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
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
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
Hello! How was your weekend? Ours was lovely and over too soon – aren't they always?! We were lucky with the weather and got one and a half days of sunshine, and of course we're lucky with the latest lockdown; being (just) outside of Auckland means we're able to move a bit more freely than our … Continue reading A visit with my parents
We're lucky enough to have two fantastic farmer's markets on every Saturday morning here in Mangawhai. Almost every Saturday we pop into our favourite to pick up some fruit, vegetables and sourdough, but sometimes we linger with a coffee and a treat...especially when the weather is nicer. From time to time, we follow that up … Continue reading Simple Saturdays
The Judd Crew 