This week’s small pleasures #151

This week’s small pleasures is coming to you on a Sunday again, not because I am travelling but because I am going to a Wellington on a Plate event.

Thoughts on Thursday: autumn

After a rather blustery couple of days, we are back to blue skies and sunshine, but I, on the other hand, am feeling lousy. Nothing more serious than the dull aches, dry throat and desire to sleep off the start of a cold, but enough for me to take a day of work, have both a morning nap and an afternoon nap, and read a book.

Just good food from fresh ingredients

One thing I love is food shopping. Seeing piles of fruit and vegetables piled high, rows of fresh bread, stacks …

A weekend away: Waiheke Island

Last weekend, we headed up to Auckland and sailed over to Waiheke Island, a mere 35 minute ferry-ride from the …

This week’s small pleasures #101

Here we are again, with the 101st small pleasures post! I feel I ought to celebrate or something….anyway, here we …

Waikato Weekend: Raglan

On Saturday, we drove over to Raglan, a coastal town about 45 minute drive west of Hamilton. It is particularly …

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 making ourselves comfortable on this, the second …

The grandeur of the view

It is horrible feeling under the weather, lacking in energy and preferring the sofa to anywhere else.  Anyway, I walked …

Cats and catching up in Copenhagen

Returning to a city where you used to live is a little strange. Not your home town, but somewhere you …

Sea, sand and spaghetti: a weekend in Melbourne part 2

I finished the last post just before we moved hotels to the Alto Hotel on Bourke Street.  To be honest, …