Seeing snow on top of the Rimutakas is a rarity this winter. For all the wet, wind and chills this winter we’ve been lacking in snow – this is hardly a light dusting and it was gone not long after as we bathed in Winter sunshine. I’m not complaining, just saying.
High days and holidays are best topped off with glorious weather. We’ve struck lucky with the weather for our week off work so where better to escape from the mulching than the beach to enjoy the best of winter sun. It’s always a special treat to wander along the almost deserted beach with the bassets [...]
By the powers vested in technology we can relive this day 15 years ago. I recently got our wedding photograph negatives scanned onto disk to add to our digital memory stash. For all the happy memories this picture conjures there is something very sobering about it too. Let’s just say that we look a [...]
I do I worry about my home bird tendencies. Being at home away from the crowds is just how I like things to be but I do worry if I will become detached from the real world, whatever the real world is these days. For the virtual world of the internet that world can be [...]
In years gone by we’d take the last week in July off work to rest, relax and celebrate somewhere warm. For this is the week that we celebrate our wedding anniversary and his Lordship’s birthday (timed specifically that he would never forget!). Now we take the same week off but enjoy whatever winter throws at [...]
Even with my flexible laid back lifestyle I still get a thrill knowing that the alarm won’t be going off to get us out of bed. Those dulcet tones of Radio New Zealand bring forth the day with news in the world are something that are going to have to wait another week. Funny though [...]
I recently breached technology etiquette here at Domestic Executive HQ. After years of relying on his Lordship to load up my iPod I’ve set up my own iTunes library, it was like stepping out through a new window on the world. That’s not to say the outlook I already had wasn’t interesting, in truth I’ve [...]
I was up before dawn broke this morning to be a photography student. It was nothing like when I last studied. No dragging myself out to a tutorial 40 miles away with someone who as a part time tutor knew about as much about the topic as I did. I just opened up my laptop [...]
For all the scientific explanations and cultural interpretations I like to think of a rainbow is a smile from the sky. An optimistic sign of better things to come. We are past the shortest day this year and there is a noticeable difference in the days lengthening. I can measure this precisely as in winter [...]
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