“Be afraid, very afraid” was the weather forecasters message this time last week. A once in a lifetime snow storm was heading across New Zealand that would eclipse the snow flurry we had a few weeks before. Twitter was forecasting #snowmaggedon with... Phew! That’s about as much as I can muster after two weeks of high drama on both the domestic and executive front. Microblogging using Twitter was about as much as I can muster so I hope you’ve been keeping up with all the news. If not, here’s a... There is something breathtaking about winter sunshine. It lifts the spirit in ways that summer sun can’t. Breathes warmth into the chill and reminds you that beyond the dark and gloom of deep winter there are better things still to come. This week... I can’t help but keep looking at the photographs of the snow to remind myself that we were indeed bathed in white stuff. It was a moment of excitement that’s now replaced with an feeling of being overwhelmed by runaway grass and bolting weeds as the sun... It’s not as if we need any more cute basset photographs on this blog but sometimes blog posts aren’t planned or in my case are not really planned at all. So here’s a spontaneous post of basset hugging in honour of all those precious pets in the...