All For A Button

I must have spent about one-and-a-half days trying to put a blue widget-style WP-Reader button under the 'sign-up by email' button on the blog I'm doing for Nigel. It's not a widget area but the Creator Plan allows me to add custom code and I was doing it that way - with help from the... Continue Reading →

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Mt Benger Show

It's taken me all this time to do a post about it, but I thought I'd share with you our visit to the Mt Benger A&P Show on 17 February this year. It was a very late decision to attend prompted by me spotting a highway sign advertising the date. Nigel phoned them and they... Continue Reading →

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Invitation

Ptelea trifoliata or Hop Tree. Dunedin Botanic Garden, 24 May 2024. Photo by Nigel Nigel was in Dunedin on Friday 24 May, which is very late autumn here in New Zealand and he came across this glorious Hop Tree! I thought it would make a great header photo for his inaugural post on the new... Continue Reading →

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Long Garden

We're developing a long garden strip at home by our driveway; I took these photos a few days ago. The ground is full of junk (hence the bucket in the last photo). This morning we dug out two saucepans, glass bottles, broken glass and ceramics, and rocks.. just from a tiny area. it's hard work!... Continue Reading →

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Wild

This morning I decided to pop out with my camera and get a few pics of the garden.

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Colourful Nature

Lovely orange and yellow lichen and cheery yellow Verbascum flowers found on rocky roadside banks above Ettrick from when we stopped en route to Moa Flat. Both photos were taken by Nigel. Central Otago, New Zealand. 26 December.

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On We Go

After finding the Ettrick Santa (Boxing Day) we returned home via Moa Flat. From the car I'd previously spotted some unusual-looking plants on steep banks at the side of the road (heading up the hill from Ettrick). Nigel found a spot to park and we traipsed through the long grasses and wandered along the top... Continue Reading →

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