This week’s small pleasures #108

Well, what with feeling rotten for a good part of the week, the small pleasures have very much been based … More

That was the week…..that was

It’s Friday evening, the skies are grey, it is cold outside, but inside there is the lovely smell of cooking … More

Here we are again, with the 101st small pleasures post! I feel I ought to celebrate or something….anyway, here we … More

It is horrible feeling under the weather, lacking in energy and preferring the sofa to anywhere else. Anyway, I walked … More

Returning to a city where you used to live is a little strange. Not your home town, but somewhere you … More

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

As Sunday draws slowly to a close, with dinner preparations ahead, followed by curling up on the sofa, it’s time … More

It’s been one of those slow weeks, with nothing much to report. I was off work, sick, on Monday, and … More

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