We took the dogs to the beach recently to see how they’d react to the water and the sand. We’re too scared that they will run away and won’t come back if we take them off the leash, so for now they stay on the leash until we can trust them. We can trust Smokey [...]

I haven’t had time to post about her until now but on 16 November we got little Cloe (yes, for some reason she is Cloe, and not Chloe, but still pronounced “Clo-ee’).

She was advertised on the local notice board as free to give away to a good home, as her previous owner was moving to the [...]

Might as well, because I love his cute little face.

I know, Smokey, it’s hard deciding on what colour laminex to use on the kitchen benchtop.

Relaxing in the sun on the grass.

About a month ago, we planted two different types of baby trees around our back fenceline. The trees are Tasmanian blue gums (the compact variety – up to 8 metres tall) and variegated pottosporums (up to 9 metres tall). We chose these two trees because they’re very quick growing and they make good screen breaks. We have [...]

Well, if you read my last post dated 19 March, you will know I mentioned that a move to Tasmania was coming up. Although we hadn’t planned to move to Tasmania so soon (we were going to leave it for a 2 or 3 years before moving down), I decided to move so that I [...]