Somewhere amongst making Afternoon Tea, bread making, baking croissants and making cheese earlier this year I started to realise that I really like food. Â No really – making food, reading about food, talking about food and yes, of course, eating it too. Â I... 
The long Easter break last weekend was the perfect reason to kick back, enjoy the warm spell and take a break from the never ending list of things to do. Â There is a promise of lots more lovely fine weather which is such a temptation to hang out the hammock again and... 
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... Admittedly we’re all creatures of habit but never more so that a basset hound. Â They are smart and they know their own mind with preferred ways of doing things that have little to do with pleasing their pack leader. Â Needless to say that basset owners tend to... 
On Kapiti Island the bird life completely mesmorised me. Closer to home I am cursing the little blighters for taking dust baths in my flower beds and leaving waste on my verandas. For all the momentary annoyance I do feel very lucky to have such a proliferation of... 
