Curry Carrot Soup
People have asked me what I have been doing to lose weight. My response is pretty standard. There are no secrets. I’m just trying to eat less. I haven’t even exercised that much (that’s changing now though!). It’s just in what I consume. I’ll go into more detail about my diet throughout the course of […]
2017 Goals!
It has become my habit to set myself goals for each year. Firstly, I’ll look over how I went with my goals for 2016: I set a goal to grow more food. Although we started the year well, with plenty of fruit, vegetables and meat, we haven’t put much effort into food growing lately. The […]
Saying goodbye
I don’t think that the slaughtering of our animals for meat is very pleasant. I really like our animals, and when we had Daisy slaughtered last week, I couldn’t help feeling a bit sad. Daisy was born here, and over the past three years I’ve loved watching her grow and graze the property. I loved […]
The easiest muffins you’ll ever make
Hello! I haven’t posted on here for a long time. It’s not that I’ve nothing to say: I keep thinking of blog post ideas. I think it’s a time thing. And an energy thing. And the thing where you’d like a few moments to yourself so you can write, before you get too tired. […]
2016 Goals
And this is the time of year that I set myself some goals and publish them on my little blog. It holds me accountable. It makes me want to achieve the things I’ve set out to do. Grow more food. Each year we are getting closer to our goal of living sustainably on our […]
Keeping Rabbits for meat
Our rabbits, Clover and Thumper, are Brittish Giant x New Zealand Giant White rabbits, and are bred for meat. Our girls are about 6 months old and they’re adorable. We got them from some friends who raise rabbits. We decided to try rabbits again for several reasons. Firstly, after Naigee died a few months ago, […]
Goals: revisited
The beautiful Swansea, east coast of Tasmania Back in January I wrote this post about my goals for the year. I have been remembering these goals throughout the year, so I thought I’d do a re-cap about them to show you how crap I am at sticking to them. Decluttering: I am gradually going through everything, […]
7 months
Wow! Seven months already! Sarah has been sitting on her own for 2 months or so, and she loves sitting up to play with her toys. This week I removed the toy arch from one of her play mats. She has grown out of it. Such is life. She loves noisy toys, and she […]
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