After my trip to the City Market last weekend, I’ve been cooking to ingredients rather than shopping for recipes. When it came to this week’s baking we continued that theme by checking out what we might have in the house and baking with that. As you can see from this photograph one of the key [...]
The laws of nature can be baffling sometimes. Certainly there has been plenty for me to learn about living in the country. I am not sure where justice fits in the laws of nature but I know that life and death is a fine balance with its own in-built pecking order. There is plenty of [...]
Some of our neighbours moved away whilst we were gone. Luckily they didn’t go far, just next door and we can still see them every day as we go past every day. I do of course miss being able to watch their antics from my office window so the bassets and I stop by as [...]
My stepmother is probably horrified about my slightly haphazard, easy come easy go attitude to gardening. Actually, I don’t think there is much probably about it. It’s clear that I’m not upholding the family standards as far as gardening is concerned. In my defence I’ve decided I simply can’t compete with this so I’ll just [...]
I like a high note to start the week and although he’s not out of the woods completely our friend Seth is making huge strides now in his recovery. Almost 6 months after a bone marrow transplant, this little chap is back having fun with his sister Nancy. This I know is a day that [...]
We’re making a renewed effort to get out more. It’s so easy to get ensconced in our own little world that it does require a little effort. I could happily potter on in my little bit of paradise but that would make life a little predictable and my scope of conversation limited to gorse, chickens, [...]
There is nothing my husband loves at the weekend more than a cake with his afternoon tea. Over the years we have moved from buying cakes to making cakes. And now it seems that he has decided that cake baking is now within his weekend domestic duties. I’d like to think that this is because [...]
New Zealand is in the grip of freak winter weather right now. Whilst we are bitching and moaning about how cold, wet and windy it is I can’t help but keep thinking of the people who have really been affected by nature. This last week or so has been a testing time for the Pacific [...]
Lake like puddles are forming on our drive with the miserable proportions of rains we’ve had this week. The are is one good thing about having puddles and that is the special visitors that pop by that might not otherwise do. It’s always nice to see them making themselves at home although it tends to [...]
I expected work to be busy upon my return to New Zealand but I’d not really prepared myself for that eventuality. A pretty full diary of work and heaps of sorting out to be done has meant I’ve been playing rather more executive than domestic in the last week or so. The brilliant thing is [...]
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