This week’s small pleasures #419

It is nearly Christmas, and we are all ready to get cooking tomorrow for our Christmas Eve feast. The meatball … More

This week’s small pleasures #341

This week has been about enjoying summer – long days of sunshine and blue skies, catching up with friends, eating … More

The sky is blue, the sun is shining and we are being woken each morning with a loud dawn chorus. … More

Summer continues, with more sunny days, blue skies…and the odd bits of rain, which is of course great for the … More

Today is Waitangi Day, the national day of New Zealand. It marks the anniversary of the initial signing of the … More

It is hard to believe it is already half way through January already. Holidays seem far away and the daily … More

You know what it is like when you go on holiday, you either come back to a garden decimated by … More

The second half of Wellington on a Plate is given over to Burger Wellington, a veritable festival of all things … More

If we were having coffee…or even a cup of tea…we would, naturally, talk about the weather, about the cold, crisp … More

This past week saw both a trip up to Napier (see Thursday’s post about wine tasting and my next post … More