How new culinary adventures turn out

Wild bunny

At dusk and dawn our garden has an invasion of fluffy tailed friends.  These seemingly cute critters are ravaging my garden and whilst I’ve worked hard to put up mini fences to protect the trees, flower beds, potager and fruit bushes things are still getting out of hand.  These hungry bunnies are now scoffing my [...]

How to overcome chicken capers

Beep and Ginger

The other inhabitants of Domestic Executive HQ have had their ups and downs whilst I’ve been away.  My lovely ladies and the manic rooster George  were up to their usual tricks but little did they know that their minders would be much less tolerant of their feral ways. They were put through their paces with [...]

What happens when you leave your vegetable patch home alone

Gone to seed

It was with some trepidation that I ventured out to look at the potager when I got home.  What might have happened in it over the five weeks it has been left home alone?  With no-one tending to its every need I was hoping for the best and expecting the worst. There was no doubt [...]

Homecoming basset tails

Basset patrol

We’ve been missing our little basset’s character this week.  His waggy tail is an intrinsic part of who he is.  Fortnum sulks and squeaks to express himself, Mason just wags his tail.  Even when you think he is sleeping and you creep by he will twitch his tail showing he knows you are there and [...]

Back home – what a week!

Home

Those eagle eyed bloggers will have spotted from MT’s Twitter micro blog that we’re back home and have been for a few days.  Yes, we’re back to our home sweet home but I had so much blogging time to catch up I’ve skipped a few days of real time blogging.  Normal service will be resumed [...]