Lake like puddles are forming on our drive with the miserable proportions of rains we’ve had this week. The are is one good thing about having puddles and that is the special visitors that pop by that might not otherwise do. It’s always nice to see them... I expected work to be busy upon my return to New Zealand but I’d not really prepared myself for that eventuality. A pretty full diary of work and heaps of sorting out to be done has meant I’ve been playing rather more executive than domestic in the last... 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... 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... 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... 