No green thumb…
Today’s confession: I am a terrible gardener.This is not a claim I make lightly. … Don’t get me wrong… I love plants: agapanthus, lavender, roses, gerberas, poinciana trees…Among my very favourite things in the world.Sadly, they don’t love me.Or more…
And they call it…
Okay, enough with scaring the pants off you all… so sorry about that. It hardly ever happens, really. … In my defence, I really didn’t quite understand the effect of unleasing an image of the deadliest snake in the world…
Beyond the black stump…or in the ‘burbs?
It’s all a matter of perspective I guess… as to whether we are ‘remote’ or (in fact, as my Dad claims) actually “practically living in the suburbs” here at Granite Glen. … I mentioned last post, that we get a…
Bovine buddies…no bull!
I haven’t talked too much about cattle to y’all yet… and that’s a bit crazy when Granite Glen is a cattle property. Really, we live, eat (literally) and breathe cattle. (Apologies to my vegetarian friends: I’m just telling it like…
Whinge alert!
I apologise for abandoning this blog for the past 48 hours… I’ve been busy. Busy going for the Guiness Book of World Records in the regurgitation of one’s stomach contents section. Dash has been pacing me. He still holds the…
It’s a Boy! (and a girl and a boy)
I hope you have already voted in my very first poll ever – because TIME’s UP folks! In the wee hours of last night, in the corner of a very messy room in our laundry, some babies arrived. A little…
(Brown) eyes have it!
I have brown eyes… very dark brown. Brown skin, brown hair, brown eyes. Unrelenting brown-ness. That’s me. … And in the way of women the world over, I have always wished for something OTHER than what I have. I wished…
Doggie Drama: the Patch files
Doggie dramas have been rife at Granite Glen lately… …We have Cruel. The shameless hussy. Getting bigger and more bosomy by the day. Cruel has been allowed out of her pen and has taken up residence in the spare room…
Ree ‘n’ Me…
I have to admit something… a confession if you like. I love The Pioneer Woman. OK, I don’t really know her, so I can’t really LOVE her, but I do love her style. Seeing as how most of you came…
The Cruel Files…
Do you remember Cruel? She’s our resident hussy. We love her lots. And we’re gonna love her babies. Any day now… (PS Is it just me or do you think she might need a maternity bra shortly?)