Number 8 wire
We haven’t the money, so we’ve got to think. Lord Ernest Rutherford, Nobel Laureate, farm boy from Nelson Early spring: a very old willow tree in the gully came down after a snowfall of...
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Crack Willow
Their common name is crack willow. A bonus for June when she’s snapping off willow twigs to feed those browsers – her goats. But when the trunk (of an ancient crack willow tree with...
What’s the beef?
Three weeks ago, I rang, touching on eight of a Monday morning, the Fairlie Rural Transport number and spoke to Murray. For a while there I couldn’t decipher what he said. I told him,”it’s...
Wallaby Woes: Pt. 2
Mid-summer last year we had a wallaby hopping about Little Owl Gully. The first time we’d seen one in the actual gully, although a couple of years previous June had witnessed a full-grown wallaby...
Live life like someone left the gate open!
No matter who thinks it’s trendy to emblazon the saying, ‘Live life like someone left the gate open’, on T-shirts, wall hangings, mugs and various other merchandise, (I even came across a self-help book...
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