Make time. To make more.

There’s a joy in making something that’s hard to replicate. Building with our hands is something we’ve done for millennia, it’s hard wired into us. Recently…

Eat. More. Cake.

It’s simple, life is better with cake. And perhaps now more than ever, we’re appreciating the things we love, even more. Cake is pretty high on…

Notice more

This week, I started to notice more. I walk past this tree in our garden a lot but hadn’t really noticed how beautiful it is. Especially…

Is this the new normal?

  The answer is, yes. But whilst we might be more separated and distanced it’s also occurred to me that this is probably bringing us closer.…

Fox Glacier to the Tasman Sea – Part 3

It was about 12 noon and we’d had an amazing morning already. Getting off the glacier was proving to be quite an adventure and the skiing so…

Fox Glacier to the Tasman Sea – Part 2

With the break over and still a long way to go, we set off again to enjoy a simply majestic ski down and towards the Chancellor…

Fox Glacier to the Tasman Sea – Part 1

  Our penultimate day was coming to an end. Tomorrow we would pack up and ski down off the glacier. The weather began to clear in the…

White Out on Newton Pass

  At 5pm every evening there’s a radio call with the DOC, for a weather update and a daily register of the groups staying at the…

The Kelvinator

  So at last we make it into the mountains. After a 1 day delay due to poor weather we drive north to Mount Cook National…

Full moon on the Tasman Glacier

  The 2nd night we spent on the glacier there was an amazing full moon. Despite fading battery power from a cold day on the ice…