Category: Adventure

  • No photos please

    All of a sudden Astrid won’t let me take her photo. And the camera lead crapped out. So there haven’t been many photos of late. But there will be soon. Because soon soon we’ll be back in London, back on the Heath, back on our epic walks around villages, around the Heath, up to Hampstead…

  • Roderick Road

    We’ll be back here soon.

  • The story of the 1px squiggly line

    This is what happens when you delete your flickr account without a moment’s care or hesitation. Especially when you were trying to be all clever and link all your photos from flickr. And then one night you just recklessly delete your flickr accounts. Without a care in the world. And I’m terribly sorry but I’m…

  • Garden notes

    This is our winter order from www.ediblegarden.co.nz Yesterday I actually sat on the front porch and enjoyed the sun and the new roses and thought about where I’d plant the new grapes. All the hard work is paying off – it’s a pretty good feeling being able to sit down and enjoy the garden. 1…

  • History

    Tonight I am filing things, to print out. To tick off. And I thought I would just delete EVERYTHING off my desktop. Until I found February 2006. It sort of looked important. This is our favourite house. And here’s Kevin all those four years ago the day before we got on the plane for my…

  • Gardening with intent

    So much to write and show and so many emails to ask if things are ok and they are. I am gardening with ferocious intent. My camera cable breaks after thirty images download and I’m too lazy to do buy one after one failed attempt. Mimi had her first birthday and I need to do…

  • once upon a time

    Charlotte just couldn’t get the words out in public anymore. But really I had planned to write about Astrid. On the 28th of December. Tonight I deleted passages of meaningless text. And bought myself a new domain. But for now the most pressing writing task is to write a meditation upon Astrid. Something I knew…

  • The sweet sweet smell of Rarotonga

    Into our fifth day at The Beach Place – fittingly right on the beach – at Tikioki, nestled between Muri and Titikavaka on the south eastern coast of Rarotonga. We arrived to blistering hot sun, a lovely long afternoon walk along a tropical plant lined road, on a grassy footpath, up to Muri village shops…

  • Bureau for Visual Affairs

    After months of looking I’ve tracked them down. My favourite design agency. www.bureau-va.com I am also very much loving salted herring and ocean design.

  • Lovely NZ

    … is back! I’ve merged all the sites and we’re now running everything out of Lovely NZ. Please add it to your bloglines – now I’ve got my iPhone hooked up with a decent camera – and to wordpress we’ll be updating regularly.

  • Sunday sunday

    Hot today. Hot and cloudy. First post direct from the iPhone. Ace!

  • what’s your favourite native bird?

    Vote at the Forest and Bird Society. Here