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This week’s small pleasures #383
I’ve been a bit under the weather today, and have been at home off work. It is nothing serious, but a day at home resting was the thing I needed. Anyway, it also gave me a bit more time to look back...
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What’s on your bookshelf: April
So it is time again for a review of the month’s reading, a post to contribute to the what’s on your bookshelf challenge is hosted by fellow bloggers Deb, Sue, Donna and Jo. The idea is to share what...
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Six on Saturday 20 April 2024
Darker evenings and chilly mornings tell us we are really into autumn. The weather hasn’t been bad at all, with a good amount of sunshine. My bulbs have yet to arrive, but I did buy a bag of some...
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This week’s small pleasures #384
You wouldn’t think from the featured image at the top of the post and that below, taken at lunch time today, that this evening we are sitting looking out cold and rain. Saturday was sunny, Sunday was...
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A seat at the table: an amber revolution
On Tuesday evening, we headed over to Noble Rot Wine Bar for one of their special evenings of wine tasting along with a degustation menu of good food. The theme of this evening was skin-contact wines,...
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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…I would offer you a homemade Anzac biscuit with Monk’s Blend tea from tLeafT. You say that sounds good! (I use the Edmonds recipe). If we were having...
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This week’s small pleasures #385
It really feels like we are now heading into proper autumnal days with dark and chilly evenings just making us want to cosy up on the sofa. The early mornings are crisp too, and after a grey, damp and...
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What’s on your plate: May
Regular readers will remember the gorgeous blue skies we had here at the weekend. Today, after a dry start, the rain clouds set in for the evening. When the weather is like this, and an autumnal chill...
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This week’s small pleasures #386
Autumn is well and truly here. Mornings are chilly, evenings dark, and we are getting out our cosy sweaters. We have, to be honest, been very lucky with some gorgeous weather, those sort of crisp,...
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Words on Wednesday
We woke up this morning to see frost on the roof of the house next door, and an icy feel to the flowerpots. The first of the season, and I will have to think of some of my plants: our old house was...
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This week’s small pleasures #387
I’m writing this on Monday evening feeling pretty lousy. I ache, I have a sore throat and feel totally exhausted, but at least this morning I tested negative for Covid. Lots of hot drinks, napping and...
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In the kitchen: a little bit of nostalgia
The world is full of recipes – they spill out of shelves in bookshops, magazines devote pages to them, they turn up on the back of packaged foods, even on bottle labels (Delia Smith 1980: 8) Nowadays,...
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What’s on your bookshelf: May
So it is time again for a review of the month’s reading, a post to contribute to the what’s on your bookshelf challenge is hosted by fellow bloggers Deb, Sue, Donna and Jo. The idea is to share what...
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Six on Saturday 18.05.24
I’ve been missing from SoS for a month, due to not having anything much to report and the fact that the past two Saturdays I have been off to dance performances. Anyway, thanks to Jim at Garden...
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This week’s small pleasures #388
After a week of really not feeling good at all, I feel I am finally getting over what ever bug I had, and that is a small pleasure in itself. I am still tired and not 100% but so much better – fit...
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Words on Wednesday
The rain began yesterday, heavy rain lasting most of the night and early morning. And then at Pilates this morning, we could see some sunshine breaking through the dark grey clouds. It has, however,...
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This week’s small pleasures #389
Talofa lava! Yes – this week is Samoan Language Week here in New Zealand. Samoan is the third most spoken language in New Zealand (and interestingly, second in Auckland), and this week is one of 11...
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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 baking, about this fantastic seasonally appropriate apple and cinnamon cake from Tilly Pamment’s The Plain Cake Appreciation Society...
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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 year. It has been a mostly sunny day, and the sunset tonight was quite spectacular (see the featured image at...
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This week’s small pleasures #390
Today is the King’s Birthday public holiday here in New Zealand. The sun came out in the afternoon, and lit up the house with its golden light, as we read, listened to podcasts and pottered in the...
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