Mindlessly frittering away

What is nicer than taking a day off work in the middle of the week, when everyone else is at …

Blogmas 2017 Day 16: Breakfast

When I was a child, my mother always made us soft boiled eggs with soldiers (if you don’t know what …

Opening Up Wellington’s Laneways

Wellington is home to a burgeoning group of laneways, those small streets that give people an alternative route through a city, cutting through between busy streets and offering opportunities to create communities of small businesses, homes and places to gather.

Soup of the evening, beautiful soup!

With Karl away, I’ve decided to eat mostly plants.  I’ve still got some buttermilk, eggs and feta to use, and …

This week’s small pleasures #60

Another week, another not very good week, but there were a few small pleasures nevertheless, such as some lovely sunny …

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 …

This week’s small pleasures: episode 24

So here we are again with a round up of this week’s small pleasures.  Thanks to Mani over at A …

Peanut butter, chocolate and tea

Temperatures dropped this week and we even saw some rain, much needed mind you. But on Friday, the temperatures shot …

Sunday: morning, noon and night

I enjoyed writing my last what I did on a Sunday post, so thought I’d do another one.  The day …

Chocolate, peanuts and cookies

In Wellington today it has been wet nearly all day, a sort of constant heavy drizzle with bursts of heavier …