Playing hooky at the beach

I played hooky today from work and chores.  I even left the bassets to their own devices in the barn and headed off for lunch and an afternoon at the coast.  I was visiting a friend who I first met as my coach trainer and then my coach. She’s an amazing lady who has an [...]

Spring greens – mmmm!

It’s been wild Spring weather this week – lots of rain and lots of wind.  Destructive wind that has rendered my washing line inoperable.  It was a soul destroying moment to see it collapsed in a heap with my washing trailing on the floor.  Not to mention a certain small dog lying in what became [...]

Basset walk antics

I know I am in danger of boring my readers with my basset antic stories so I thought I’d test out the potential of my new photoshop elements and see if we could make it more interesting for you.  So here’s yesterday’s walk recorded in black and white. I think that black and white photographs [...]

It’s thistle harvest time again!

I’ve been putting it off and off but it can wait no more.  The thistles are growing at a rapid rate and starting to overtake some of the smaller trees in height.  It was time to thistle harvest again. We did this first in May to clear the dead thistles off the top soil mound [...]

A Great Debate

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As voting day draws close, attention focuses on our leaders debating the vital issues of the day. In America this has seen millions of people tuning in to watch the presidential candidates arguing back and forth the challenges that await the next leader of the free world. Wars overseas, the economic crash, climate change, all [...]

So many distractions and interuptions

This post starts with a service announcement.  We’ve been having a few problems with our computer network which has meant access to the internet has been down.  But we’re back functioning.  For the moment at least!  Sorry about the interuption in blog service. So to business of tales from Domestic Executive HQ.  It’s been busy [...]

It’s family thing

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Photo credit: e cate marshall This is a special basset hound.  In fact, best of breed at the 2008 National Dog Show.  See the family resemblance? This is Clyde – or rather Courtside Sean Connery – and the brother of Fortnum and Mason. You will have seen him last in this post or this post.  [...]

2 hours, 16 minutes and 5 seconds

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No need to look for me in the crowd. I can assure you that I’m not there.  Although I did do it way back – I think it was 1989 or 1990.  I’m tried to block out the memory of it.  It was all too painful to recall. I am however delighted to be able [...]

Domestic – Executive – Domestic – Executive

It’s been a funny few days.  I’ve not been getting the Domestic Executive balance right.  This always happens after I’ve had a couple of weeks working from home and then have to get back into face-to-face work back in the big city.  It’s an uncomfortable feeling that makes me remember why I decided to change [...]

Bringing it flooding back

This is the tell tell sign of a builder on site.  The ubiquitous container that the builders keep all their paraphernalia in.  After the portaloo it’s the most important bit of kit on site. Seeing this go onto our neighbours land is a definite sign that their build is going to start flourishing soon.  That [...]