An anniversary, a desert and a nice evening

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

Roast, rain and inescapable rugby

‘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

After a grey start to the week, the weather picked up, and as we know, nothing beats Wellington on a … More

Here we are already at Week 34 and another challenge from Cee. Was school easy or difficult for you? How … More

We are just home from a lovely relaxing weekend over the Rimutaka Hills in Martinborough, where, as regular readers will … More

I have absolutely no idea where this week has gone. Here we are at Friday again with the weekend ahead. … More