Bassets have a a high intellect with a low boredom threshold. This means that they lose interest in some of the most exciting things quickly. Walks become mundane. You can just hear the thoughts – ‘done that sniffing what else is there we can do?’. Last week we were taking one of our regular walks [...]
It’s been a stretch today. The second day in a row when I’ve had to be up and out; suited and booted ready to work. I can tell you it’s been a bit of a shock to the system. I may now have a grain more sympathy for MT every morning. I caused quite a [...]
Today I feel like I’ve been living in a surreal world. I’m leading a two day strategy and team building event for a Government communications department and whilst I’ve lived and breathed public sector communications most of my working life I feel very detached from the reality of it all. On one hand it feels [...]
Amongst the native hedgerow there are often ornamental flowers. Agapanthus are one of those. They can be seen in drifts all over New Zealand – blue and white – making a cheerful change to what can be otherwise a pretty green outlook. The downside of having agapanthus is that they can take over though. They [...]
Planting in our garden follows a plan from our landscape designer. Some say we took the easy route paying for someone to do this for us. And that’s true but the thought of trying to create a garden from a hilly field was one step too far for my limited gardening capabilities. There are times [...]
There are few times in my life I have felt quite so rough as I did three years ago today.This was the day I arrived in New Zealand. I hot footed off a plane where I’d languished for 26 hours with a bad back, sleep deprivation and the woes and stresses of packing a life [...]
The kitchen has been at the heart of my relationship with my in-laws almost from the start. Of course my, now, husband was a common bond but we truly bonded over cooking together. In the days when I commuted the 200 miles between Sunderland and Bedworth to spend weekends at my in-laws where MT was [...]
For the last 24 hours we’ve been having what I can only describe as packamac weather. The sort of weather that it might rain, might not rain but when it ranges from a misty drizzle to a deluge. Whatever the type of rain there is one thing you can be sure of. You’re going to [...]
Light is obviously a key component in photography. Understanding exposure is one of those topics I’ve not yet mastered but will one day. So in the meantime I thought I’d just experiment and see what snapshots I could take. These are pictures taken a couple of days ago when I goofed off with the bassets [...]
Yesterday I adored my basset hounds. But there was a moment today I wasn’t so sure. Or to be more specific it was Mason I started to have doubts about. The reason? His hunting instincts had come to the fore.
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