After a tense week, normal war and peace has resumed with the bassets. They were united in destroying this toy to get the much more interesting to chew stuffing out. Shame that bassets don’t play catch or fetch. It would be much less exhausting for... It’s hardly surprising that the prolific growth of courgettes in the world has spawned creative ideas for cooking them. I was delighted to see in my Treasury of New Zealand Baking book that like carrots there is a place for courgettes in cakes. I was... My fellow tweeters will know that little basset has had surgery. A minor operation to sew up his ear. He is fine but nursing 8 stitches and suffering the indignity of having to walk around with a cloth bag over his ear (a precautionary measure to stop him licking... There are some people you meet in life who are just so loveable and you never want to let them go. We were lucky enough for two such people, Rich and Chris from Oxford UK, to pay us a visit this week as they travel around New Zealand by campervan. They formed a... With autumn upon us the morning skies are rapturous in their applause. The light is bright and golden and crying out to be photographed at sunrise. The only way I could capture this moment before it disappeared was to hang out of the living room window. ... 