There’s been a loud ticking sound around the place in the last week. Â No, it’s not the cicadas arriving early but the sound of jobs being ticked off the list. Â Well, I confess, it’s actually writing being smudged off the chalk board but I like the... 
With a taste that can be as sharp as their thorns gooseberries are not to everyone’s liking. I love the  crisp bite and piquant flavour that livens the palette whether you eat them straight from the bush or wrap them in a luxurious blanket of cream and sugar.... 
As my bones creak and muscles ache I can only imagine this is how Sisyphus would have felt on his quest to push a boulder up a hill. Whilst much of the rest of New Zealand heads to the beach, the lakes or the mountains we stay at home and make our annual effort to... I don’t know about you but I’m feeling a little short changed by 2011.  It’s been a good year in so many ways but it has passed in a flash and I don’t feel I’m done with it yet. But that’s time for you, running away at its own... Today is the longest day marking mid way in the food gardening season.  For once I feel that I may be about on track with all my crops having got seedlings and seeds into the ground in record time compared to other years.  That is apart from my garlic which was... 
