The track to the beach at Blackhead. Parking by the quarry, I love the natural tunnel that leads you down, and that this beautiful place...

Truffle sandwiches, duck confit, caramelised walnut tart with chocolate icing - excited for my new book purchase from the Dunedin City...

On Sunday I headed inland with my trusty old bike. Just over an hour drive to Hyde where I did the flat, return bike ride to Daisybank on...

St Clair beach this morning. A bonus of autumn is being able to get to the beach for sunrise, and not having to get out of bed at 5am to...

A favourite purchase over summer was this vintage canvas beach chair from Ha’pennys Collectables and Furniture in Princes St, Dunedin. It...

On International Women’s Day I’d love to celebrate Emily Siedeberg - New Zealand’s first woman medical graduate. Born at Clyde in 1873,...

NZ Seaweek! So much fun holding this (rather chilled out looking) apricot sea star, along with many other marine species from the Otago...

When I planted sweet peas in pots in my Dunedin garden, I was warned it might have been too late in the season...but away I went, with...

Woodside Glen near Outram for wild blackberry foraging. I discovered these last year, someone had even created a track into the prickly...

Last weekend I took myself up a track towards Fraser Dam in the hills above Alexandra/Clyde. Unfortunately I got to a point where I...