The wet weather we’ve been having doesn’t put me in the best of moods. I’m sick of trudging through mud and slush and I know that the chickens are fed up with their waterlogged pens. The good news though is that the streams and rivers are flowing full. While dealing with our own puddles it [...]
As if I don’t have enough domestic challenges on my plate my dear husband upped the ante when he decided to start taking a lunch box to work. Now the morning regime includes making up his daily lunchtime feed which consists of savoury and sweet treat. I have almost cracked the sandwich routine but last [...]
Having “me time” is a common focus of the coaching conversations I have with busy people. For them there just isn’t enough time in the day for them to then find time for themselves. Little Basset is the consummate me time dog – he always seems to want time in his own thoughts. Just lying [...]
Taking a walk through the bush is like moving through a prehistoric land. A place full of strange and beautiful things. One of my favourites is the Ponga Tree which are the native New Zealand fern trees. With the warm wet climate this winter it’s perfect growing conditions for our temperate forests that thrive in [...]
“Photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place………. ……………it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them” Elliott Erwitt The chicken pen may be a pretty ordinary place but looking up this evening I found something extraordinary [...]
It brought terror to my heart when I lost my bassets in the bush. They were there one minute and gone the next. For bassets that can move at snail pace they can move remarkably fast. To this day I never know what the bassets were thinking when they high tailed away in a blink [...]
Taking walks along the coast when my in-laws lived in Spain there was always lots of chatter about how we’d like to live front line. In other words looking over the sea unfettered by other properties. I may not live on the coast but we most definitely live front line. This was the view out [...]
Travelling light is an alien concept to me. It doesn’t matter where or when I’ve travelled in the world I always seem to wind up lugging a dead weight of luggage around with me. My overnight trip to Auckland was no exception although this time is was most definitely the weight of technology that weighed [...]
When you become a basset owner you should be supplied with some saintly essence. A small bottle of smelling salts that when sniffed as required you develop patience on demand. Failing that you must develop a level of patience to survive with your sanity intact and see the continued entertainment value of having bassets in [...]
Being too busy has been a big trend in my work this week. And not me being too busy but rather those people I work with. It is most definitely one of the biggest topics of coaching conversations – how people can be less busy so that they can do all that they want. Being [...]
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