Category Archives: Where we live

2010: My year in blogging

Posted on Thursday, 13 January 2011 by

I started this blog back in April. Over the past months there have been many times when I haven’t managed to blog as often as I wanted (or, let’s face it, at all!), but looking back over all the posts … Continue reading →

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New things

Posted on Wednesday, 29 December 2010 by

A couple of new things around here today… The first is a freshly hatched chick! So adorable. One of our hens, Blax, has been sitting on eggs for the past three weeks, and yesterday the first one hatched. More may … Continue reading →

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Garden meditation

Posted on Sunday, 23 May 2010 by

Here are some photos from our garden this week, focussing on some of the kinds of little magical details that are always there waiting for us to find if we look carefully enough.  Autumn leaves fall round Buddha’s head. The … Continue reading →

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Bush bath bliss

Posted on Monday, 10 May 2010 by

Sunday we spent the day doing a big Autumn clear-up in the garden. Lots of mowing, weeding, pruning and mulching, clearing out the car port, tidying up chicken houses and making Alice the Pig’s Winter straw bed. By the end … Continue reading →

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Big skies

Posted on Friday, 30 April 2010 by

Yesterday evening, as the sun set, I was out on our deck taking the photographs for my ‘Coral, shell and bone’ post. The sky was going through its own coral colour palette and I got to thinking about when I … Continue reading →

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