Sharing the sounds of country is different from sharing the sounds of towns and cities. The roar of engines, screeching brakes, tooting horns all become part of everyday occurrences in populated places. Come visiting in the country and you are in another world. Get ready for a listening experience and a lightening of the soul….
Now we are in Summer but it feels more like Autumn with its morning mists and degrees of coolness. It is still raining intermittently and everything is growing at a great pace. One of the good things about that is it should be keeping the bush fires away this season. Remembering this time last year…
One of the exciting things about living here is viewing the ‘passing parade’. Whatever the season, there is always something new to observe, that’s if you are really looking. This Spring has been truly remarkable, probably because of the excessive rain we’ve had. I have seen new plants flowering out along the road and in…
This exercise can be very dangerous. I do not do this myself but arrange for two wood-cutters to come periodically. They came this week and attacked some of the dead trees, cutting them into pieces for the combustion heater in the Flat and some for my cooking stove as well as my heating stove. So…
Looking back to the closing months of 2019 and into 2020 there was so much stress around us all. We were in deep drought and the country was brown and bare. All the established trees dropped their leaves and began to die. For the first time I could see through the forest area next door…