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 …

Share Your World 2015: Week 2

Here’s my contribution this week to Cee’s Share Your World Challenge.  We are in the middle of summer here in …

Hogmanay, New Year and cooking lettuce

2013 was the year we moved to New Zealand, and so one that will not easily be forgotten.  It was …

Takahe and Kaka: a trip to Zealandia

On Saturday we walked up to Zealandia, a special wildlife sanctuary which we are very lucky to live so close …