Christmas walking – where did you go?

You can’t beat a walk on Christmas day.  This year we made the  most of the fine weather to enjoy the Rimutaka Incline Walk.  A two hour stroll along a flat trail – it was the former railway line – complete with a watering and swimming stop for...

Happy, happy Christmas!

It’s been a wonderful Christmas.  A happy, happy Christmas.  A relaxing Christmas but with lots going on.  The best thing about this Christmas is we’ve had someone else to record the happenings.  So here we are looking the hill billies out for our...

Christmas, ready or not!

It’s got to the point in the Christmas preparations that it’s coming, ready or not!  Every year I think I’ll get organised so that Christmas Eve can be a holiday but for whatever reason it never quite ends up that way. This Christmas Eve has been no...

Are you reading for festive viewing?

One of the Christmas traditions I remember as a child was getting the Christmas edition of the Radio Times delivered and spending ages pouring over the pages picking out all the things I was going to watch on TV over the holidays.  I was particularly to the movies...

How’s your broccoli is sprouting?

The rain has done wonders for the vegetable patch.  The plants have grown much taller and I’ve got a broccoli sprouting.  It’s so exciting I can tell you.  This is the first time I’ve grown a broccoli, aren’t they wonderful! Now all I need...