Machine gunning children in the name of our safety
Today has been a REALLY bad day. It started with this:http://www.boingboing.net/2010/04/05/wikileaks-video-of-u.htmlVideo that has been leaked to the world of a Reuters journalist and a photographer...
View ArticleStranger Than - Science - Fiction
Yesterday was a crap day (to say the least). The existential angst I experienced when confronted by pure barbarity was profound.So I decided today that it was time to do something fun and entirely...
View ArticleIn the Days of the Reaping Hook
My partner Sam recently completed editing and anotating a memoir written by her Great, Great Uncle Terrance P. Rogers, who's family were pioneer settlers of the area that we now live in back in the mid...
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Deck and kitchen - Cottage progress
You know that you are really making progress when you start building cabinetry. This weekend was a big one for the cottage. It started on Friday afternoon with beginning to construct the deck in...
View ArticleNew story posted to Stranger Than (Science) Fiction
I just published a new story on my other blog. Here's the synopsis:----The Devil May Care:The modification date on the original file says that I wrote this story in May 2003. Honestly I thought that...
View ArticleQ. Why did the chicken cross the road?
A. To get to the other half acre.Sam discovered something quite startling (via Google) the other day about chickens. On average, for a free range chicken to be as productive laying eggs as one that is...
View ArticleOur life - A photographic journey - Part 1
Sam has been busy putting photos of the things that we have done and seen up on Picasa. This first album is from a trip that we made to Sri Lanka back in 2004. It was an incredible trip (for many...
View ArticleOur life - A photographic journey - Part 2
Sam has just posted photos of some of the critters that we share our land with including lizards, and insects at this time. You can see the photos...
View ArticleFirst frost and the straw bale cottage
Well, today was our first frost of the year. It was about 5 degrees C in the unlined part of our shed (where the office is) and closer to zero degrees outside.Temperature in the (un-heated,...
View ArticleOur life - A photographic journey - Part 3
Sam took some time out this morning to take some photos in the mist and dew. The results are really quite spectacular.You can see the photos...
View ArticleOur life - A photographic journey - Part 4
Over the last few years we have been working at growing more of our own food. Some of our efforts have been very successful. Some not so.You can see the photos...
View ArticleApparently "The Market" doesn't actually work
People around me regularly say "don't worry the market will deliver a solution to Peak Oil when the need arrises".This article from New Scientist demonstrates rather nicely that "The Market" actually...
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Of haiku and garden implements
My partner Sam just made a blog post of haiku poetry about gardening.The theme of the last poem was my rather tatty, but much loved garden fork that went missing many months ago. It (and the...
View ArticleThe Cannibals of Wall Street
Yesterday I wrote a post talking about how "The Market" doesn't work. Today I read James Howard Kunstler's latest post about the Goldman Sachs prosecution and thought that it would make a good follow...
View ArticleThermal performance of our straw bale cottage - part 1
Late yesterday afternoon we finally got to start nailing down the planks on the deck in front of the cottage. Before starting work I popped into the cottage to grab some tools and the twisted nails....
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Save the whales! Why?
Whales are media-genic. It's pretty hard to hate a whale. But when someone says "how are they different to sheep and cattle?" it's difficult to give a better reason than "I just like them and don't...
View ArticleHistory of the "novel" it's enough to make we want to study literature
I may have mentioned in the past that Sam usually reads (out loud) while I prepare meals and clean up. It's a great way to make washing dishes fun.It's also a great way to learn things. As an...
View ArticleOf twisted nails and hardwood
I spent much of today nailing planks to the deck in front of the cottage.A friend of mine in Sydney did a deck about 20 times larger a while ago. He was complaining that the (expensive) stainless...
View ArticleKangaroo - WARNING: ANIMAL CRUELTY AHEAD
IF YOU DON'T LIKE HEARING ABOUT INJURED ANIMALS, THEN DON'T READ THIS POST. I AM SERIOUS.It hasn't been a good day. On our walk this morning Sam and I came across a kangaroo on the side of the road....
View ArticlePies
Today I made filling for pies ...Ground beef, ground kangaroo, onion, gravy (made from tallow, flour, water, and stock), soy sauce, and pepper.It's very tasty. Tomorrow: pastry.
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