This week’s small pleasures #190

At 4pm today, the Prime Minister announced a staggered move to alert level 2. Retail, restaurants, cinema (and best of…

Six on Saturday 09.05.20

After a very wet start to the week, sunshine returned, with bright, blue autumn skies returning to cheer up our…

I’ll be honest and say I have a love/hate relationship with apples. On one hand, nothing beats the crunch of…

I think I have had enough of lockdown. On Saturday afternoon, I decided that the new routine of baking, Pilates…

It is May already, and the days are growing shorter, the nights longer. It has been such a strange year,…

Yet a pear may only be at its point of perfection for a day or two, the slide into over-ripeness…

It is a grey and wet Monday today. It is also a public holiday, for with Anzac Day falling on…

In New Zealand and Australia it is Anzac Day. But this year there were no dawn services: the first time…

If we were having coffee…or even a cup of tea…it would, of course, not be face to face. I would…

It is autumn, and we have had some lovely sunny days for lovely walks in the Botanic Gardens. Again. I…