Kia Ora! Look what we've got growing! I try to not buy fruit and veg that come from overseas, but bananas are one item that get reque...

Deodorant dilemmas Last summer my home-made coconut oil/ baking soda deodorant failed . It just stopped working. I suspect this has someth...

Hi All. Ok so it must be weird fruit week here. I had not tried eating a choko since my mother served the tasteless, slimey things up when...

Where does the time go?  We have been busy - cleaning out our garage so that Katie could have a 17th birthday party in there (eek - but the...

Kia Ora! Today I have a selection of things that I've saved by giving them a second life.  The first is a leather bag of just the r...

While I was in town today, Derek popped over the road and caught a Kahawai for dinner. Kahawai is also known as Sea Trout - to give you an i...

Wow it's 99% humidity here today after 5 days of rain - it feels like the tropics. It is hard to find enthusiasm to do much, so time to...