Lynda Hallinan's Blog
Lynda Hallinan's Blog: Creatures from all walks of life
Lynda Hallinan gets a right-to-life lecture about pest control.
Lynda Hallinan’s Blog: Hey, soul sister
Lynda Hallinan learns that companion planting doesn't always go to plan.
Lynda Hallinan's Blog: Signed, sealed, delivered
The secret to getting out of a pandemic-induced rut? Revel in the joy of dilly-dallying, says Lynda Hallinan.
Lynda Hallinan's Blog: Are we halfway there yet?
After three months in lockdown, Lynda Hallinan surveys her half-finished DIY projects.
Lynda Hallinan's Blog: Life in the slow lane
Lynda Hallinan tries to focus on the little pleasures of her spring garden during lockdown.
Lynda Hallinan's Blog: A lockdown farewell to library fines
As a lifelong bibliophile with bad habits, Lynda Hallinan pays her debts to the local library.
Lynda Hallinan's Blog: The cat that came in from the cold
It takes sheer luck get a cat that looks like a unicorn and purrs like a Tesla.
Lynda Hallinan’s Blog: Tree hugging for the non-hippies
Can’t see the woods for the trees? Here’s how to find meditative pleasure in giving midwinter hugs to towering trunks.
Lynda Hallinan's Blog: The best-laid plans of mice and women
Lynda Hallinan plays cat and mouse with a family of unwelcome houseguests.
Lynda Hallinan's Blog: The world's your oyster
Lynda Hallinan dusts off her pinny and treats herself to a batch of homemade cinnamon oysters.
Lynda Hallinan’s Blog: The reality of family traditions
Family traditions are all well and good, but some — like overripe fruit — can fester and rot.
Lynda Hallinan’s Blog: A good egg
When it comes to the perfect plate of savoury eggs, writes Lynda Hallinan, fresh isn't always best.
Lynda Hallinan’s Blog: Sage advice
Sage is a handy herb but Lynda Hallinan has a hard time keeping it alive.
Lynda Hallinan’s Blog: Growing patience from cuttings
An ardent gardener loses her patience and weaves a little magic with garden prunings.
Lynda Hallinan’s Blog: You say tomato, I say make 'mine a double'
Lynda Hallinan perfects the art of the lockdown liquid lunch.
Lynda Hallinan’s Blog: The liberation of dried-flowers
Before the tanks run dry in summer, this land-lover raids her cottage-style picking garden for buds, blooms and seedheads to hang in her dried-flower hut.
Lynda Hallinan’s Blog: Let them eat sponge cake
Lynda Hallinan gets all her ducks in a row and bakes her grandma's favourite cake.
Lynda Hallinan’s Blog: The missing piece
Lynda Hallinan reflects on a summer spent "wasting time" doing jigsaw puzzles.
Lynda Hallinan’s Blog: A remodeled hen house
Lynda Hallinan’s free-range chickens come home to roost in a chook house inspired by the Wild West.
Lynda Hallinan's Blog: The writing's on the wall
As the year draws to a close, Lynda Hallinan asks her children what the future – and Santa – may bring for them.
Lynda Hallinan’s Blog: Growing apples and kids
An apple a day keeps Lynda Hallinan's parental guilt at bay.
Lynda Hallinan’s Blog: Lawn and order
Lynda Hallinan gets off the grass and gets behind the wheel of a ride-on mower for the first time.
Lynda Hallinan's Blog: Never work with children or animals
Lynda Hallinan shares the less-than-glamorous reality behind a photoshoot for NZ Life & Leisure, one involving cantankerous chooks and reluctant roosters.
Lynda Hallinan's Blog: How to sprout a kūmara in no time at all
Lynda Hallinan measures the year's progress in song lines and kūmara vines.
Lynda Hallinan's Blog: Boots and blossoms
After wobbling in posh-but-painful shoes, Lynda turns to dainty and delicate flowers in her spring garden.
Lynda Hallinan's Blog: Cosmopolitans in the country
Lynda Hallinan turns half-eaten jars of jam into spring cocktails (worth cleaning out a fridge for).
Lynda Hallinan's Blog: Felted shoes and other lockdown home comforts
Lynda Hallinan abandons high fashion for home comforts during lockdown 2.0.
Lynda Hallinan's Blog: Courting in the country
Lynda Hallinan reckons it's time to start a match-making service for celibate cows, solitary sheep, chaste chooks, frisky fillies and other lonely farm animals.
Lynda Hallinan's Blog: For whom the cowbell tolls
Lynda Hallinan's guide to what – and what not – to adopt when you live in the wops.
