Seriously- images below may not be pleasant to look at! My last post was about Woolsheds, and while searching for photos about sheep and shearing, I came across pictures taken …
Pondering on Woolsheds
There is a Woolshed here on Quanbun Downs station. Since the sheep left in the early 1970s, it hasn’t been used for shearing for many years, but just looking at …
Adventures- Drama
Adventures- Dramas! We are having a drama this week. Something that has never happened to us before. We have lived in the Outback and in isolated places on other occasions …
Living in The Outback
Since we have the pleasure of living in the gracious homestead of the station at Quanbun Downs, and we have also had the pleasure of working in other stations through …
Coming back to Civilization
The dawn sun is much cooler than later in the day, and until the flies get really active there is a pleasant, but short, time to enjoy the outdoors in …
Australia’s Longest Shortcut
Our big Adventure had begun. You may remember that we had started across the Outback Way, known as Australia’s Longest Shortcut, prior to our months of work in the Outback. …
Staying ‘Clean and Green’
I just saw a video on Facebook that made me totally ashamed to be a human. It was about 1080 drops in New Zealand and the horror that animals are …
Pet Sitting- continued…..
Time never stops and soon we were leaving Reading and catching a flight north to Scotland, where we caught a bus south again into Border country. Ettrick is a charming …
Pet Sitting Diary
Try house and pet sitting yourself here We had done several pet-sits in New Zealand, but it hadn’t crossed our mind to use this as a travel intervention until we …
Travelling into History
I love History. Not all History, but the personalised everyday History of Yesteryear. I love tracking my ancestors and finding out all about them. Last year, I had a wonderful …