• Horses

    Foal update… little scare!

    Remember Cute Stuff 2*? The gorgeous little chestnut filly born here just before Christmas… *Yes it’s true, we still have no proper name for our pair of darling baby horses here… I’m working on it!! Well we have had a…

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    Excuses,excuses!

    It’s branding this week – and I am flat out like the proverbial lizard drinking. …My daily schedule includes feeding, dressing and getting kids to school and kindy, organising records, vaccinations, scanners, eartags, lunches, then all day at yards, and…

  • Food

    Holy Giant Zucchini!

    Have I mentioned before that we have a vegetable garden flourishing in our backyard? Considering how bad my repuation is as a gardener (can anyone say black thumb?) I am outrageously proud of the produce being, well, produced by my…

  • The Bush

    Tough yet vulnerable

    Bottle trees (from the boab family) fascinate me endlessly…Officially called Brachychiton rupestris (which sounds to me like some kind of carniverous dinosaur) is described as a succulent, drought-deciduous tree. Which basically means (as far as I can deduce) that it…

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    Oh, Obama!

    As Mr Obama made his rousing speech today, I was sleeping. I think you had to get up at 2.30am to hear or see the Inuguration live. I did catch excerpts all day on the radio however, as I made…

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    Post 300

    Can you believe it? This is officially the 300th post for this little black blog! It seems like yesterday that I took the fingers to the keyboard, after some serious coaxing by my darling blog-addicted sister, to try my hand…