Six on Saturday 16.07.22

We have been released from isolation, but the recovery from Covid carries on. With sunny weather forecast for tomorrow again, … More

What’s on your bookshelf #12

I’m sitting writing this having not long tested ‘weak positive’ for Covid which I regard as a big step forward … More

As you may have seen in Saturday’s post, we are now a household in isolation thanks to Covid. So I … More

Eugh…I have succumbed to the dreaded spicy flu aka Covid. So we are now in isolation for 7 days, and … More

If you saw Monday’s post, you would have seen that Sunday was my birthday. I really celebrated in style this … More

We are now in July, which happens to be my birthday month. When I was a child growing up in … More

July is here, the shortest day has come and gone, and today it finally felt like winter this morning. I … More

This past week has seen Matariki, Swedish Midsummer and some world events that don’t belong in a small pleasures post. … More

Yesterday in New Zealand, Matariki was celebrated for the first time as a national public holiday. Matariki signals the start of … More

On a chilly winter Sunday evening, we headed down to Daisy’s restaurant in Thorndon, to celebrate Karl’s birthday a day … More