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 [...]
A dose of sunshine does wonders to lift my mood and bring a spring into my step. No doubt that the sunshine brought a touch of magic to our walk on Kapiti Island a couple of weeks ago. I found myself distracted by the light as it danced through the layers of native bush. The [...]
Fair weather may be back again this week bringing some much needed sunshine but all it’s done is deepen my denial that autumn is here. No doubt that the tell-tell signs are here in spades – morning mists, golden light and pumpkins taking over the kitchen garden – but I’m not ready to give up [...]
There is only one thing more disconcerting than to trip over your own feet. To trip over a pair of feet that are seemingly growing from the ground. I did just that whilst wandering around the Ellerslie Flower Show in Christchurch a couple of weeks ago. These lifelike sculptures were both goulish and captivating which [...]
Nothing will wipe the memories of the day that Christchurch City Centre came tumbling down around me. Those memories were stirred up again last weekend when I returned to the Central City for the first time. With two days work planned there I took the advantage of flying in a little earlier to visit the [...]
So many times we’ve walked up the Paekakariki Beach and wished we could nip over to Kapiti Island. Today we did. On one of the finest days of the year we enjoyed one of the finest days out you can enjoy in New Zealand. We walked from bottom to top of the Island meandering through [...]
Way back in July I buried my head in a sand of despair of photography and it’s taken me months to pull it out. I learned through this whole self indulgent episode that I was bitten by the photography bug because it pleased me and was not about pleasing others. Following prescribed assignments that asked me [...]
I can’t resist photographing bassets on the run. You never quite tell how their wrinkles are going to take a handsome basset into a contorted monster look. Fortnum likes nothing better than running full pelt down hill – see how aerodynamic he can be. I’ve uploaded the photographs from the March 2012 basset calendar into [...]
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