A New Year

New Zealand is one of the first countries to welcome in the new year, so for us, all the festivities …

Blogmas 2017 Day 3: Thorndon Fair

Saturday ended with some positive news, and as life goes on, so too must blogmas for this year.  Today, Sunday, …

Being a tourist in your own city: Thorndon village

When you live somewhere, you often take a lot of things for granted.  I sometimes forget how privileged I am to be able to walk to work through the Botanic Gardens and part of Thorndon on my way to work.

This week’s small pleasures #71

It’s time again for this week’s small pleasures, a way of focussing the mind on the little things that bring a smile to the face.

Thorndon Fair – Blogmas 4 December

The first Sunday of December is the day of the Thorndon Fair, which takes place (obviously!) in Thorndon, one of …

Sunday sampling: Beer no evil, pie no evil

For the third year in a row, we headed down to our local Sprig and Fern pub for a beer …

Beer, pies and burgers

Yes, a nice healthy blog post title this time around!  Wellingtonians can probably relate a bit to this given that …

Ham, herring and Christmas cheer

Christmas is coming…and I’m partly organised at least.  Cards and parcels are posted, some stocking fillers have been bought and …

Bolton Street Memorial Park, a walk and the weekend ahead

As I have mentioned many times in this blog before, one of the pleasures of living where we do is …

A graveyard, a film and a very tasty sandwich

The weather this week has been very up and down: lots of rain and wind with sunshine in between.  However, …