This week’s small pleasures #421

So here we are, the first few days of January already gone. The weather has been atrocious most of the…

Bringing in the new

The first and second of January are public holidays here in New Zealand. Lots of places are closed, things are…

This past week of course included Christmas, a time of much feasting and spending time with friends. Books have been…

If we were having coffee…or even a cup of tea…we would wish each other season’s greetings, talk about how we…

It is nearly Christmas, and we are all ready to get cooking tomorrow for our Christmas Eve feast. The meatball…

So it is that time of year when I look back and consider what my favourite books of the year…

Christmas cooking is so easy in this household. We celebrate Christmas Eve, as does most of Europe, and while Poland…

Iti te kupu,nui te whakaaro This whakataukī or proverb means ‘a small thing can mean a lot’, is something I…

It has been a while since I did a SoS post. There hasn’t been a lot to report, I have…

Today’s post is a bit of a mishmash of things seen recently in and around the city, just things I…