Sunshine, rhubarb and muffins again

This week I read a really lovely piece in The New Yorker on food in literature, about the joy of … More

Sun, rain and eating out

I’m sitting here drinking some green tea with lemon and ginger and watching (and listening) to heavy rain falling. It … More

Friday was my birthday, and although it was grey and rainy and I had to go to work, it was … More

It’s now Sunday, and we are having a bit of a lazy morning before heading out for some food shopping … More

Now I work full time, lunchtimes are a little oasis in the middle of the day. Most days, I take … More

Here are Cee’s Share Your World questions for this week. We are expecting a rather wet and windy night, so … More

You know that winter is coming in New Zealand when the price of tomatoes goes up. According to Statistics New … More

I mentioned in my last post that one of the things I was looking forward to this week was going … More

Last weekend’s bad weather meant a lot of time spent indoors. This meant I got in a cooking and baking … More

Saturday, as I mentioned in my last post, was Anzac Day, and I have to confess that we failed to … More