New Zealand

Stoking the Bonfire

Family Stories by LoisNovember 4, 2025November 4, 2025

Pub quiz… one team member off visiting kiwis!

Pubs and and pints... beer, wine and spirits by LoisSeptember 4, 2018September 5, 2018

Using my blog

Writing by LoisMay 25, 2018September 15, 2018

TV, radio, film and theatre by LoisFebruary 26, 2017February 26, 2017

I wrote yesterday about my preferred genre of fiction – mystery, crime,police procedural, so it’s no surprise that it’s also my preferred TV viewing too. I don’t actually watch a lot of TV, most evenings I’m here, writing, although recently, in an effort to improve fitness and lose a few of the pounds gained over […]

Tales from the Dolphin…

Pubs and and pints... beer, wine and spirits by LoisOctober 2, 2016

Food by LoisApril 18, 2015

Treasure Trove

This advertisement was in my mum’s copy of Mrs Beeton; I don’t know the date of the advert, if it was very much older than the book which my mum was given for Christmas in 1950. It is striking in many ways. First of all, the idea of captain Cook arriving at a place which is […]

The Luminaries

Books by LoisAugust 19, 2014

Family Stories by LoisMarch 25, 2014November 3, 2025

Stoking the bonfire

This picture hung on the wall at home for as long as I can remember; I knew it wasn’t really a picture of me, but I always thought my mum had got it because the little girl looked like me. I actually think maybe it reminded her of her own childhood. I had also thought […]