As my bones creak and muscles ache I can only imagine this is how Sisyphus would have felt on his quest to push a boulder up a hill. Whilst much of the rest of New Zealand heads to the beach, the lakes or the mountains we stay at home and make our annual effort to... 
I don’t know about you but I’m feeling a little short changed by 2011.  It’s been a good year in so many ways but it has passed in a flash and I don’t feel I’m done with it yet. But that’s time for you, running away at its own... 
I had hardly walked in the front door when I was out the back slipping on my gum boots and trying hard not to break into a sprint down the garden steps. Â The chickens ran out of the house in hope of a late supper and clucked with disappointment as I trotted past them... Once again seasonal schizophrenia has hit me. Â As we rush headlong into Summer friends and family in the northern hemisphere are buttoning up their winter coats and hunkering down. Christmas is just around the corner but I couldn’t feel less Christmasy if I... I hesitate to talk too loudly about dealing with pests in the garden for fear that they may reek their revenge. Â The chickens and I have already had a summit on what’s acceptable scratching and what the consequences will be if they persist in flying the coup... 
