More domestic than executive

Increasingly my time is more domestic than executive. It was a real shock to the system to be back in work harness yesterday for a full day’s work. Not slouching in Domestic-Executive HQ proper commuting from Maymourn to the big smoke.
All I can say is that puppies are demanding on your time and energy. We’ve [...]

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Domestic Footprint

One of the misnomers about New Zealand is the clean and green substance behind its image. We’re trying to do our bit though with our solar water heating, sheep wool insulation, heat pump heating and rainwater capture. MT has eyes for a wind turbine too!
The thing that’s most concerning me at the moment [...]

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Where does the dust come from?

I’ve been away from home for three days to return to find a layer of dust everywhere – again! Guess what this domestic executive has been doing this weekend.
Tomorrow I plan to get photo-blogging again but need to get the house ship shape for its blog reveal.
We are living in organised chaos which is not [...]

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Weekend working?

The rules for weekend work for a domestic executive are very unclear. Obviously it makes sense for the working partner not to be exposed to domestic work normally done Monday to Friday, but when does the domestic executive get a day off?
So far, this has not been a hotly debated topic in the Treanor household [...]

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Was this the dream?

It’s been four months now since I swopped a place at the boardroom table for a full time role as a domestic executive. In that time, it’s been a roller coaster ride of change.
Firstly, I had to pack up our home in the UK and ship our chattels to New Zealand. This was always going [...]

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