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!
Tag: Zealandia
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 … More
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 … More
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 … More
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 … More
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 … More
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 … More
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 … More
