Apologies readers for the genuine break in blogging this week. Our computer decided to have a meltdown which has been an all consuming worry. The offending hard disk is still sitting in limbo for a recovery operation but we’re up and running again in the... Avid readers of my blog may remember earlier in the year that this executive-domestic managed new heights of frustration with interference and mind changing of colossal proportions by the powers to be where I work. But, hey I got over it at the time so that’s... I escaped New Zealand this week for a quick trip across the Tasman to Australia on a fact finding mission for a project at work. You’d think that getting from Capital City Wellington to Capital City Canberra would be a simple journey to make. Not so! It took 12... For someone who had to retake her GSCE in Maths numbers have never been my friends. Living with someone who can delight in reading pages of numbers this is often a reason for discussion on how I should improve my mathematical abilities.Thank goodness for spreadsheets... We thought it was time to start to investigate our future lawnmowers and headed off to an Alpaca auction held just outside of Wellington. There is no doubt that the comic value of alpacas will keep MT amused for some time yet.We kept our hands down and didn’t... 