This week’s small pleasures #397

Can I really have caught another cold? I certainly haven’t been feeling 100%, and slept for 9 hours (!) on … More

What’s been on my calendar: May #WBOYC

Here we are at the last day of May, the last day of autumn and almost half way through the … More

Talofa lava! Yes – this week is Samoan Language Week here in New Zealand. Samoan is the third most spoken … More

The rain began yesterday, heavy rain lasting most of the night and early morning. And then at Pilates this morning, … More

We woke up this morning to see frost on the roof of the house next door, and an icy feel … More

You wouldn’t think from the featured image at the top of the post and that below, taken at lunch time … More

Today, Monday, is the Wellington Anniversary holiday, so after two days back at work for me, a long weekend was … More

Early on Tuesday morning (6am in fact…) we flew up to Auckland and then on to Noumea, the capital of … More

Tuesday: one minute, I am sitting outside eating my lunch, the next, the skies have turned almost black, the rain … More

So it’s summer! Well, almost…December can be nice or still have very mixed weather, and at the moment it is … More