Air supply: A trans-Tasman couple is revelling in the oxygen-infused atmosphere of their Crown Range home

摘要

FAITHFUL WIFE WILL take no lovers." The sign leaning up outside the Rookes' front door was commissioned by the last emperor of China for his wife (a wife, by the by, who used to call her husband "eunuch"). When Pip Rooke found this relic of conjugal strife for sale in China, she just had to have it. The sign now presides over the home she shares with her husband Greg in the lofty reaches of the Crown Range, the mountains that lie between Queenstown and Wanaka.