This week’s small pleasures #274

You can really feel autumn is here with darker mornings and a slight chill in the air. We have still…

Six on Saturday 12.03.22

After many days of glorious sunshine, this morning was a little overcast with a very slight drizzle – the sort…

We use our senses every day, not always aware of what we are touching, seeing, hearing, smelling or tasting. Sometimes…

It’s Monday evening here in Wellington. We are sitting enjoying the aroma of chicken cooking in the oven (Diana Henry’s…

The sun is shining, the cicadas are singing and the garden is looking a little shaggy in that end of…

If we were having coffee…or even a cup of tea…we would be drinking mugs of Earl Grey tea and eating…

Where to start about this past week? Covid cases on the rise in New Zealand, the squatters are still at…

I thought about how to start this post, but Six on Saturday is a blog theme about gardening, and not…

When I first heard of the concept of ‘word of the year’, I thought what a great idea, and decided…

The protesters outside Parliament have now been there for two weeks and show no sign of moving. Their behaviour is…