I first made lemon barley cordial when we moved to the farm fifteen years ago and inherited the most productive lemon tree in the world.

(From Slice of Wednesday, our newsletter, Wed 17 Jan 2024) Hi! It’s a bit rude to publish an infrequent newsletter, write a bit of a

My nearly seventeen-year-old hasn’t had much appetite lately. I’ll do anything for him, and that includes feeding him biscuits at breakfast if that’s what we need to

I’ve been reading about brown butter cookies for years, usually an American thing, and had never really seen the point. Melt and brown the butter

When I first started this blog a hundred years ago, I was living in Sydney with two children, not three, and Adam and I would

I’ll be honest, I have no idea if I even remember how to post anything. It’s been so long in between postings that I don’t

  In our font yard there is a magnificent tree.     It’s an Illawarra Flame Tree. I remember it blooming only a couple of

We were very lucky to have the lovely Luisa Brimble visit recently (accompanied by the equally lovely Emma Bowen). I’ve been admiring Luisa’s gorgeous photography

  Last night our friend Tim O’Sullivan (Timbo Rural Contracting) showed up with some extra friends and they took out four foxes in an hour.

You know that moment when you think, oh well, it can’t get worse than this?  We lost the remainder of the mature batch of meat