My poor little girl Cloe was not well at all yesterday. She could hardly walk, her tail was between her legs, her ears were back and if she wasn’t wrapped up in her blanket she would shiver. She hardly moved all day from her position on the lounge room floor. She didn’t fly into the [...]

So very excited about this. Unbelievable! I wonder if there’s any way that we Australians can get a spot in the audience. Hmmm …
Further research tells me that (according to sassisam blog) Oprah will be appearing on the 7pm Project (tonight???!) via satellite. And it looks like there is a chance that some lucky Australians [...]

Walking around the garden yesterday I took some photos just before the sun went in for the day.
I’m still trying to find out what exactly what this tree is. A magnolia of some sort I think?

Its flowers are beautiful. This is my favourite tree in the garden.

 On Friday I started planting out the garden bed that [...]

As featured on Little Green Notebook, here’s some nice ideas on how to utilise picture rails, followed by a great idea for diy picture rails.

We thought that all that soil moving from last year was over, but we’re suckers for punishment and we’re going to do it all over again this year! 
We’ve had reasonable success with our wooden apple crate vegetable garden these past 10 or 11 months and we’ve been pleased with the way the experiment has gone. But because of [...]