I have a recalcitrant basset fighting my Macbook so he can sit on my lap. For now, the laptop computer has possession of the lap, but a basset snout can be a forceful instrument so you can be sure that this pushy basset will eventually get his own way. Bassets do not... 
It is a painful thwack to the head when the obvious hits me, especially when accompanied by that hateful know-it-all voice inside your head that says, “IÂ told you so”. Â Professionally I’d call this having ‘insight’ but since I’m... 
Who’d have thought that the study of food would have such heavy weight academic pretensions? It’s been a sobering start to the latest unit in my course after being thrown knee deep in the Mythologies of 20th century French philosopher Barthes. His... It sometimes feels like an exhausting uphill battle deciding what to eat.  Taking wheat, sugar and high GI carbohydrates from your diet banishes pretty much any form of ready to eat snack or café food.  It’s not like you starve though.  Fruit, nuts, cheese,... Right on cue for the official start of spring, the sun has come out and once again the garden is bursting into bud.  With longer daylight hours the chickens are up and about earlier each day which is more than I can say for the bassets who would languish in their... 
