paper bottles of Mothers Ruined Gin on a beach

A ginterview with the mothers of Mothers Ruined

Full dis­clo­sure: I have worked with the Moth­ers on Boom Gin — a col­lab­o­ra­tion with my eth­i­cal cloth­ing com­pa­ny, which is fund­ing a schol­ar­ship to the week­end for fat babes that I run. Even if I had­n’t done that though, I would still think they are very cool and inter­est­ing peo­ple who make deli­cious prod­ucts […]

Is it jellyfish season?

I just spot­ted 2 pinky frilled jel­ly­fish in wors­er bay.   I did­n’t hang round to take pho­tos but more may wash in with then high tide and there may be more around the south coast it’s often this time of year we get a swarm for a few days. They looked a lit­tle like this […]

that thing called weather

Welling­ton is hav­ing a bit of weath­er at the moment, sure we get weath­er 24/7 but this weath­er, it’s Spec­tac­u­lar Souther­ly Weath­er! I’m not sure what would jus­ti­fy all caps weath­er but here’s a lit­tle trip around the south coast to show you how things roll into Welling­ton when we have Weath­er if you are […]