Hello lovely family, friends and followers! I’m currently in London, co-looking after a friend’s family’s lovely spaniel called Maddie — floof pictured below. At the moment I’m sitting in their kitchen having just iced my Grandma’s chocolate cake recipe, which I whipped up last night on a whim. Maddie - the aforementioned 'floof' The recipe comes from a little book I’ve carried with me since I left New Zealand in 2013. It’s filled with my family’s handwritten recipes — notes in margins,...

(FYI: Internet a bit sketchy on the train so pictures to be updated later!) Dear friends, family, and anyone who has accidentally found themselves here, Merry Christmas from seat 260 on the upper deck of coach number 2 of a OuiGo train hurtling south out of Paris. I am currently wedged somewhere between Bordeaux and Agen, watching suprisingly un-wintery farmland blur past at speed, drinking mediocre coffee, and contemplating the strange reality that Christmas Day now often arrives for me in...

Hello lovely people who read these blogs (Hi, Mum), It's been a while since I've written one of these posts, and it's been interesting to notice why that is. But before we get to that—yes, another deep thought process from yours truly—let’s start with a little update on what’s been happening since my last post. Since coming back to Australia, I’ve found myself in a very blissful state. This may have something to do with spending two months of my time here in South Australia, tucked into the...