This week’s small pleasures #424

This week’s small pleasures post is coming to you on Sunday evening as tomorrow I am off for a cataract … More

Wining and dining in Hawke’s Bay

If you enjoy good food and wine, Hawke’s Bay is the place to go. There are excellent restaurants, interesting shopping, … More

December rolls on, and it is only 2 weeks until Christmas. The herring has arrived (including the correct fish for … More

So the shortest day has now passed for us in the Southern Hemisphere, and the days will gradually begin to … More

If we were having coffee…or even a cup of tea… we would talk about the year past and the year … More

It has been a glorious, sunny day today, a proper summer day – unlike yesterday’s rain and wind. The pōhutukawa are … More

What a week it has been….full of highs and lows, of finds and packing bags and bags of things we … More

No doubt many of you will have seen pictures of the dreadful flooding up north in Auckland. There are red … More

As 2023 fast approaches, rather than do a retrospective of 2022 (I got Covid, ate out at nice restaurants etc), … More

On Saturday afternoon, we headed over to Beervana. Now in its 21st year, Beervana started as the New Zealand Beer, Wine … More