Lying in bed this morning listening to the rain on the corrugated iron roof above our heads.
It’s the first heavy rain we’ve had in weeks; we could hear it pouring down.
This is great news as our water tanks were becoming rather empty and
winter is our main time to fill them.
Of course every silver lining has […]

Oh its all gone butch down our way.
We’re out of firewood, and it’s winter so I had a bit of a phone around
and got 12 tonnes of Tasmania’s finest Old Growth Rainforest logs delivered.
A massive pile at the end of our only level section on our block.

Now fly fishing season is just over […]

Well the whole of Australia got up at 5 this morning to watch the world cup.
Funny this time las year most Australians couldn’t have told you the name of
5 football playing nations.
Now they are all experts!
Next world cup they’ll probably win it!
They are even thinking about bidding to host the world cup.
The Aussie obsession with […]

I am now an enthusiastic member of Hobart Fly Tying Club.
This has the great advantage of being held in one of the members own micro distillery (see: http://www.larkdistillery.com.au/).
I got talking to Bill Lark about whiskies last meeting and he told me about a Malt tasting club he was a member of, he invited […]

Got home last night in the dark after a long and very tedious day at work.
The last week before the holidays can drag soooooo badly.
I was greeted at the door by the usual avalanche of waggy and pleading for pats and affection.
Later in the evening it became very noticeable that the dog was very restless, […]