With the wind howling around the verandas and the rain lashing down it’s hard to remember when the sun beat down on the kitchen garden. Even when we didn’t get much sun this summer I would pick those days over what winter is starting to throw at us right... There is something festive about deep reds and greens. It makes me feel Christmasy even though that festive season is still months away. Such colours warm the soul when all around us there is bleak and wet weather. I’m heartened also by the rocket growing close... Since I started growing vegetables two years ago I’ve comforted myself that I’m a beginner and that if anything grows is a bonus. It seems that this year my beginners luck has run out as far as Cauliflower growing goes. Unlike the creamy tight balls I... In the land of fair and square, it’s only right that little basset should have his moment here on Domestic Executive HQ. But as much as I love Mason I can’t get past the fact he is in fact the devil incarnate. Our own anti-basset in residence. The... Big Basset has been in the wars again. There is no doubt he is a constant worry. Once again he’s over done his hooning and been off walks for two weeks now. And just as we were thinking we’d be back to normal he’s managed to get a dodgy eye... 