My Drought Diary
It’s Day 1085…though you really do not want to count. We are nearly at the end of our third year and moving into a very hot summer again. And no rain since March this year. We have ...
Bust the Dust
Today, Friday 13th December at 1pm. kids from all over the State will be trying to bust the dust. They have been perfecting their moves and will gather to perform rain dances. It was initiated by ...
Sweet !
Fires have been raging all along the north coast of NSW, from Taree to Coffs Harbour and beyond. Wild life have been severely impacted, many properties burnt out and some lives have been lost. ...
Ladies Day Out
Today I dodged the jobs on the farm and had a ladies day out…in one of my favourite places, Haydon Hall in Murrurundi. It was presented as part of a Rural Resilience programme run by the ...
Creative Writing Awards or CWA.
I belong to an online creative writing group called Scribbles. For the second year, they ran a writing competition and I entered a story for children as well as a Picture Book manuscript. My ...
Number 361
I begin the day trying to write but then I am called to lend a hand. Dave 2 is doing a check of all the paddocks. Dave 1 and I rattle along the road and up the hill towing a trailer of green feed ...
A is for Almonds and B is for Bee
We have bees buzzing around our garden although we are in drought mode. They find the ornamental grape and the lavender flowers. We even have a bee hotel in our courtyard for native bees. Out in ...
The dry cycle
The pattern keeps repeating. This is the third October we have had to feed our cattle. This October we should have had 60 mls of rain. Instead we have had 17mls. Yesterday the strong winds ...
The glory of trees
I can’t live without trees. Where I live in the bush, we see grand old trees every day; ancient apple box and yellow box that have endured for decades. Our eucalypts are different from the ...