photo

  • There was a lot packed in to 2011. Earthquakes, an election, a world cup. A new baby and family stuff. Work. Here’s a summary in mobile phone photos, an idea I’ve pinched. Update – here’s even more. Our office moved to Victoria Street, and I’m lucky enough to have this view – I spent a…

  • I take photos

    Santa makes a slow, silent and ultimately doomed bid for freedom Lunch A tugboat doing a wee, for the easily amused Sneaky bollard is sneaky Oceanside

  • Food tweets

    Update on pizza notes. Roast hogget stuffed with honey, mustard and breadcrumbs from Donna Hay. Scalloped potatoes from the Edmonds Cookbook. Important to point out, these were two separate meals.

  • You know gang, if something’s worth doing, it’s worth doing stupidly. And so, whenever I have two and a half minutes to spare (insert your favourite “too much time on hands” joke here), I like to take this photo of me serving wussy milky drinks *on a boat* and make a new Twitter avatar. I’m…

  • Clearing out my phone’s photo gallery. If you look at this photo while standing next to the oven on 230 degrees on fan bake, you’ll get an idea of how hot it was this day, but with less cooling breeze. This thing made us move out of our fishing spot in the Tauranga harbour channel.…

  • It was very tempting to just stay there for the day, let me tell you.

  • Queenslanders are nice, goddammit. Walking around Brisbane during the day with my son in his stroller, I couldn’t so much as approach a set of stairs without someone immediately stopping what they were doing and helping me out. People in cafes and shops were breezy and interested, in a way that only people with the…

  • My great uncle Alan, when he left his architecture practise, wanted one thing – this quote from his boss’s wall. He got it. You can click it to make it bigger.