Double trouble!

Fortnum and Mason can be the best of friends, partners in crime and soul mates.  Then in a breath they can be independent of each other, fighting with each other and sleeping back to back away from each other.  Just like any other close relationship they have their...

Lessons in baking: a photo study

Being able to bake well is becoming a bit of an obsession for me.  I have a long way to go to being really proficient at it.  I don’t think that I’ve yet baked what I would consider to be the perfect cake.  Perfect in the sense that it is the shape and...

A smile from the sky to cheer us up

I can put up with the damp if there are some blue skies. Sunshine and showers.  A wonderful phenomena. As long as you don’t have your washing on the line! I don’t remember these sorts of days when I lived in the UK.  Perhaps I was just too engrossed in...

New girls to spice up the roosters life

We’ve some new arrivals here at Domestic Executive HQ.  Three cheery little chickens to add to our home birds.  It’s all part of the strategy to build up the numbers so that the rooster can spread himself around a little more. I was given these chickens...

What’s your culinary obsession?

Culinary porn is how my sister in law would describe my collection of recipe books.  Books with pictures to admire.  Books you salivate over and have fantasies about. Cookery books in our house are separated into books that are shelved in the pantry on hand for...