Six on Saturday 11.03.23

What a lovely sunny day it has been! It was a bit too warm to garden out the front of…

Charlie, our Magical Mr Mistoffelees

As regular readers know, we lost our little black Charlie recently. He was, like all cats, quite a character, bossy,…

What with one thing and another, the week was one of highs and lows: hearing from friends I hadn’t heard…

Autumn is here. February saw parts of the North Island receive 400% of the normal rainfall, and Napier had its…

I love pasta. Whenever I get a new cook book, it is highly likely that the first thing I will…

Here we are at the end of February already, and what a month it has been for New Zealand with…

As the clean up after Cyclone Gabrielle continues (with more rain falling there over night, and a tornado hitting Waihi…

If we were having coffee…or even a cup of tea…we would say how nice it was to catch up after…

What a week…I’ve already mentioned Cyclone Gabrielle and the devastation it caused in Saturday’s post. Thousands are still unaccounted for,…

I’m typing this listening to very loud cicadas and looking out on a sunny, summer day, just as I should…