Christmas: sunshine, ham and a walk

So here we are on Boxing Day, sitting in the sunshine having just Skyped my family in the USA, and … More

Swans, sausage and Saturday: a weekend in Melbourne part 3

As Friday evening approached, we decided to head out early with the hope of getting a table at a restaurant … More

I didn’t manage Cee’s Challenge last week, but here we are this week, counting down to the end of the … More

If we were having a coffee, or even a cup of tea, on this Sunday afternoon we would be discussing … More

It’s Halloween today, a festival that originally marked the start of darker nights and the approach to winter and which … More

A couple of days later than usual as I was up in Hamilton again and this is the first chance … More

Given that it is Saturday evening, it is more likely we’d be having a glass of wine rather than a … More

Spring is the time of plans and projects so they say (actually, I think it was Tolstoy?), and although part … More

So here we are at another Cee’s Challenge. The weather here is lovely and sunny and it really feels like … More

Sunday was a lovely, sunny, spring day, and with Karl up early to head over to Canberra, I had the … More