For the last six months I’ve been stuck in a photographic rut with no serious photography projects underway. Although I still carry my camera and take photographs for the blog the passion, drive and inspiration got lost along the way. A cloud seemed to descend on me and I’ve had my head in the clouds [...]
Not really grasping the fact that we’ve slipped into January caused me all sorts of confusion the other day. It was only when I had put the phone down did I realise that I needed to flip the page on the basset calendar. Hardly surprising since it was only a week or so that they [...]
30 days into the new year I slipped on my harness and crawled back to work. If it wasn’t for the boundless energy and enthusiasm of the people I was working with it would have been a grim day. Aside from the burning desire to find a quiet corner and take a nap the first [...]
This year I’ve decided to hone my culinary skills and will be tackling one foodstuff a month. I’ve started the year with one of my favourite foods, I’ve been on a bread making mission. I’m already a dab hand making soda bread and beer bread which requires no yeast and can be slapped in the [...]
I read somewhere that there is only one thing more annoying than people who parade photographs of their children are people who are self indulgent about their pets. I get that sentiment but it doesn’t stop me loving my bassets and wanting to share stories about them. I try to be discerning about who I [...]
Living life as an expat upside down plays havoc with your senses, most notably because seasons back to front . Take strawberries for example. To a Brit strawberries are synonymous with tennis at Wimbledon in June. From my teens to my thirties, I was an avid tennis fan glued to the sofa for a fortnight [...]
There’s been a loud ticking sound around the place in the last week. No, it’s not the cicadas arriving early but the sound of jobs being ticked off the list. Well, I confess, it’s actually writing being smudged off the chalk board but I like the notion of a tick which is a cleaner and [...]
There was a most indignant look on the basset’s faces when they were woken from their slumbers this morning at an ungodly hour. After much stretching, scratching and yawning they succumbed to the early rising, but purely on the grounds that breakfast was being served. They soon crawled back into bed pulled their ears over [...]
With a taste that can be as sharp as their thorns gooseberries are not to everyone’s liking. I love the crisp bite and piquant flavour that livens the palette whether you eat them straight from the bush or wrap them in a luxurious blanket of cream and sugar. Last year the birds raided our pickings [...]
As my bones creak and muscles ache I can only imagine this is how Sisyphus would have felt on his quest to push a boulder up a hill. Whilst much of the rest of New Zealand heads to the beach, the lakes or the mountains we stay at home and make our annual effort to [...]
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