I always find it a pleasure to find working relationships that just click. The sorts of working relationships that move swiftly from dealing with business to caring deeply about the work that you do and the people you work with. Â I celebrated this fact yesterday with... 
I had hardly walked in the front door when I was out the back slipping on my gum boots and trying hard not to break into a sprint down the garden steps. Â The chickens ran out of the house in hope of a late supper and clucked with disappointment as I trotted past them... 
Once again seasonal schizophrenia has hit me. Â As we rush headlong into Summer friends and family in the northern hemisphere are buttoning up their winter coats and hunkering down. Christmas is just around the corner but I couldn’t feel less Christmasy if I... 
Our latest feathered resident has just been voted as Bird of the Year in a Forest and Bird NZ poll.  The PÅ«keko joins the Plovers, Magpies, Ducks, Parakeets and myriad of other small NZ Birds to wander our garden.  These colourful and completely scatty birds can... 
Despite reports earlier this year of the decline of marmalade, news of marmalade making spread across my Twitter Feed a few weeks ago.  After someone had posted news of their marmalade making efforts others followed suit and just like a Mexican wave all of a sudden... 