This week I declared warfare on the weeds on our land. I know that I’ll be fighting a losing battle for years to come but you have to start somewhere.
This decision followed a rather painful lesson in weeding – make sure that your teeshirt meets your shorts at the back. After spending several hours digging [...]
Archive for February, 2008
Weed warfare
Posted in Garden blogging, Houseblogging on February 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Snip snip
Posted in Basset blogging on February 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It was a big day for our basset boys – time for their snip. Given that they’ve been fighting a bit more than we’d like we decided to get them done sooner rather than later as it may help to calm them down. Also, Fortnum had a missing bit which needed to be [...]
Shop N Go
Posted in domestic routines on February 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
One of the things I do miss from England is my beloved Waitrose. You could always rely on Waitrose to serve up interesting things to eat that tasted delicious. They also did amazing recipe cards which we continue to use regularly here causing much frustration as we can’t find all the ingredients that [...]
"Queen Victoria Day"
Posted in Wellington Views on February 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Cruise ships are a regular sight in Wellington, usually so big to make the cake tin stadium look like a muffin case. The latest cruising attraction to arrive this weekend was the brand new $676 million, 90,000 tonne ship – the Queen Victoria – stopping off as part of its maiden voyage, a 15-week [...]
Basset breakout
Posted in Basset blogging on February 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The bassets have turned terrorist since they returned from their holiday. I’m trying hard to see this as a natural process of them growing up but am starting to feel victimised a little and increasingly convinced that these little ratbags are giving me the runaround after careful planning.
Yesterday I was taking five during the [...]
Bloggers welcome
Posted in Poor excuses for not blogging on February 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Just in case you’ve been visiting this week and found not much to read you should now be able to catch up with the domestic-executive musings as I’ve finally got the blog posts up to date. Sorry about the interuption in service, hopefully things will be better from today!
Water, water
Posted in Country life on February 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Down in Golden Bay there is no shortage of water. In fact we saw some of the purest water to be found. Pity that other parts of New Zealand are missing this, there has been drought declared in the Waikato region. As one of the largest farming regions in New Zealand this [...]
Domestic Executive Lifestyle
Posted in Domestic Executive Musings on February 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s been a real challenge this week to play the Domestic Executive. I’ve had great domestic plans but then the executive in my was required meaning two trips to the big smoke.
I was performing my first Catapult gig helping to facilitate a strategy review session for a cross Government project. It was interesting to observe [...]
Photoblogging backlog
Posted in Photoblogging, Poor excuses for not blogging on February 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Well bloggers I’m afraid that my holiday photoblogging is going to be pretty restricted until Bob comes back from his South Island tour – he’s been the master photographer and I need to pinch some of his images to give you a real flavour of Golden Bay. In the meantime, here’s a taste of the [...]
Camping it up on a culinary Kiwi tour
Posted in kiwi travel on February 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
For those people thinking of where to come when they visit New Zealand, here’s a few ideas from this week’s Observer. Many of these places are in striking distance of Domestic Executive HQ.
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From fine dining in Wellington to seafood shacks on the beach, Emma John takes a gastronomic road trip across New Zealand and [...]
