"Video walkie talkie," a video chat app that lets you send quick messages back and forth with your friends.

It’s free & easy to use. You can add fun emojis, text and draw on the video.

Useful for keeping in touch with those who live on the other side of the world in different time zones.

https://www.marcopolo.me/download

Paperspast allows you to access and search through digitised historic newspapers, including the Bay of Plenty Times from 1872-1949 and the Te Puke Times from 1913-1920.

From July this year, the Te Puke Times date range on PapersPast will extend right through to the end of 1950, thanks to a collaboration between Tauranga City Libraries, Western Bay Libraries, and the National Library.

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers

Chatting about ideas, experiences and stories. Digging in to what it means to create a slower, simpler, more intentional life, and what that looks like for a variety of people.

We live life in the fast lane. We race to keep up with The Joneses. We are over-worked, over-committed and over-stressed, and we compete on how busy and important and sleep-deprived we are. But we don’t need to.

There is an ever-growing group of people who are opting out of life lived at 110%. They are choosing to slow down, simplify, say no and focus on the things that are truly important. The Slow Home Podcast Brooke chats to others who have adopted a similar approach to life – slowing down, opting out, saying no.

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