by Ria Voros | May 17, 2017 | From Ria, Seasonal
This week we left our house to begin life in a new one. A whole new garden of woodbugs, as it were. But before we left, our sturdy, reliable old rhubarb plant gave us a final farewell. Before I moved to that house, I had never seen a rhubarb flower. I didn’t...
by Hannah | Apr 25, 2017 | Food, From Hannah, Includes a recipe!, Seasonal, Sweet Little Something
The sun has set on another Anzac Day, the day New Zealanders and Australians commemorate those who served in wars. It is a public holiday and always rather special – even aside from the important acknowledgment of our forces and our country’s...
by Ria Voros | Mar 29, 2017 | From Ria, Seasonal, Travel
Friends, March just tipped over into spring and the snowdrops are out. The coldest, snowiest winter we’ve seen in a lot of years (because we are spoiled with warm, rainy winters most of the time) has become an archived story filled with even more of those...
by Ria Voros | Feb 8, 2017 | Food, From Ria, Includes a recipe!, Seasonal, Writing
We’ve been waking up to snow all week. This island on the west coast doesn’t get a lot of snowy days, and even though this winter has been colder and snowier than most, it’s still enough of a novelty that snowy wake-ups are awe-filled moments. Norman...
by Hannah | Jan 18, 2017 | Books & Reading, Food, From Hannah, Kids and Parenting, Seasonal
And just like that…Christmas was gone. I don’t know about you but I’m still getting used to dating things ‘2017’. As keen as I was to see the back of 2016 it does seem a bit discombobulating that we are suddenly in a new...
by Ria Voros | Jan 11, 2017 | Food, From Ria, Seasonal
The other day I was rifling through a bottom drawer in my desk when I found a small flower-printed note pad. I’d stashed it there in the hopes certain small people wouldn’t find it and realize how perfect it was for spontaneous art projects. It was pretty and...
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