Today we are celebrating our beautiful Kate’s 22nd birthday!! (Away from her unfortunately. 🙁 ) But I feel the same joy today that I...

Today Samuel and I pulled all of our carrots – a great harvest of them. Plus, I actually got some brussel sprouts for dinner! (N.Z’s most...

The kids and I woke up at 3am on Wednesday and drove down to Auckland airport to meet Josiah, home after four months in the States. It...

After one last massive flood last week, we finally have spring here! The grass is green, daffodils and feesias and jonquils are...

Well it’s been a long time since I wrote a post here, but I do have an excuse. 🙂 The trip to Cambodia and Vietnam was wonderful…full of...

Thought I’d get one last post up before we climb aboard the silver bird and fly across the seas to Kate in Cambodia. 🙂 We leave at 11am...

There have been a lot of comings and goings in the family of late. I thought I’d give a brief update: A few weeks ago we welcomed our new...

Today we discovered two visitors in our pool – a wise pair of ducks who took shelter from the hunters across the river. 🙂 I wonder if...

On Wednesday my darling 90-year-old mum had a fall and hurt her right leg. She was in a lot of pain so we ended up spending eight hours...

It was the adventure of the holidays – a trip to the beach with four horses and the gig!!! Penny and I spent a few anxious stressful...

We’ve just skyped Kate and talked about the exciting news! Chris, Samuel and I have booked our tickets to come and visit her in July!...

I woke at 2.30am on Sunday night with the noise of rain and wind. It was something else! But I felt like we were in some deep cave – the...

On Sunday we celebrated my darling mum’s 90th birthday!!! We set tables and chairs out on the grass at their cottage and the weather was...

Yesterday Penny came down and helped Milly and I put Peony in the gig for the first time. We trained her to pull a cart last year and...

We have just had five of the cutest little Indian Runner ducklings hatch, and this morning Mama took them out for their very first walk...

What a wonderful time of year harvest is! Our trees are laden with pears and peaches and my little  damson plum tree filled a good size...

I woke feeling so melancholic and sad this morning. At 4.30 on Thursday morning I’m taking Kate and Ellie to Auckland airport – both are...

Saturday evening came in softly and still – not a breath of wind! The perfect balmy evening for a midsummer’s music by candlelight on our...

Peony is now ten days over, having missed the opportunity to foal on Christmas Day, New year’s Eve, and the first day of 2012! In fact...