June has been a wonderfully wet month and a very busy one! We were screaming for rain in the first week, but slowly Mother nature built her Cold Front’s a sent them one by one, week by week and let the clouds do their job. Rain it did – the second week of June…
DetailsIntroducing Mae Connelly from Pingrup in the Great Southern region of Western Australia. Mae’s Story is number 26 in my Farmer Blogs series, celebrating the Australian Year of the Farmer. Summary of your family and farming enterprise My husband Rohan has been working on his family’s grain and sheep farm at Pingrup for the last 10 years. His…
DetailsTess Evans is able to look inside the minds of people as she writes. How else could she be so good at writing about emotions and feelings? And that is what her book, The Memory Tree and her previous book, The Book of Lost Threads is all about; people and their healing. Here’s Tess:
DetailsBehind most good stories, whether they are on the page or TV, is a secret. Or an untold story, which depending on the tale, might be the same thing! My family have all been sick this last week, with what seems to be a cross between the flu, a virus and a vomiting bug.…
DetailsIntroducing Raelene Hall of Ned’s Creek Station, Raelene’s story is number 25 in our quest to feature 52 Farmers in 52 weeks as part of our celebration of the Australian Year of the Farmer.
It’s been a while since I’ve been captivated by a good book. I used to love reading for pleasure, but now, I find that when I read I’m looking at lots of different things, trying to learn from the book I’m reading. Dinner at Rose’s is different. It grabbed me from the minute I…
DetailsLately I haven’t been sure if its the fact I’m getting older or there are more things in the world going wrong; sickness, death, war. It seems every time I turn around I hear of someone I know suddenly diagnosed with some horrible disease, or dying unexpectedly. I believe the list is endless and this…
DetailsIntroducing Kylie Stretton from Charters Towers via Burdekin Dam in NQ. Kylie’s powerful story is number 24 in our series of 52 Farming stories celebrating the Australian Year of the Farmer. Over to you Kylie… I grew up on a cattle station on the Burdekin Dam in NQ, which ran 6000 head of cattle. It…
DetailsThanks Fleur for having me on your awesome blog!! I’m particularly happy to be here today because I ‘’met’’ Fleur through my current book JILTED. Fleur had three manuscript critiques up for grabs at the beginning of 2011 in an auction to raise money for the Queensland Flood victims. As I had an almost complete…
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Yesterday, there was a forecast for good rains. We’re getting pretty desperate for one of them. But when I went outside and looked towards East, this above photo is what I saw. Fog rolling in. To the west, it looked like the photo below: I was pretty hopeful when I saw the dark clouds,…
DetailsFeed time on McDonald’s farm happens every second day, when there isn’t any feed. Even though we had a whopping 45mm about eight weeks ago, we have had very little since and the paddocks are baring up quickly. Any tiny little morsel of green grass has been found and munched on by every-on-the-hunt sheep and…
DetailsIntroducing Peter and Di Barrie from Willowie in the mid north of South Australia. Their story is number 23 in my quest to feature 52 farming stories as the part of our celebration of the Australian Year of the Farmer. Summary of your family and farming enterprise Peter’s family have farmed here for five…
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