Happy October! So excited to be here...not for the same reason as anyone else, though, it seems! I have a bunch of American friends and I also follow a bunch of American bloggers on social media, and I swear, all I've seen for the last ~10 days has been pumpkins, autumn leaves, and Halloween sweets … Continue reading Five things in September
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Wonderview update: progress on the country house
Hiiiiiiii and welcome to this very overdue update! Remember how I mentioned a few months ago that I would put together a post or two about the projects we'd completed at Wonderview in the first six months of my 101 in 1001 list? Yeah weeeeelllllllll. Here we are. I definitely meant to write this sooner, … Continue reading Wonderview update: progress on the country house
Wonderview in bloom
Just a very quick interlude to show off some of the flowers springing into life around Wonderview. Over the nearly six years of owning this land, we've been steadily working on it, trying to turn it from a patch of scraggly grass, surrounded by acres of stunning natural forest and country fields, to a verdant, … Continue reading Wonderview in bloom
The last weekend of winter
Kia ora! How are you?! We're just back from a few days skiing – more on that later, but it was a BRILLIANT holiday. It has been many a year since I skied in New Zealand. We're very lucky to have a ski field within driving distance! Now we're back, I came across these photos … Continue reading The last weekend of winter
Five things in August
Annnnnddddd another month of 2020 bites the dust. I was trying to write the date earlier and I wrote June...because in my head it's June. Shrug. It seems I'm moving in three month cycles this year – for the longest time I thought it was still March, I think because March is when normal life stopped … Continue reading Five things in August