Bibliophilia

Let me say that in... most... countries, 95 percent of the built environment is merchandise. It's not architecture. It's merchandis...

This is my odometer (123456) at about 8pm last night just before the turnoff to Oakura. This post is dedicated to Rachel, Bill and Sylvie wh...

Should I ever get too bogged down in self-criticism, I only have to think about my friends to help get a better perspective. First of all ...

The most adrenaline I've produced from reading a book lately has been my encounter with The Handmade House: A love story set in concrete...

Two new (to me) species spotted lately live and loose in Hukeranui. 1. A stoat ran across the road like a ripple of fox-red fur, stopping ...

After visiting four Hikurangi open homes within an hour and 500 metres of each other (three of them asking almost exactly the same price) I ...

Since I sold the one house I've owned (Dunedin, fifteen years ago) and blew the profit on travelling, I've been a strong advocate of...

Al made a beautiful little vegetable garden here before he went home to Te Horo. There's a ton of lettuce and other greens for right no...

Outside the bathroom window, perched over the vent for the bathroom's extraction fan is a nest that looks rather like a lump of mud from...

Don't be frightened, it's still the same blog, just a different outfit. Giddy with the illusion of techno-competence created by simp...

Thanks to Twisty , I found this Swedish 70s kitch site that made me hoot like a baboon.

As I sit here in front of the laptop trying to decide what to write about I am making myself sick with a bag of jellybeans that I received i...

Every time I've asked anyone in Whangarei where to go for good bread, at best they've wrinkled their brow and said "The bakery...

The owners of our current housesit are mad keen on water features (and rocks, which they brought in every last one of from her brother's...

I was visiting a family this weekend where, Rory, about 8 years old, turned out to have an even more extensive collection of possum bones th...