Monsoon summer

I was recently blogging about the indian summer we were enjoying in NZ. Sorry to tell you that this has now broken into a monsoon season. Since the beginning of May we’ve had 79.4 mm of rain in Wellington. To those not used to metric that’s just over 3...

Let there be light

From the end of this September kiwis will get more light. The Government has just decided to extend daylight saving up to 27 weeks, three weeks extra.Clocks will go forward an hour a week earlier than usual – on the last Sunday in September – and back an...

Hallelujah

First ever kiwi choral concert last night. Not quite the Royal Albert Hall but nevertheless an impressive performance of Handel’s Messaih performed by the Orpheus Choir and the Vector Wellington Orchestra.Performed at the Wellington Town Hall it gave me plenty...

New Posts

Eagled eyed blog readers will notice a couple of new features to Domestic Executive. New links to be able to see what’s happening in Wellington Harbour and a link to Stuff, the NZ news pages.Also, you can look at the Domestic Bliss Gallery, a selection of...

Countdown to being a domestic executive: 24 weeks to go

It’s been a while since I looked at the countdown position and it seems that time has stood still, or I simply couldn’t count earlier in the year. It is now 24 weeks until the end of my contract with MSD. If I want to have the fancy tiles in the hall and a...