New Year Update
It's been a real up and down first month of summer here in Hawke's Bay, New Zealand. We've had downpours of rain turning our gardens into...
The garden is in bloom.
You only have to blink at this time of year and the garden can get away from you. By which I mean that the weeds suddenly.....almost over...
Springtime again!
Leo Tolstoy wrote in Anna Karenina “Spring is the time of plans and projects.” And how very true that is. I am well behind on some of the...
Booktown - Featherston
Monday 27th August 2018 finds me in the South Wairarapa town of Featherston - a place that I have driven through many times, but never...
Garden update - winter is here.
It's the 1st of June, therefore the end of Autumn and the beginning of winter, and don't we know it! This last couple of weeks have been...
Hooked on books.....or, you can't pay for everything with beans.
Anyone who knows me and has visited our home therefore knows that I love books. Novels, biographies, poetry, travel, photography,...
Our relationship with the earth/soil....and Corporate greed.
Oh where to start on this one? From when the first human had the idea of planting seed in the earth to produce food we have been trying...
Movies to move you.....
As the last remnants of the British Empire crumble and Britannia slips beneath the waves, there are still a few things that the British...
Don't shoot the messenger.....
A review of two travel books / travelogues Much in the way that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, what makes a good travel book is...
Autumn brings changes...
As I write this blog post, we are about to step into the final month of Autumn (or Fall for those in the USA) and Winter is just around...
