If they were giving out tardiness badges to bloggers I’d be up there in the front of the queue. Carefully crafted in my head, this blog post was planned to celebrate one of my favourite garden rituals, the annual planting of the garlic. But, such great... 
It’s hard to pinpoint when my romantic notions of olives started. Â Certainly not when the school nurse warmed up a spoonful of olive oil over a bunsen burner poured it over a cottonwood plug that was unceremoniously jammed into my ailing ear with reassurance... 
It’s not like I didn’t spend hours training our basset hounds in basic dog etiquette. You know the usual commands of “sit, lie, come, stay, off, no, leave.” Trouble is that the trainer recommended food as the training incentive which in... Like Wednesday’s, the winter solstice is that hump day that makes the winter bearable. Â It’s the metaphorical permission you need to embrace winter because you know that summer is on its way once again. Â As if to celebrate midwinter, nature threw New... In my experience planning home projects in New Zealand requires the patience of a saint and the foresight of a fashion designer. Â You need to be looking ahead to the next season far in advance. Â So whilst the sun was high in the sky I was plotting all those... 
