This week’s small pleasures #299

This week’s small pleasures is coming to you from Vancouver, where I am on a family visit. It is the…

Six on Saturday 03.09.22

Before I left Wellington on Wednesday (local time), I took these pictures of the daffodils filling up our little space…

We all need a dish that looks exotic and fancy but is, in fact, so simple anyone could make it.…

We are nearing the end of August, nearing the end of winter and heading towards spring – at least for…

Anybody want any rain? Happy to send you some. Yes, we have had more rain, but we have also had…

On Saturday afternoon, we headed over to Beervana. Now in its 21st year, Beervana started as the New Zealand Beer, Wine…

The days seem to be flying past. We are well into the second half of August, which means proper spring…

Can it actually be raining again? Yes it can, with floods in Nelson and other parts of the country. It…

There is a bit of a mixed bag on this month’s bookshelf. It was also a month where I had…

When I start to put my weekly list of small pleasures together, I often forget those little things that bring…