15 years on

By the powers vested in technology we can relive this day 15 years ago.   I recently got our wedding photograph negatives scanned onto disk to add to our digital memory stash. For all the happy memories this picture conjures there is something very sobering about it...

What’s real for you?

I do I worry about my home bird tendencies.  Being at home away from the crowds is just how I like things to be but I do worry if I will become detached from the real world, whatever the real world is these days.  For the virtual world of the internet that world can...

Annual garden chores

In years gone by we’d take the last week in July off work to rest, relax and celebrate somewhere warm.  For this is the week that we celebrate our wedding anniversary and his Lordship’s birthday (timed specifically that he would never forget!). Now we...

Holiday starts

Even with my flexible laid back lifestyle I still get a thrill knowing that the alarm won’t be going off to get us out of bed.  Those dulcet tones of Radio New Zealand bring forth the day with news in the world are something that are going to have to wait...

Domesticity and political correctness with cake

I recently breached technology etiquette here at Domestic Executive HQ.  After years of relying on his Lordship to load up my iPod I’ve set up my own iTunes library, it was like stepping out through a new window on the world.  That’s not to say the...