Winter woes…
It’s winter here at Granite Glen… We’ve had frosts already. Amazingly, I’ve not been up early enough to capture one with the Nikon yet. Myself, I’m not so keen on the cold. In my experience, one needs lots of doonas…
Friends and sunsets
I have just arrived home from a wonderful dinner… a night out in the bush.…It was an impromptu gathering of three families – neighbours around our age here near Granite Glen.…My darling friend Elle – a gorgeous bubbling well of…
Sepia and Aqua…
It’s been dry here at Granite Glen – a long time since our last proper rain. The grass has dried and faded to a soft burnt sepia. Artistic, sure.Tasty and juicy for our bovine residents.No. Dust has also dulled the…
A cool change…
Winter is coming to Granite Glen… The mornings are getting nippy and we have had our first frost for the year. … I’m not that keen on frosts – I have enough of a hard time dragging my butt out…
Flooded: the Mini-Series
Remember the rain I told you about last post? Well, upstream from us, up in the hills further north-west of Granite Glen, it rained even more. And so, as happens when the rain-sodden earth can no longer drink the wetness…
Washing the bad stuff away
It has been REALLY hot here at Granite Glen… sweaty, steamy, stinking hot. Over 40 degrees celsius hot (too lazy to convert properly, but heading over the 100F in the old scale). And then, after retreating repeatedly to the pool…
A little light relief…
Thought after you had endured yesterday’s epic offering, you deserved a little light relief! And if you have just started reading and are wondering what ever happened to our little heart hero, Dash… Well, he grew into a little boy…
But first the clouds…
We have just started the branding here, and I am exhausted. I should be sleeping. But I need to post (a sudden addiction I cannot explain as my previous life was blog-free and no need-to-post affliction affected me at all.…
Let it rain…
It’s been raining at Granite Glen… not the dam-busting, flooding deluges of out west, where friends have been forced to evacuate their homes and take shelter in the corner of a shed, all their worldly belongings stacked high and hopefully…