Bush Babe of Oz

A new view (or two) as Mother Nature flexes some mighty (muddy) muscles…

It’s weather watch time (I do remember my own weekly segment occasionally) but I am spicing it up a little today..And when I say ‘spicing it up a little’ I mean cinnamon. Or nutmeg. Not quite sure.What do you think?.It’s my water here at Granite Glen. Not my drinking water – that would be gross. [...]

Water is essential to all life. Now I realise this statement falls into the “duh!” department, but sometimes we lose sight of the simplicity of the concept. I know I have. Mostly when I was living in the ‘Big Smoke’ and worrying about traffic and road rage. I’m not a patient person. And I know [...]

It’s been pretty hard not to focus on the horrendous toll that bushfires have taken on Australia lately – and I realise my last couple of posts have been (necessarily) a bit hot and heavy… you’d be forgiven for thinking that nothing has been going on around the ridges here. Nothing could be further from [...]

Don’t ask me why, but the two photos of Dash swimming (below) remind me of Bill Cosby… that wonderful American comedian which we would listen to on our cassette recorders as kids. (Yeah, I know. Old as the blinkin’ hills!) Jeanie and I would listen and laugh our cotton socks off. Even the bits we [...]

It’s been hot round the ridges here lately… While snow falls in Canada and Pennsylvannia, here the temperature rarely drops below 20 degrees (C) in November and the battle to get the pool transformed back from murky winter green to clear summer blue has been on in earnest. Unfortunately, Sven my (imaginary) pool boy has [...]