1. Gazpacho in cartons from the supermarket 2. Ruins: ruins are lovely. Why don’t we have more of them? 3. Orangutans: Australia should...

Actually, this year the game of Move The Tables From The Verandah To The Garden And Back Again Thrice As The Weather Changes was knocked...

Invitations: To get the numbers up, it’s useful invite people to your party. I used Paperless Post for electronic invitations. It is...

Better a terrible photo than none at all, that’s what I always say. I couldn’t put my spoon down long enough to take a photo with two...

Swimming in an ocean rock pool. I am a bit slow, clearly, but I have finally discovered a place that has all the nice seawater of the...

Anyway, My Kitchen Rules is a cooking competition, and last night the competitors each had to choose a dish and cook it in ninety...

As you can see, this is a very ordinary photograph of some bacon in a bain marie. Why would anyone put such a bad picture on their blog,...

Wearing my new spectacles: They make me look like Colin Firth in A Single Man. The ladies are going to swoon. Watching May Blossom’s...

Wearing sandals,  thongs, or plastic Melissa shoes. Looking at the photograph ‘Nat and the Girls’ by my clever friend John Witzig,...

The reason for the subterfuge is that since blackberries are a terrible pest in these parts, and you are supposed to keep them away by...

Did you know there is such a thing as Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease? No? Well, you do now. I highly recommend not google-image searching...

Freezing fog, that’s the forecast for Denver this morning. I didn’t even know that was a thing. Shows how much I know about weather....

My kitchen is as tidy as my photographs are focused. As the day when we board a plane for a fourteen-hour flight with a toddler grows...

This young orang-utan could rustle up a tastier dinner that the recipe that follows. Sometimes when the supplies of food in our house get...

Just a quick post this morning, because I am supposed to be packing for our long weekend away. We fly this evening, and when we wake up...