One of the glories of autumn

Yet a pear may only be at its point of perfection for a day or two, the slide into over-ripeness …

This week's small pleasures #183

Where to begin this week’s small pleasures, when today our Prime Minister announced that New Zealand would go into a …

Wordless Wednesday

For this week’s Wordless Wednesday post, we enter the Begonia House at the Botanic Gardens in Wellington, where I went …

This weeks small pleasures #134

It’s Easter Monday, and no doubt many of you out there have eaten a lot of chocolate and perhaps several …

The high point of the season

One of the best things about eating in summer is the piles of berries…strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, boysenberries, blackberries….though I do …