This week I needed a smile to cheer me up from all the rotten weather. What better to go seek out the Smiling Windmills in Avalon Park, Lower Hutt. This are colourful wind sculptures I’ve driven past several times en route to a client office but never had my... Daily postings on this blog may seem a little spasmodic recently. I do compose my daily post but some days it never quite makes it into the blog itself. I didn’t want you to think I’d gone short on inspiration just the time to capture it. I often wonder... Even bassets can get fed up with rain. This is a familiar basset pose of late. Sitting with their nose pressed up against the window hoping that rain would go away. I know how they feel. It is however the perfect excuse for spending excessive amounts of time in... Wet, wild and wintry weather gives the log burner a magnetic effect. Where else would you want to be than close up to the warmth that is otherwise missing? You can’t stay closeted for ever though – OK you could but that’s when cabin fever sets in. ... Having new chickens has been a bit of a worry. Watching the pecking order sort itself out is not much fun to watch. It’s been wonderful for the lowest in the order of our original hens as she made it quite clear from the moment the new hens arrived she was not... 