Another month, another look at what has been on my, and other’s bookshelves. The what’s on your bookshelf challenge is hosted by…
This week’s small pleasures #326
Some weeks pass with very little happening, while others are full of things that before you know it, you realise…
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,…
This week’s small pleasures #325
What with one thing and another, the week was one of highs and lows: hearing from friends I hadn’t heard…
Six on Saturday 04.03.23
Autumn is here. February saw parts of the North Island receive 400% of the normal rainfall, and Napier had its…
What’s on your plate: March
I love pasta. Whenever I get a new cook book, it is highly likely that the first thing I will…
This week’s small pleasures #324
Here we are at the end of February already, and what a month it has been for New Zealand with…
Six on Saturday 25.02.23
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…
If we were having coffee…or even a cup of tea…we would say how nice it was to catch up after…