This week’s small pleasures #329

The clocks have gone back, autumn is here, and as they say in the country I grew up in, the … More

This week’s small pleasures #327

It really feels like that transition period between summer and autumn. The mornings are darker, the Japanese anemones are in … More

Some weeks pass with very little happening, while others are full of things that before you know it, you realise … More

What with one thing and another, the week was one of highs and lows: hearing from friends I hadn’t heard … More

Here we are at the end of February already, and what a month it has been for New Zealand with … More

Usually I have an idea of what I want to write about on Mondays when I think about the good … More

Today is the Wellington Anniversary Holiday and it kind of marks the end of holidays and the start of the … More

It has been another glorious sunny day today with blue skies and sunshine – something that always makes me smile … More

It isn’t long to Christmas now, and our guests from Sweden arrive tomorrow (Tuesday). We are now on holiday from … More

Yesterday, Sunday, was the first Sunday in Advent, and we got out our candles and lit the first one to … More