I've just donated the proceeds from my stall at The Children's Market - Bendigo to the Red Cross Victorian Floods Appeal 2011 and it feels good. I wanted to let people know via Facebook that I would have a stall at the market. But amid the recent and widespread loss from floods and cyclones, it seemed wrong … Continue reading “The Haystack in the Floods”
Wet indoors and out
Why not another blog post or Facebook comment about the rain? Who'd have thought huh? Headers are stopped in the paddock, sitting in water and freeing men to catch up on sleep, play, bookwork or Queensland flood footage. 'Our hearts go out to those affected by the floods' is a term getting lots of air-time. Like … Continue reading Wet indoors and out
Harvest update
It started well. We got a day's harvesting in before the rain. Now it's onto all those farm jobs you save for a rainy day. Days. Week. Weeks. Surely not 'summer'. As for the locusts, they've arrived from the north, or hatched here, and make for a dodging dart to the clothes line. You know … Continue reading Harvest update
Writing by Larissa Patton 