People talk about nurturing seedlings like they are babies. They are of course baby plants so that make sense. They also talk about the excitement when they see them grow. I can always do with a little excitement here at Domestic Executive HQ. My spreadsheet (ok, I lied, my scribbles on the back of an [...]
I wish I could remember a time when I could happily snuggle up under the duvet and turn over to go back to sleep. Time for snoozing in a relaxing carefree way. I keep asking myself where did those days go to? Nowadays my eyes seem to pop open wide on waking and my [...]
Spring winds have been playing havoc making it hard to do anything outside today for fear of being lifted off the ground by a gust of wind. I think the chickens were fearing for their lives. I certainly wasn’t taking any chances and stayed indoors catching up with a multitude of jobs I’ve been meaning [...]
It may have been freezing outside recently but the heat in the Domestic Executive kitchen has been turned up high today. Maybe a little too high but we don’t let a little heat come between us and domesticity at it’s cosiest. Whether it’s hot or cold the bassets are always around when there is stuff [...]
Faux Spring is something I read about it in gardening books and magazines – times you must be cautious about frosty conditions. Right now it’s like Spring has regressed to winter again. Bitterly cold and frosts on the ground. With all this talk of freezing my web hosting company decided they’d put their own freeze [...]
It’s just as well I’ve taken photographs of some of our Spring blooms. Without them in my visual vault I might actually forget what Spring is all about. We are once again in the grip of a southerly which makes it feel like mid winter instead of mid Spring. There I was a couple of [...]
Attention to detail is not one of my strengths. My talents rather lie in big picture thinking, day dreaming and doodling in notebooks about what might be. Active reading and listening are things I do for work although I admit there are times when I have not paid enough attention then. Training as a professional [...]
My local timber merchant’s yard is feeling like a second home. Riffling through wood piles to find the straightest pieces of wood or sitting in the sun with one of the lads as we fathom out how much of what I need to bring my scribbles on a piece of paper alive. The people working [...]
Keeping chickens is one of my domestic pleasures. They are easy to keep and the rewards are immense. I still get an excited feeling picking out their eggs each day and using those eggs in cooking brings greater levels of significance and responsibility. Now the weather is getting better their entertainment value increases too as [...]
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