Not much left of 2009, and yes, here I am at home blogging, and not out getting the worse for wear, struggling to hear what people are sayin...

So last night, when I gave the cats their supper, there was this on the back door mat - glistening, slimy and fully seven centimetres long. ...

So I've had all the fun - in the last 6 months I've been to Australia, Thailand, China, Ecuador, the UK and Ireland, India and some ...

And it's been a beautiful, beautiful day: calm, cloudless, hot; excellent food, good company, successful presents; nothing worse on the ...

This is what Christmas Eve morning is looking like here in Auckland: warm sunshine, flowers, lazy cat hogging the best chair. What's mis...

Last night I squandered a couple of hours of my life that I'll never get back watching the movie 'Stardust', a silly although ho...

The lupins are in flower down south, sheets of them growing pink, blue and purple over the river flats and around the lake; and yellow up on...