As if to punish us for leaving town, the Wellington wind almost blew us off our feet the moment we landed home a couple of days ago. A sharp reminder that for all the wilderness of the South Island Wellington is most definitely wild at heart. After days of empty winding roads we were back [...]
Being back in Central Otago was like being reunited with an old friend. The sort of friend that you strike up conversation as if you had seen them just a short while ago. The sort of friend that doesn’t concern themselves with the fact it’s actually been almost 10 years since you’ve clapped eyes on [...]
It seemed that Queenstown blushed when I lifted the blinds this morning. Perhaps the sight of me in my PJs was all too much.
After the hustle and bustle of Arrowtown Autumn Festival it was so tranquil to take a few minutes to just sit and enjoy the view at Lake Hayes. I resisted the temptation to spend too much time trying to make a perfect landscape photograph preferring instead to just soak in the view and watch the [...]
Getting a bird’s eye view from a plane reminds you what a largely unspoiled country New Zealand is. Miles and miles of empty landscape – the sheer scale of it is mesmerising. But this was nothing compared to hugging the mountain to tip into Queenstown, New Zealand’s adrenaline city. The hill sides were splashes of [...]
Somewhere amongst making Afternoon Tea, bread making, baking croissants and making cheese earlier this year I started to realise that I really like food. No really – making food, reading about food, talking about food and yes, of course, eating it too. I started to day dream about taking a patisserie course, a cheese making [...]
The long Easter break last weekend was the perfect reason to kick back, enjoy the warm spell and take a break from the never ending list of things to do. There is a promise of lots more lovely fine weather which is such a temptation to hang out the hammock again and just be. It [...]
It may be call the love apple (Pomme D’Amour) but for now I have a love-hate thing going on with my tomatoes. I am overcome with delight that after years of struggling to grow tomatoes outdoors my poly greenhouse has been the perfect haven for growing them but after harvesting about 50kg and about the [...]
Admittedly we’re all creatures of habit but never more so that a basset hound. They are smart and they know their own mind with preferred ways of doing things that have little to do with pleasing their pack leader. Needless to say that basset owners tend to be suckers for punishment and easily forget all [...]
On Kapiti Island the bird life completely mesmorised me. Closer to home I am cursing the little blighters for taking dust baths in my flower beds and leaving waste on my verandas. For all the momentary annoyance I do feel very lucky to have such a proliferation of bird life around out home. Our feathered [...]
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