For a while I thought that the Spinach in my potager was going to be my second flop crop. After my disappointment with the broad beans I didn’t want any more growing failures right now. After all my spinach plants had battled through the winter being chomped... There has been high excitement across our local community with the news that a farmers market was opening up in Upper Hutt. Although there are a growing number of markets across New Zealand Upper Hutt is definitely one of the pioneers in the revolution for locally... We’ve been bewitched with a spate of technology failures. First it was the breadmaker and then it’s been the computer, printer, wall lights, food processor and finally the lawn mowers. I don’t know if we’re jinxed or perhaps I’m just... Although I don’t get out as much as I ought to there is one place I visit each week that takes little effort and makes me feel great. It may be an imaginary place but for 75 minutes each week its real. I’m a self confessed Archers Addict and have the... Spring is suposed flowers in bloom, lambs frolicing in the fields, trees getting greener, lighter and longer days and most of all plenty of time to get out. I’m not sure what’s gone wrong this year. Sure we have the countryside renewal but the... 