Golden grasses, blue skies and gentle clouds – my idea of a perfect summer’s day. That was yesterday. Today the temperature has dropped 15 degrees, the wind has picked up by 60km/hr and we have blanket clouds dropping rain all over my grass. This... When I answered the phone and I knew it was the vets, I feared the worst. Big Basset was creating chaos – howling and crying. Wanting to come home. Wanting his brother and wanting the pain in his eye to go away. His howl is my command. I went straight... Little basset cuts a lonely pose today as Fortnum languishes at the vet having a minor op on his eye. He spent a great deal of time looking backward on our walk down by the Hutt River. Now back home he is making the most of the extra space on the window... I am so over blanket cloud this summer but there was an invasion of mega clouds yesterday evening. They billowed up from behind the hills like a puff of pure white mass of fluff. There were similar clouds on the hills behind the house cascading down the... Some days the action comes to your part of the world. Cyclists tell us that the Kaitoke hill is the killer hill not the Rimutaka Hill Road where these were heading for stage one of the Tour of New Zealand race today. 