We have just spent a week on a farm near a city called Roma in Queensland. The soil a bit redder than New South Wales' brown, Ben and I have been driving tractors, mustering cattle, making cattle feed (most dusty a process!) and enjoying not being in a tent! Ben, familiar with most tasks having … Continue reading Rolling Back Onto The Farm
Batchelor
88 Days Later
88 days... Does it sound long? Or does it sound short? Well the 88 days the Australian government required me to do farmwork in regional Australia is now complete. Five farms later (plus one extra for a couple of days), two in Northern Territory and three in Western Australia have certainly provided quite an experience … Continue reading 88 Days Later
Burning Clothes and Much Mulching
The sun's rays have been shining upon WA this week :-). Falling a little bit in love with the flowers here, I can't imagine a dry, not so green WA in summer... Temperatures finally warming, after being inside for so many days at the roadhouse, I am very much enjoying being outside all day with … Continue reading Burning Clothes and Much Mulching
Squashing Katherine
My legs are a mess. I must have at least twenty bites on them. Some mozzies, I'm not sure of the rest. Vigilant in my application of bug spray in Batchelor, Darwin's cityscape has not been so kind. I hope they don't scar. Travelling south by bus, I watch the landscape out my window. Red … Continue reading Squashing Katherine
TimTam Cake Pops and the Loch Ness Monster
A shorter working week due to the impending Darwin adventuring, my last couple of days held tasks of planting capsicums (peppers to the UK aboding) and cabbage, plastic laying, a lot of weeding, hole digging for irrigation and bagging bananas to stop moths eating them. My work clothes certainly worn well here, I also had … Continue reading TimTam Cake Pops and the Loch Ness Monster
Calf Predicting, Lime Juice and Nine Bananas Later…
Northern Territory supposedly in the 'dry' season, for the last couple of weeks the weather has not played ball... Witnessing a fair few thunder and lightning storms, an impressive amount of rain and temperatures warmer than they should be, this week saw a change in the weather. What the farmers have been waiting for, with … Continue reading Calf Predicting, Lime Juice and Nine Bananas Later…
Scottish Footprints 