the ‘drying day’ and permaculture principles

For a notoriously unhousewifely person, I’ll admit to one unmitigated housework pleasure – drying laundry on a good old-fashioned clothes hoist. Watch it effortlessly harness wind and solar energy! Towels are drying well with winter sunshine and a bit of breeze.

winter’s depths

Ice on the car windows, ice in the dog bowl, even a layer of ice on the shallow puddle that passes for a dam. If the days have been intermittently bright, and mild, the nights have dropped decisively below zero (-4 in Bendigo last night).