It’s snowed!!!!! Admittedly the snow didn’t last on the ground down here, but it fluttered across the valley. Some areas had hail,...

Autumn leaves, fat limes, plumper pomegranates, avocados ready to harvest, still-warm days, and nights just cold enough for a doona…I do...

Has anyone seen my carrots? Excuse me. I need a scratch. Ah, much better. Jackie has vanished to Adelaide, Somerset, Sydney and Perth,...

Suddenly I might have a year ahead of me. It’s an odd feeling. At the end of November last year it seemed fairly certain that 2018 would...

They walked out of the café hand in hand, into the heat and green of the valley. She wore a peach sarong and boots, he was in old jeans...

Spring is here, The grass is riz I wonder where The boidies is ... Except the grass is not riz at all but short, as if we had mowed it...

Here is a secret: I have furry knees. It is a side effect of having knee replacement surgery that no one had mentioned. Or maybe it has...

I no longer have my mum’s knees. Every time I’d have a problem with my knees she’d say say, ‘ah, you’ve inherited my knees.’ No matter...

The swimming hole, which is not a bunyip hole. Never swim with a bunyip. When I first came here, almost half a century ago, we walked...

I am sitting in Canberra airport hoping that every small plane that lands isn’t the one I am supposed to fly out on to Newcastle. I am...