Kate's Blog

7am Him Outdoors is keen to mitigate some of the effects of last night’s alcohol so he gets up early and goes for a run. The minute he step...

10.30am We pull into Martinborough after driving over the hill and head to the nearest café for breakfast. Reading the Sunday papers, sipp...

The Blackening Bats Theatre, 10 – 27 June We are looking forward to this play. Various reviews have described it as ‘homegrown theatre of un...

Thanks to my dear friend who reminded me in a comment on my last post of one of my favourite quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche. ‘What does not...

When I was a child my big brother used to tell me all sorts of nonsense and I believed it – ‘brrr’ was Latin for cold; the strips that hung ...

A couple of months ago I began hallucinating about the perfect beer to drink after a long walk . It would be fair to say that all of the pin...

Living in New Zealand, as I do, there are many things that I will never get used to. For a start the seasons are the wrong way round – how c...