Holiday Blog: Drought Christmas
I wrote this almost forty years ago, in the late 70’s, during a drought that went on until 1983. I lived in a shed at the time; read by...
November 2018: Giant Kangaroos
Christmas Lilies! For all those readers who can’t wait for the next in the Miss Lily series, out in April: Christmas Lilies, an eBook...
August 2018: Delights and Hardships
Delights In the Last Month: 1. Taking grandkids – and other kids – to Josephine Wants to Dance: The Musical. The youngest sat without...
June 2018: Snow day
It’s snowed!!!!! Admittedly the snow didn’t last on the ground down here, but it fluttered across the valley. Some areas had hail,...
May 2018
Autumn leaves, fat limes, plumper pomegranates, avocados ready to harvest, still-warm days, and nights just cold enough for a doona…I do...
Has anyone seen my carrots?
Has anyone seen my carrots? Excuse me. I need a scratch. Ah, much better. Jackie has vanished to Adelaide, Somerset, Sydney and Perth,...
Suddenly, a year ahead of me
Suddenly I might have a year ahead of me. It’s an odd feeling. At the end of November last year it seemed fairly certain that 2018 would...
The Harvest Time of Life
They walked out of the café hand in hand, into the heat and green of the valley. She wore a peach sarong and boots, he was in old jeans...
Spring is here!
Spring is here, The grass is riz I wonder where The boidies is ... Except the grass is not riz at all but short, as if we had mowed it...
Furry Wombats, Furry Knees
Here is a secret: I have furry knees. It is a side effect of having knee replacement surgery that no one had mentioned. Or maybe it has...
