Knot strimming the bush
A neighbour was trimming her shrubbery (or as Jilly Cooper might say "strimming her hedges") last week, when she spied something that caused her to gasp and throw down her secateurs.
Fogs and filligree…
Mornings have been foggy affairs round here in the last couple of weeks. There is something quite surreal and beautiful about the softness of a morning mist. Gorgeous really. Dash spied something quite beautiful in our garden (not my neglected…
Put all hot beverages DOWN…
Been a while since we did the old ‘Aussie wildlife behaving badly’ thing here… This set of snake photos arrived in an email sent through recently. The accompanying description read: “These pictures were taken by one of the road crew…
Weather and witnesses
As some of my readers have been kind enough to point out, it is past mid-week here at Granite Glen. Mid-week seems to be a point of interest… perhaps because it is supposed to be Weather Watch Wednesday on a…
Change of Expression
Something pretty amazing happened today. We have been having a massive campdrafting weekend, with Cyclone Ului being polite and staying at bay (although the skies are quite grey). There has been some AMAZING action which I will share when I…
Wallowing
You may – or may not – have heard about the rain in these parts? I realise some of those around the ridges (further south) may be a little sick of it, but me? No way, Jose. I have been…
Break in the (weather) transmission
Did I MISS something this week? Like, um, the WEATHER WATCH? Sheesh… hopeless. Not too regular here at the moment (and trying to bat kids away from the computer as I type this – blinking ‘educational’ websites). So as we…
Peaceful place
Sometimes the Gods just don’t play fair. Sometimes life sucks. Sometimes we need a little place to go to, just to be still and calm and peaceful. I thought that I would share one of my places today – a…
Eye Spy
I spy with my little eye, something beginning with ‘B’… (Remember Bay Lulic aka Bella? Original story here) … I spy with my little eye, a cow who saved a calf from starvation. I spy with my little eye,…
Splish Splash… rain revellin’
Is there an extension of the old Indian proverb: Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun? Something like:Bush kids and mad Mums race out into the pouring rain? No? Should be...