Technology, work and my mental capacity conspired against me this week to keep blogging up. I’ve been away from home working up north at Mount Ruapehu. Just getting there was an adventure in itself, riding along in a midget prop plane. I knew when we... 
Comparing notes with a coach friend of mine showed me how simple I want life. Her idea of a luxury to boost her energy and de-stress was a a trip to the beauty parlour for a facial and a massage. For me it was a big gap in the middle of a working day to walk my... 
It’s that time of year where kiwis their new dressing regime. Layering clothes to be able to cope with the wild variations you can get in temperature. I was up to 4 layers yesterday plus gloves as I dragged the hounds away from their centrally heated snooze... I’ve always seen myself as a creative pragmatist. Open to new ideas as long as they are grounded in practicality. I like real things for what they are, plain and simple and not intellectualised.  Given this you can imagine that my out of comfort zone... It’s been a struggle but I’ve managed to bag a couple of kilos of tomatoes this year from the kitchen garden. It was quite a buzz to roast them off with my own grown garlic and herbs. I didn’t have the energy to sieve them to make a smooth... 
