It is wonderful to be able to recycle most of your rubbish we are issued with a green waste a garbage and a recycle bin and the only bin that is usually full is the green bin which is at the moment full of thistle and fire weed as I cannot burn them and I need them, off the property to stop them setting seed slashing will chop off the flower heads…[Read more]

My main objection to it is that there is only ONE number in the report: the no of RETs required at some time in the future!

All the rest is a series of assumptions pulled out of thin air.

We have VAST amount of LNG on the North West Shelf which we should be using.

At current retail prices, every dollar of LNG used is 2 -3 dollars of crude we…[Read more]

Hi,
I would love to be in on it too. I’m happy with what ever is decided
Cheers

How exiting! I hope you have a happy birthday. I look forward to hearing all about this wonderful canning machine in future posts. Please post a picture when it arrives.
Cheers::)

Marz,
I am unable to send you a message your in box is full.
Cheers

Hi,
I have a little Osca that I use all the time I didn’t know you could get attachments for it. They look great I would love them and will be happy to pay the postage I will pm you
Cheers Steph

Hi,
Sorry to hear about your toe. Broken bones usually take about 6 weeks to knit back together but continue to grow stronger for some time. Usually the plaster is removed at about 6 weeks unless there are complications. I suggest elevation and ice to reduce the swelling. good luck.
Cheers

Hi,
Gringo what wonderful kids!!
I have 2 trees a manufactured tree for indoors so there is less mess and as we have a wonderful outdoor room where the grand family gathering will be there will be a live tree branch. The last couple of years we had strong winds about a week before Christmas so I used a branch of Australian native that had been…[Read more]

Hi,
Welcome to ALS and to Wauchope it is a lovely piece of this earth. I live relatively close to you in the Lorne valley may be we can organise a get to gether.
Cheers
Steph

Hi,
Well I went off for a mammogram this morning and expected to rest in the afternoon but when I got home and walked into to closed up house I could small dead rat!:rip: so now I have found the body behind the fridge and cleaned up the mess I really deserve the rest!
Yesterday I spent most of the day on a random act of kindness, my neighbour is…[Read more]

Hi,
Tonight we all had a great meal home made spagetti and home made mince sauce made from our own home kill beef and apple & blueberry pie the apples and blue berries grown locally. I took the grand kids to a pick your own blueberry farm last Christmas holidays and these were the last of that frozen batch. The pie was great and so was the main…[Read more]

Hi,
I would also love to be in this swap. I like most foods but unfortunately I can not eat anything with chili or curry as my mouth breaks out in blisters but have no other restrictions and look forward to the swap
Cheers
Steph

6 asparagus spears, 4 small carrots, 6 logan berries, and hard to believe but 4 passionfruit and 3 buckets of weeds.

Hi,
Another thing to consider is which area in Sydney you will be living in because if you live in the Northern area and the land you are interested in is South or South West (or the reverse) you may have as much as 1 to 1 1/2 hrs travel before your even leave the suburbs which always seems to make the trip sooo much longer as you feel you are…[Read more]

Hi,
I have 3 old Isa brown hens that came with the farm when we bought it 2 years ago and I don’t know how old they were then and 4 RIRs I bought 4 months ago and they were then 12 weeks so are now in full feather and supposed to be laying but where? I found 1 nest about 3 weeks ago in the garden with 6 beautiful brown eggs but have not been able…[Read more]

Hi,
I cut into a commercial tomato the other day for a salad – Boy I had forgotten how tough the skins can be and how tasteless the fruit! I had become so used to our home grown it was quite a shock so hurry up and grow all you new tomato seedlings.

Hi,
I’m so excited I have finally found my stash of knitted alpaca products that I thought I’d put away carefully and now could not remember where I’d put it but it turns out someone had helped me unpack the car but the bag had only made it onto the garage floor in the corner where it had been ignored for over a month so now I can send the rest of…[Read more]

Hi,
I have received my wonderful gift and also sent mine on Monday 3rs August and it took the whole week to arrive at it’s destination but I’m so pleased it has arrived I was beginning to worry.
Cheers

Hi,
I always thought detour would be a good name for such a vehicle and a saw a great sticker on one ‘adventure before dementure’ I think something humurous is always good good luck with finding a name.:)
Cheers

Hi Suzi,
I live at Lorne, 16kl of sealed road off the highway at Kew which is located between Taree and Port Macquarie. We have 50 acres and lots of animals (alpacas, cattle, a dog, chooks, ducks, guinea fowl and a horse) so I am offering a great place to stop off for a meal and let the little one do something different for a while or even a stop…[Read more]