Modern-day homesteading at Little Owl Gully

April 10, 2023

COVID conspires against us!

I’ll take a RAT test tonight and if that’s negative and I’m feeling okay then the NZ Healthline online portal, which has my up-to-date health record, tells me that I can come out of...

Little Owl Gully / Self-reliance

April 3, 2023

Subterranean water pipe blues revisited

I’m wound up. I’ve been trying to wind-back the stress caused by my latest water pipe woes: vigorous exercise; a few days leave of absence; meditation of sorts. Clocking up fast clip distances walking...

Home-grown / Little Owl Gully

March 27, 2023

The place with all the trees: then and now

We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets Crack...

Little Owl Gully

March 20, 2023

The place with all the trees: then …

“The place with all the trees.” Soon after we moved here three decades ago a local said that about our place. Back then all the trees on our property were near the house and...

Homesteading / Little Owl Gully

March 13, 2023

Subterranean Water Pipe Blues

Bob Dylan fans will tell me that I’m ripping off the title to ‘Subterranean Homesick Blues’. A pipe dream to suggest that my water pipe woes have anything in common with Dylan’s 1965 song,...