Baking mania

This weekend we’re having a social fest – we’ve got two sets of friends visiting. Not only is this momentus because this indicates we have a kiwi social life but it marks another moment of baking mania to provide for our guests.So tonight I’ve...

Nocturnal residents

For the last two nights I’ve had to swerve in the lane driving up to the house. This was to avoid squashing one of our country residents – a hedgehog. Fortunately it moves pretty quickly across the road so doesn’t cause delay but it’s still a...

Personal reflection – is it all it’s cracked up to be?

I’m half way through my first major coaching assigment, coaching to members of a senior board on the results of their 360 degree appraisal. Its been a real eye opener to see how people have approached the session – body language has been fun to see how it...

Domestic Executive tensions

Being a Domestic Executive is not always as simple as people might think. The dream was an idyllic lifestyle pottering around at home, doing a few chores and fitting in a spot of paid work occasionally.Seems that the pressures to complete both Domestic and the...

Sleeping with a rodent

Mus musculus – House MouseBloggers will remember that we discovered we had a mouse a few weeks ago and I invested in some mouse traps to try and catch them. Seems it didn’t work.At around 3am this morning we were woken by our Mus Musculus who was playing...