June 2021 was the hottest on record here in New Zealand. The average temperature for the month was 2C above…
What’s on my plate? Spiced apple cake
Nothing is better than the small of baking filling the air on a winter’s day. With the excuse that it…
This week’s small pleasures #240
This week began cold and wet, and ended sunny and bright – still chilly, but the sort of weather a…
A seat at the table: Noble Rot Wine Bar
It is time for another post in the occasional series about eating out. It was my birthday on Saturday as…
Six on Saturday 03.07.21
Hello from a what has been lovely, sunny Wellington and on my birthday too! Yes, another year has gone by since the last one. Can I also suggest you look at the date? 3 x 7 = 21. How about that? Or is it just me that thought about it?
Words on Wednesday: reading, watching, listening
I don’t know about you, but I find it hard to believe we are half way through the year already.…
This week’s small pleasures #239
In a week that saw Wellington go back up to Covid Alert Level 2 (extended on Sunday for another 48 hours), closure of the Trans Tasman bubble for a few days, and lots of rain, it has been even more important to think about the small pleasures in life.
Six on Saturday 26.06.21
Oh what a miserable, grey and wet day it is here! Not a day to be out and gardening, or even taking photos for the blog. At least we heard there were no more community cases of Covid-19 after last week’s scare. Keep you fingers crossed for us that it stays like that!
Wednesday in Wellington
A man flew from Sydney to Wellington on Friday evening, local time. He went to his hotel, enjoyed breakfast at a cafe in town, lunch at another one, visited exhibitions, went shopping, enjoyed a drink in a bar. After returning to Sydney on Monday morning, he went for a Covid-19 test which returned positive (he had had his first dose of vaccine).
This week’s small pleasures #238
Originally posted on Thistles and Kiwis:
This week’s small pleasures should be subtitled ‘the Auckland edition’ because the focus this week is…
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