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Thanks, everyone, for the comments on Saturday’s post. The day was a great success and the weather was, thankfully, warm enough for us to sit out on the veranda and enjoy our lunch.Now, I was so busy that I forgot to take photo’s of the table set (read full article)
Oh my goodness - it's Saturday already and this past week has just flown by ..... there were so many things I wanted to blog about, but they'll just have to wait for now as I buzz around crazily today, getting ready for a crowd of friends we have com (read full article)
A couple of months ago, we had our daughter's school visit the farm for a day trip. Each term they have a different theme, and this term's theme was 'Professions' and they came out to the farm for the day to learn about farming as a profession. There (read full article)
Simon & the abandoned dog Buster (also known as 'Pasta' !) who he loved & fed back to health over 5 years ago - you rarely see them apart ! Simon is a true gem of a person, a simple man who's richness lies within - he could teach a few people (read full article)
We had to use bottled water for bathing in .....You’d honestly think that with all the recent rains we’ve been having, that we would have an endless supply of water at the moment, wouldn’t you ? But that is not the case. We have elephant on the (read full article)
I get up at 5 am (a real killer !) ... padding around the house with a torch (flashlight) as the generator is not yet on & there is no electricity for another hour or so .... put the kettle on and feed the cats. Take the ice packs out of the free (read full article)
School's back which means a twice weekly 3 hour round trip to take my daughter to school (I home school her on the other 3 days). Quite a lot of fun at the moment with all the rain we've been having. Lots of puddles and parts of the main dirt road wh (read full article)
You can see photos of the damage which the recent torrential rain caused to our farm roads in this post over here. The photo above was taken after the rain had stopped (but only for a day or two before coming down again - ha !), to show some of the r (read full article)
If you click on the photo to enlarge the view, you'll be able to see Kilimanjaro's icy peak - as viewed from our farm at the moment We're having so much rain on the farm at the moment, and there seems no end in sight ! We have a few hours - or a day (read full article)
Fields of Sunn Hemp line our farm roadThe blog posts which I write about the crops which we grow on our farm are quite popular, and as I haven’t written one in a while now, I thought that it was about time to write another – this time about a new (read full article)
And .... washed our roads away ! After severe drought like conditions and months of very little rain .... it's been pouring down for the past 10 days or so ........Our farm roads are in a bit of a mess at the moment - as you can see by these photo's (read full article)
The children slept in small tents dotted throughout the guest house garden .....In the afternoons they had 'free time' & would play ball games and 'hide & seek' in the guest house garden We recently hosted one of the local schools out to our (read full article)
Staff on standby at our airstrip with the water bowser and aircraft fuelDue to the large size of our farm (3500 acres) our crops are often sprayed by air. There've also been times when we've suddenly had a crop disease (or insect infestation) and hav (read full article)
The farm house has been a hive of activity this past week, as we prepare for my mother-in-law's arrival There’s great excitement in our house at the moment, because in a mere 2 days time, my mother-in-law is arriving from the UK for a 3 week visit (read full article)
I took the title of this blog post from Ernest Hemingway’s book of the same name (which is actually a collection of short stories) as it seemed fitting for the photo’s I wanted to show you today.I took these two photo’s of Mt Kilimanjaro (or †(read full article)
It's been so hot here on the farm lately - with hot winds blowing & the sun beating down fiercely all day (we are so close to the equator here that the sun even feels different - and hotter - to how it feels in, say, South Africa - if that makes (read full article)
I was so busy on Sunday that I forgot to take many photos ! However, I snapped a few photo's just before everyone arrived - this was the adult's lunch table set out on our veranda (the kids had a separate table just next to it)Last weekend was a busy (read full article)
The 'main' road leading from our farm to the city, above (before it meets the tar) - is lined with ..... green.The entrance to our farm - below - welcome ! See that patch of water on the road there ? Well, this is it - below ! Put the car into four (read full article)
It's been raining again .... every day, in fact - I love the rain ... and the damp, misty coolness which it brings .... the view above was taken from our bedroom window this morning ....Below, you'll see the rain from our front veranda ..... the las (read full article)
Have been busily preparing the old farm house for yet another Christmas .... dusting off the boxed Christmas decorations, draping the tinsel and decorating the tree ...... above is our front door ..... the brass bells tinkle delightfully whenever it (read full article)
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