Having a tin roof on your house is a serious disadvantage when you live nestled in a valley and a rain cloud seems to have lodged itself bringing a constant downpour. Together with a rain collection down pipe just outside your bedroom window it makes for ... 
I can only imagine the pomp and ceremony that will be taking place in the UK over this weekend with the official celebrations of the Queen’s 60th Jubilee. Here in the colonies we shall make the most of the usual long weekend in honor of her Majesty’s... 
Rainbows may be a physical manifestation of moisture and light but I much prefer to think of them in terms of their magical and mystical powers. Yesterday I saw the Inter Island Ferry from Wellington cruise right through a rainbow in the harbour and imagined a... With jack frost nipping at our heels I like to look at my autumnal photographs from our trip to Queenstown for an instant warm-up. Â All those fiery colours warm the cockles of your heart. Â The child in me wants to run down the path kicking up the leaves perhaps... There is a mystic to the South Island of New Zealand that I have never experienced anywhere else I have travelled in the world. Â Every corner and crevice seems to contain a magic that lifts your sense of place in the world. Â Even in these modern times you can... 
