What's the saying about never working with kids and animals?

Jack usually defies that saying, but today he wasn't acting quite the way I'd hoped he would!

What a great day to spend in front of the fire, editing the next book for you all. Starting from Now will be out in November, and this has been an awesome, fun book to write, albeit slightly controversial...

Are you feeling a little tired? Don't feel like reading a bedtime story to the kids? Well, I've got your problem solved! Pop them into bed and let Jack and I read them my latest children's book, What Should a Horse Say?

I've been thinking about re-inventing my blog for some time, and now that time is right here. I used to love writing blogs - they would get my fingers all warmed up for writing during the day, and I LOVED sharing photos and little stories of my farming life with you all.

Okay, so on the 21st March, this is about to happen... Detective Dave Burrows is launched into his own series. Hopefully Fool's Gold will be the first of many adventures he takes us on.

“I am driven to improve agriculture and the viability of rural communities, and to show others just like me that we can do anything!”

— Dr Jillian Kelly

Esperance received a fair bit of rain on Thursday. Rain is one of my all-time favourite parts of Mother Nature. I grew up in the mid-north of SA, where it wasn’t a common occurrence, and as a farmer, I know there are good times for rain and others not so great.