Australian Women’s Weekly NZ Christmas 2021

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It takes a village. It’s a phrase you can apply to achieving success in a lot of areas of life. Turns out it also sometimes takes a village to get a Christmas magazine shoot done – this month’s delightful cover story with Nadia and her family is testament to that. It’s also a great reminder of just how connected New Zealand is and how Kiwis will always go out of their way to help someone out. As is the case in lots of industries, Covid-19 and all the restrictions that come with it have made it challenging to get things done. With our team confined to Auckland due to border closure, this cover shoot needed a bit more of a creative approach. “I’ve got a photographer coming to do some…

It was just over two years ago when Nadia Lim, her husband Carlos Bagrie and their two children, Bodhi and River, upped sticks from their Auckland home and moved full-time to their 500-hectare farming property just outside of Arrowtown. Looking back, it was not the most inspiring start, the celebrity chef recalls. “The farmhouse was built in the 1880s and it was so rundown, it was near on uninhabitable,” says Nadia, 35. “It was so bad that Carlos wouldn’t let me walk through the place to see it in its entirety because he was scared that I would say the house was too far gone. Everyone said we should bowl it down – no one wanted to touch the project. But we love bringing old stories back to life.” Their…

When The Queen pulled out of the Remembrance Sunday Cenotaph service last month, a gasp echoed around the world. Of all the engagements the monarch had cancelled in recent weeks, we were told this was one Her Majesty didn’t want to miss. Consequently it was all very last minute, adding to the shock. The reason – a back sprain – was entirely unrelated to The Queen’s doctor’s recent advice to rest. Nobody regrets her absence today more deeply than Her Majesty herself, noted a Buckingham Palace source, saying she was deeply disappointed. It shouldn’t really have caused so much consternation, of course. Her Majesty is 95. She was fatigued after coming a little too fast out of the blocks following COVID lockdown and now suffering a no-doubt-painful back injury. So,…

A while ago – “15, possibly 20 years” – Joanna Lumley purchased a limited-edition work of art that is the crowning glory on the wall of her study. We are meeting via video call, and in a flurry, the much-loved English actress and TV presenter excitedly picks up her laptop and swirls me – virtually – around the room, to fix my gaze on the wall opposite. There, in glorious shades of regal purple, gold, bright green and a hint of cerise, is Joanna’s icon, Her Majesty The Queen, immortalised by the late pop-art master, Andy Warhol. “He did four colourways and 40 prints of each of them, which he signed, and then that was it. This is one of the 40, so it’s not that rare but it’s pretty…

Danny Abdallah lifts two of his boys up at once, supporting Alex in one arm and Michael in the other, while his almost-teenage daughter Liana lets her mother, Leila, drape an arm around her and leans into her protective embrace. Storms were predicted for the family’s photo shoot and leaves in the garden are glistening from the morning showers. But up above, the dark clouds have broken and sun streams down on the family. “It was the same at the funeral. There were nine days of rain and I remember them saying they never saw rain like this in 30 years, and on the day, the clouds just broke and there was a ray of sun right on the church,” Danny says. The Abdallah family was thrust into the public…