This week’s small pleasures #366

It has been a glorious, sunny day today, a proper summer day – unlike yesterday’s rain and wind. The pōhutukawa are…

Six on Saturday 16.12.23

Tuesday: one minute, I am sitting outside eating my lunch, the next, the skies have turned almost black, the rain…

On Tuesday evening, the book club I am part of met for Christmas drinks and dinner, and the theme this…

Today (Monday) has been a glorious sunny day – if a little windy – perfect laundry drying weather. The bright…

A few weeks ago I bought Tilly Pamment’s The Plain Cake Appreciation Society which I mentioned in last month’s book…

It is hard to believe it is already December, and that it is only 3 weeks until Christmas Eve. Sunday…

So it’s summer! Well, almost…December can be nice or still have very mixed weather, and at the moment it is…

If we were having coffee…or even a cup of tea…we would be enjoying a cup of Earl Grey blue flower…

After a not too good start to the week where I was not feeling at my best, I gradually began…

Regular readers will know how much I enjoy food. Eating, reading about it, cooking, listening to podcasts, watching YouTube demonstrations…