So we have kicked into full winter over here. Endless dripping noses, dark mornings and slippery footpaths. Drizzle. Mist. Condensation... Dropping kids at school in a line of steaming cars. Blah. Thank god for coffee. And red wine. And of course the odd Munro sock ...One of the benefits of making socks are toasty toes. No one round here leaves the house without them.  And then there was that blood moon! What a sight. First we watched it rise big and full above the hills and it was insane - the kids were completely fascinated. Then the adults got up and...

My mum's lovely friend took a jersey I was wearing recently and darned a hole that was growing in the front of it. It's a beautiful, soft, grey cashmere number another generous woman, my aunt, gave me. Sue used two different blues to hide the two little holes. They look beautiful against the grey.   I wore the jersey to the supermarket over the weekend and the woman helping me pack my groceries admired the colours and Sue's gorgeous work. She smiled and chatted while she worked, and I wrangled my rude and demanding children. She kept smiling as I...

I wrote the story of our new bras recently. We posted it on Facebook and got a lot of comments about our sizes and our choice of model. People felt we should be more size inclusive and that our model was too skinny.  I want to say I hear you and we’re talking about what we can do. I’ve never fitted the “ideal” and after years of trying and failing or of not trying and feeling like I’m a failure, I think I’m almost at the point where I can look in the mirror and see a body that had...

Sometimes when I am with my kids I think about the parts of their lives they will remember when they are adults. I hope it's things like the warm milk I pour on their weetbix in the morning, or the clean sheets they get into on a Sunday. It could be eating plums during summer holidays on the farm, or holding hands and singing as we walk to school.  This weekend, as a kind of homage to the end of summer (weep), we took the four of them out to Taita Rock, a mythic jumping spot above a swimming hole at our...

- Merino socks DO work in summer... not only peaking out from under your sandals, but they keep you cool when it's warm, and warm when it's cool (especially in Wellington where southern winds pick up on a whim). - Don't throw away your scraps! We are still waiting on new fabric held up by Covid to come into the country. Luckily we keep what falls under the cutting table so are sewing using scraps. I promise this does not impact the integrity of your undies... they are possibly even lovelier.- If the mob steal your caravan, don't give in!...