This week’s small pleasures: the Boxing Day edition

After lots of food on Christmas Eve, and more food yesterday, it was just as well we took a walk … More

The Kiwi Christmas tree: blogmas 22 December

If you’ve ever had a Christmas card from New Zealand, it may well have had a picture of some bright, … More

Wellington, December 2016 Hi everyone So here we are at another year, and what a year 2016 has been. From … More

The Secret Santa – a possible minefield or a possible surprising treat. If you don’t know what a Secret Santa … More

Phew! It is Friday! I was up in Auckland yesterday and today on a work trip, and am not long … More

The first Sunday of December is the day of the Thorndon Fair, which takes place (obviously!) in Thorndon, one of … More

I can’t believe that we have reached December, the start of summer for us in the southern hemisphere, and a … More

And so here we are at another round of this week’s small pleasures, a day early as tomorrow I know … More

If we were having coffee…or even a cup of tea we would be talking about the earthquakes, about where we … More

I had started this post, yesterday, Sunday, but New Zealand has been hit by a series of earthquake so don’t … More