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We had a quoll try to get in our bedroom window last night… little bugger woke us up and was bashing at the door as well! 🤦🏻‍♀️🫩

Aussie wildlife: just let us in! We’d love to live inside! 😻🐍🐨🦜

Humans: Fuck off! You have all the bush outside! 🤣

#wildlife #ruralliving

View over green hills with sky covered in clouds

Big cloud dreaming ❤️

#Australia #landscape #clouds #countryliving

We also found out she has bad arthritis in her back knees, and will need two ops for that 😢❤️ She’s only 4 so we’ll definitely be doing that for the poor girl 🥹❤️

She’s still not as expensive as the purr-ball yet! 😜🤣

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Sleepy big hound zonked out on her blue blankie

Second pic is of our poor doggo totally stoned out her tree on the way home 🤦🏻‍♀️🫠 No pain though! 🤣

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Large dark brindle hound looking dazed with her pink tongue hanging out of her mouth

Along with hail, my poor darlin’ doggo had an abscess behind her eye from a bone fragment getting caught up behind her back molar 🥺 So a trip to the lovely local vet, an op, antibiotics and she’s recovering well 😊❤️

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Freshly dug pink coloured potatoes with dirt on

First potato harvest of the season! 😊 These Red Pontiac spuds would’ve stayed underground until Christmas but for the hailstorm last week which devastated my crop 🫤

#gardenlife #australia #pets #potatoes

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A heap of hail lying on the blue rug I washing cleaning outside yesterday with the swollen creek and trees in the background

On the plus side, the rug I was cleaning came up really well after the hail hammered it! 🤣

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Smashed green potato plants

Shredded onion plants

Wire cages saved the tomatoes and Basil plants

Smashed spuds, onions, lots of things shredded from the hail yesterday, but there are lots of other things that survived! 🤩

The tomatoes & Basil seedlings I’d planted a week ago were still covered by cages to keep the chooks off, so they’re all OK 😊

#hailstorm #gardeninglife #spring

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Pic of garden with plants shredded and white hail settled in pots and on the ground

We had quite a hail storm yesterday afternoon!

My new front garden was just starting to fill in and looked lovely. The potatoes & roses esp got completely shredded 🫤

On the +side, they were small hailstones, just LOTS of them, so no broken windows 🤷🏻‍♀️

We got a flash flood too 🫠

#spring #australia

Apple pie with beautifully browned pastry

Rainy, cool days inspire baking! 🤩😋

Delicious Apple Pie with gluten free pastry 🍏🍏🥧🥰

We went from hot, dry weather to misty rain and temps of 8°C for a few days 😊

GF pastry recipe from #theloopywhisk 😍

#glutenfree #applepie #spring #australia

I saw a production of David Ireland’s ‘Ulster American’ in a small town theatre last night 🤯

Dark, savage, hilarious and thought provoking!

I loved it! ❤️

#DavidIreland #theatre #UlsterAmerican

Thanks! 🤩

With a bit of roasted pumpkin, goat feta and maple syrup, plus salt and pepper, it goes so well with warm potato salad and roast lamb 😋 So good! 😊

Spring has sprung! 🎉

There’s speckled lettuce, rocket, red-veined sorrel, Japanese parsley, nasturtium, celery leaves, beetroot leaves, silverbeet leaves, and I added spring onion to the mix as well 😊

Lots of fresh greens from the leaves of all different types in a blue bowl

It’s so nice to pick a bowlful of lovely, fresh, organic greens from the garden after nursing everything along during winter! ❤️😊

#spring #australia #salad #organic #gardening

Thank you! 😊

A clump of lemongrass waiting to be separated from weeds and replanted

The clump of lemongrass has been dug up so I can separate the plant from the weeds entwined in it, then replant it 😮‍💨🤞

A big brindle garden hound standing right on the spot I’m trying to weed!

Doing some weeding with ‘help’ from the garden hound 🤦🏻‍♀️🤣🥰

I’m trying to get rid of the running kikuyu grass out of this garden bed… and she’s trying to dig up and eat her favourite grubs… 🐾🐛😂

#spring #gardenhound #australia #weeding #gardeninglife

Lovely, I’m in a mountainous region of the mid north coast of New South Wales (Australia), and it’s about the same temperature here 😊
We’re heading into Spring though on this side of the world, top of 16°C today

Screenshot from linked article; Gun control The Turning Point founder was addressing the subject of gun violence when he was fatally shot in Utah. Kirk was known to be a gun owner himself and regularly spoke out on the issue, including on behalf of the National Rifle Association in the aftermath of the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, in February 2018. At a Turning Point event in Salt Lake City in April 2023, he said, “It’s worth it to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment.”

I’d never heard of Charlie Kirk before yesterday, but since Australian news seems full of his death, I looked him up 🤔
Live by the sword, die by the sword⚔️
He made his choices 🤷🏻‍♀️

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Interestingly, there were no birds or animals making any noise during it and our doggo had no desire to come outside, which is very unusual 🤔

Although our dumbarse roosters had a crow at their usual 3.50am on the dot, then gave up… 🤦🏻‍♀️😂

And a quoll or possum is back in action on the roof

🥱😴💤

A bright orange pink spot in the night sky

A bright orange pink spot in the night sky

A bright orange pink spot in the night sky

Here’s some bad pics of the blood moon eclipse! 🤣🌚

Much more impressive in person at 3.30am 😬

#australia #fullmoon #lunareclipse

Bright yellow daffodils with lovely green stems set against a beautiful clear blue sky

Daffodils and blue sky! 💛💙

We had a fantastic time, the music and anecdotes were great, the musicians were terrific and the show was really well put together! Loved it! 🥰🎉

If you get a chance to see the Radio Luxembourg show with John Waters, Stewart D’Arrietta and the Chartbusters, do it! 🥳❤️

Pic of T-Shirt from the night

Had a great night at this show! 🎶🎸🥁❤️

When my friend and I walked in, I was thinking, oh dear, everyone seems to be about 20 years older than me, there were so many silver haired seniors! (And I’m in my early 50s! 🤣)

#Australia #JohnWaters #RadioLuxembourgLive #StewandtheChartbusters #greatnight

I think my partner and I might try rally driving as a sport 🤔

I said I’d drive if he navigates… we’d be an awesome team! 🤩

Now… to get a car 🤨😉

Goofy, cute tiny puppy

And I can’t believe she was so tiny! 😆🥹
She’s been my constant companion, garden hound, protector of the verandah, herder of chickens, surprisingly good cattle dog 🤷🏻‍♀️, and lover of bones, and loving friend of the whole family (even the cat lol 😂)

Big love to the birthday girl! 🥰❤️❤️❤️🐾

Cute tiny puppy

Cute tiny puppy

I can’t believe my beautiful doggo is 4 years old today! 🥳🤩🥰❤️🐾

#itsadogslife #bestdoggo #australia #gardenhound

Large black brindle hound sleeping, tucked into the smallest ball she can get into

Meanwhile, the garden hound has zero interest in coming outside yet… 🐾❤️🤣

It’s definitely a gardening day though, there’s rain on the way this week! Got to get more potatoes planted before the rain! ☔️

Frozen terracotta bird bath with frosty fields and bush in the background

-2°C ❄️🥶 but it’s going to be another beautiful Winter’s day! 🤩

The birdbath is frozen solid (and yes, I know it’s dirty 😉 up until recently it had a plant living in it! 😆)

#winter #australia #frosty