Mud, glorious mud!

It was all go yesterday at Domestic Executive HQ. Diggers and lorries and men wielding rakes and nosiy machinery. To make sure that all the activity went swimmingly it rained for most of the day!Still, we now have a completed drive, top soil reinstated along the drive...

Gorse harvest

Flushed with the success of last week’s thistle harvest, this weekend’s gardening adventure was to start on the gorse harvest. The key dilemma was however, simply where to start!To test the tools and my stamina we started with a few small bushes which gave...

New hill billy house

Yesterday was a special day for our chickens – George, Charlotte, Anne and Bess (named after king and queens) – their exchanged their hill billy shack for a hill billy house.It arrived on the back of Al’s truck designed and prefabricated for swift...

Holy moley – that’s house prices for you

It must have been sixth sense, whilst cruising the internet I decided to have a peak at what’s happening in the UK village we lived in. Imagine my surprise to find that “our” house was up for sale.On closer inspection it seems that there is daylight...

More muck and raking

We’re living on a building site again. In fact, as I write this blog there is an enormous truck delivering metal (that’s road gravel) moving past my window.After months of waiting the ground works people have returned to finish of the drive and spread the...