If we were having coffee…

…we would be sitting outside on the terrace again, and I’d be sipping green tea with jasmine. I would tell … More

Purple, red and green

It is so nice to come home from work, sit outside, put my feet up and catch up on things … More

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

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

Yesterday, Friday, was our 11th wedding anniversary. It also means it is 11 years since I left Scotland and 2 … More

‘After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations’, wrote Oscar Wilde in ‘A Woman of no … More

Thanks to Facebook, I’ve been reminded that it was exactly three years ago that we first came to Wellington for … More

This weekend, I went up to Auckland to visit friends and to go to see The Royal New Zealand Ballet’s … More

To celebrate the start of spring, a new occasional series on what I’ve been watching, listening and reading in the … More

Yes, a nice healthy blog post title this time around! Wellingtonians can probably relate a bit to this given that … More