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.

Spring! This week’s small pleasures #70

While lots of bloggers in the northern hemisphere are writing about autumn, pumpkins, leaves falling off trees and getting cosy, down here we are in the process of celebrating spring.

This week’s small pleasures #59

Time to focus on the little things that makes us smile

This week’s small pleasures #54

This week’s small pleasures