This week’s small pleasures #196

It was a week in which we had a lot of rain…and I mean a lot of rain. The skies…

Six on Saturday Midwinter 2020

Today is midsummer in the northern hemisphere. and today is the big Swedish midsummer celebrations. For us of course it…

It is a grey and wet Monday and I went back to work at the office today, so it is…

Well, things are getting back to ‘normal’ here in New Zealand as I mentioned in my post yesterday. Shops are…

If we were having coffee…or even a cup of tea…we would be celebrating the fact that we are now at…

For this week’s Wordless Wednesday, a display of orchids as seen in the Begonia House at the Lady Norwood Rose…

At 3pm this afternoon, the Prime Minister announced that New Zealand is moving to Level 1 from midnight tonight. There…

Oh you can really feel it is winter! The nights and early mornings are really quite chilly these days, and…

For this week’s Wordless Wednesday, pictures from a walk in the Botanic Gardens on Friday. It was a bit overcast,…

It is the first day of June, the Queen’s Birthday holiday here in New Zealand (complete with a 21 gun salute at noon) and also the start of winter.