Summer Promise
Feeling like a gooseberry
22 December 2012 8 Comments
I never intended to step away from blogging for so long. Before I knew it, a few days of ambivalence stretched to weeks and then a month. The exciting prospect of talking about my daily exploits was gone and with it my inclination to take photographs and the stories that have so freely danced in [...]
Life and Cherries
17 November 2012 6 Comments
Life is rattling by and I’ve not yet found the right laxative for my creative constipation hence the lack of blogging in the last couple of weeks. Instead I’ve been busying myself with other things – good and wholesome things – but distracting and tiring. It’s that time of year when there is so much [...]
Spring Greens and Other New Starts
21 October 2012 6 Comments
There is something rather elicit about a long weekend created by a public holiday. It feels so much more of a gift of an extra day off work than those long weekends created from your holiday entitlement. Not that I get paid holidays of course, self employment doesn’t quite have that perk. Technically speaking I [...]
The long haul
13 October 2012 2 Comments
I’ve been having the longest bout of creative constipation in a while. Not inspired to write nor take photographs. This can be a problem if you’re a blogger. Or sheer relief to some depending on your point of view. If the past is anything to go by this is a classic symptom of me being stuck [...]
Kitchen garden dreaming
23 September 2012 3 Comments
When it comes to gardening I fall into the hopelessly romantic camp. Even crawling along hand-weeding and hating the drudgery of it all, it isn’t long before I fall into day dreaming about the beauty of large walled kitchen gardens with fruit, vegetables, herbs and cut flowers jostling for attention. I dream of a garden [...]
Magnifique
1 August 2012 7 Comments
The first time I heard his characteristically French “oo la la” I was almost suffocating under a mound of coats piled into my arms by VIPs at corporate function. By the time I had dumped the offending garments into the arms of one of my staff and I’d regained my executive composure the moment to [...]
My love-hate relationship with Pomme D’Amour
8 April 2012 12 Comments
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 [...]
Seasonal adjustment
26 March 2012 Leave a Comment
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 [...]
Garden bling
19 February 2012 5 Comments
The popular opinion in New Zealand is that this summer has been a washout. Since New Year we’ve been blighted by bouts of furious wind and driving rain making it the worst summer weather since we arrived in New Zealand six years ago. The only upside I can see from such disappointment is that it’s [...]
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