Bush Babe of Oz

I have a weird kind of fascination… well, I have a number really. But the one I am talking about today is roads. My love for them is reflected in my vast collection of snapshots of them. I even have a whole blog category for them, for heaven’s sake! (I wonder if there is a [...]

Something pretty special arrived here at Granite Glen this week. No, I am not referring to the calendars, which have mostly gone off in a cloud of dust to all sorts of amazing places. (More on that in a later post).. Something was delivered here in the last couple of days that is just so [...]

We get mail twice a week here at Granite Glen. Our lovely mail lady (who travels hundreds of kilometres each run) pokes our bundle of bills and papers into this old red cream can about one kilometre from the house. It sits beside a little green shed – a multipurpose venue for parking bikes in [...]

They do this kind of thing… Unsure whether I should be impressed at the ability of these kids to amuse themselveswithout the need for electronic equipment…or whether to bejust a little bit… DISTURBED?

Well, it’s been quite a week. Random updates to follow. . Update #1 – The Ongoing Poddy Saga As you may already know if you have read the comments from yesterday’s post, we lost our little redhead poddy last night. We think pneumonia may have claimed her – whatever it was, antibiotics and sugared-up, egged-up [...]

I really wanted this to be a happy-go-lucky, skippedy-do-dah, my-oh-my kind of post. With all my heart, I wanted that. Cause it’s calving time round Granite Glen. For the past few weeks, red and black baby calves have been popping out into the big wide world… All knobbly knees and amazed ears and unblinking eyes. [...]