Towards Self-Reliance in Suburbia
Dabakan Koorliny is Noongar for 'go slowly, walk slowly'. The very best way to see birdlife and other fauna if you are moving through the bush. I have been teaching the Little Fellas how to walk in the bush without making too much noise. I found this to be a very natural thing to achieve … Continue reading A Bird by any other Name
At the start of November, Gran took ill. Really ill. My wife made phone calls to nursing staff and after no change in Grans condition, an ambulance. Much to the entertainment of the Little Fellas, it took four ambulance volunteers to get Gran sorted and out of the house safely in the cool of evening. … Continue reading Gran Re-Booted (& Magpie Mimicry)
I have busied myself with carpentry projects around the house. Not that I need to really busy myself, but that the aspiration to learn to put things together in more of a coherent and concrete sense than I have managed to do in the past, has been a little stronger. I have completed a cubby … Continue reading In Reverence of The Rusty Nail
Today I began the task of sorting through the stored wood from the renovation. I had kind of started some weeks back, putting aside certain lengths of structural timber of certain dimensions for the trellis along the retaining wall. The Little Fellas have since hit upon the idea of a cubby house out in the … Continue reading Reclaimed Timber, Bananas & Cubbies
I am born under the star sign of Pisces. At a sub-conscious depth it is as though this zodiac has only ever deemed me fit for feeding fish, rather than catching them myself. I am changing this. I have been quizzing local fisherman on the ways of securing a decent catch. Preferably from land, with … Continue reading Pisces
Petit Paradis 