Welcome back to A Deer Cottage, our charming bed and breakfast nestled in the heart of the Kaukapakapa countryside, a mere 49.7 km's away...

Last month I touched on meditation and breathing. Many New Zealanders have been hit hard with the flooding and Cyclone Gabrielle, and for...

Wow, February has been a challenging month for many North Island families and whānau. It all started for me personally towards the end...

Happy New Year to all. I hope that this New Year is a happy and healthy year, and that everything that you desire finds it's way to you....

As we wind down from 2022, and look forward to 2023, I am excited to be with three of our four children staying in Elwood, Victoria,...

I can hardly believe we are nearing the end of 2022, it seems crazy to me. I suppose spending a month in Japan mid year, and then coming...

Well here we are again, catching up with life at A Deer Cottage. We have had a whirlwind of a year, and now we are settling back into...

At the completion of my last A Deer Cottage blog, we had just a few precious moments and days left in Japan. These last few days were...

Kon'nichiwa......the last time I wrote my blog for A Deer Cottage, we had left the rolling hills of Kaukapakapa overlooking the gorgeous...

So right at this present point in time, my husband Te Kani and I are sitting at Auckland International Airport, full of excitement and...

A Deer Cottage has been ticking along nicely over the last month or two. I seem to enjoy everything about this hospitality gig, but it...

We have been doing this Bed & Breakfast gig at A Deer Cottage, in Kaukapakapa, Auckland for approximately three years now, and for most...

So here I am again telling you what we have been up to at A Deer Cottage. Leading up to Christmas I was busy with lots of crafts and...

Well here we are again at the end of the year with Christmas just a few short weeks away. And as Auckland is still in some sort of...

Here we are again....continuing on from October's Blog/Newsletter, we are still in an Auckland lockdown, and unfortunately I have been...

Back in August 2021, New Zealand went into covid lockdown level 4 again, and that means for all of us, we can only leave our bubble to go...

Each winter month, I have been kept busy at A Deer Cottage thinking of ways to improve the service we provide, and also thinking about...

As I mentioned in the last A Deer Cottage Newsletter, winter was a great time to sort things out and have a clean up; and so that I did. ...

A few days ago, I posted my latest A Deer Cottage blog, I have this time decided to attach this to my Monthly Newsletter (well to be...

Well when lockdown hit us with Covid-19, I was happy to have my Husband home, so we could get some of my projects underway. I never...