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Thistles and Kiwis

A blog about a Scottish woman, who lived in Denmark, and moved to New Zealand

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This week’s small pleasures # 55

If you’ve read my last few blog posts, you will know I’ve been on holiday in Fiji for a week. … More

beach, beer, blogs, blue skies, cocktail, coconut, Denarau, dining, evenings, Fiji, fish, flowers, holiday, hotel, palm trees, relaxing, sand, sea, Small Pleasures, sunshine, swimming pool, warm weather, weather, winter break

This week’s small pleasures #52

This was the week that saw the US pulling out of the Paris Agreement on climate change, another incident in … More

bookshop, bread, breakfast, carrots, cats, Charlie, cook book, dill, dinner, Eating out, fish and chips, flowers, food shopping, long weekend, mushrooms, news, oranges, parsley, parsnips, Pilates, potatoes, rain, relaxing, Saturday, sausages, Small Pleasures, Sunday, tea, weekend, wine, winter

Sweet as a sunny Saturday

Saturday mornings are a special time for me.  Waking up an hour later than usual, having poached eggs on toast … More

apples, autumn, butter, buttermilk, cobbler, desert, flour, food shopping, mornings, news, pears, Pilates, plums, recipe, relaxing, Saturday, Stockholm, sunshine, weather

This week’s small pleasures: episode 20

So here we are again with a short list of this week’s small pleasures.  There were quite a few things … More

ballet, beer, cat, chillies, chocolate, food, food shopping, Giselle, lunch, relaxing, salad, Small Pleasures, spring, Sunday, The Royal New Zealand Ballet, vegetables, weekend, Wellington Chocolate Factory, winter

That was the week #4

Winter has finally arrived in New Zealand.  It has turned bitterly cold, and today has been a wet and rather … More

bake sale, biscuits, blog, blogging, cat, cinema, cookies, film, flowers, New Zealand International Film Festival, Pilates, relaxing, tulips, weather, week, weekend, winter

That was week that was…2.0

Here we are again, an end of week round up on this Friday evening of 6 things from this week.  … More

Beehive, boring, Botanic Gardens, cat, cup, evening, family, fighting stress, flowers, Friday, letter, mornings, New Zealand, Parliament, photographs, reading, relaxing, shopping, spring, tree, week, Wellington, winter

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