Cakes, flowers and spring is in the air

Spring is definitely in the air.  It was 16C today and the sun was shining, and as well as our…

More quakes, more shakes and a beef and mustard pie

On Friday afternoon we experienced another big earthquake, this time 6.6.  We were at work, so I ducked under my…

6 Things: Reading Matter

It has been a while since I have done a Six Things post, so here we go!  The theme is…

Tastings, tangelos and tasty treats

The weekend seemed to fly by, and hard to believe that here we are at Monday again and the start…

Wine, beer and tea

I am sitting on the bean bag in the upstairs living room listening to Rachmaninov and drinking rooibos tea with…

Stomp, sausages and scrambled eggs

Well, it was more or less back to normal in terms of work, and catching up on things post quake. …

Sunshine, scenery and friands

It was quite a strange week, what with us not being able to go to work, or at least, not…

Shakes, quakes and cakes

Well, this post was going to be about what we did at the weekend, but events took over with an…

A cat, two tuataras and some swans

I came up with the title for this post in the shower this morning, before I experienced my first earthquake…

A storm, a quiche and a rose

The weekend saw more wild and windy weather here in Wellington, with gale force winds and lots of rain.  I…