Bloggers note: It is easy to imagine a mother writing the reading this week, and it will also be an “easy” read for mothers – in the difficult year 2020. More from that great little book about Mary McKillop. Happy Mother’s Day. “Little Brown Book Too” S and L Kane – Reading for 10 May…

Animals on farms come in all shapes and sizes and their qualities and deficiencies are often not evident in their developmental stages. Maybe it is a stunning bull calf who chooses a life of amorous wandering before he is even weaned. Perhaps it is an old cranky ewe that protects and hides her twin lambs…

France – 2016 They arrived early in the morning. It was cold and still dark. If there had been a sunrise, it was merely a changing of the light from the heavy blackness of night to a paler, but more depressing, mantle of greyness and foreboding. As they alighted from the hire car, the gates…

As a child, growing up on a farm, there was always that annual dilemma of allowing the Easter Bunny to romp through the paddocks and into excited dreams, to deliver a bounty of treats on Easter Sunday. The rigours of Lenten observance, meatless Fridays and committed attendance at Holy Week church services, gave way to…

I was with my Dad when he died. It was a Tuesday. Each year on 1 April, when grandkids are putting into practice those well-rehearsed April Fools’ Day pranks, my inclination to laugh and join in is often contrived, and at best, a half-hearted attempt at appearing amused. The day holds significance for me in…

“Nan, what’s your internet password”? We were into Day 3 of home schooling yesterday, and were patting ourselves on the back as our Y7 student showed great promise in being able to structure her new daily routine around classes, online tutorials and solitary study. It all came to a crashing halt just after breakfast and…