I know that this sounds like a cheap excuse for not blogging but it really has been full on. Festive domesticity is always a challenge but for this domestic executive in this year it’s been more challenging than most.Fortunatly my just in time methodology served... My parents project since they’ve arrived is to help turn the landscape planting plan into a reality. We’ve been cruising to nurseries and the internet to find the array of plants specified in the plan.Having tracked down about 100 plants then the challenge... Our Bassets, Fortnum and Mason, are worth their weight in comic value. I’ve not laughed so much in years. I can watch them for hours at play which is pretty rough and tumble – well they are boys.Play is how puppies learn and my boys are no different... 