A few mornings ago after finishing my cornflakes, coffee and toast I set off as usual to check the state of the veggie garden, hen house and bees. It’s a well practiced daily routine and helps me make peace with the world before commencing on the days orders. As I approached the garden however I [...]

garden pests
It was early morning Sunday and I was wandering around the section checking out what those “lovely rabbits” had nicked during the night when I saw what appears to be the neighbour’s cat. Nothing unusual in that as there are a couple of them that come by from time to time looking for an early [...]
One of the pleasures of growing your own vegetables is cooking freshly dug potatoes in their jackets and enjoying them with butter and a pinch of pepper. It’s a taste that’s hard to surpass. With this in mind we recently set about planting this seasons crop. The seed potatoes were purchased about a month back [...]
With Easter fast approaching my timing is spot on for writing about cute little bunnies like this. This photo was taken a couple of weeks ago when I discovered that “Peter Rabbit” and his two siblings had taken refuge under our front deck. Unfortunately for this trio I wasn’t the only one observing their comings [...]


