This week’s small pleasures #445

Mānawa maiea te putanga o Matariki.Mānawa maiea te ariki o te rangi.Mānawa maiea te Mātahi o te tau. Celebrate the … More

What’s on my plate: July

As we were away for the weekend, and with yesterday being my last French lesson of this term, (when dinner … More

So the shortest day has now passed for us in the Southern Hemisphere, and the days will gradually begin to … More

I grew up watching the sci-fi series Dr Who, and while I had no desire ever to meet Daleks or … More

The week began with our return to Wellington, a couple of nights in a hotel, then moving back to the … More

Greetings from New Zealand! Yes we are back…still a bit jet lagged having arrived back on Sunday afternoon (and it … More

It really feels like we are edging towards winter. It is darker in the morning as I head off to … More

If you saw Monday’s post, you would have seen that Sunday was my birthday. I really celebrated in style this … More

We are now in July, which happens to be my birthday month. When I was a child growing up in … More

On a chilly winter Sunday evening, we headed down to Daisy’s restaurant in Thorndon, to celebrate Karl’s birthday a day … More