Fruit Bowl and Food Basket

It’s difficult for me to think of another region (off the top of my head) that can hold a candle to Hawke’s Bay at this time of the year for fresh fruit and produce. Rebranding itself as Wine Country in more recent years, it’s been good for its growing reputation …

Great Scott!

I’ve been a big fan of architect John Scott for many many years though it’s probably truer to say I was a fan of his architecture long before I became a fan of his personally. Before that, I simply didn’t know the work belonged to him. I’ve found his work …

Our BIG Sister

“Gratitude they say, is a most beautiful ornament of the human heart.” I agree, entirely. If I were ever asked to sit at a table with six people I’d really like to be sitting there with, one of those six would be Suzanne Aubert. For that chance, I would be …

Marshwigglian Musings

He famously (or infamously depending on your disposition) said, “Nothing wrong with me. Not a frog. Nothing frog with me. I’m a respectabiggle” and “Suppose we have only dreamed, or made up, all of those things—trees and grass and sun and moon and stars and Aslan himself. Suppose we have. …

Comic Genius

It’s difficult bursting the bubble on prejudice right? Right! Over the past few years and with the the help of my friend Frazer, he began the re-education of Penneylane (that’s me!). It’s a prejudice that came about through ignorance and habit (a ’settled’ disposition). Prejudice is a process, so …