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What’s on my bookshelf September
The days are getting longer, the birds sing louder in the mornings and the pile of books beside the bed does not get any smaller. Or rather, I keep adding to it. This month’s reading has been good,...
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Cook Book Club: September
Even though there isn’t a Cook Book Club theme this week as our host is away, I thought I would do one anyway as I was delighted to get a copy of Ottolenghi’s Simple Too. I have used Simple a lot, and...
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This week’s small pleasures 509
It’s Monday evening and the sun is shining. In fact, it was sunny all weekend which not only lifted the spirits, but also the temperatures. It now really feels like spring. The voting has started for...
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A Friday in September
Today began with sunshine, a lovely change from rainy Thursday but reminiscent of sunny Wednesday. Yes it is spring, when no-one knows what the weather will bring. After being rather too leisurely...
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This week’s small pleasures 508
Well…Karl had a bad cold this week, and of course, shared it with me, and I ended up coming home from work on Friday feeling lousy. This of course kind of spoiled the weekend, leading to a couple of...
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Spring into September
Spring is here, and the days are definitely getting warmer, brighter and the promise of the good things of the season. September is also a time of celebration in our family. My step-son turns 30, and...
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This week’s small pleasures 507
As winter tips over into spring and the days become longer, the prospect of piles of delicious asparagus, fresh peas and crisp radishes comes to mind. What is more, this will be my third spring in 18...
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If we were having coffee…or even a cup of tea…
If we were having coffee…or even a cup of tea…we would decide right from the outset that we would not discuss the news, not even Dolly Parton or the King of Norway. If we were having coffee…or even a...
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A seat at the table: a taste of Poland
As the month long food festival, Wellington on a Plate, comes to an end, we headed over to one of our favourite venues in the city, Noble Rot Wine Bar, for their Wines of Poland event. Neither of us...
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This week’s small pleasures 506
Despite a message from Air New Zealand on Tuesday morning with a ‘weather warning’, I flew back from Hawke’s Bay on time (leaving and landing) and hardly any bumps. Wellington is known for its at...
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What’s on your bookshelf: August
I was at the monthly book club held at Marsden Books in Karori last night. It was a free for all, and so a great opportunity to pick up some new ideas of things to read. We all agreed that sometimes...
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Cook Book Club: August
Wellington right now is obsessed with burgers. Wellington on a Plate, featuring the Burger Wellington competition, takes up most of August. Regular readers will know I have tried three so far, the...
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This week’s small pleasures 505
I don’t know about you, but the news is becoming more and more depressing in so many ways. At least many people in parts of the northern hemisphere witnessed a solar eclipse and we saw some sunshine...
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Wordless Wednesday: Moomin
Regular readers will have seen many of our Moomin mugs featuring in blog posts over the years. I finally got them all out of the cupboard and counted them – 14 in all. They are made by Arabia Finland....
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This week’s small pleasures 504
Each week I sit down to review the good things that have happened. Sometimes they are really little things like catching a pear just when it is perfectly ripe (oh joy!), sometimes it is the sheer joy...
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A Place of Peace: Futuna Chapel
Sometimes we can forget that beauty is right there on our doorstep. Hidden away in a corner of the suburb of Karori in Wellington sits the Futuna Chapel, a special little gem of a building that often...
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This week’s small pleasures 503
We woke up on Sunday morning to a thick, crisp white layer of frost covering plants, houses and cars. Where we used to live, we never saw a frost, but being just a little higher up now, it is a pretty...
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If we were having coffee…or even a cup of tea…
If we were having coffee…or even a cup of tea…we would talk about the month past, about the fabulous meal we had for my birthday at the start of the month, about cooking (sausages with puy lentils,...
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This week’s small pleasures 502
This week was definitely one that improved as it went along, from feeling pretty grotty at the start, to making a recovery, meeting friends, and enjoying the wonderful new comedy Ann Droid and the...
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Cook Book Club: 23 July
The theme this month seemed easy: go to your bookshelf, pick out the cookbook you most recently purchased (or borrowed), cook something from it and tell us about it. Oh that is easy I thought… it is...
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