Wordless Wednesday: fungi

For this week’s Wordless Wednesday, come with me and look at some of the fungi I spotted in Zealandia on …

This week’s small pleasures #230

Yesterday, Sunday, was Anzac Day, the day on which New Zealand and Australia remember all those who killed in war and also honours returned servicemen and women. T

This week’s small pleasures #227

This week’s small pleasures comes to you on the Wellington Anniversary holiday. What a treat it is to have a long weekend like this during the summer after being back at work for two weeks!

Words on Wednesday: Zealandia

Cities don’t have to be places devoid of native wildlife. In fact, in some cases it can completely flourish there …

This week’s small pleasures #172

And so here we are with the last small pleasures post of 2020. I’m on holiday, which is a small …

This week’s small pleasures #152

I can’t believe it is Monday again…and time to stop and pause and think about the small pleasures of the …

Wordless Wednesday: Signs

For Wordless Wednesday, here are six random signs, some taken ages ago, some more recently.

In Wildness is the preservation of the World

The days around Christmas and New Year are, if you are on holiday like we are, a chance to go those places that at weekends get forgotten in the piles of ironing, grocery shopping and laundry.

The best place to live

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

A bird, a rare bird and a celebrity bird

I mentioned in my last post that one of the things I was looking forward to was a visit to …