locals, and 

Josh said he was “keen 

to support my local 

community”. This work 

nearly completes the 

Our girls’ volleyball team competed at South 

Island tournament 

The Hornby High School senior girls’ volleyball 

team had a great South Island tournament this 

last week. 

A series of hard-fought games against skilled 

opponents tested them every day. 

Of the girls’ efforts, coach Ane Tatu had this to 

say: “The girls gave it their all... As an ex-student 

of Hornby High School, it was a fun and interesting 

experience for me to be on the other side 

managing and coaching a team. The girls should 

be walking away from this tournament with their 

heads held high and proud of their efforts on the 

courts.” 

The girls have set great base for the development 

of the team next season, and we are all very 

proud of them and their hard work. 

Pictured: The girls’ volleyball team who 

competed at the South Island tournament. 

renewal of sporting facilities 

available for students. 

Josh and the team are 

available for contracting 

work, and given their 

generosity and the quality 

of their work we would 

definitely recommend them. 

They have ensured that 

athletics continues to be 

well resourced at Hornby 

High School. Thank you 

also to Kiwi Gaming, and 

Mainland Foundation, for 

their support.

Thursday April 14 2022 5 

Community rallies in support of food bank 

• By Emily Moorhouse 

AFTER TAKING a step back 

due to the tragic loss of their 

baby, the couple running a food 

bank are humbled by the support 

since reopening. 

The Websters are well-known 

in the community for running 

the Hoon Hay Food Bank, and 

after losing their baby Laurentian, 

they took some time off to 

be with family. 

Before he passed away on 

March 11, Laurentian spent his 

first 102 days in the neonatal 

intensive care unit, while the 

Websters juggled the food bank. 

Last week it opened its doors 

again to provide food to those 

in need and the community was 

more than happy to help out in 

any way they could. 

Over the weekend, people 

headed down to the Hoon Hay 

Community Centre to support 

to the Webster family by participating 

in a food drive. 

The Webster family were 

humbled by the support from the 

community and managed 

to take home a car load of food 

to restock the food bank’s 

shelves. 

Food bank founder Corrin 

Webster said they’ve been supported 

in both their private 

life and through the food bank 

before they even reopened. 

“It’s always amazing to see the 

community get behind us,” he 

said. 

“We’re really lucky to have so 

many people in our community 

who are behind us and supporting 

us.” 

Webster used the food 

bank’s Facebook page to announce 

their reopening and said 

they received a lot of messages 

from people asking what they 

needed. 

He said they have been flat out 

since reopening, giving out an 

average of 40 food parcels a day. 

“We’re so busy that we’re going 

through more food than we ever 

have so we’re going to be looking 

at doing more drives this year 

and finding new ways to get 

more sources because we just 

can’t keep up,” Webster said. 

“The more [food] we get, we 

can up the numbers of how many 

people we can take each day.” 

Hoon Hay Community Association 

member Daniel Hay 

helped organise the food drive 

and said it was inspiring to see 

how many people came to support 

the Webster family. 

“I’m always moved by the 

generosity of the Hoon Hay 

community. People know Corrin 

and Nicole and they really want 

to support them especially now,” 

Hay said. 

“The fact that they’re doing 

all of this out of their house in 

their own time especially now 

after losing Laurentian, we really 

wanted to get around them and 

GIVING: 

Hoon Hay 

Community 

Association 

member 

Daniel Hay 

gratefully 

accepts a 

donation 

of tinned 

food from 

Somerfield 

residents 

Evelyne Prue 

and Dax, 7. 

PHOTO: STAR 

MEDIA 

support them in any way we 

could.” 

Hay said he was really 

happy with the turnout of the 

food drive and planned to hold 

another one in June. 

“There’s some really incredible 

people in our community and 

Corrin and Nicole are really 

good examples of the generosity 

of Hoon Hay,” he said. 

“Their hearts really are for the 

community.”

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Painted wooden godwits for you to find 

• By Emily Moorhouse 

TAKING A walk through 

Southshore will reveal 57 

wooden godwits, painted by the 

community. 

What started off as a small 

community painting day has 

spiralled into a great godwit hunt 

as locals scout out the brightly 

painted godwits scattered 

throughout the area. 

Southshore Residents 

Association member Maria 

Smolar helped organise the 

initiative, alongside fellow 

members Liz Yuki and Annette 

Bolton. 

Smolar said the project 

stemmed from the association 

wanting to put together 

something exciting after events 

had been cancelled because of 

Covid. 

Avon-Heathcote Estuary 

Ihutai Trust manager Tanya 

Jenkins suggested giving the 

association some wooden 

godwits, made with the help of 

Linwood Menz Shed volunteers. 

The idea was to give the 

godwits to members of the 

community to paint themselves, 

which soon turned into painting 

sessions held at Common 

Ground. 

The sessions attracted roughly 

20 people, including Coastal 

Ward councillor Celeste 

Donovan and Coastal-Burwood 

Community Board member 

Jo Zervos. 

Once people had painted their 

godwits they put them around 

the estuary edge and Rocking 

Horse Rd for others to see. 

Soon after, Smolar was 

approached by a local mother 

who suggested the idea of a 

godwit hunt. 

She had created a map for 

people to mark off when they 

spotted the birds. 

“We love it,” Smolar said. 

“I didn’t expect it to become 

this big thing, which has been 

really awesome.” 

Jenkins said the trust has 

done similar activities to this 

in the past but the Southshore 

Residents Association had gone 

all out and made it even better 

than she could have hoped for. 

“It is a roaring success,” she 

said. 

“We had to extend it and reprint 

more maps because our 

residents were having so much 

fun.” 

Smolar said some godwits 

were still waiting to be found 

SUCCESS: (From left) – 

Nick, Ripley, Rome and 

Liz Yuki with their godwit. 

Above right – Leo and Max 

Boxall spot a godwit while 

on a bike ride. 

and described the hunt as 

“intergenerational” as it’s not 

only kids who are participating, 

but families and adults too. 

“It’s just been really wonderful 

to see people being involved 

and being connected,” Smolar 

said. 

“It’s really a community effort 

and it’s been so much fun.” 

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Win fuels passion for sport 

• From page 1 

Hollie earned her place on the 

team through a serious of regional 

and national competitions 

and her fellow teammate from 

Mainland North Region BMX, 

Riley Smart, was also selected for 

the boys’ Mighty 11s team. 

PHOTO: MAK SHOTS 

The race was held at the 

Sleeman BMX facility during 

the Oceania Championships. 

Hollie says the achievement has 

only fuelled her passion for the 

sport. 

“I’m going to keep BMXing 

forever.” 

The pour of the roof for Lincoln University’s new flagship science facility was 

under way last week. Construction began February last year and is expected to be 

completed mid-2023. It is part of a $200 million campus development programme, 

with $80 million of Crown-funding for the facility itself. A university spokesperson said 

construction was progressing well, on schedule, with no supply issues at this stage. 

The facility will feature state-of-the-art teaching, research and collaboration spaces 

complemented by multi-use adjustable workstations and social zones, set within a 

regenerative and bio-diverse park-like environment. The start of the building project 

capped off a 10-year journey for the university, beginning with the earthquakes in 

2010 and 2011 and concluding with formal Government approval for the facility’s 

construction. 

A concept drawing 

of the new facility. 

The Mighty 11s winning team. 

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Leaders in Learning 

Phew, what a Term 1 this has been! 

Just as we were about to welcome in the new school year, 

especially our new Year 9 students and their whānau, new staff, 

and other new students to the school, COVID-19 reminded us 

that life is never smooth sailing. All our plans were impacted, 

leading to significant changes to the way we normally operate. 

Once again, our school community adapted to the challenges 

and barriers we face. We’ve learned so much about isolation, 

masks, PCR tests and RATs, boosters, ventilation, scanning in 

and vaccine passes; while adjusting or cancelling events to 

comply with restrictions on gatherings. We’ve followed all these 

public health measures to alleviate the pressure on our health 

system and to protect those most at risk of getting sick. I want 

to reassure you all that Burnside High School continues to be a 

safe environment to be in. 

Our school, like all schools and workplaces, has experienced 

positive cases and people isolating in households. This has 

affected both staff and students. We monitored the situation 

daily, trying to keep students onsite for as long as possible, 

before accumulated staff absences necessitated a move to the 

hybrid learning model from 15 March. This meant students had a 

combination of face-to-face and remote learning on a rostered 

basis. While our aim was continuity of learning, we know how 

difficult this has been for both students and staff. We know how 

tiring it has been; and that we’d all much rather just be at school 

every day. I am proud of how everyone has handled the changes, 

disappointments, and frustrations associated with this disruptive 

period. Thank you for the way you have responded and adjusted. 

Communication between school and whānau continues to be a 

key factor in helping us manage the COVID situation. I hope you 

feel that you have been regularly informed through Schoology, 

our website, our Facebook page, and emails. Thank you very 

much for keeping us fully informed if your student is absent. 

We are looking forward to returning in Term 2 with all students 

and staff back onsite! I am confident that we will deal with 

whatever happens; and assure you that every effort will be made 

to recover lost time and teaching opportunities. As we begin the 

April holidays, we all know what we must do 

to continue to keep ourselves, our families, 

and our communities safe. It is also a time to 

rest, recharge, and take some time out. 

Let’s continue working together to make 

2022 a successful year. 

Ngā mihi nui 

Phil Holstein, Principal 

Senior Achievement Results 2021 

NCEA – overall pass rates 

Burnside High School students achieved well above national 

averages in each of the three levels of NCEA and in gaining the 

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Year Level 

Year 11 

Level 1 NCEA 

Year 12 

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Year 13 

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% of Burnside High 

school achieving 

National results % 

89.4 98.3 

90.8 77.2 

84.4 69.8 

66.7 50.3 

NZQA Scholarship Examinations 

With excellent results from Level 3 NCEA, these results were 

equally impressive. 

Scholarship: 75 

Outstanding Scholarship: 5 

Total: 80 

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Mathematics 

Grady Kenix has been selected as a member of the 2022 

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He will represent New Zealand in the 63rd International 

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Being chosen for this team is an outstanding achievement 

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months of tuition, training camps and competitions. Grady 

is the only student from outside Auckland in the team. 

Robotics 

Congratulations to the Burnside High School 

Robotics team who have qualified for the Vex 

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USA from 5 to 7 May 2022. This competition is the 

biggest robotics competition in the world with four 

divisions and over 24000 students competing. This 

is an amazing opportunity with exposure to the 

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Google and Northrop Grumman Foundation. 

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The Senior Girls’ Volleyball Team 

won the South Island Volleyball 

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Ingredients 

4 sirloin steaks cut into chunks 

2 tablespoons canola oil 

freshly ground black pepper to 

taste 

6 each: small shallots, button 

mushrooms, finely diced 

2 red capsicums (sliced) 

1⁄2 cup good beef jus 

4 tablespoons cream 

Directions 

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prevent curling during cooking. 

Heat half the oil in a heavy 

frying pan. Season the meat with 

black pepper. Pan-fry for about 

3min each side for medium rare. 

Remove the steaks and keep 

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Yoghurt chicken curry 

Serves 6 

Ingredients 

Sauce: 2 Tbsp canola oil 

1 tsp cumin seeds 

1 medium onion, diced 

2 bay leaves 

400g can whole plum tomatoes 

in juice 

4 cloves garlic 

3cm piece root ginger, peeled 

and chopped 

2 small chillies, seeded 

½ tsp each: ground turmeric, 

paprika 

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2 red-skinned potatoes, cut into 

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1 tsp honey 

¼ cup thick and creamy Greek 

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1 medium onion, diced 

3 cloves garlic, crushed 

2 tsp grated root ginger 

1 small chilli, seeded and diced 

400gm can crushed tomatoes 

1 tsp each: ground coriander, 

cumin, garam masala 

400gm can red kidney beans, 

drained and rinsed 

salt and pepper to taste 

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1 litre good chicken stock 

400gm can each: cannellini 

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2 carrots, diced 

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24. Casual (10) 

25. Food (colloq) (4) 

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27. Crossbreed (6) 

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9. Pass, 10. Elementary, 

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19. Tabloid, 20. Tyrant, 23. 

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WordBuilder 

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DAMAGE, dame, egad, gad, 

gam, game, gamed, gem, 

mad, made, mag, mage, 

mead, mega. 

Sudoku 

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DECODER 

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