This week’s small pleasures #119

This time next week will be Christmas Eve, so there will be no Small Pleasures post as we will be … More

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 … More

Can I make a suggestion? Take a Wednesday off from work.

Some of you might well have seen the recent Quality of Life survey as published in the Financial Times (the survey … More

This Sunday we finally made it to the Gallipoli: The Scale of Our War exhibition at Te Papa museum. When … More

I’m writing this on Anzac Day, which this year also marks 100 years of the New Zealand and Australian troops … More

This week seemed to go on and on, despite being busy with one thing and another. There has been a … More

This weekend we had our first visitor from Scotland, Gillian, the niece of an old school friend of mine who … More

Winter seems to be here, starting with a vengeance on Sunday with gale force winds that nearly blew me away … More

As of 28th January, we have been here in Wellington for a year. I can’t believe it – the time … More