Don’t you think it’s a wonderful feeling when things go right. Having set myself a goal to bake my way through the NZ Treasury of Baking as a way to improve my baking prowess I’m chuffed that so far everything I’ve attempted has been a... I hate to admit it but autumn is really here. There are toadstools a plenty popping up in the Kaitoke Forest. It was the shaft of light that highlighted this act of nature. The only consolation about autumn arriving is that it means that we can start blackberry... After a tense week, normal war and peace has resumed with the bassets. They were united in destroying this toy to get the much more interesting to chew stuffing out. Shame that bassets don’t play catch or fetch. It would be much less exhausting for... It’s hardly surprising that the prolific growth of courgettes in the world has spawned creative ideas for cooking them. I was delighted to see in my Treasury of New Zealand Baking book that like carrots there is a place for courgettes in cakes. I was... My fellow tweeters will know that little basset has had surgery. A minor operation to sew up his ear. He is fine but nursing 8 stitches and suffering the indignity of having to walk around with a cloth bag over his ear (a precautionary measure to stop him licking... 