Spring is the time of plans and projects so they say (actually, I think it was Tolstoy?), and although part…
Cee’s Challenge: Week 39
So here we are at another Cee’s Challenge. The weather here is lovely and sunny and it really feels like…
Sunday: morning, noon and night
Sunday was a lovely, sunny, spring day, and with Karl up early to head over to Canberra, I had the…
Watching, listening, reading: September
So here we are almost at the end of September and another round of what I’ve been watching, listening to…
An anniversary, a desert and a nice evening
Yesterday, Friday, was our 11th wedding anniversary. It also means it is 11 years since I left Scotland and 2…
Pilates, pilates and pilates
When we were planning to move to New Zealand, I spent a considerable amount of time looking for a good…
Cee’s Challenge: Week 38
It’s cold and wet in Wellington, not at all like spring, though the flowers are out and the birds definitely…
Roast, rain and inescapable rugby
‘After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations’, wrote Oscar Wilde in ‘A Woman of no…
When life gives you lemons…make a cake
There are several expressions I can’t stand – one being ‘when life gives you lemons….’. There’s just something so dreadfully…
3 reds: a fruit, a vegetable and a flower
I just can’t seem to get rid of this cold. No amount of appropriate liquids, rest, acupuncture, inhalations or even…
Thistles and Kiwis 