a little giveaway!

Who doesn't love a cookbook?! Particularly one aimed at kids, with a bit of verve. Nothing condescending, no silly sandwiches.  I was sent two copies

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share farming

Adam and I are essentailly share farming with these larrikins. My folks.  That is, they're retired from dairying (and teaching, in my Mum's case), but

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heartbreak

Yesterday began so well. The day before Adam had moved the meat chickens out to the new pen he built in the paddock. The night

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building

  It all started with a potato. I planted a couple of kilograms of spuds a couple of weeks ago, over the side fence in

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hit refresh

  Sometimes, even when stuff's generally good, you fall in a heap, right?  It all seems a bit much, a bit hard, the days too

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playtime

    Hello! In my first guest post ever, a little bit about our playtime over at Childhood 101! xxx  

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eggs on

  Finally, at some ripe old age approaching 28 weeks, our hens are laying.  Not all at once, which gives us time to figure out

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working away

    I'm a little bit absent from this space at the moment because I'm madly working away on this website! Back soon with an online

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