Over the sea to Sydney

I’m sitting here in a hotel room in Sydney, where we have come for a few days holiday after the … More

The Kiwi Christmas tree: blogmas 22 December

If you’ve ever had a Christmas card from New Zealand, it may well have had a picture of some bright, … More

Wellington, December 2016 Hi everyone So here we are at another year, and what a year 2016 has been. From … More

There are Christmas traditions and then there are those other Christmas traditions. Every year since 1966, a 13m Yulbocken or … More

If we were having coffee…or even a cup of tea we would be talking about the earthquakes, about where we … More

I had started this post, yesterday, Sunday, but New Zealand has been hit by a series of earthquake so don’t … More

This week I was back up in Hawke’s Bay on a work trip. The weather was mostly sunny, mostly warm, … More

I was browsing some blogs I follow, and was intrigued by a post that A Day In The Life had … More

When we were up in Napier at the weekend, we felt we had to take the chance to sample some … More

It’s been ages since we last took a weekend trip away, so it was lovely to escape the awful weather … More