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The founder of Revive Cafe shares more tasty and healthy recipes. This time with some really amazing innovative vegan breakfasts. Jeremy has a passion to share with others how to add energy and vitality to their lives through his cafe, inspiring weekly e-mails, cooking demonstrations, Cook:30 TV programme, healthy snack products and cookbooks.

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As a child, Sharmaine would write poetry and put her many musings on paper. She loved to dream, words would flow, poems would ooze out of the young girl, but most were kept to herself. Not until the 2000's did Sharmaine bring herself to start painting, simply as a way to put on canvas, all that she was seeing and feeling in this world. As each stroke hit it's mark, her soul was emptied out and she could breathe again. In 2014, Sharmaine wrote a notelet called 'A Cry Beneath the African Sky' - an ode to her homeland, and a place that dwells within her heart. This was also the year that she published 'Let the Rain Fall' which was sung by the talented Jack Casey. Later that year Sharmaine would write her first book, 'From Tears to Triumph', and record an audio CD of poetry, prose and devotionals, fulfilling a lifelong dream. Sharmaine is now an integral part of SparkleMoon Publishing, of which she is thrilled. Sharmaine also published 'George's World, Where is my Dad?' in 2018, the first in a series of a young boy who grows into a teen and faces many challenges. Dr Sharmaine Anna Dobson, has a Masters in Counselling and is immersed both in Counselling and in Ministry, as the Lord allows. She has a wonderful husband, Dr George Dobson, and two great children, Anthony and Kerry-Lee. Sharmaine has several wonderful grandchildren, who light up her life!

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Barbara Docherty is a retired registered nurse with a Masters degree (First Class Honours) and a Post Graduate Diploma in Health Science. She was a general practice nurse, an honorary clinical lecturer at the University of Auckland and from 1998 to 2007 led the World Health Organization TADS (tobacco, alcohol and other drugs) training programme.

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Leah Dodd lives in Poneke. Her poetry has appeared in Starling, Stasis, Mayhem, Sweet Mammalian and The Spinoff. In 2021 she won the Biggs Family Poetry Prize from the International Institute of Modern Letters at Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington.

Lynley Dodd graduated from the Elam School of Art in Auckland with a diploma in Fine Arts, majoring in sculpture. She went on to teach art before taking a break to start a family. She began to work as a freelance illustrator and collaborated with author Eve Sutton on My Cat Likes To Hide in Boxes. There was no looking back as Lynley went on to write and illustrate her own books for children. Exuberant artwork and bouncy rhymes come together perfectly in books like Slinky Malinki and Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy. As well as being a visual delight, these are some of the most rewarding books for children and adults to read out loud. It comes as no surprise that, as a child, she adored Dr Seuss because of his 'crazy sounds and the fact that he took such liberties with the English language.' Other favourite authors included A A Milne and the fairy tales of The Grimm Brothers and Hans Christian Andersen. Today, Lynley is a big fan of Quentin Blake 'because of his humour and very clever art work.'

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