How new culinary adventures turn out

At dusk and dawn our garden has an invasion of fluffy tailed friends.  These seemingly cute critters are ravaging my garden and whilst I’ve worked hard to put up mini fences to protect the trees, flower beds, potager and fruit bushes things are still getting...

How to overcome chicken capers

The other inhabitants of Domestic Executive HQ have had their ups and downs whilst I’ve been away.  My lovely ladies and the manic rooster George  were up to their usual tricks but little did they know that their minders would be much less tolerant of their...

What happens when you leave your vegetable patch home alone

It was with some trepidation that I ventured out to look at the potager when I got home.  What might have happened in it over the five weeks it has been left home alone?  With no-one tending to its every need I was hoping for the best and expecting the worst. There...

Homecoming basset tails

We’ve been missing our little basset’s character this week.  His waggy tail is an intrinsic part of who he is.  Fortnum sulks and squeaks to express himself, Mason just wags his tail.  Even when you think he is sleeping and you creep by he will twitch...

Back home – what a week!

Those eagle eyed bloggers will have spotted from MT’s Twitter micro blog that we’re back home and have been for a few days.  Yes, we’re back to our home sweet home but I had so much blogging time to catch up I’ve skipped a few days of real...