.....Why am I here blogging..?

My name is Loretta and I am 36 and a half - in other words; getting on a bit and hurtling towards 40!  Somehow, and it was terribly careless of me I lost my 20's, when my 30's came along my life began .... bought house number 2, fell deeply in love with my husband, bought our beautiful 1850's house for a small fortune and learnt about setting up and running a business, secured my job and went on a steep learning curve and brought up a puppy - we are now proud owners of a Goldie; Digby. 

As I am sure you will come to realise quite quickly we are not the luckiest of families but fight hard against this bad luck that trails us like a bad smell to make our lives happier than we are with each other.  We are in fact very happy; sickeningly so!  We have good jobs (ones that don't perhaps pay great but we love what we do - a life compromise!)  We have fabulous friends and supportive loving families.  What neither one of us have is knowledge of such things like DIY - even the basics.  House keeping eludes me.  How do you all do it?  Keep a job pinned, have a beautifully tidy and clean house, files in order, the fridge is full, meals are on time and delicious, your gardens are tidy, colourful and de-weeded, you even grow veg...... I'm willing to bet most of you have children too!

We are in a mess (and we are naturally messy).  We need to change.  We dream of running the house and garden seamlessly ....The luck thing for us is simply things going wrong, and the little things build into big things and then get erm left ..... example no.1: 3 weeks ago I planted two Spider Lilly bulbs in the conservatory as per the instructions and kept an eye on them as per the instructions.  They sprouted - hurrah!! Three days ago I noticed from nowhere they were being eaten by something, he leaves bending and parts of the shape missing ... on closer inspection I spy black bugs scurrying around the surface of the soil.  Now.  What do I do?  I don't know a solution, so what have I done?  Nothing.  That's right nothing because I don't have the first idea what steps to take, I am hoping they will disappear.......example no.2: Two weeks ago i cut the lawn with my father's loaned expensive lawnmower.  No problems. Today my husband wants to cut the lawn and it's stopped working.  It's full of petrol.  What do we do?  Put it back in the shed to 'try again next time'....(incidentally my husband is making his life hard now by trying to cut a huge lawn with a strimmer.)

See?  These things happen and domestic gods and goddeses that you are know the answers to solve these problems!

So today I start a blog to record our daily attempts at sorting out this house and garden.... I challenge us us to something domestic each day, to get on top of the mess, to educate ourselves to become DOMESTIC........!

PS Any advice MORE than welcome .....