Life’s highways and by ways
Our drive home from the farm takes us along the Hume Highway. Driving along the highway I spend a lot of time looking out the window. There are lots of things of interest right next …
Fish & chips for dinner … and feeding the birds
Remember all those summer holidays when you were a kid? It doesn’t matter where you went for your holidays, it was always fish & chips for dinner. And now it’s the same with the kids …
The pick of the pics
A picture tells a thousand words, so here’s the story of our Christmas at the farm – from arriving in the golden glow of sunset, Christmas lights and Christmas beetles, millions of grasshoppers, Doc building …
Help me make our part-time farm life more sustainable
Now that we’re home, and getting over the “post holiday blues”, how did we go in terms of sustainability on the farm. First of all we used lots of water, about 600 litres, or 60 …
And it’s time to go home
I woke up this morning, as I do most mornings out here, to the sound of birds greeting the day. Some mornings we sleep in so late the birds have already done their salute to …
A sky full of stars in country NSW
You don’t get skies like these in the city. A week ago there was a full moon, last night there was none at all, leaving the stars to shine in all their brilliance. You can …