A time for comfort

As winter draws to a close here in the Southern Hemisphere, with, as I have already reported, many signs of …

This week’s small pleasures #104

So here we are again with this week’s round up of small pleasures. It really is beginning to feel…and look …

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 …

This week’s small pleasures #102

So here we are again, Monday evening, New Zealand time, and that point in the week where we think about …

This week’s small pleasures #93

I’m writing this on a wet Monday evening, just the sort of day you want to spend just lying on the sofa with a good book or a film, a pot of tea and some hot, buttered toast.  Ahh…we can but dream… 

6 things to do in autumn

The nights are drawing in as we are now in May and the middle of autumn.  Some of the leaves …

This week’s small pleasures #88

The week seems to have flown by, and here we are again for a round of this week’s small pleasures. …

February Favourites: watching, listening, reading

Can you believe it is the end of February already?  For us in the southern hemisphere, it also marks the …

Watching, listening, reading: September

Could somebody please tell me where September has gone?  I’m sure I was commenting on the first day of spring …

This week’s small pleasures #67

So here we are again, with another round of this week’s small pleasures.  I think this is such an important …