It’s been a busy couple of days with MT’s parents arriving and a few bits of work on the horizon this week that needed preparation for. What’s been most time consuming though is keeping track of our bassets who are getting more independent minded... It’s not been a basset friendly day. We woke up to drizzle and our evening constitutional to spy on Mike and Andrea’s house was in the wet too. But wow was it worth it to be able to see rainbow-rainbow. Yes a double rainbow.Oh course this was just the time... Mike and Andrea’s house is growing but I regret to say not every day. We had a spurt of framing and then nothing. Now the roof rafters have gone on but the builders seem to only work every alternate day. The roofers were due on site last week and now... Part of the idea of moving to the country was to be able to source our food and produce from local suppliers or ideally from our home grown land and stock. We started with the honey and have now moved to getting our firewood from a local source. Our neighbour.Or... It was a beautiful day and when my friend Anna suggested a dog party at the beach, I thought why not. Fortnum and Mason deserve a treat and I could do with some time away from domestic executive duties. So off we went.We went to Island Bay which is on the south side... 