I try my best to balance the life of a domestic executive but it’s not easy with so many things to be done in a day. I have to admit that one of the things that is low down my priority list is the ironing which seems to sit in my laundry cupboard growing from [...]
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Domestic Takeover
Posted in Domestic Executive Musings, domestic routines on March 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
2 Years and counting
Posted in Domestic Executive Musings on February 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s been two years – that’s 730 days – since I arrived in New Zealand to start my new life as a Domestic Executive. Those painful first few hours after stepping off the plane are starting to fade to the long term memory but it’s still hard to believe that I’ve really started [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Domestic dash
Posted in Domestic Executive Musings on January 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I know it’s a bit cliché but being a domestic operative really is a full time job. It was much easier being an executive sitting a desk all day jawing to people about nothing of any real significance (compared to the rest of life).
I am looking forward to a break away from home in a [...]
Holiday reports
Posted in Domestic Executive Musings, Kiwi traditions and rituals on January 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’d quite forgotten the impact of holiday time on how New Zealand operates. The fact that we’ve had to set the alarm for MT in the morning to catch his train on time has reminded me that during the holiday season much of National Radio (our favourite NZ channel) has gone on holiday too.
Instead of [...]
Making the most
Posted in Domestic Executive Musings on January 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
How time has flown (again!). It’s almost time for MT to return to work and we are once again wondering where the holidays have gone. At least I have the advantage of not having to return to the grindstone in the city.
Our second visitor Margaret has just arrived from Sydney for a few days so [...]
It’s a scorcher
Posted in Country life, Domestic Executive Musings on January 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
As part of my efforts to put a little spice into this blog I thought I talk about the heat we are having at the moment. Compared to last year it’s a heat wave. Come to think of it, I think it’s a heat wave per se.
Yes in the last 9 weeks we’ve had hardly [...]
2008 the best is yet to come
Posted in Domestic Executive Musings on January 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
On the first day of 2008 we have had all sorts of water adventures. Seemingly it wasn’t the just the pump playing up. Now it’s the valves. So after much gnashing of teeth we spent the day kicking the water system to get it to spring into life. Oh the joys [...]
Domestic fast lane
Posted in Domestic Executive Musings on December 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I feel like I’ve been motoring at a million miles an hour this week. There are puppy routines to manage, builders to coral and family to organise for. Still, I’m over the hump and now heading into the middle lane towards the slow lane for the holidays.
Quite unexpectedly I was also called to present for [...]
