After three years of cool damp summers we had a blast from the past over the weekend - most of our part of the country over 35 degrees, fire...

Nostalgia post today - inspired by the blue and white cotton frock - here I am in another blue and white cotton frock that I made for myself...

Another weekend of 30+ degree days has seen me back at the beach and back in the surf ... doing absolutely nothing and it's great. We ar...

The first parliamentary sitting week of the year is done, with the usual shock to the system of long days and having to focus. Dreaming of r...

It was sunny and hot and I swam in the ocean for hours! A proper summer weekend, although a bit late in arriving. It looks like we are buyin...

School started again this week - we don't have kids at school any more but suddenly there are more cars on the road, more people in at w...

So the house that we can't stop thinking about is too old for storage - built with a distinct lack of cupboards. Which is bad in a lot o...