We’re living on a building site again. In fact, as I write this blog there is an enormous truck delivering metal (that’s road gravel) moving past my window.After months of waiting the ground works people have returned to finish of the drive and spread the... I sometimes wish that Bassets came with a full instruction manual. When I got my new power saw this week it came with full instructions on how it operates and what to look out for in terms of health and safety and when things go wrong. We got no such thing when... As I was saying yesterday, Fortnum and Mason didn’t exactly bound up the drive with enthusiasm to help with the Thistle Harvest. They were stitting rather comfortably in the sun on the veranda but eventually curiosity got the better of them and they did make it... This coming week the grounds work people are returning to finish the drive and spread the mountain of topsoil along the drive and in the top paddock. I figured it was time we harvested the thistles that have been growing beautifully all summer on our soil... Yesterday the ground started sprouting pink wooden pegs. Or rather they were being bashed in the ground by our landscape designer Jamie. He came up to set out the spots for the trees to be planted.At first I thought this was a job that we could do ourselves but when I... 