Being in the new Kitchen Garden with me is a whole new adventure for the bassets with enormous scope for mischief. I love their company but gardening with bassets is a futile exercise in command and control. There is rarely an offer of a helpful paw but rather an... Having asynchronous biorhythms is one of the little talked about impacts of emigrating from the northern to southern hemisphere. High days and holidays bring the differences into sharp focus. It’s why we find it hard to get into the Christmas spirit in... It was almost a rugby scrum at Paws and Claws when I popped in to fill up the bassets’ christmas stockings this week. Hoards of people pushing and shoving to grab the last christmas tree shaped treats or scooping up toys. Not to mention collars and leads in... The presents are wrapped. The food is stocked in the fridge and the first potato crop is in the ground. As if that wasn’t enough, summer in New Zealand seems to have arrived to bless us all this Christmas. This is our fourth Christmas in the southern... Our new garden construction has been called many things. Vege Garden, allotment, Elizabethan Garden and potager. I’m pleased to announce it’s official name is the Domestic Executive Kitchen Garden. This is the third element of the Backyard Pantry... 