The tomatoes are ripening, cucumbers are growing fat before my eyes, the kids are all in school, but not the school I was expecting. Boolcoomatta Reserve isn’t remote compared to the Simpson Desert, but is easily far enough away from… Read More »A new life
It had been a hot couple of days, the thermometer read almost 45 degrees. I was warm, but the thick sandstone walls of our old homestead kept the worst of the heat at bay. It was 6 o’clock, and I… Read More »Never chase an emu in bike riding shoes.
Despite it now being January, these crafty sheep are still worthy of their very own post. Our dynamic and lovely neighbour had put her hand up to create a School of the Air float for the Broken Hill Christmas pageant.… Read More »How do you make a sheep out of an old storage drum?
It was 3 am when my blurry eyes found the clock radio. Al was jumping around the bed next to me, pulling the sheet off and shaking his arms around. I’d been on a body meltdown for the two days… Read More »Centipedes hurt
Comments PROS Deserves Multiple Readings Easy To Read Engaging characters Informative BEST USES Australian Landscape Gift Suitable For All Readers This book paints vivid images of the Australian landscape. It offers honest, open and raw accounts of managing pregnancy, post… Read More »Review From Booktopia
I am very proud to say that Spinifex Baby has just been released, together with Billy Crystal’s memoir ‘Still Fooling’ ‘Em, and ‘Into The Abyss’ by Carol Shaben, as part of the Reader’s Digest Encounter’s Series, volume 88. As written… Read More »Reader’s Digest Encounters Series
I have been submersing myself in the fringes of education over the past few years, starting literally, in the soil, as a garden teacher, uncovering the many layers that go into teaching children. Then I incorporated the many varied theories of… Read More »Preparing for their Future
On cleaning out the shearer’s quarters on the weekend, after being attacked by that emu, I scrubbed every corner of the rooms, in which large evil looking redback spider’s were happily living. By about my fifteenth redback, I was starting… Read More »Close the door!
Every day, the kids and I race down the road on our bikes, hurtling past flocks of emus, (of which one fella has 23 chicks), and ride around a circuit we’ve made. It’s always a great recharge of energy and fresh air,… Read More »Never get between a male emu and his chicks
On one hand we lived in paradise, looking every day onto Mount Wellington, under a canopy of our white peppermint forest, surrounded by a community of people who laughed, cried and raised our children with us. We both did work that… Read More »Back to dust and big skies