Smeared with honey

The toaster turns 100 this year. It was the world’s first electrical appliance, and is still going strong. Long live the toaster.
Toast is true comfort food, and has been since long before the toaster arrived. When I was young, a special treat was toasting bread over the open fire in [...]

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Last of the Summer …

This week it seemed as if winter had indeed arrived. Temperatures of 14 degrees C put me in a miserable mood all week, as to add insult to injury our central heating was not working. But today the sun reappeared, and after a day stuck in my office working on some frustrating documents, [...]

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Technology Etiquette

After reading Mrs Slocombe’s post Just leave your card, I thought it was time we had an etiquette relating to technology. And so I raced through creating one, relishing the opportunity to record exactly what I consider to be unacceptable behaviour. (In other words, the things that really irritate me). Then I [...]

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I’m leaving on a jet plane …

I was at the airport yesterday, sending my mother home after a short visit. Wellington’s airport brands itself “Wild at Heart” which was particularly accurate yesterday, as a cold southerly came through, the wind blustery and the rain coming in sideways, sea spray flying up at the end of the runway, and the waves [...]

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Who was she?

As I sat licking my mango gelato, enjoying the languid late summer afternoon at the bay, I saw the woman walk by. Heading purposefully towards the city, she strode along the beach path, slight and lithe. She looked like she had not had an easy life, about 40 or 50 years of it. [...]

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