From Jackie (August 2008)
It’s good to be home again. Wombats scratching under the floor at 2 a.m., possums dancing in gumboots on the roof while we’re watching a DVD – but mostly just seeing the valley’s changes in the week I’ve been away (and the feeling of loss every time – like a mum who’s missed her baby’s first smile and knows there’ll never be that moment again).
         The first tiny white plum blossoms bloomed while I was away in Byron, and the double daffs have grown fat and yellow and the tangelos, those deep orange luscious things, have grown soft and sweeter in the frost that also left the banana grove looking like a fashionably tattered brown and green skirt.. . . read on

The first web entry from 1999
Hi,
This site is a (probably vain) attempt to cut down on the number of letters in our overstuffed mailbox up in town. I try to answer all kid's letters, (a few thousand a year), but most adult enquiries are slowly eaten by silverfish in the pile by the sofa that the wombat knocked off the table last December and I haven't got round to collecting yet...
Some time or other we'll get round to throwing them in the compost.

Hopefully, the stuff in here will give kids enough material for their projects, and let everyone else find out which book they need to get out of the library to find out what they want to know or if you're feeling flush you can buy it from the contacts supplied.

I only have two hands (both of which are sometimes occupied with things other than answering mail), one tired brain and a computer that depends on sun or a creek powered waterwheel to power it.

But I promise - the answers are in the books, somewhere. (I did keep my fingers crossed with that promise.)

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