It may 1 April but this is no April fool trick.  I’m back with high falutin blogging ambitions. Although autumn is upon us this summer has broad shoulders and is still warming body and soul.  Whilst I’ve been gone on my blogging sabbatical there has been plenty... 
Right on cue for the official start of spring, the sun has come out and once again the garden is bursting into bud. Â With longer daylight hours the chickens are up and about earlier each day which is more than I can say for the bassets who would languish in their... 
For two weeks in August, Wellington turns on a gastronomic feast that tests the most gluttonous among us. Â Born five years ago to boost restaurant trade during the rump of winter, Wellington on a Plate has turned the capital’s winter dining scene into a... Instagram may have killed the appetite for sun-soaked photographs but for me sunrise and sunset are two of the most perfect times of days. Â It’s the time of day when I am most optimistic, when I like to draw breath and feel alive. Â So often in daily life we... Sometimes living in New Zealand feels like being on the edge of far away, Â plagued by wobbly land and battered by winds from the frozen south. Â That is of course a rather a pessimist view of the world. Â The optimist in me knows that New Zealand is much more... 
