Flowers on Friday

Another wordless post to showcase flowers rather than trees that I have seen this week my daily walks. Or, to … More

Wordless Wednesday: Trees

For this week’s Wordless Wednesday post, the focus is on trees. To be precise, trees in autumn in the Botanic … More

At 4pm today, the Prime Minister announced a staggered move to alert level 2. Retail, restaurants, cinema (and best of … More

After a very wet start to the week, sunshine returned, with bright, blue autumn skies returning to cheer up our … More

I’ll be honest and say I have a love/hate relationship with apples. On one hand, nothing beats the crunch of … More

I think I have had enough of lockdown. On Saturday afternoon, I decided that the new routine of baking, Pilates … More

It is May already, and the days are growing shorter, the nights longer. It has been such a strange year, … More

Yet a pear may only be at its point of perfection for a day or two, the slide into over-ripeness … More

It is a grey and wet Monday today. It is also a public holiday, for with Anzac Day falling on … More

In New Zealand and Australia it is Anzac Day. But this year there were no dawn services: the first time … More