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A 200 Post Hiatus

I started this blog thinking it would be nice to focus on things that delight me, and to feel gratitude for them. Most of the time I can do that. But maintaining a daily blog can start to become a chore. And I'm losing the delight in Daily Delights. So I'm taking a break. It …

A tidy drawer

Sometimes, our delights are just little things. I organised a single drawer yesterday, throwing away things I didn't need or were no longer functional, putting a "test" group of items together to use over the next month and decide if I want to keep them, and sorting and arranging the rest of the items. How …

A free day

No obligations, golf had been the day before, and it was a free day! So the Husband and I did some chores, he dropped me at a shop I wanted to see and he went off to some he wanted to visit. and after a satisfying hour or two without each other, and a delicious …

Making repairs

I have a favourite travel bag. It has lots of zips and pockets for passports, money, phone, and many other necessities of travel, and has a long strap so I can wear it across my body and have my hands free. It's black, and looks okay. Practical but not very stylish, in New Zealand it …

Remembrance

Today was an anniversary. My first niece was born on the same day I flew out of New Zealand for the first time as a 17-year-old. It was the start of some wonderful adventures, adventures I couldn't have believed possible. And although I didn't meet L for another year, but it doesn't seem to have …