Blogmas 2017 Day 17: A Christmas tag and third Sunday in Advent

Quite a few bloggers are doing the Christmas tag from Life With Fernie, so I thought I might have a … More

Blogmas Day 15: Summer days

For those of us ‘down under’, Christmas marks the start of summer holidays, of long days hopefully in the sun, … More

Last year I notice I did a ‘bah humbug’ post, while in an hotel in Auckland. This year’s equivalent is … More

Last year, I wrote about how one of the biggest thrills of childhood Christmases was the stocking at the end … More

So here we are at the end of week 1 of Blogmas and Christmas only a couple of weeks away. … More

Saturday ended with some positive news, and as life goes on, so too must blogmas for this year. Today, Sunday, … More

I got some bad news this morning, which has kind of altered what I was going to write today. It … More

Welcome to Thistles and Kiwis Blogmas 2017! Being in the Southern Hemisphere, Christmas is in the summer, so no big … More

So here we are again with a round up of a few small pleasures of the week. I talked about … More

The daily walk just now is punctuated by early sunlight shining through the leaves of the trees, of the sounds of birds, and by new sights each day.