class at claudia's

Spent an afternoon at claudia's with permaculture class. Claudia is our sample 'client' for a site assessment activity. Beautiful mudbrick house in bushy block above a creek gully.

tools, love ’em or leave ’em?

With the husband determined to help out with yard work, he took the big decision to buy an angle grinder, with a view to turning some of the discarded corrie around the place into garden bed retainers. And we both figured it was a tool we’d find more jobs to turn it to once we’d made the commitment. One cut-in-half piece of corrie later, and the angle grinder’s going back to the shop. Refusing to start again!

first winter musings

Winter’s well and truly here, and with it the best and worst of life in Fryerstown. I love winter but the house here is so, so cold and so hard to warm up, and this first burst always brings dread at the three or four months of denying discomfort that’s to come – if I won Tattslotto it would be a designed-from-scratch passive solar house for me. So much for the charms of our relocated suburban 40s weatherboard!