Amazing how some cheap fancy pants gates can transform your vegetable patch into a kitchen garden. Not only do they look great they are great barriers to bassets and other long eared fluffy tailed friends. I feel like we have a show garden right here in our back... A little like the finishing post, the final jewel in the front garden crown is almost in place. MT is plotting municipal planting schemes for the traffic island. I am thinking more rambling roses and lots of mulch. The bassets are thinking – new play... I didn’t know it the time but the line of sight to the kitchen garden from the bedroom window is perfect. It’s the first thing that I see when I first open the curtains in the morning and the last thing I see when I close them at night. Every day I... There is something prehistoric about the way a basset moves. Perhaps it’s the low slung body and enormous paws like crocodiles feet. Having seen crocodiles in Australia I know I’d rather have a basset hound coming towards me across sand. Switching off auto on your camera and going manual is like taking the stabilisers off your bike when you’ve only just learnt to ride. Although I’ve flown solo with my camera for a while the one part that I’ve never really cracked is the using the... 