I remember the pain of returning to work after a vacation. The numbness of arriving to my desk and the energy it required to talk to lots of other people. The exhaustion that sets in from mid morning and the overwhelming feeling to lay my head on the desk and hope... Being the butt of many jokes was an occupational hazard working in marketing and PR. Someone once asked me if we threw a party in the office to open the post since we were constantly organising opening ceremonies of one sort or another. Although my life in... Water tank bursting rain is upon us for a few days. The temperatures have plummeted and the winds are wild enough to create sleep depriving booms under the veranda. However hard I tell myself that rain is a good thing for the land I can’t help feel deprived of... As I stood at the Butchers on Christmas Eve I overhead another customer telling him that they were staying at home over the holidays as they had animals and were supervising their neighbours animals. The butcher replied “….seems very fashionable this... Being in the new Kitchen Garden with me is a whole new adventure for the bassets with enormous scope for mischief. I love their company but gardening with bassets is a futile exercise in command and control. There is rarely an offer of a helpful paw but rather an... 