I've been going to post this for ages. It's an ad shot in Auckland (you'll see quick glimpses of Sky Tower and the waterfront from Mission Bay) and it's very cute. It never fails to make me laugh. There's a new version of the ad playing at the moment with the daughter...
Michael Hyatt, the president and CEO of Thomas Nelson Publishers has an interesting blog post about websites. He ran several author websites through WebsiteGrader to see how their websites performed. I scored an 84, which shows room for improvement. I lost marks for...
Mr. Munro and I haven't had such a busy weekend for ages. We're both glad the week is here so we can have a rest. Our night with the turtles turned out to be a lot of fun. As well as seeing turtles, we had a behind the scenes tour, watched the antics of the penguins...
I mentioned in yesterday's post that I went to town. Of course, I couldn't resist visiting Whitcoulls. (the store I mentioned here) While I was there, I purchased season two and three of Deadwood (my love of Deadwood and several photos of the town are here). The shop...
I went to my local town today to post parcels and do a few other things. A couple of the stores have Christimas trees in the windows and are in full-out Christimas advertising mode. We also have a few Christmas adverts on TV. No doubt the first of many to come. I...
I hope my Monday isn't indicative of the week to come because I didn't enjoy it. Nothing really bad happened, just lots of little things that on their own would have been okay, but together made me grumpy. I'm going to have a late night trying to get my word total...
I promised Gabriele a pumpkin soup recipe. There are lots of variations of pumpkin soup. I make a vegetarian version and leave out the bacon. I replace the chicken stock with vegetable stock. knob of butter and a little olice oil 1 onion chopped 3 - 4 cloves of garlic...
