This week’s small pleasures #436

It is Easter Monday, and of course a holiday here. The ex-tropical cyclone (those with Scottish connections will laugh at…

What’s on your bookshelf: April

It seems like yesterday I was writing my last what’s on your bookshelf? post, yet here we are again, midway…

We’ll start today’s post with the good news that I don’t need to wear the moon boot any more. Of…

Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall. The above quote from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The…

It has been ages since I did a SoS post – in fact it was 14 December last year. What…

For this month’s cook book club we turn to Greece. I have only ever been to Athens and Thessaloniki airports…

With the clocks going back this weekend, autumnal days are well and truly here. It hasn’t turned cold yet, but…

We took Friday off and drove over the Remutaka Hills for a couple of nights away in Greytown. For some…

Wednesday, as regular readers will know, is a a non-working day for me. It is a day to catch up,…

As we move to shorter days and our thoughts turn to autumn and the winter ahead, I am reminded that…