Garden worries!

I’m getting nervous.  My vegetables are growing.  This is not the first time that I’ve grow vegetables but the first time I’ve worried about them.  After all this is my experiment kitchen garden to determine whether we should go the whole hog and...

What’s your perfect life?

Here at Domestic Executive HQ there are two bassets who think they have died and gone to heaven.  Two more people to pester and walks galore.  Yes, they had two walks today – and long may it continue I can hear them say. Yes, it’s a dream life for...

Reinforcements – my dream’s come true!

A little like Fortnum here, I’ve been looking for some comfort where my thistle harvesting has been concerned.  It’s a dispiriting experience to be plugging away at the blighters and seemingly making little progress.  It has left me with a bit of a...

To do lists, how long is yours?

With a jobs list as long as your arm there was no slacking at Domestic Executive HQ today.  No time to waste.  There was grass to be mowed, gorse to be cut and thistles to be dug out. Good job my in-laws are back on their feet and ready to roll with some chores. But...

How would it be to have your own Watership down?

I took a stroll in the garden tonight to check out what’s happening with the fruit bushes and trees.  The chickens were out free ranging but pretty hard to see.  The grass has grown so tall around their pen you have to look for their red combs to pick them...