A man and his mower

Last weekend MT set to with his new lawnmower bought in the sale. It’s not quite the ride on mower he dreams about but with a lawn that’s refusing to grow and thistles growing on most of the land we figured it was too soon to be investing the amount of $s...

Dog house blues

Our butter wouldn’t melt in their mouths puppies are well and truly in the dog house. No joke.They disgraced themselves by chewing up the new veranda furniture that MT had slaved over making over the Christmas break. Although a bit of sanding, filling and...

Pooches on parole

It’s been a risky strategy but Fortnum and Mason have been allowed to try out Domestic Executive HQ this week. This is all part of their growing independence away from their play pen and crates. Whilst you can’t leave them unsupervised they are getting...

Basset Blogging: back home with family

Since we didn’t think that Fortnum and Mason would be able to stand a day at the cricket we packed them off to their basset family for the Easter break. They were very excited when they arrived to be back in familiar territory happily climbing into their kennels...

Sleeping with your best friend

Although our boys love to play and have occasional fights they are devoted to each other. In their early days they were inseparable and when they were apart they were very upset. As they’ve got older they’ve realised that separation is not usually...