What happens when you have 1001 things to say!

Being a stranger in a foreign land can be a lonely place. I started this blog to share what our new life was like with family and friends.  Little did I know then that I’d have 1001 things to say.  But indeed I have.  This is my 1001 Domestic Executive post...

Golden grass and summer skies

Golden grasses, blue skies and gentle clouds – my idea of a perfect summer’s day.  That was yesterday.  Today the temperature has dropped 15 degrees, the wind has picked up by 60km/hr and we have blanket clouds dropping rain all over my grass.  This...

Daily snap: big basset is back

When I answered the phone and I knew it was the vets, I feared the worst.  Big Basset was creating chaos – howling and crying.  Wanting to come home.  Wanting his brother and wanting the pain in his eye to go away.  His howl is my command.  I went straight...

Summer in a jar

Being a fully fledged Domestic Executive requires a full portfolio of home cooking talents but there are areas of culinary functions I’ve shied away from perfecting.  Fear of failure you might think.  And, you’d be right.  There is nothing more...

Where are you brother?

Little basset cuts a lonely pose today as Fortnum languishes at the vet having a minor op on his eye.  He spent a great deal of time looking backward on our walk down by the Hutt River.  Now back home he is making the most of the extra space on the window...