It’s been a busy couple of days with MT’s parents arriving and a few bits of work on the horizon this week that needed preparation for. What’s been most time consuming though is keeping track of our bassets who are getting more independent minded every day.
I think Fortnum and Mason are disgusted with my grass [...]
Archive for January, 2008
Give and inch……
Posted in Basset blogging on January 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Rainbow, rainbow
Posted in Basset blogging, Country life, Kiw weather on January 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s not been a basset friendly day. We woke up to drizzle and our evening constitutional to spy on Mike and Andrea’s house was in the wet too. But wow was it worth it to be able to see rainbow-rainbow. Yes a double rainbow.
Oh course this was just the time for the camera to tell [...]
Growing taller some days
Posted in Neighours Houseblogging on January 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Mike and Andrea’s house is growing but I regret to say not every day. We had a spurt of framing and then nothing. Now the roof rafters have gone on but the builders seem to only work every alternate day.
The roofers were due on site last week and now they’ve had to [...]
Local shopping
Posted in Houseblogging on January 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Part of the idea of moving to the country was to be able to source our food and produce from local suppliers or ideally from our home grown land and stock. We started with the honey and have now moved to getting our firewood from a local source. Our neighbour.
Or rather I should say [...]
Beach boys in training
Posted in Basset blogging on January 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It was a beautiful day and when my friend Anna suggested a dog party at the beach, I thought why not. Fortnum and Mason deserve a treat and I could do with some time away from domestic executive duties. So off we went.
We went to Island Bay which is on the south side of Wellington [...]
Testing the DE waters
Posted in Domestic Executive Musings on January 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I ventured back to the smoke yesterday to see a couple of clients, one for coaching and the other consulting. It was weird to be back into smart clothes (which the puppies promptly chewed on their journey from outside pen to be locked in the house).
Although you have to invest time to win business the [...]
How high can bassets jump?
Posted in Basset blogging, Garden blogging, Houseblogging on January 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If you want to protect your hard work, and your house and garden, much needs to be done to basset proof it. Of course it’s also important for their own health and safety.
After putting so much effort into planting the new flower beds around the house it was important to break the puppies habit [...]
A nation mourns it’s hero
Posted in Kiwi Sporting Pride, Kiwi pride on January 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today is the state funeral of Sir Edmund Hillary. There has been wall to wall media coverage since he died last week. An icon of New Zealand, a national hero, has brought 10’s of thousands to walk past his coffin in Auckland before the state funeral today.
One of the greatest known explorers has had a [...]
Bassets, bassets everywhere!
Posted in Basset blogging on January 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The perfect antedote to post parents departure today was a trip to the Wellington Basset Hound show. We thought it would be fun to have a reunion with our bassets’ family and also so see what a baggle of bassets really looks like.
Much to our amazement Fortnum and Mason were the perfect hounds. [...]
Father and daughter
Posted in family blogging on January 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s been a tough day today in a family sense. My parents left today to return to the UK. It’s been a wierd couple of days knowing that time was running out before they left but nothing as painful as the final goodbyes.
Can you spot the family resemblance here?
