I've got to learn to keep my mouth shut. I'd just come back from four days' tramping in Stewart Island with nine girlfriends and there were no kiwis to be seen, spotted or otherwise. It was...
My list of things I want to mention this week just has to start with something unmentionable. My wonderful sister-in-law has been roundly abused by her loving children after a family trip to...
Spring things are so exciting - brave little asparagus spears daring to show their naked skinny selves when it's sunny and wishing they'd stayed down below when the winter pops back, the tuis...
FAB evening at Searle Lane and Social on Thursday - clever girls Sonia Ross and Lani Arnott have started an online fashion company, www. preciouspeg. com, stocking Kate Sylvester, Stolen Girlfriends...
In this job as a hard-hitting investigative reporter, it's important to keep up to date with what's happening in the world. I'm trying, but it's pretty hard when NZ Post (and even the people who distribute the paper I write for) don't want me to find anything out.
Once again, Wakatipu locals threw themselves behind the Cancer Society's annual Daffodil Day last month, raising $24,000 in Queenstown and a further $4500 in Arrowtown.
I often think I only make plans to give whoever runs the world something to fiddle with and wreck. Once again, I had planned to join Kristin de Haan's yoga retreat in Hawea, and once again I won...
Arrowtown book buyer Miranda Spary continues her regular column about her recommendations for a good read and life as she sees it.
Arrowtown book buyer Miranda Spary continues her regular column about her recommendations for a good read and life as she sees it ...
It was so cold this week that even the water for washing windscreens at the petrol station was frozen. I thought that was why there were so many frozen faces around the Basin, but I have just...
Honestly, it's no wonder my house is so upside down at the moment - there has been so much happening that it is hard to stay home and do housework. My wonderful Kings Seeds catalogue has just...
Some weeks are so quiet and peaceful and you can really get a lot done. Some weeks are not. This has been a "not" week. In my highly organised columnist's notebook (I stole it from a...
Arrowtown book buyer Miranda Spary continues her regular column about her recommendations for a good read and life as she sees it.
Thanks so much to everyone who sent in their top 10 book lists. My apologies for not replying to you all but I have been in Fiji and my computer took on board the concept of Fijian relaxation -...
Oh dear - my loving family tells me this column is known as Gush Weekly and that I spend so much time namedropping that I am not giving enough time to the serious business of gossip or books. I...
Gosh - less than a week ago I was swanning around in my bikini in Croatia and now I am swaddled in thermals back home.
CROATIA: It's hard to believe there is another world out there - one in which I have to do things for myself, rather than lie around on our friends' super superyacht in Croatia - but my inbox is...
While I have been swanning around in foreign parts, I haven't been getting much feedback from anyone reading this column.
It's been a Queenstown week this week in Paris.
Arrowtown book buyer Miranda Spary continues her regular column about her recommendations for a good read, and life as she sees it ...
