One of my Christmas presents was tickets to the Fat Freddy's Drop concert at Ascension Vineyards in Matakana, which happened just this w...

My garden is a shambles right now. We went away for a week, then I had a sore back, and on top of it all the possums ate all of my first cro...

Last weekend our band played at a wedding in Omapere , which is a small coastal settlement on the Hokianga Harbour in Northland, - not far f...

Oh, two weeks have scurried by since my last post, just busy times mid summer, and we have been away (found a few glorious junk shops too, t...

Don't you love that time just after Christmas? There is still so much food around that I haven't needed to cook properly for days an...

There is nothing that says Christmas time to a New Zealander more than our own Christmas tree - the Pohutukawa, which flowers in December. N...

I'm not complaining, just noting that having Spring roll into Christmas in the Southern Hemisphere makes for a very busy time if you are...