It’s been a busy couple of days with MT’s parents arriving and a few bits of work on the horizon this week that needed preparation for. What’s been most time consuming though is keeping track of our bassets who are getting more independent minded... It’s not been a basset friendly day. We woke up to drizzle and our evening constitutional to spy on Mike and Andrea’s house was in the wet too. But wow was it worth it to be able to see rainbow-rainbow. Yes a double rainbow.Oh course this was just the time... It was a beautiful day and when my friend Anna suggested a dog party at the beach, I thought why not. Fortnum and Mason deserve a treat and I could do with some time away from domestic executive duties. So off we went.We went to Island Bay which is on the south side... If you want to protect your hard work, and your house and garden, much needs to be done to basset proof it. Of course it’s also important for their own health and safety.After putting so much effort into planting the new flower beds around the house it was... The perfect antedote to post parents departure today was a trip to the Wellington Basset Hound show. We thought it would be fun to have a reunion with our bassets’ family and also so see what a baggle of bassets really looks like.Much to our amazement Fortnum... 