The Masked Singer NZ power rankings: We’re up all night to get lucky
Who was it, who was it, who was it underneath the mask in episodes five and six?
Welcome to week three of The Masked Singer NZ, where dreams are free and sheep wear leather jackets even when it’s hot. This week two more brave celebrities had their true identities revealed, the judges clapped in time, and the top six creatures warbled their way into the next round, proving fish do have feelings and pavlovas enjoy sex and being on fire. No, it’s not getting any less weird, so let’s knock the head off these rankings and expose the hidden secrets beneath.
Renovation blogger Shayden Whipps has a house packed with plants - and says you can too.
Houseplants seem to be having a moment right now. And why not? They clear the air, look good, and caring for them is therapeutic. But if you don’t want to drop $8150 on a philodendron minima, as per Trade Me’s record houseplant price, nor spend hundreds a week on growing your collection, it might be time to learn the thrifty domestic art of propagation. Commercial growers sometimes grow new plants from tissue culture – using tiny pieces of a parent plant and growing them on agar culture plates. Propagating at home has a similar result in terms of creating a clone of the original.
I think we can safely say I do not possess that.
Joanna Davis/Stuff Crowd-sourced advice However, what I do have, to quote Liam Neeson, is a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career. That is ‘picking the brains of others’. I’m a member of two Facebook houseplant groups; mainly I use them for plant porn, admiring the work of others, occasionally committing to memory the name of a plant I may like to acquire some time. But in all honesty, I still can t tell a pothos from a syngonium. Online, my plea for help was met with much advice: