The movie ends, it’s 11pm, and I wander through the house switching off lights and kissing sleeping children before I go to bed. My bare feet chill to ice as I walk across the laundry tiles to feed the cat. I glance out the window. Clouds of mist fill the voids between the hills. Strange to be able […] Read more…
This week we hit a high point… the chooks are suddenly laying eight eggs a day! It has been crepes, omelettes and egg salad sandwiches all round at our place lately. Our grapefruit is now ripe for the picking, so I took a basketful to our local food swap and walked away with some great veggie […] Read more…
It seems that anytime I book a tradesman of some description, the unexpected happens. Last week I took delivery of some doors that took SIX MONTHS(!) for a certain company which shall remain nameless to deliver to me, despite many cranky phone calls, only to discover that they had only ordered half the required width […] Read more…
It has been a busy week around here. I started back at work, Rusty chased off a yabbie poacher from our dam, while the kids kept themselves busy playing pirate ships on the mountain of mulch in one of our paddocks. Best questions of the week came from Mr 4 while we were out on a […] Read more…
Emily from Beetle Shack gave me the inspiration for some weekly stills from our place. So here’s what our week has looked like. Read more…
I’ve made a happy discovery. It seems that my garden springs into flower as winter approaches! Mum mentioned the other day that it looks like our house has a wintergarden. Lavender, daisies, a few late roses, and a whole bunch of shrubs that I don’t know the names of are filling every corner of the […] Read more…