This week’s small pleasures #432

Can you believe we are almost at the end of March? I certainly can’t. The mornings are getting darker, evenings … More

Cook Book Club: March

Autumn is here in the Southern Hemisphere, although to be honest, we have had better weather recently than we did … More

Wednesday morning dawned, with the knowledge that the day is a non-working day. A slow breakfast, a load of laundry … More

Here we are in the middle of February already. Melodifestivalen is on in Sweden (just catching up on Saturday’s heat … More

If we were having coffee…or even a cup of tea…you would ask me about the cataract operation. I would say … More

This week’s small pleasures post is coming to you on Sunday evening as tomorrow I am off for a cataract … More

If you enjoy good food and wine, Hawke’s Bay is the place to go. There are excellent restaurants, interesting shopping, … More

With summer produce coming into the shop, the food we are eating is shifting to tomatoes, capsicum, asparagus and crisp … More

What a week! Days in Perth, a new city for us, travel issues, a dance performance, dinners out and a … More

If we were having coffee…or even a cup of tea…we would talk about th recent trip to Perth, about how … More