This week’s small pleasures #127

Another week, another wee set of small pleasures. I took Thursday afternoon off work, and went shopping for birthday presents, …

Museums, monuments and moments in Brisbane

This final post focussed on our trip to Brisbane includes museums, galleries, monuments and statues…a bit of a miscellany of things to see and do. It is by no means a comprehensive guide, just a few random things to see in Brisbane.

This week’s small pleasures #116

It is Monday evening here, and it has been raining all day.  It hasn’t been cold, just wet, and I …

This week’s small pleasures #103

I confess this wasn’t a particularly good week…I was on jury duty.  While aspects were interesting, I found the whole …

Perfect day

I firmly believe that as we get older, instead of forgetting our birthdays, we should continue to celebrate.  No longer, …

Ideas of civilisation…or our travels to Europe part 3

And so we moved on to the last two stops on our European trip – Glasgow and Edinburgh.  I’m from …

This week’s small pleasures #83

Here we are again with a look back on this week’s small pleasures.  There were some despite having a cold… …

Saturday morning, Auckland

After our long train trip on the Northern Explorer, an excellent dinner on Friday evening, and a good night’s sleep we had a few hours to spend in Auckland before flying home.

All good things…

…must come to an end as they say, and so our holiday over The Ditch drew to an end, with …

This week’s small pleasures #72

A week that began with the Labour Day holiday on Monday, and ended with a weekend in Napier, is no bad week.