by Ria Voros | Jun 8, 2016 | From Ria, Kids and Parenting, Seasonal, Travel, Writing
A few years ago (yikes! years?!) I posted a sort of love poem to Vancouver, that city we love and left and still go back to whenever we can. And not that long ago, we here at F&F posted haiku weekly. Remember that? I miss those days. So I’m resurrecting the...
by Ria Voros | Apr 27, 2016 | Food, From Ria, Includes a recipe!, Seasonal, Writing
This is the story of what happens when plan-ahead-mum brain meets memory-gap-mum brain. Actually, it’s not really a story so much as a punchline: What do you get when you find the bag of last summer’s cherries in the freezer while rooting around for...
by Ria Voros | Mar 31, 2016 | Books & Reading, Food, From Ria, Kids and Parenting, Seasonal
We’re through it now and flowers are everywhere, but for a while it was all doom and gloom and torrential rain around here. Typical “wet coast” weather that makes you long for summer–or a plane ticket to NZ, where it is summer…...
by Hannah | Feb 10, 2016 | Food, From Hannah, Kids and Parenting, Seasonal, Travel
“A bach (pronounced ‘batch’) is a small, often very modest holiday home or beach house.”* This summer we were lucky enough to score ourselves a bach holiday in Scandretts Bay, about one hour’s drive north from Auckland. Four nights, right...
by Ria Voros | Feb 3, 2016 | Food, From Ria, Includes a recipe!, Seasonal
Glorious citrus. It’s that time of year over here: beautiful, ripe, fragrant oranges, tangelos, mango and blood oranges, grapefruits and sweet limes in abundance on the store shelves. No, they’re not local, but they’re…kind of?…in...
by Ria Voros | Jan 7, 2016 | From Ria, Seasonal
Here we are in 2016 and around here, snow has fallen. Temporarily. Our snow never stays long–in fact it’s turning to slush as I write. But there’s something about starting a new year (as arbitrary as that whole thing is) with a new look that’s...
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