There is nothing better than going to pick your own Christmas Tree. It’s even better to pick your own tree from where it is growing and have it cut down before your very eyes. I have vague recollections of me doing this once before when I was a child –... Few things in life give greater pleasure to a basset than a pile of mud. A place to put their pudgy paws and indulge in a spot of sniffing or digging. The softer the mud the better it is but as mud goes they’ll pretty much take anything. With the... 