My mum always said that her fingers were as green as they looked. Despite her best efforts (and the chivvying of her husband and children to do the same) our family garden looked, at best, tidy, at worst overgrown and weedy. Her gardening DNA strand runs through me like a buttercup root runs through a […]
Who Da Man!
My husband is a problem solver. I don’t mean puzzles – he’s not really into those, although he has become obsessed with Wordle lately – but tell him there’s an issue with something, or a device won’t work, and he pauses only to whip off his underpants and put them on top of his trousers […]
The Mills
Travel anywhere in New Zealand and you’ll see evidence of our primary industries. Cows graze in fields and amble along purpose-built tracks, through tunnels under roads towards milking sheds; sheep dot hillsides and crowd into farmyards, awaiting a haircut (if you’re lucky you’ll catch them between the two). On the roads trucks carrying towering piles […]
Light
Writing for this blog seems to have taken a back seat in my life recently and in a where-the-hell-did-those-months-go moment, I realised last week it’s almost a year since we visited Newfoundland. Maybe I’ll actually get this online before that year is up. (I did, along with a plethora of lighthouse pictures for you!) A […]
The Mist Clears
11-14th August 2023 In St John’s the mist finally dissipates, the wind so strong I think little would be able to stand in its way. On Signal Hill small trees struggle to hold onto their roots and I struggle to hold onto my balance. (Later, it will take me ten minutes of tugging to comb […]
To The Point
10-11th August 2023 Short stays mark this portion of the holiday, a couple of nights and then another travel day, each taking us east. Apart from the necessary (and annoying) hop back to Toronto for our London flight we will continue east until we get home. We arrive back on the Avalon peninsula wondering if […]
Trailling
As I go about my daily life I have a constant nag telling me I haven’t yet finished our Newfoundland stories. Particularly apposite is that it’s about a year since we put the final touches to our itinerary and started booking flights and accommodation – the memory of our credit card bills from this time […]
Passing The Brush
We’ve just finished painting four rooms in our house. On the basis that two of them were the laundry that runs into the hallway leading to the bedroom (the third room) some may quibble with the figure but, whichever way you count, by the time we’d finished it felt like four hundred rooms. I […]
Gros Morne
Given that most of Newfoundland is likely to be under a few feet of snow right now it may seem strange to read this, but please note the dates. I’m still catching up on our trip, the hold up with posting often being the wait for photos – my photographer is a busy man and […]
Food for the Soul
A few days ago we ate at our favourite restaurant for the last time. A fixture on the Wellington dining scene since it opened eight years ago, Field & Green has now closed its doors for the final time. We aren’t the only ones who will miss them, even though, living mainly away from the […]
Tracy Annenberg 