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I've managed to post some photos of the house and garden, after long last ( Read more... )

After an hour spent in vain trying to upload photos, I figure I'd better just start writing well enough to describe things ( Read more... )

The cars we have on the farm are all suited, to varying degrees, to their jobs ( Read more... )

We are enjoying a gentle and balmy May this year. The winter chill hasn't really set in, after threatening to, and the days are still scorching. But winter is coming, and there are firebreaks to cut and burn, herbs to dry, gas bottles to fill, and the last summer produce to be picked and preserved ( Read more... )

Yesterday, I was sealing my kitchen floor (how's that for adventurous) when there was shouting and commotion at the staff houses. I ran over, barefoot, to find Sandries swinging a rake at something. Snake ( Read more... )

The other night, I was driving home after dark. We were in the Pajero (I think it's called a montero or something like at in the USA -apparently, "pajero" is slang somewhere for "wanker") which is pretty tall off the road. Driving up our driveway, maybe 30 feet from our house, a giant Kudu bull, roughly the size of a moose, suddenly emerged. He ( Read more... )

I'm sure you northern hemisphere types are delighting in the changing of the season. Well, I'm not, dammit ( Read more... )

A little bird has adopted us recently. He is a male Cliff Mocking Chat, a handsome little black and chestnut bird with bright white shoulders. Very dapper. He first seemed to decide that our porch made a good cliff, and moved in there, flitting about all day catching moths. His singing is divine. He sings sweetly about being a bird, then sings with ( Read more... )

Having Elin here is a wonderful excuse to do fun things. I can run my silly errands, or we can say "stuff that!" and go play with Elephants. You know how it goes, you don't really go see your local attractions until someone comes and visits you ( Read more... )