Life at Corner Cottage, Braidwood
Just a quick report-back on the idea I floated in that post about building fires. Today was our opportunity to bring the principle of curves to the structure of the daily firelighting ritual. Triangles and rectangles, we said, were all very well, but the addition of curvilinear logs might add some variety. I said curves …
Quick confession: we still haven’t decided on which model of woodburner to insert into the fireplace in the main living area of Corner Cottage. It’s not like we haven’t continued researching the possibilities – which are numerous – but various issues have contributed to an ongoing state of indecision. So in the meantime, it’s open …
Here’s a little tale about enthusiasm. Misguided enthusiasm in the service of a cause which didn’t really need any particular focus or dedication . . . but I want to say the enthusiasm is laudable in itself. Remember my posts about how chilly it’s been of a night here in Braidwood? And also how we’ve …
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 …
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 …
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