Bibliophilia

 Installing at The Framing Workshop was delightful because Sarah Marsdon is super efficient and super nice. She is also a perfectionist a...

Tomorrow 'Just a Little Spill' will open at The Framing Workshop in Hamilton.  The work is long finished, packed and ready to hang. ...

New growth Most years around the anniversary of my very first blog post here on 12 January 2005, I write a sort of meta-post, where I co...

Looking back through my journal I came across my sketches and notes made  in the days and weeks following the Rena oil Spill in October 201...

Check out this  interview with me on Huffington Post

Family portrait, New Years Eve 2012 I started 2013 with 20 jars of new preserves made over the previous few days. In these uncertain ti...

Thornless blackberry, like tiny rosebuds The blackberry a few weeks later, developing drupes Southland Sno Pea, a heritage pea ...

Rocket stove blasts off My sun oven stays hanging on the wall on overcast days, of which there are many in a Hamilton summer.  Eve...

Eating from the garden every day. Is it possible to overdose on leafy greens? Because I've never eaten so many in my life before, I...