Snip snip

It was a big day for our basset boys – time for their snip. Given that they’ve been fighting a bit more than we’d like we decided to get them done sooner rather than later as it may help to calm them down. Also, Fortnum had a missing bit which needed to be found to [...]

Shop N Go

One of the things I do miss from England is my beloved Waitrose. You could always rely on Waitrose to serve up interesting things to eat that tasted delicious. They also did amazing recipe cards which we continue to use regularly here causing much frustration as we can’t find all the ingredients that are standard [...]

“Queen Victoria Day”

Cruise ships are a regular sight in Wellington, usually so big to make the cake tin stadium look like a muffin case. The latest cruising attraction to arrive this weekend was the brand new $676 million, 90,000 tonne ship – the Queen Victoria – stopping off as part of its maiden voyage, a 15-week world [...]

Basset breakout

The bassets have turned terrorist since they returned from their holiday. I’m trying hard to see this as a natural process of them growing up but am starting to feel victimised a little and increasingly convinced that these little ratbags are giving me the runaround after careful planning. Yesterday I was taking five during the [...]

Bloggers welcome

Just in case you’ve been visiting this week and found not much to read you should now be able to catch up with the domestic-executive musings as I’ve finally got the blog posts up to date. Sorry about the interuption in service, hopefully things will be better from today!

Water, water

Down in Golden Bay there is no shortage of water. In fact we saw some of the purest water to be found. Pity that other parts of New Zealand are missing this, there has been drought declared in the Waikato region. As one of the largest farming regions in New Zealand this is really not [...]

Domestic Executive Lifestyle

It’s been a real challenge this week to play the Domestic Executive. I’ve had great domestic plans but then the executive in my was required meaning two trips to the big smoke. I was performing my first Catapult gig helping to facilitate a strategy review session for a cross Government project. It was interesting to [...]

Photoblogging backlog

Well bloggers I’m afraid that my holiday photoblogging is going to be pretty restricted until Bob comes back from his South Island tour – he’s been the master photographer and I need to pinch some of his images to give you a real flavour of Golden Bay. In the meantime, here’s a taste of the [...]

Camping it up on a culinary Kiwi tour

For those people thinking of where to come when they visit New Zealand, here’s a few ideas from this week’s Observer. Many of these places are in striking distance of Domestic Executive HQ. ——————————————– From fine dining in Wellington to seafood shacks on the beach, Emma John takes a gastronomic road trip across New Zealand [...]

Our boys are back

Whilst we headed off for our holiday to Golden Bay, our boys – Fortnum and Mason – were back home with their mother. Yes, their real one – she’s called Abbie. By all accounts they’ve been very well behaved. They seem to have left this behaviour in Woodville and started a new terrorist style of [...]