New Zealand Woman’s Weekly 1839

Popular royal Zara Tindall (37) had plenty of cheerleaders as she competed in final day of the Gatcombe Horse Trials, which are held at her mother’s Gloucestershire estate. Zara’s husband Mike Tindall (39) was in charge of Mia (4), three-month-old baby Lena and also his niece Isla Phillips (6), who is the daughter of Peter (40) and Autumn Phillips (40). The girls had a fantastic time running around the estate, clapping for Zara and mucking around with some obliging pups. Zara recently talked about her admiration for Serena Willliams (36) returning to tennis after a baby and her own joy at being back riding her beloved horses. “[They’re] very much in my life, in my family – being able to still have them in my life and part of my…

On too many occasions to count, I’ve stepped outside the front door and as I’ve turned to shut the door , I’ve looked back inside and had the same thought – how wonderful it would be to swap places with the cat for the day . Sprawled out to best catch the sun, only having to occasionally move to catch the rays as they inch around the room, with nary a thing to worry about – it seems like a pretty darn lovely life to me. And as our writer Ciara found this week, it’s an even sweeter life for one lucky Kiwi moggie, who might just be NZ’s richest cat! Joey has a cool $200,000 in the bank, left to him by his loving owner in his will. Now…

Popular royal Zara Tindall (37) had plenty of cheerleaders as she competed in final day of the Gatcombe Horse Trials, which are held at her mother’s Gloucestershire estate. Zara’s husband Mike Tindall (39) was in charge of Mia (4), three-month-old baby Lena and also his niece Isla Phillips (6), who is the daughter of Peter (40) and Autumn Phillips (40). The girls had a fantastic time running around the estate, clapping for Zara and mucking around with some obliging pups. Zara recently talked about her admiration for Serena Willliams (36) returning to tennis after a baby and her own joy at being back riding her beloved horses. “[They’re] very much in my life, in my family – being able to still have them in my life and part of my career is great.”…

Sally Field – America’s sweetheart, a Flying Nun and a multi-Oscar and Emmy award-winner – is laying her life out bare for the world to see, somewhat terrifyingly. “Can I just pull this back?” she said of her very recent fears leading up to the book’s release. “Can I change my mind? Can I say, never mind? But I didn’t.” At the age of 71, Sally has a seemingly endless list of phenomenal roles behind her – Norma Rae, M’Lynn Eatenton in Steel Magnolias and Abraham Lincoln’s mother Mary Todd – but taking up the new skill of writing in her seventies was something she pre-empted as needing to take “many a sore ride in the saddle”. “It was never a matter of making myself write,” she admits. “It was…

On too many occasions to count, I’ve stepped outside the front door and as I’ve turned to shut the door , I’ve looked back inside and had the same thought – how wonderful it would be to swap places with the cat for the day . Sprawled out to best catch the sun, only having to occasionally move to catch the rays as they inch around the room, with nary a thing to worry about – it seems like a pretty darn lovely life to me. And as our writer Ciara found this week, it’s an even sweeter life for one lucky Kiwi moggie, who might just be NZ’s richest cat! Joey has a cool $200,000 in the bank, left to him by his loving owner in his will. Now that’s…

Don’t Stop Believin’ was not the most successful of Olivia Newton-John’s many hits. The song spent one week at the top of the Billboard Easy Listening charts in 1976 and has been overshadowed by numbers such as I Honestly Love You, Let Me Be There and Physical. But for Olivia, the song is currently the soundtrack to her life. In particular, a couple of lines in the chorus provide the motto that is helping her get through each day. The words “Don’t stop believin’, you’ll get by; Bad days, bad days will hurry by,” have had special meaning since the cancer she was first diagnosed with in 1992 returned last year. Olivia, who turns 70 on September 26, has a tumour on the base of her spine but says she’s…