A parade, a memorial and some shaky moments

I’m writing this on Anzac Day, which this year also marks 100 years of the New Zealand and Australian troops…

Share Your World: Week 16

And so to this week’s Cee’s Share Your World challenge What are your favorite spices? Easy – cinnamon and nutmeg. …

Some of you may have seen the fuss in the media this week about Gwyneth Paltrow’s attempt to live off…

Friday was Poppy Day, the day we in New Zealand buy our poppies prior to Anzac Day. This year marks…

This post is part of the monthly blogging event Love My City, where bloggers share hidden gems and places worth…

The weather brightened up at the weekend, with some sunshine, though late Sunday the weather turned and we had quite…

With early autumn, comes a new wave of fruits and vegetables. Apples, beans, capsicum (peppers), pears, passion fruit, pumpkin and…

It has been a really wet week here, with lots of rain, even though it is still warm outside. If…

I’m a bit late this week with Cee’s Challenge as I was busy yesterday evening, at a pub quiz to…

We spent Easter Sunday in quite a different way to usual, by setting off first thing in the morning from…