Chicken spring cleaning!

With all the rotten weather the chickens deserved a treat.  To make them feel better about the wet and cold I did chicken house spring cleaning today.  This involves a fair amount of effort to make sure all the waste is removed and the inside of the chicken house...

How much rain is enough?

It’s been a rotton day weatherwise and this doesn’t make for a happy Domestic Executive household.  A southerly front has blown in and has brought the clouds down in our valley and brought with it persistent rain since the middle of the night. Because...

Can you tell what it is? Part 1

It’s only fair that I give you a helping hand to try and work out how our landscaping is shaping up.  Given that there are only sticks in the ground you can neither tell what it is nor see what Jamie our landscaper was seeing when he put together our...

Even bassets have friends!

This is Fortnum hard at work. He takes his place in Domestic Executive HQ very seriously preferring to park himself on the spot right under my feet where I work. With all the rain we’ve been having we’ve spent a fair amount of time inside. But all work and...