It seems that I have reached the point in my blogging life where I’d like my blog to look better, have more features and go faster. The common wisdom on these matters is that you need to go it alone and build your own. As if I haven’t had enough of building things I’ve taken [...]

Being a Domestic Executive is not always as simple as people might think. The dream was an idyllic lifestyle pottering around at home, doing a few chores and fitting in a spot of paid work occasionally. Seems that the pressures to complete both Domestic and the Executive are not that dissimilar from how it’s been [...]

Just in case you’ve been visiting this week and found not much to read you should now be able to catch up with the domestic-executive musings as I’ve finally got the blog posts up to date. Sorry about the interuption in service, hopefully things will be better from today!

Well bloggers I’m afraid that my holiday photoblogging is going to be pretty restricted until Bob comes back from his South Island tour – he’s been the master photographer and I need to pinch some of his images to give you a real flavour of Golden Bay. In the meantime, here’s a taste of the [...]

It’s time for this Domestic Executive to take a holiday – yes a proper, get away from it all – break away from home. We’re taking Fortnum and Mason back to their first home to live with another 7 basset hounds for the week whilst MT, I and parents head off to Golden Bay. Golden [...]

I know that this sounds like a cheap excuse for not blogging but it really has been full on. Festive domesticity is always a challenge but for this domestic executive in this year it’s been more challenging than most. Fortunatly my just in time methodology served me well and we didn’t miss out on any [...]

It’s an official excuse for not blogging for a few days – I’ve been struck down with a lurgy. I think it’s just a bad cold but as you get older you get less resilient to even the common cold. Having been as grumpy as a girl can be I became officially ill on Monday [...]

I know it’s been a while. I’ve been crook. Flu don’t you know. So bad I had to stay off work. But I’m back and entering that manic phase a couple of days before a holiday trying to get everything done in time and kidding myself in the process that I really will get it [...]

No I’m not gone Australian and gone walkabout. It’s been a difficult last week or so with bitterly cold weather, gadding about to Christchurch, rubbish time at work and a busy weekend at the Theatre and choosing stuff for house. Excuses, excuses I hear you cry. No, just reasons. No houseblogging this week either. The [...]