After another night of broken sleep I’m starting to resent the rain we’re having right now. It seems every other day is a downpour. The incessant hammering on the tin roof in the dead of night is starting to sound like fingernails down a blackboard. It... Baking at weekends is a real treat. It satisfies MTs routine for a cake with afternoon tea and gives me a chance to keep practising my cake making skills. I wasn’t in the mood for failure so thought about doing a carrot cupcake recipe that my mother-in-law had... Given the foul weather we’ve had recently it was wonderful to see some blue sky again. There may have been a biting wind from the southerly still but if you hung around in the sun long enough it didn’t seem to matter that much. After my trip with the... I started the week in a flourish of domesticity and have ended it bogged down in the executive part of my life. I had a bit of a wake up call – literally. I woke this morning realising that my GST return (same as VAT to readers in the UK) was due yesterday. ... In the swirl of busyness this week I was captivated by the seagulls. Those pesky vermin that scoff your lunch if you are daft enough to let them if you’re picnicking by the waterfront in Wellington. As you’d expect they hang around the harbour area. ...