Riding with the Devil Again

Riding with the Devil Again

Testing, testing.  Anybody there.  Ah well, who can blame you……I know it’s been a while but I’ve had a lot on my plate.  More on that soon. For now, here’s a post first drafted over 6 weeks ago.   It only seems right to confess...
How cake can make or break your sanity

How cake can make or break your sanity

As reality TV goes, the Great British Bake Off must be the sweetest show with plenty of sugar, bunting and I suspect lashings of ginger beer being drunk behind the scenes. Behind the nostalgic ode to the eccentricities of middle-class-middle-England village fetes is a...
Sweet As: Winter Warmer

Sweet As: Winter Warmer

Tomorrow marks the passing of another season when we will slip officially into winter.  This takes away any legitimate reason for any of us in New Zealand to moan and gripe about the cold, wind, rain or any other form of inclement weather. After all it’s winter and...
Food and Fifty

Food and Fifty

If ever I needed a lie flat-bed on an airplane it was when flying home from Melbourne last Sunday.  After several days of eating and walking and eating, my body needed more TLC than being slumped into the window seat confined for several hours.  There is so much to...
Putting the spring into my gardening

Putting the spring into my gardening

It is a painful thwack to the head when the obvious hits me, especially when accompanied by that hateful know-it-all voice inside your head that says, “I told you so”.   Professionally I’d call this having ‘insight’ but since I’m...