Happy Weekend!

It's rainy and grey here today, so we are hiding inside watching the Winter Olympics. We are both huge fans of the Olympics and get really devoted. The New Zealand television commentary is just cringe worthy and embarrassing I almost can't handle it.

Before the weather crapped out we raced down to our local farmers market by the river to pick up some eggs and vegetables.
Since watching Food. Inc we have been completely vegetarian and also trying to buy local produce.








Then we went home and I made the most perfect poached egg that I had to document:


Look at how round it is! This makes me happy. Served with fresh sourdough bread, mushroom, onion, baked beans and tofu hotdogs and cottage cheese.

Here are some pictures of our trip to the bookstore last week:










Have a great weekend everyone!

Going West

I'm so glad I accidentally found this clip today, which features one of my favourite books of all time, Going West by Maurice Gee.

I first read this book as a teenager, living in West Auckland (where parts of the book are based). The darkness of the story was somehow lost on me until I read it over and over again as an adult. The fact it's set in West Auckland (where I grew up and lived as a child) and in Wellington (where I live as an adult) thrills me as familiar streets and walkways are named and described. I can picture each address, visually tour every winding Wellington street and steep, steep stairway. The darkness of humanity described is deep and heavily layered. The characters allow themselves to be transparent in their brokenness, but the truly disturbing unsettling depths of their iniquity is kept hidden and cloaked.