It started in the spring this year: we’d had a long and rather turbulent winter, with the stressful move from Canberra to Braidwood where Corner Cottage was sitting empty and neglected. The garden was wild: a protracted drought and very little care had left it forlorn and weed-infested – but it fascinated me. Venturing down …
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The one less travelled by
Traversing the King’s Highway on a routine Canberra run today, I was suddenly seized with a sense of desperation. Maybe because on the last day of the school hols for many, the road was chokka with utes towing caravans and boats, impatient overtakers risking life and limb to gain a few seconds’ advantage, and highway …
Hi resolution
You know, I’ve never really gone in for new year’s resolutions. Call me old-school, but there seems to be little point to making pronouncements about some kind of commitment that you’ll break within a week or two. Yes, you may be shamed into sticking to it a bit longer if you’ve told the world your …
It’s the pits
Let it not be said that this blog confines itself to a narrow, repetitive series of topics. Or if you must say it, don’t say it around me, because sometimes it’s quite difficult to come up with fresh material. Then again, returning to certain themes or motifs is the mark of a writer with conviction …
The boot in
Now that the left-over turkey has been consumed, the decorations are looking a bit last year, and the dyspepsia has rendered us regretful and peevish, let’s talk something basic: something fundamental, grounded, in touch with the very earth that bore us. Let’s talk boots again. Being here in Braidwood where men are manly, work is …
Fa la la laaaarrrrghh
Well, with the holidays upon us and peace and goodwill reigning all around, it seemed a great opportunity to post up a short meditation on something meaningful. I did think about bashing out one of those deliberations on the true meaning of Christmas, but we were too busy eating and getting drunk to really focus …
It’s not you, it’s me
Look, I know you come here for inspiration and the wisdom you need to negotiate life’s little ups and downs, but the fact is, I’ve been busy, OK? When I started this blog, I sincerely vowed that it wouldn’t be one of those fly-by-night, limp-as-lettuce, no-consequence attempts at online content provision. And by and large, …
How does our garden grow?
It’s been a good few months since we established our veggie patch here at Corner Cottage, and I’d hate for anyone to interpret this silence as indicating failure. Quite the contrary – the two tubs of carefully-prepared earth have spent spring and early summer erupting with greenstuff. A froth of vegetation has risen in its …
Three shades of brown
It seems about time to relieve the tension, release you all from those tenterhooks, and deliver an update on the whole butterfly situation. When last the lepidoptera featured here, it was with some frustration that I had to report complete failure in fashioning a lure to bring the district’s butterflies flocking to the Corner Cottage …
Getting verbal about herbal
A quick thought today that doesn’t qualify as something as deep as a meditation. Here we go. I managed to write a whole post about tea a few weeks ago without mentioning the very important topic of the herbal variety. Now, I know herbal tea has all the associations of hippiedom, plant-based diets, clean living …
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