It wasn’t just the clocks that receded last weekend but our summer was also replaced by a gloomy kind of autumn. An autumn with few redeeming features or comfort.  No marvellous mist nor autumnal palette to warm the soul.  Just damp, dank chills and rainfall.... 
Sometimes living in New Zealand feels like being on the edge of far away, Â plagued by wobbly land and battered by winds from the frozen south. Â That is of course a rather a pessimist view of the world. Â The optimist in me knows that New Zealand is much more... 
It’s hard to pinpoint when my romantic notions of olives started.  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... Surrounded by such natural beauty in the South Island of New Zealand it’s a real challenge not to walk around with your mouth wide open.  There are jaw dropping views all around you with autumn colours, rugged peaks and seemingness endless lakes.  It took us... Amongst the drizzle lies the pioneer heartland of New Zealand Wanaka, New Zealand 
