Christmas Eve: blogmas 24 December

I’ve made it! I’ve finished the blogmas challenge. Here we are on Christmas Eve, time to spread the table with … More

This week’s small pleasures: blogmas 12 December

It’s Monday evening here in New Zealand, so time for the weekly small pleasures post with a slightly Christmas theme. … More

Not that I really need an excuse to spend time in the kitchen baking, but a forthcoming bake sale at … More

So here we are again with a round up of this week’s small pleasures. Thanks to Mani over at A … More

Here we are on Monday evening, and time to look back at this week’s small pleasures. Thanks once again to … More

Among the headlines in the British press when I woke on Wednesday morning, was the story that BBC Food, a … More

Sunday morning should be a chance to lie in and start the day slowly. Not so this Sunday as it … More

Today in New Zealand and Australia it is Anzac Day, the day on which these two nations remember all those … More

The house is full of the smell of baking, the sun is shining, the last of the cicadas are singing … More