With all the dramas this year, we wern’t up to taking the kids to the Royal or Kelmscott Shows, so thought a quiet little country show might be more our style this year 🙂 Kids got to see the baby farm animals (we all think alpacas and baby goats are *very* cute), had a few […]
The chickens have settled in really well since the move, but havn’t started laying again and we are all missing fresh free range eggs. I really didn’t want to go down the baby chicken route again (seeing as our success ratio of pullets to roosters is far less than 50%!) but getting point of lay […]
Happy Knight NZ – “Tommy”, 16.1+h bright bay gelding Foaling Date: 01-Sep-2000 Sire: OUR SIR VANCELOT NZ Dam: HAPPY SUMMER (NZ) Country of birth: NZ Prizemoney: $16,956 Starts: 53 Wins: 4 Seconds: 2 Thirds: 6 Best Winning Mile Rate: 2:03.1MS Last raced: 19-Jul-2008 BUNBURY Tommy is my special boy, affectionately called ‘Thomas Humongous’ because of […]
Meridian Sundial – “Flicka”, 1990, 15.1h brown mare Sire: The Sunbird Hanover USA Dam: Sweep Hand Prizemoney: $16,550 Starts: 99 Wins: 6 Seconds: 6 Thirds: 9 Best Winning Mile Rate: 2:03.1MS Last raced: 24-Mar-1999 HARVEY Like many retired race horses, Flicka’s story is a sad one. We are her sixth home in the past three […]
One of our neighbours bought over a few of his sheep to help eat our paddocks down to reduce the fire risk over summer. In this case, a “few” sheep is 650 merinos!
It has taken a while but we are now living in our new lifestyle home with much joy and happiness by all. After two truck loads over two days we are well underway in our unpacking with most rooms in the house nearly unpacked. The shed on the other hand has yet to be started […]
It has been a long twelve months on the path of getting our property, but it has all been well worth it. News over the weekend and late today have confirmed our move to our new home in Boyup Brook over the coming week, which is what our blog here is all about, our new […]