I don’t know about you but I’m feeling a little short changed by 2011. It’s been a good year in so many ways but it has passed in a flash and I don’t feel I’m done with it yet. But that’s time for you, running away at its own pace. As we end 2011 under a large [...]
Some time ago ham and cheese croissants became a Christmas Breakfast tradition. For years I used croissant pastry you could buy from the supermarket fridge and on the occasions that we couldn’t get hold of the dough we’d fill shop bought croissants but they were never as good as the freshly baked. Last year I [...]
New Zealand has been bathed in sunlight for Christmas allowing the perfect indoor:outdoor flow for the traditional festivities. There is nothing better than being able to eat your Christmas dinner in the evening light with the surround mountains providing a breathtaking view. The only downside of such glorious sunshine is that basset hounds and hot [...]
Christmas is the one time in the year where indulgence is encouraged. Time to treat yourself and others. To give thanks and celebrate. To offer extra kindness to others and give generously. But against the backdrop of fun and festivities life goes on with other indulgences that bring misery, sadness and grief. Yesterday Christchurch was [...]
Today is the longest day marking mid way in the food gardening season. For once I feel that I may be about on track with all my crops having got seedlings and seeds into the ground in record time compared to other years. That is apart from my garlic which was about a month late [...]
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. I celebrated this fact yesterday with one of my biggest and most longstanding clients by [...]
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. The chickens ran out of the house in hope of a late supper and clucked with disappointment as I trotted past them and [...]
Once again seasonal schizophrenia has hit me. 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 tried. It’s an infuriating feeling since I love Christmas – the celebrations, [...]
Our latest feathered resident has just been voted as Bird of the Year in a Forest and Bird NZ poll. The Pūkeko joins the Plovers, Magpies, Ducks, Parakeets and myriad of other small NZ Birds to wander our garden. These colourful and completely scatty birds can normally be found in wetland areas or road verges where [...]
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 there was a crescendo of interest in where people were [...]
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