This week’s small pleasures #329

The clocks have gone back, autumn is here, and as they say in the country I grew up in, the … More

This week’s small pleasures #328

It’s Monday evening here in New Zealand. The days are definitely getting shorter, with darker mornings making it just a … More

It really feels like that transition period between summer and autumn. The mornings are darker, the Japanese anemones are in … More

Some weeks pass with very little happening, while others are full of things that before you know it, you realise … More

What with one thing and another, the week was one of highs and lows: hearing from friends I hadn’t heard … More

Here we are at the end of February already, and what a month it has been for New Zealand with … More

What a week…I’ve already mentioned Cyclone Gabrielle and the devastation it caused in Saturday’s post. Thousands are still unaccounted for, … More

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

Today is the Wellington Anniversary Holiday and it kind of marks the end of holidays and the start of the … More

Where have the holidays gone? I can’t believe I am going back to work on Thursday – the past few … More