What’s on your plate: June

Deciding what to cook and eat on a daily basis can sometimes be a bit of a challenge as I … More

This week’s small pleasures #390

Today is the King’s Birthday public holiday here in New Zealand. The sun came out in the afternoon, and lit … More

Here we are at the last day of May, the last day of autumn and almost half way through the … More

If we were having coffee…or even a cup of tea…we would talk about baking, about this fantastic seasonally appropriate apple … More

Talofa lava! Yes – this week is Samoan Language Week here in New Zealand. Samoan is the third most spoken … More

The rain began yesterday, heavy rain lasting most of the night and early morning. And then at Pilates this morning, … More

After a week of really not feeling good at all, I feel I am finally getting over what ever bug … More

I’ve been missing from SoS for a month, due to not having anything much to report and the fact that … More

So it is time again for a review of the month’s reading, a post to contribute to the what’s on your … More

The world is full of recipes – they spill out of shelves in bookshops, magazines devote pages to them, they … More