Sorry about that short interruption.  I’m back after a couple of days.  What’s my excuse? Frozen fingers, toes and being very very cold. Oh and busy earning a crust to feed my chickens too.

My husband will tell you I am directionally challenge but today I arrived in a real nice place.  You know how it is with the Internet.  You start following links and before you know where you are you’ve been through the virtual spaghetti junction and lost not just your way but about 5 hours of [...]

There are ladies who lunch and ladies who do afternoon tea.  There are ladies who would like to lunch but time and work pressures mean that afternoon tea is easier to squeeze into a busy day.  And, there are ladies who like to bake afternoon tea. Today I was delighted to welcome former colleague friends [...]

I snapped this picture yesterday evening as I was on my nightly domestic dash.  It’s taken out of the bedroom window in a bit of a hurry but the view just stopped me in my tracks.  The sky was a vivid pink. Just for a few seconds though and then it returned to grey. I [...]

After the blizzard weather it was good to get a bit more sunshine back.  The world always looks a much better place when the sun shines, don’t you think? The sun brought out droves of people to come and see the snow on the Rimutaka Hill yesterday.  Pity that the road was still closed because [...]