My Fair Share

I guess this MyFairShare thing has been going a few years now – fits and spurts, stops and starts, yin and yan, some might even say manic and depressive.  All would be true and fair comment on my approach to most things.
I was speaking with a friend the other day.  We were [...]

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It can take a while sometimes for things to happen, but they do seem to happen – especially if they are worthwhile.

This morning, we went to feed and water some friends’ day old chicks, and change the temperature on their incubator.  On the way home, we stopped by another friend’s – a bloke who I [...]

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I received the following email from a member of our local Crop Circle.
I found your AWOL bantam hen and surprise surprise she was sitting on 6 eggs under the bottom of the slippery slide. She is a proud mother of 3 babies so far but is still sitting and your silky has started hatching but [...]

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I cannot believe that it has been more than 2 years since I got some horse manure.
And so it was that yesterday I took my trailer to the place of a friend who is caring for someone else’s three horses.

There we were, two blokes collecting poo, just yabbering in the summer sun.  At one stage, [...]

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Well, I’ll be darned.
The whole crop circle idea has taken off. We had a yarn today and with about 60 families involved, we have decided to become an incorporated association, with a real rubber stamp and everything!
Dreams can come true.

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I wrote recently about not having an egg shortage since our elderly neighbour passed away, and her sister moved into an aged persons’ place.
I heard (again) recently about young people just going crazy and having little respect for anyone and eroding the very fabric of community.
Yesterday, the kids and I went to the cemetery to [...]

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[This post is going to be about The Crop Circle.  But first I must say a monstrous thanks to the benevolent gifter of the seeds that made their way over the fence from the neighbour who recently returned from a time away.  You see, when the neighbour goes away, the parcel man just gives me [...]

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Grass is growing where a well-trod path to the hole in the fence did once exist.

I have written previously about our egg-dilemma; 10 chooks, but still having to buy our own eggs because the kids disappear through the hole in the fence to give them away to the elderly neighbours.  They like it, although given [...]

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My previous post was about spending time building community.  It is important.
Since then, some goings on at my daughter’s early childhood education centre have seen half the managing group and teaching staff quit within a week, amid a flurry of scuttlebut and colourful accusations of skullduggery of the most heinous character.
Having some experience in corporate [...]

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A friend wants to plant some fruit trees.  She asked me how I manage to grow trees in the overturned rocky, clay hard pan hard baked stuff called “soil” in this former gold mining town.
She came over and we had a look at swales, and we had a look at some trees, and some living [...]

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