It’s time for this Domestic Executive to take a holiday – yes a proper, get away from it all – break away from home. We’re taking Fortnum and Mason back to their first home to live with another 7 basset hounds for the week whilst MT, I and parents head... I know that this sounds like a cheap excuse for not blogging but it really has been full on. Festive domesticity is always a challenge but for this domestic executive in this year it’s been more challenging than most.Fortunatly my just in time methodology served... It’s an official excuse for not blogging for a few days – I’ve been struck down with a lurgy. I think it’s just a bad cold but as you get older you get less resilient to even the common cold. Having been as grumpy as a girl can be I became... I know it’s been a while. I’ve been crook. Flu don’t you know. So bad I had to stay off work.But I’m back and entering that manic phase a couple of days before a holiday trying to get everything done in time and kidding myself in the process... No I’m not gone Australian and gone walkabout. It’s been a difficult last week or so with bitterly cold weather, gadding about to Christchurch, rubbish time at work and a busy weekend at the Theatre and choosing stuff for house. Excuses, excuses I hear you... 