For the last few weekends I've been dragged out of bed at some hideous hour, because someone in the toy cupboard; "doesn't ha...

  I am woken at five-am to a cacophony of bird-song. The bloody kookaburra's (North Shore's roosters) sound like they have micr...

For the uninitiated this line is from the movie " The Wild ". Much maligned because it is a bit of a steal of Madagascar,...

Gaaaaah! Major malfunction of the burglar alarm. The one we inherited with the house. The one we have never turned on. The...

Some people teach their dogs 'tricks'- we teach ours 'chores'. He will sit, stay, drop, come, drink from a sport bottle and ...

WHO WANTS TO RIDE ON A HOBBY-HORSE WHEN YOU CAN RIDE A GIRAFFE?   She-Who-Worships-Pink had been galloping around the house with a bro...