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May 21, 2018chrissyb 16 Comments

Last year I was an amateur swat-a-holic. This year I’ve moved my game up a notch or two. Behold my professional-level fly swat. I found it in New World on Willis Street during last year’s winter Wellington trip. It was languishing… Continue Reading →

autumn, farm life, vermin

Bags of Bulbs!

March 30, 2018chrissyb 6 Comments

A strange thing happened a week or two ago. I arrived home from my yoga class to find Favorite Stepson had loaded up the kitchen table with several large paper bags bearing labels such as: ‘These are a mixture: daffodil,… Continue Reading →

autumn, gardening, plant life

It’s Fig Season

March 20, 2018chrissyb 6 Comments

We are sharing our crop with fantails, bees, and our chickens. Accessing figs is a great chicken exercise opportunity as they spring into the air to peck at just-above-chicken-height fruit. It’s as well we have more than one fig tree. Plenty… Continue Reading →

autumn, food, fruit trees

Trip-Trap

June 5, 2017chrissyb 8 Comments

Remember when we built a bridge?

autumn, building things, exmoor pony, kaimanawa pony, woodland

Looking Hairy

May 28, 2017chrissyb 16 Comments

Here we are in autumn again. The nights are getting nippier and the ponies are getting fluffier. Summer grows a coat that is plush like a teddy bear. Bonnie just goes all Hairy Maclary on us. In the garden our summer veggie and fruit… Continue Reading →

autumn, bonnie, gardening, kaimanawa pony, orange grove, plant life, ponies, vegetable garden

SWAT Team

April 30, 2017chrissyb 14 Comments

For those of you who don’t live in the country, here’s a reason to feel smug. We’ve had a plague of flies. Initially I wondered whether my rather casual attitude to cleaning had created a fly colony somewhere in the house. I was relieved to… Continue Reading →

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Paddling Upstream

March 12, 2017chrissyb 10 Comments
autumn, kayaking, stream

Keep Calm and Carry Garlic

June 20, 2016chrissyb 17 Comments

Well dear Readers, having talked about our zombie defense prep, we now turn our attention to growing an effective vampire deterrent. You can never be too careful when you’re living out in the wilds of Northland, you know. All this to… Continue Reading →

autumn, gardening, mythical creatures, vegetable garden

In the Mailbox

May 15, 2016chrissyb 10 Comments

One of the interesting things about moving to the country is a change in the junk mail that arrives in your letterbox. Brochures on the latest electronic gizmos and flyers full of supermarket specials still march in, but suddenly there are also glossy catalogues with… Continue Reading →

autumn, fencing, leaving Auckland, power tools

Fun with Fungi

May 1, 2016chrissyb 6 Comments

One of the exciting things about autumn on the farmlet has been seeing mushrooms, toadstools and other fungi popping up around the place. Here are some that Deborah and I spotted last weekend. I started trying to identify them, but you wouldn’t believe… Continue Reading →

autumn, fungi, plant life, woodland

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