Today wasn’t a very cold day in Braidwood, but the blustery wind made it feel much colder. It was the kind of weather that deceives you into going outside without adequate clothing, only to find every blast of wind penetrating to the skin. After an active weekend involving more electrical installation (lighting this time), we …
It’s time we talked food again – it’s been a while but rest assured, we have continued to eat. Now, with winter coming on, our thoughts turn naturally to hearty, nutritious soups. There’s nothing quite like a big pot bubbling on the stove to add a note of cosy domesticity to the place – and …
OK I admit it -- yesterday's post was a cop-out. Just whacking a photo up there with a lame joke attached was worse than just phoning it in. Or maybe it was just phoning it in. Let's just say I was just really tuckered out from the killing frenzy the day before. Plus we had …
We were tired of buying bags of overpriced firewood from servos but although there are plenty of ads for bulk orders of the stuff, it's taken a while for anyone to get back to us. Today we got through to a local supplier. "Do you think half a load is enough?" we said . . …
With all the thrilling stuff we’ve been getting up to since moving here, there’s one remainder of Corner Cottage’s year hosting tenants that’s been weighing on my mind. There’s still lots to be done around the place, from fixing the finials to painting the portico, but all the while, silently increasing their sinister hold on …
Anyone notice how often rainbows appear in my pics of Braidwood? It really is quite uncanny – they seem to pop up a lot around here. I’m not sure whether it’s just the season for rainbows, or if there’s something about the area itself, but there they are, every few days. Judeo-Christian lore tells us …
All over the country, people are taking advantage of the newly-relaxed lockdown laws to do that thing we do as a social species – eating together. Although it’s now possible to go to a restaurant or pub if we conform to some quite stringent rules, eating at home with friends and family seems to be …
Off to the bustling megalopolis of Canberra today. Various tasks called, and as we’d also faffed around quite a lot in the morning, we only hit the road at about midday. Even worse, such was the haste of our departure that we neglected our morning coffee before setting out. Now this is a complicated matter. …
It’s all about the veggies right now and to be honest, in days gone by as we dallied idly with the metropolitan elites, I never realised that the idea of growing vegetables would be quite so exciting. Don’t get me wrong, growing our own veg isn’t an entirely foreign concept. Way back in the last …
We spent today finally getting to grips with creating a veggie garden -- a key element in our plans for the good life in Corner Cottage. The problem is, it got dark before we could put the final touches on our humble creation, so I don't have any vegetable beauty to show you quite yet. …
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