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“What a difference a day makes”… well in Southland it’s “What a difference a month makes” lol. Summer is here…. Sort of? Well if you go by the progress of the garden it is. freshly laid lawn starting to sprout after 8 days of nothing, all the new raised bed are looking good, the bee patch is shooting away, the tunnel house has gone ballistic and the potato patch is looking like it will be a good crop. A lot of hard grafting went into preparing the raised beds and tunnel house and of course the virtually indestructible garden shed built from pallets (the ideaRead More →

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The entrance to the main road from the farm cottage is 1/2 a kilometre away but the sound of a truck with the brakes biting in to pull up a weighty load manage to wake me up with a “What the fuck!” Response. Looking out the bedroom window of our cosy motorhome only to see a behemoth of a truck with orange lights flashing and a trail of support vehicles stopped at the entry gate analysing the width and outlay of the drive before continuing. Curiosity got me out of my cosy bed to watch the unit travel down the driveway. Jude identified the itemRead More →

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I don’t have many friends however the few I have know I’m a Trumpy and have been for the past 10 years. Irrelevant to anyone’s political beliefs wither right or wrong, sometimes moments are captured or in this case created that are really quite funny and so love Trump of hate Trump I couldn’t resist posting this video the moment a crowd got the news Donald J Trump is the President elect again to be the 47th President of the United States. (YES!… I know it’s fake but that’s how I felt inside.)😂🤣👍🏼🫡🇺🇸Read More →

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(Picture of the afternoon beers location) – Reasonable day weather wise and one Jude and I had chosen to have off from working on jobs around the farm. Time for a trip for our favourite coffee beans from The Roar Cafe in Lumsden in Western Southland. While there decided to have lunch and I must say how much I enjoyed their “Pork ‘n’ Clucked” toasted sandwich. After a lovely lunch return to the farm to re-splice the boat anchor rope to the anchor chain. This job was bloody hard work in the heat of the day but managed to get it done. The best thingRead More →

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The weather down South has only just started to feel like a summer now and of course we also have time to fix a few minor ailments with Aftershocks ride… the boat trailer. Although Jude and I are both all year round boaties we have not done as much being fulltime gypsies on the road and have learnt a few lessons about storing the boat over winter and of course those damn birds called starlings entering the spring. Yes those little pricks nest any where including the cowling vents on the outboards. All cleaned out now and looking forward to getting out on the waterRead More →

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Man it has been a long time coming the continuation of keep our webpage up to date but here goes. We arrived down south a couple of months ago mainly to watch young Russel Edge play his Southland Under 15 Rep football in Timaru and then he played in the Southland Under 13 Rep football  tournament in Dunedin. Well it’s been a big job starting with the Tom and the Excavator clearing the top mess off the garden. Jude tidied up the tunnel house and planted all the goodies for the summer growing. Outside I built some raised planter boxes and rotored the area toRead More →