Greetings from a sunny Wellington for this, the last SoS of 2019. Everything in the garden is growing, some things…
Highlights of 2019 Part 1: books, films and podcasts
The other week, a friend asked me to list my ten favourite books. The first five came to me easily,…
The three days of Christmas…
I’m sitting here on Boxing Day evening, having returned from Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, enjoyed some leftovers for…
This week’s small pleasures #171
Here we are again with a round up of this week’s small pleasures, the last one before Christmas. It is…
Six on Saturday 21.12 19
Here we are with the last SoS post before Christmas. The sun is shining, and it feels like summer today,…
If we were having coffee…or even a cup of tea…
If we were having coffee…or even a cup of tea…we would decide from the outset to avoid politics. Instead, we…
This week’s small pleasures #170
Some weeks are full of small pleasures, others are quite the opposite. What with the news stories around the Whakaari/White…
Six on Saturday 14.12 19
Here we are – Saturday again. As the focus of this post is on what is happening in our gardens,…
Wordless Wednesday
Wordless Wednesday this week takes you on part of my lunch time walk when working at home. A time to…
This week’s small pleasures #169
What a week….politics in various guises, the Australian fires, Samoa virtually closing down due to the measles epidemic, and rain,…