the STUNNING photography of gerrard gethings, specially the bumblebees! revisiting the video of otters holding hands (you know the one, right?) watching kittens sleep with their bodies arranged as if they were made of jelly knowing there’s a MUJI store where i’m travelling to next
a diary of tiny pleasures
the first gasp of air after surfacing from a dive into cooling sea water bird antics our workday commute clean sheets making art i have no intention of sharing publicly the blue blue blue of our summer sky
photo laundry
+++ it’s saturday morning and the three days of auckland anniversary weekend spread before us, bathed in possibility. we have a couple of plans. well, i have a couple of plans, and nic goes along with them (thankfully). there’s an early(ish) start to head off the island, a car warrant-of-fitness followed by an impromptu stop […]
in these beginning days of january
we remind ourselves how much we have to be grateful for with this island life we have chosen, even though we are already back at work. with daily commutes into the city, we want to intentionally and deliberately savour island life in the remainder of our waking hours. +++ we’ve had friends from overseas visit, […]
one foot up in heaven
+++ this time last weekend we were on a ferry home from the mainland. we’d risen early on saturday, packed the car with breakfast & overnight supplies and picked Nic’s mother up from the mainland. we drove for 4 hours down to turangi, stopping in at our accommodation for pre-made sandwiches and to drop things […]
today
+++ things i’m loving on today: that i can work from home during the xmas break lunchtime swims bumblebees sunshine a drying out of all that has been soaked through from heavy rain the past few days fresh peas out of the garden tur-duck-en sausage rolls, made from xmas day leftovers the quiet at our […]
dear ___
dear instagram modern magazine article influence app’er. i read your latest piece in the __________ and felt compelled to write a letter to your editor. whilst your photos are pretty and your words have a lyrical and poetic cadence to them, you are romanticising places that are groaning under the weight of the international instabookapp […]