New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

It takes a VILLAGE

A great chat with the queen of talk back

I never imagined in a million years that I’d be ringing retirement villages and making appointments with lovely, accommodating women to show my mum around their finest one-bedroom apartments. On Auckland’s North Shore.

Ever since Dad died, nigh on 25 years ago, Mum has been adamant she’d stay in her own home. She loves her wee place, on the corner of

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