This Week’s Small Pleasures: episode 4

It’s Monday, not usually a day of joy, so a good opportunity to look back at this week’s small pleasures.

1  These flowers I bought on Friday – gorgeous water lilies that open in the day and close at night.

Stunning blooms

2  With autumn approaching, summer fruits are being replaced by pears, apples and early feijoas.  It is so nice to walk into a shop and have a choice of six different types of pears.  I made an apple crumble for desert on Sunday to use up some of the apples in the fruit bowl.

Bosc pears

3  A work trip to New Plymouth could almost count as a small pleasure, given it was a lovely sunny day and it is one of my favourite places.

The Govett-Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth

4  The birth of my great niece, Claire Bridget.  Her middle name is after my mother.

5  Saturday’s afternoon tea as I wrote about in my last post was also a small pleasure.

Saturday tea

6  Just the simple pleasure of walking to and from work through the Botanic Gardens can sometimes be enough to clear the head and blow away the cobwebs.

View of Wellington from the top of the cable car

Thanks to A New Life Wandering for the idea