Garden of earthly delights

2:25 PM 2012, cooking, garden, Menucha nechona No Comments

We are completely misusing Hieronymus Bosch's trypitch painting "Garden of Earthly Delights" but none the less, that's the title that springs to mind when walking in the early  Summer garden.  Well started by Steve and Toni's continuing good works sees it overflowing with bounty We see this One mornings tomato harvest ! become this Tomato puree for use in pastas later in the year The herb garden Main herb garden with associated frog pond Frog...

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wild, wild, life...

10:59 PM 2012, climate change, cooking, fauna, garden, snake No Comments

wild, wild, life... No, not an ode to  the seminal Talking Heads tune but living in rural Australia, in the bush, one of the joys is the wildlife.  While I am somewhat Ophidiophobic Toni is enamoured, so let's continue with the story.  I was awoken at 2 AM the other night by the raucous cackling of our chickens and wandered down to check what was happening  with my spotlight.  I had visions of either a Fox (though we had never seen any here) or a native Quoll,...

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A days delectable delights

5:59 PM 2012, cooking, garden No Comments

A Days Delectable Delights One of the great things about the property is feeding yourself from the produce... better than the words is the story evoked via imagery Breakfast Breakfast a salad of veggies and herbs from the garden, with a drizzle of an oil/vinegar mix and a little cracked pepper.  Followed with fruit from the orchard, a berry good mix of berries: Strawberries, Brazillian cherries, raspberries with some Peppino Melon Breakfast Lunch Was left overs...

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Slowly getting up to speed...

12:50 PM 2012, climate change, garden No Comments

Slowly getting up to speed... Garden is going great, Companion planted Marigolds we have had some rain but not as much as we'd like.  This seems endemic across eastern Australia at the moment, which is the exact opposite of when we left where it would not stop raining ! Tomatoes are coming along Getting some color Harvested garlic drying in the Sun We're still suffering sticker shock from how expensive everything is in...

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We're BAAACKK!

8:16 AM 2012, Menucha nechona, nymboida No Comments

To paraphrase Jack Nicholson from "The Shining" ... "We're baaaaaack !" Long time followers will know we spent some 10 months in SE Asia, primarily in Cambodia .. a blog of those exploits is here for those who have come to this blog from somewhere else While we were away While we were away we had a wonderful friend, Stephen Alldridge, looking after the place for us.  Stephen is very "handy" and undertook a huge number of renovation and improvement projects...

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Away

3:10 PM 2012, steve No Comments

We're currently away on sabbatical in Cambodia doing some volunteer work (left in February 2012).  You can read more about that here Rural Cambodian Life http://help-cambodia.blogspot.com/ Our wonderful friend Steve is looking after the property for us while we are away and doing some amazing upgrades, Installing a new sink Adding a drain to the outdoor shower  weed clearing and  hopefully enjoying himself, fishing, camping etc in the nearby rivers. Wild...

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it's not all work on the property

1:31 PM 2012, MTB, rafting, recreation No Comments

We get away often but being as aware as we can of just burning fuel , we keep most of our stuff as local as we can.  I thought it might be nice to give a idea of what you can do and how much you can enjoy what I call micro travel. Rafting We have a magnificent white water kayaking facility a couple km's down the road, we can even ride to it on our pushbikes with our packrafts ! They're wonderful like that Packrafts, break down paddle and that's all she said ! You can pack everything down...

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