A long weekend in Melbourne (part 2)

We have lost Internet connection, so using data from my phone and my iPad today, so a brief post for … More

This week’s small pleasures #322 or a long weekend in Melbourne part 1

This week’s small pleasures post comes to you from Melbourne, where we have just spent a lovely long weekend. We … More

As I won’t be participating in Six on Saturday hosted by Jim over at Garden Ruminations, I thought I’d take … More

Usually I have an idea of what I want to write about on Mondays when I think about the good … More

It is still so humid here in Wellington, with days of still, sticky weather and mostly cloudy skies. Parts of … More

After seeing Ottolenghi in conversation on Friday last week, I had to feature one of his recipes in this months … More

No doubt many of you will have seen pictures of the dreadful flooding up north in Auckland. There are red … More

Everything is looking kind of sad out in the garden just now, even the things that are doing well. It … More

If we were having coffee…or even a cup of tea…we would agree it has been ages since we sat down … More

Today is the Wellington Anniversary Holiday and it kind of marks the end of holidays and the start of the … More