Braving the heights!
My dear husband hates heights. But in the interests of adding to my natural history collection for sketching, he braved the ladders and climbed to the top of the silo. Under the lid was a ragged ...
Sunday drive
Sunday morning and we are discombobulated! Daylight saving somehow happened and all is out of kilter. The regular magpie visitor has already pecked around the lawn at his 6am and the cows are ...
Books in Woolsheds
One of the joys of belonging to a Book Club in the country, is being able to visit many country homes. My Book Club has been running for over 50 years with 30 members,many of them on farms that ...
The Birdman
I am doing an online course in Natural History Illustration through Newcastle University. I live in the Upper Hunter area near Scone and I was excited to see so many illustrators mentioned , ...
#Day 266
It’s day 266 of the drought of 2018. Sunday. We load up the utes and head off to feed the first herd of cows and calves. All of them are massed around the trough area. On no. Does not auger ...
The Need for Feed
This drought has meant we have had to institute measures that are new to our operation. We have never fed hay to our cattle before. We have never fed cotton seed. We have never fed pellets to ...
The Wind in the Willows
I have just attended an ADFAS lecture in Scone, delivered by an educational consultant, John Ericson, focussing on the role of the illustrator in the novel, The Wind in the Willows. The book was ...
Gruffalo and Cinderella
This was my second Book Week at Scone Library and this year I had two groups of local kids. The first was a very attentive Year 1 group from the local school, not costumed but all in very neat ...
The Treasure in Books
I have recently spent more time exploring a slightly different form of Picture Books, and many of those are by Claire Saxby. Her books are a blend of narrative and non fiction information and ...