This week’s small pleasures #204

This week’s small pleasures comes to you on the first day of my ‘staycation’. I’m taking a week off work … More

This week’s small pleasures #193

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.

If we were having coffee…or even a cup of tea…we would actually be meeting in person for the first time … More

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

Another week in lockdown. New Zealand has a 4-level COVID-19 alert system, with each alert level telling the public what … More

I used to write a monthly round-up of things I had read, watched and listened to, but I found I … More

If we were having coffee…or even a cup of tea…or most likely a glass of wine…we would be sitting outside … More

Here we are already into the middle of February – hard to believe. It is Monday and therefore time for … More

“You read and read the material and after you’ve read the twentieth article you can’t make any sense out of … More

If we were having coffee…or even a cup of tea…we would be sitting outside enjoying the summer weather. We would … More