Pink ribbons and possums

All around the local countryside there are pink ribbons hanging on trees.  This is not a symbolic gesture of support to fight breast cancer but a more practical and visible indicator of local pest control.  In the main it’s to show where the local environment...

How technology can make you feel even older

As if one special day in a week wasn’t enough it’s MT’s birthday today – 30 July.  Can you think why we got married the day before?  I bet you can’t guess what the birthday boy got for his present either! There is so much technology in...

The powerful combination of two people

Fourteen Years ago today – 29 July – MT and I were  married.  Oh how much and how little we’ve changed in that time. It’s traditional on your anniversary to exchange gifts and do something special to celebrate the achievement of marriage for...

What happens when you let a basset into your heart

Whilst I adore my bassets they are a constant worry and never more so when they are poorly. The bassets and I have been getting up close and personal in recent days. A closeness of bodily functions I’d rather not have experienced.  They’ve picked up some...

What can we learn from chickens?

It’s been all of a dither here at Domestic HQ this week.  Best laid plans going askew as the pace of work and home life overtakes my capability to deal with it all.  What’s amazed me is how I’ve re-calibrated my life to a more pleasurely pace and I...