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Random things on a Friday
Friday has come and I am kind of exhausted. It seems such a lot has happened, that there are so many things going on that it has been good to reach the end of the week. So for some random things on...
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This week’s small pleasures #430
What a week….being put in a moon boot, a 4.3 earthquake on Saturday morning that was noisy and shaky, and, most important, the final of Melodifestivalen in Sweden (Maria – what did you think?). And of...
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Wednesday Words and Whimsy
Wednesday morning dawned, with the knowledge that the day is a non-working day. A slow breakfast, a load of laundry done and then I went out and braved the bus with my moon boot and headed to Pilates....
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This week’s small pleasures #431
It’s Monday evening, dinner has been eaten (wonderful left overs from yesterday’s dinner), the dishwasher has been loaded and the prospect of a nice relaxing end to the day is on the cards. My foot is...
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Cook Book Club: March
Autumn is here in the Southern Hemisphere, although to be honest, we have had better weather recently than we did in January (not today though – pouring with rain). The season brings with it pumpkins,...
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What’s on your bookshelf: March
This month’s reading was another varied one – a mix of cosy crime, thriller and one book that will definitely be one of my top books of the year. There was also a new cook book as you will see below....
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This week’s small pleasures #432
Can you believe we are almost at the end of March? I certainly can’t. The mornings are getting darker, evenings seem to come earlier and it won’t be long until the clocks go back. Autumn is well and...
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A sherry long lunch
On Saturday we headed over to Noble Rot Wine Bar on Swan Lane for a sherry long lunch, involving sherry tasting, from dry to sweet, and Spanish inspired food. Sherry can only be produced in the area...
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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 be sipping some gorgeous green tea from tLeafT and enjoying a melting moment biscuit from the local deli. If we were having coffee…or even a cup...
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This week’s small pleasures #433
As we move to shorter days and our thoughts turn to autumn and the winter ahead, I am reminded that it is spring in the northern hemisphere, with pictures of daffodils and snowdrops gracing many a...
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Wednesday Words and Whimsy
Wednesday, as regular readers will know, is a a non-working day for me. It is a day to catch up, to rest, to read to potter about, to cook. This morning started with a much needed visit to the...
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Cobblestones Museum
We took Friday off and drove over the Remutaka Hills for a couple of nights away in Greytown. For some reason, in all the times we have been there, we have never gone to the Cobblestones Museum and...
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This week’s small pleasures #434
With the clocks going back this weekend, autumnal days are well and truly here. It hasn’t turned cold yet, but those days can’t be that far away. Pumpkins, feijoas, apples and the first Brussels...
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Cook Book Club: April
For this month’s cook book club we turn to Greece. I have only ever been to Athens and Thessaloniki airports (many years ago on my way to Australia when I still lived in Scotland), so I cannot talk...
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Six on Saturday 12.04.25
It has been ages since I did a SoS post – in fact it was 14 December last year. What with dreadful weather at the start of January, a cataract operation which meant I could not bend down or was...
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This week’s small pleasures #435
Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall. The above quote from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby seems fitting as we drift into autumn days. Gatsby is 100 years old this year –...
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Wednesday Words and Whimsy
We’ll start today’s post with the good news that I don’t need to wear the moon boot any more. Of course, I now have months of physio, but step one is going back to normal shoes on both feet. This...
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