A New Year

New Zealand is one of the first countries to welcome in the new year, so for us, all the festivities … More

Favourites: Watching, Listening, Reading December and 2017

So here we are at the end of the year, with a final round up of a month’s media consumption … More

Hi everyone and hope you all had a fantastic Christmas. Our Christmas Eve was full of cheer and food, our … More

It’s the summer solstice, the longest day here in the Southern Hemisphere. It was a beautiful start to the day … More

This is a reblogged post from Blogmas 2016. If you’ve ever had a Christmas card from New Zealand, it may … More

Here we are at what will probably be the last small pleasures post of the year. Next Monday is Christmas … More

For those of us ‘down under’, Christmas marks the start of summer holidays, of long days hopefully in the sun, … More

With having done a blog post every day this week, picking out particular things as small pleasures that I haven’t … More

Welcome to Thistles and Kiwis Blogmas 2017! Being in the Southern Hemisphere, Christmas is in the summer, so no big … More

If we were having a coffee…or even a cup of tea